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| creator = <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Morishita</span>, C&#x14D;ji ({{Lang|ja|&#x68EE;&#x4E0B; &#x6D69;&#x53F8;}})
| creator = <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Morishita</span>, C&#x14D;ji ({{Lang|ja|&#x68EE;&#x4E0B; &#x6D69;&#x53F8;}})
| foundry = M<sup>+</sup> FONTS PROJECT
| foundry = M<sup>+</sup> FONTS PROJECT

Revision as of 09:00, 28 September 2010

M+ OUTLINE FONTS (M+ 2P Light)
CategorySans Serif, Monospace
Designer(s)Morishita, Cōji (森下 浩司)
FoundryM+ FONTS PROJECT
Date created2002
Date released2010-09-25 v 033
VariationsThin, 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 feature the following characters: C0 controls and basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Japanese Kana, and Japanese Kanji[1]. The fonts are developed using FontForge[2]. It was selected as one of the "free fonts of the month" in Smashing Magazine[3], and also selected as "Project of the Month" in SourceForge.JP[4].

The proportional font variations are

  • 1P — aimed as sophisticated and relaxed design
  • 2P — variation of above
  • 1C — optimized to be proportioned well in typesetting
  • 2C — variation of above

The fixed-width font variations are (these are only available in thin, light, regular, medium, bold)

  • 1M — created to emphasize the balance of natural letterform and high legibility
  • 2M — variation of above
  • 1MN — aimed at a new distinctive design for a terminal font specialized to programming

The font files are released like public domain:

THESE FONTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY.—[5]

References

  1. ^ "M+ OUTLINE FONTS | FONTS FEATURES". M+ FONTS PROJECT. 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
  2. ^ "M+ OUTLINE FONTS | ABOUT #SPECIAL THANKS". M+ FONTS PROJECT. 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
  3. ^ Vitaly Friedman (March 7, 2008). "Free Fonts Of The Month (in March 2008)". Smashing Magazine. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
  4. ^ hiromichi-m (2009-08-03). "今月のプロジェクト 2009年8月 - M+ FONTS" (in Japanese). SourceForge.JP. Retrieved 2010-04-03. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "M+ OUTLINE FONTS | ABOUT #LICENSE". Retrieved 2009-11-14.
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