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.
Tokyo-Font & Keitai-Font
Tokyo-Font for Internet
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.
At a glance
Tokyo-Font for Internet is a pair of Japanese TrueType fonts for the Macintosh, announced on 8 March 2002 and optimised for email and web browsing. Tokyo-P is proportional for Latin text and Tokyo-Mono is fully monospaced. They combine TypeBank Gothic SL kanji with Typos Allmighty 56 kana, the first Mac release of those kana, and include hand-tuned bitmap fonts at 9 to 14 pt for crisp text without anti-aliasing.
Key facts
| Announced | 8 March 2002 |
|---|---|
| Typefaces | Tokyo-P (proportional), Tokyo-Mono (monospaced) |
| Design | TypeBank Gothic SL kanji + Typos Allmighty 56 kana |
| Bitmaps | 9*, 10, 12, 14 pt (*Tokyo-Mono: 10, 12, 14 pt) |
| Status | Historical product |
Part of
Enfour’s TrueType fonts for the screen: Tokyo-Font for Internet for email and the web, and Keitai-Font for i-mode emoji.
Editorial note: the following romanisations are best readings from the Japanese originals and are awaiting confirmation: Jacket credit ‘MIYADIMA, takafumi’ rendered as Takafumi Miyajima.
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
Tokyo-Font for Internet
Jacket design: Takafumi Miyajima
The concept and background of the two typefaces in Tokyo-Font for Internet
These fonts were made with one basic concept: to give people who use a Mac as an everyday tool a convenient, easy-to-read, and beautiful “browsing font”. They are designed to balance on-screen readability with printed results.
Bitmap fonts are built in at four sizes (9*, 10, 12, and 14 pt), so small text is easy to read even without anti-aliasing. Every character has of course been hand-tuned, without spoiling the look of the outlines.
Printed output is a slim, refined Gothic — perfect for anyone dissatisfied with the OS’s standard fonts, and ideal for writing manuscripts and business documents.
* Tokyo-Mono includes bitmap fonts at 10, 12, and 14 pt.
Typefaces
- Tokyo-Mono (Tokyo-等幅): Every character is designed at a fixed pitch. Use it when you want to display or print a monospaced font (for example, email).
- Tokyo-P: Japanese and other double-byte characters are fixed-pitch; single-byte characters are proportional. (For example, web browsing.)
Osaka-Mono vs Tokyo-Mono
Example: email
Osaka-Mono (12 pt display)
Tokyo-Mono is designed for horizontal setting, so its centre of gravity is stable and well seated; text does not look scattered and is easy to read. (12 pt display)
Example: email footer
In Osaka-Mono, half-width and full-width alphanumerics differ in height… In Tokyo-Mono, half-width and full-width alphanumerics are the same height, so nothing looks out of place. The Typos Allmighty kana are clean and easy to read, with a near-future feel that makes using a Macintosh a joy. The slightly larger kana improve readability further.
Example: spreadsheet
Osaka-Mono has no 10 pt bitmap, and its numerals are small. Tokyo-Mono has a 10 pt bitmap, and its numerals are well balanced.
Tokyo-P
14 pt display · 12 pt display
Anti-aliased display
9 pt display · 10 pt display
Typefaces
- Tokyo-P (proportional font)
- Tokyo-Mono (monospaced font)
Contents
CD-ROM, installation manual
Specifications / requirements
- Japanese TrueType for Macintosh, based on the Windows standard Shift_JIS character set (NEC-selected IBM extended characters not included)
- A Macintosh that can run KanjiTalk 7.6.1 to Mac OS X 10.3.3
- CD-ROM drive; about 5 MB free disk space
Contact
Q&A
Q: Will there be a PostScript version? A: There are no plans for a PostScript version (as of May 2002). For PostScript-dependent environments, please get our PostScript font packages and use a recomposite font made with Adobe Type Composer, or your application’s composite-font feature: – Typos A55 in [Typos Allmighty]
Please talk to us about the half-width fixed-pitch characters for Gothic SL.
Web Page Display Examples
Web browsing with Tokyo-Font (compared with Osaka), example 1
Environment: Mac OS X (font smoothing off at 12 pt and below) + Internet Explorer 5.5J (IE font size set to 12 pt and resolution to 72 dpi)
| Browser display font: Tokyo-P | Browser display font: Osaka |
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Web browsing with Tokyo-Font (compared with Osaka), example 2
Environment: as above.
| Browser display font: Tokyo-P | Browser display font: Osaka |
|---|---|
Tokyo-Font for Internet Announced
Tokyo-Font for Internet — the new standard for discerning users
TrueType fonts for Macintosh: “Tokyo-Font for Internet” announced
March 8, 2002
Enfour, Inc. today announced the release of Tokyo-Font for Internet, TrueType fonts for Macintosh optimised for email and web browsing. It also announced that Enfour, Inc. and Enfour Media Laboratory, Ltd. will be integrated into a single company, Enfour, Inc.
Features
Text quality ideal for anyone who uses a Mac for email and web browsing Fonts coordinated for mail and web browsers around the concept of being a pleasure to use. Because these are fonts you use every day, we made them without compromise.
On the Macintosh, the only monospaced font choice today is Osaka-Mono. Tokyo-Font for Internet includes a monospaced font as well as a proportional font. In the monospaced font, the height of Latin characters is not awkwardly in-between but aligned with the kanji. It is, of course, also ideal for writing manuscripts and coding programs.
Slim, beautiful outlines
Built-in bitmap fonts for crisp display even without anti-aliasing Top-quality bitmap fonts, hand-tuned character by character, keep the screen display crisp and readable.
Typefaces
- Tokyo-P (proportional font)
- Tokyo-Mono (Tokyo-等幅; monospaced font)
Release date
Early April 2002
Contents
CD-ROM, installation manual
Specifications / requirements
- Japanese TrueType for Macintosh, based on the Windows standard Shift_JIS character set (NEC-selected IBM extended characters not included)
- A Macintosh that can run KanjiTalk 7.6.1 or later (including Mac OS X)
- CD-ROM drive; about 5 MB free disk space
Contact
Samples
Tokyo-Mono
Anti-aliased display · 14 pt display
12 pt display · 10 pt display
Tokyo-P
14 pt display · 12 pt display
Anti-aliased display
9 pt display · 10 pt display
More display samples
Integration of Enfour Media Laboratory and Enfour, Inc.
Enfour Media Laboratory, Ltd., a font-file technology company, and Enfour, Inc., a double-byte handling technology company, had been jointly developing the “Global Series” of multilingual solutions: GlobalType, technology for embedding fonts in devices; GlobalEase, which provides input environments for more than 55 languages; and GlobalView, which displays text in 65 languages simultaneously on the internet. To strengthen the series, the two companies removed the boundary between them and merged to create synergy.
A Tokyo-Font for Internet bonus
Tokyo-Font for Internet follows the Windows extended character set rather than Apple’s. Combined with mail applications and web browsers whose code tables are built straightforwardly, it lets a Macintosh display the platform-specific characters Windows users type without thinking. (This is not a supported use.)
Incidentally, the Enfour group is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Gaiji Kit, released in 1992 and the starting point of Enfour, solved the garbled-character problems that occurred between Macintosh computers and PostScript printers.
Mac OS X support
Includes Unicode tables for Mac OS X.
Typeface design
Gallery
Original artwork and samples
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