Tokyo-Font & Keitai-Font
Tokyo-Font and Keitai-Font: TrueType Fonts for the Screen
Enfour's TrueType screen fonts: Tokyo-Font for Internet for Mac email and web, and Keitai-Font, which showed i-mode emoji on computers.
At a glance
In the early 2000s Enfour released TrueType fonts designed for the screen. Keitai-Font (February 2001) displays NTT DoCoMo i-mode emoji on Windows and Mac OS computers, years before emoji reached Unicode. Tokyo-Font for Internet (March 2002) gave Mac users hand-tuned bitmap and outline fonts for email and web browsing, using TypeBank Gothic SL kanji with Typos Allmighty 56 kana.
Key facts
| Keitai-Font | February 2001; re-released September 2001 |
|---|---|
| Tokyo-Font for Internet | March 2002; Tokyo-P and Tokyo-Mono |
| Format | Japanese TrueType |
| Status | Historical products |
Part of
Every Enfour product line in one place: gaiji fonts, edit kits, TypeBank, kana, Comic-Font, screen fonts, FONT1000, and the support archive.
Historical product information from Enfour’s original Japanese font site, translated into English. Prices, addresses, and ordering details from the period are omitted.
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Tokyo-Font and Keitai-Font: TrueType Fonts for the Screen: products and resources
Tokyo-Font & Keitai-Font
Tokyo-Font for Internet (2002) paired TypeBank Gothic SL kanji with Typos 56 kana and hand-tuned bitmaps for crisp Mac email and web text.
Tokyo-Font & Keitai-Font
Keitai-Font (2001) was a TrueType font that displayed NTT DoCoMo i-mode emoji on Windows and Mac so web designers could build i-mode sites.
Details
Background
Product Information — Fonts (TrueType)
Fonts — TrueType
Tokyo-Font for Internet
System requirements: Macintosh: KanjiTalk 7.6.1 – Mac OS 9.2.2, Mac OS X 10.0 – 10.2.6; CD-ROM drive. Some Mac OS X applications have limitations, such as symbols or vertical text not displaying or printing correctly. Features: A TrueType font with highly legible bitmaps, designed for email and web browsing. Includes two typefaces: proportional and monospaced. Macintosh only. (Designed mainly for use with bitmap display.)
Comic-Font
System requirements: Windows: Windows 98SE, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP; CD-ROM drive. Macintosh: KanjiTalk 7.6.1 – Mac OS 9.2.2; CD-ROM drive. Some Mac OS X applications have limitations, such as symbols or vertical text not displaying or printing correctly. Features: Fonts for manga speech balloons, in TrueType format. Includes two fonts for different purposes. Windows/Macintosh hybrid CD-ROM.
Keitai-Font
System requirements: Windows: Windows 98SE, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP; CD-ROM drive. Macintosh: KanjiTalk 7.6.1 – Mac OS 9.2.2; CD-ROM drive. Some Mac OS X applications have limitations, such as symbols or vertical text not displaying or printing correctly.
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