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Chapter 7: Typography

Full-width and proportional kana—verticalTable 7-33.

Full-width Proportional Full-width Proportional

Note how the alternate kana design provides less of a contrast than with the horizontally

set example.

Proportional Ideographs

It is a generally accepted notion that ideographs t within a square design space. While

this notion is true most of the time, there are, of course, exceptions.

Table 7-34 illustrates a short string of ideographs,  (“CJKV”), set horizontally.

Note how the second character,  (the “J” of “CJKV”), is no longer full-width when pro-

portional metrics are applied. Morisawa’s A-OTF  Pr6N L-KL (RyuminPr6N-

Light) is used for the example.

Alternate Metrics

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Full-width and proportional ideographs—horizontalTable 7-34.

Metrics Glyph string

Full-width



Proportional



Similarly, there are other ideographs whose shapes benet from proportional metrics

when set vertically. Table 7-35 illustrates a short ideograph string,  (dai-ichi

kangyō, the name of a famous Japanese bank), set vertically. Note how the second ideo-

graph,  (ichi, meaning “one”), has undergone a drastic reduction in overall set width.

Again, Morisawa’s A-OTF  Pr6N L-KL (RyuminPr6N-Light) typeface design is

used for the example.

Full-width ...