Gaiji & Kanji Edit Kits

Fonts Made with Kanji Edit Kit

A showcase of Japanese typefaces built with Enfour's Kanji Edit Kit, from ZEN Old Mincho to seal-script and brush fonts by independent makers.

At a glance

Kanji Edit Kit made it practical for independent designers and small foundries to publish Japanese fonts. This showcase, first kept by Enfour around 2001, lists typefaces created with the tool, including ZEN Old Mincho by A-1 Corp, brush-lettering fonts from Neuron Software, seal-engraving faces from Maruoka Hakushu Inpo and kana from the Mojikumi Kana project, alongside the 25 FONT1000 typefaces.

Key facts

Tool	Kanji Edit Kit 2.0 / 2.5
Makers	A-1 Corp, Neuron Software, TYPE-LABO, Atelier K, Maruoka Hakushu Inpo, Kinkido, and others
Related project	FONT1000 (25 typefaces)
Note	Archived list; external sites may no longer exist

Part of

Gaiji & Kanji Edit Kits

Enfour’s font-creation tools: Kanji Edit Kit, GAIJI TOOLS, and the Gaiji Edit Kit family for making original Japanese fonts and gaiji.

Editorial note: the following romanisations are best readings from the Japanese originals and are awaiting confirmation: 七種泰史 (Yasushi Saikusa); 成澤正信 (Masanobu Narusawa); 長谷川眞策 (Shinsaku Hasegawa); 和田庸伸 (Tsunenobu Wada); 欣喜セイム (Kinki Same); キャパニト/アニト (Capanito/Anito); 13049PIC-JPN10; ニイス (NIS).

Historical product information from Enfour’s original Japanese font site, translated into English. Prices, addresses, and ordering details from the period are omitted.

Details

From the original product pages

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Generated by Kanji Edit Kit

Last update: 2002/1/16

Fonts created with Enfour’s Kanji Edit Kit. Please check each site for distribution format, sales format, and licence terms.

Site	Description	Fonts featured
FONT 1000	The website of FONT1000, a Japanese font project taking on a new possibility: typeface designers themselves handling everything from making fonts to selling them. 25 typefaces are featured; below are the 25 members’ own descriptions. The following 25 typefaces prefixed F1 appear on the FONT1000 page.	see below

Other sites

Site	Description	Fonts featured
Maniackers Design	The site of graphic designer Masayuki Sato, who has distributed free 1-byte fonts on the Maniackers Design website since 1998. His earlier 1-byte font Holiday has become a 2-byte font with added kanji.	Holiday-MDJP01
Neuron Software	Sells fonts made from the brush lettering of calligrapher Toshihide Takano, and distributes free kana fonts. Also offers a font creation service. (A separate licence agreement is required to offer font creation services using Kanji Edit Kit.)	Suishu Kaisho; Suishu Gyosho; Suishu Kagetsu; and more
TYPE-LABO	The website of Yutaka Sato of Type Labo, who has released typefaces in many forms — PostScript fonts, lettering books, and phototypesetting font plates.	Capanito L-Kyokan; Anito L-Kyokan
Atelier K	The page of FONT1000 member Masahiro Suzuki. A limited edition of the Waraku typeface (kana plus 500 kanji) in three weights, distributed since December 2001.	Waraku-L; Waraku-M; Waraku-B
Mojikumi Kana SH download site	Distributes kana fonts revised with Kanji Edit Kit and other tools from Mojikumi Kana, the freely modifiable kana font designed by Hirofumi Komiyama and distributed by the Society for Japanese Characters and Typesetting (original here). The included PDF explains the design concept in detail. (A separate licence agreement is required to turn third-party outline data into fonts with Kanji Edit Kit.)	Mojikumi Kana SH
Maruoka Hakushu Inpo	Makes seal-engraving typefaces into fonts, and offers Web Insho, a download service for seal images.	Hakushu Tensho; Hakushu Kaisho; Hakushu Gyosho; Hakushu Koin; Hakushu Reisho
Kinkido	The site of Kinichi Imada, designer of the Shaken typefaces Bokassii, Imaryu, and Imaso. He also publishes typeface books on demand, such as Typeface Design Kotohajime.	Kinki Kaisho; Kinki Same
Kanji Edit Kit 2.5	A tool for creating original Japanese TrueType fonts on the Macintosh, for Windows and Macintosh.
Enfour FONT-TOOLS-WEB	Introduces font creation tools — Enfour products and products from FontLab (USA).