M+ Fonts
M+ FONTS are Japanese font families designed by Coji Morishita. The 'M' stands for 'Minimum', while the plus sign means above minimum.
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[edit] M+ BITMAP FONTS
M+ BITMAP FONTS consists of raster fonts, originally developed in 2002.[1]
[edit] Font list
- Japanese and Latin: All Japanese glyphs occupy full-width cells. Fonts are made in heights of 10 and 12 pixels in regular and bold weights.
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- M+ gothic: Japanese with half-with Latin glyphs.
- M+ goth_p: Japanese with proportional Latin glyphs.
- Latin only
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- M+ fxd: It consists of fixed-width glyphs. Fonts are made in heights of 10 and 12 pixels in regular and bold weights.
- M+ hlv: It is a replacement of Helvetica. Fonts are made in heights of 10 and 12 pixels in regular and bold weights.
- M+ sys: It is designed for user interface. Fonts are made in height of 10 pixels in regular and bold weights.
- M+ qub: It is a 6-pixel high regular weight miniature font.
[edit] M+ OUTLINE FONTS
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| Category | Sans Serif, Monospace |
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| Designer(s) | Morishita, Cōji (森下 浩司) |
| Foundry | M+ FONTS PROJECT |
| Date created | 2003-11-? |
| Date released |
2003-12-? (TESTFLIGHT-001) |
| Variations | Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Heavy, Black and Proportional, Monospace, and Combination Proportional/Monospace |
The M+ OUTLINE FONTS are sans-serif, with proportional and monospaced fonts and many different weights ranging from thin to black. The fonts support following characters sets: C0 controls and basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Japanese Kana, and Japanese Kanji.[2] The fonts are developed using FontForge.[3] The current version contains over 3700 glyphs.
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- Fixed full-width Japanese fonts. The ideographic glyphs are identical between fonts of same weights.
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- M+ 1: Consists of contrasting straight lines and hand-drawn curves.
- M+ 2: Incorporates traditional feature of Kana script in the overall modern sans-serif design.
- Proportional Latin fonts. Available in thin, light, regular, medium, bold, heavy, black weights:
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- M+ P Type-1 (1P): aimed as sophisticated and relaxed design
- M+ P Type-2 (2P):
- M+ C Type-1 (1C): optimized to be proportioned well in typesetting
- M+ C Type-2 (2C):
- Fixed half-width Latin fonts. Available in thin, light, regular, medium, bold weights:
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- M+ M Type-1 (1M): created to emphasize the balance of natural letterform and high legibility
- M+ M Type-2 (2M):
- M+ MN Type-1 (1MN): high visibility font designed for programming use
The Latin Type-1 and Type-2 font are designed for use with M+ 1 and M+ 2 fonts respectively. Each Type-2 font has several alternative glyphs different from the respective Type-1 font.
[edit] Awards
It was selected as one of the "free fonts of the month" in Smashing Magazine,[4] and also selected as "Project of the Month" in SourceForge.JP.[5] It has also been selected as an excellent font among eight fonts for print and screen.[6]
[edit] Licensing
The license for these font files is as follows:
These fonts are free softwares. [sic] Unlimited permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute it, with or without modification, either commercially and noncommercially. THESE FONTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ potm_0908_mplus - SourceForge.JP Wiki - SourceForge.JP
- ^ "M+ OUTLINE FONTS | FONTS FEATURES". M+ FONTS PROJECT. 2010. http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/index-en.html#features. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
- ^ "M+ OUTLINE FONTS | ABOUT #SPECIAL THANKS". M+ FONTS PROJECT. 2009. http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/index-en.html#thanks. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
- ^ Vitaly Friedman (March 7, 2008). "Free Fonts Of The Month (in March 2008)". Smashing Magazine. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/07/free-fonts-of-the-month-ff-unit-m-outline-geobats/. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
- ^ hiromichi-m (2009-08-03). "今月のプロジェクト 2009年8月 - M+ FONTS [Project of the Month (in August 2009) - M+ FONTS]" (in Japanese). SourceForge.JP. http://sourceforge.jp/projects/sourceforge/wiki/potm_0908_mplus. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
- ^ Ian Cylkowski (June 7, 2010). "excellent font for print and screen". design by izo. http://www.design-by-izo.com/2010/06/07/8-excellent-fonts-for-screen-and-print/.
- ^ "M+ OUTLINE FONTS". http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/index-en.html#license. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
[edit] External links
- M+ FONTS PROJECT
- M+ OUTLINE FONTS (English)
- SourceForge.JP
- M+ LOG (Japanese)
- Debian — Details of package fonts-mplus
- Ubuntu — Details of package ttf-mplus
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