 Gothic Gothic typeface (ゴシック体, goshikku-tai) is the second most commonly used style of printed Japanese characters, after Mincho. It is characterised by straight lines of even thickness, akin to sans serif styles in Western typography. Image File history File links Japanese-Gothic-Typeface-Example. ...
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In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ...
The name "Gothic" In English, Gothic is an outmoded typographic term for sans serif. It was so named because the type color of early sans serif typefaces were thought to be similar to that of the blackletter or "gothic" script. In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ...
Type color is a typographic term referring to the weight or boldness (or lack of boldness) of a font. ...
Blackletter in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ...
The term "gothic" is now rare in English, having been largely replaced by "sans serif", though it is still found in the names of some typefaces such as "Century Gothic". However, it is still the standard term in Japan and Korea for typefaces lacking the equivalent of serifs. These additions, seen in Minchō typefaces, are called uroko (fish scales) in Japanese. In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ...
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In Chinese, gothic typefaces are called "Hei" (black); this is probably derived from blackletter in the same way. Blackletter in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ...
Types of gothic typeface Variants on the original gothic typeface include: - Maru gothic ("round gothic"), which has rounded ends to the lines of the characters. The corresponding English term is “round sans” and in Chinese it is called “Hei Yuan” (lit. “round black[letter]”). Maru gothic is the style of typeface used for Japanese road signs.
Gothic typefaces in computing In Japanese computing, the use of gothic typefaces is common, with a number of default system fonts being gothic. In contrast, in Chinese computing Minchō typefaces are much more common. Most default Chinese fonts are Minchō. In relation to the Japanese language and computers many adaptation issues arise, some unique to Japanese and others common to languages which use double-byte character encodings. ...
Japanese gothic typefaces commonly seen in computing include
- MS Gothic (MS ゴシック) — default system font on Windows 95 and Windows 98,
- Osaka — default system font on Mac OS X,
- Hiragino Kaku Gothic (ヒラギノ角ゴ), Hiragino Maru Gothic (ヒラギノ丸ゴ), and Kozuka Gothic (小塚ゴシック) — typeface families provided by new versions of Adobe Illustrator, and
- GothicBBB-Medium — used by Adobe as one of the two CJK fonts in many examples in its documentation.
- Kochi Gothic — included with a number of Linux distributions; also notable for being a fixed width font (at least for printing Korean Hangeul)
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See also ゴシック体 (Japanese Wikipedia).
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