Kanji Edit Kit 2.5
Kanji Edit Kit 2.5 turned Fontographer fonts or Illustrator outlines into 2-byte Japanese TrueType fonts for Mac OS and Windows.
Gaiji & Kanji Edit Kits
Handwriting Font Service
Enfour's 'We Turn Your Handwriting into a Font' service made Japanese TrueType fonts from customers' own handwriting.
At a glance
‘We Turn Your Handwriting into a Font’ was an Enfour Media Laboratory service that turned a customer’s own handwriting into a Japanese digital font. It applied the same font-production know-how as Kanji Edit Kit, so individuals and businesses could type letters, cards, and documents in their personal hand.
Key facts
| Provider | Enfour Media Laboratory |
|---|---|
| Output | Japanese digital (TrueType) font |
| Status | Historical service |
Part of
Enfour’s font-creation tools: Kanji Edit Kit, GAIJI TOOLS, and the Gaiji Edit Kit family for making original Japanese fonts and gaiji.
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
We Turn Your Handwriting into a Font
Enfour Media Laboratory today announced the “We Turn Your Handwriting into a Font” campaign.
Campaign overview
Each month, 10 winners chosen by lottery receive a free custom kana font creation service.
Details
Customers who buy an eligible product during the campaign and send in their user registration postcard are entered in a monthly draw. Each month, 10 winners will have their handwritten hiragana, katakana, alphabet, and numerals made into a double-byte TrueType font for Macintosh.
Eligible products
- Enfour Gaiji DX Series
Campaign period
Entries postmarked December 1, 1999 to March 31, 2000.
Font specifications
- TrueType for Macintosh, double-byte
- Embedding in Adobe Acrobat 4.0 permitted
- No bitmap data
- Hiragana, katakana, numerals, alphabet, and others — about 400 characters
- No kanji
Note: Font data created with this service may not be distributed or sold.
For winners
We will send you special manuscript sheets. Write the specified characters on the sheets and send them back. We will turn your handwriting into a font with the TrueType font creation tool Kanji Edit Kit 2.0 and send it to you as your prize.
Contact
Enfour Media Laboratory, Ltd. (http://www.enfour.co.jp/media/)
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