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Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow (automaton-media.com)
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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Admittedly I'm not sure if it works for Japanese, but English has online tools you can use to print out a sheet to write out every character and scan to turn into a font file. Would be surprising if it didn't exist for Japanese.

So ultimately you probably just need someone with neat handwriting.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Modern fonts have extra stuff to make rendering better.
    Like hinting, which changes subpixel representations.

    Without those, you wouldn't like the look of something like a character with a height of 10px on a 1080p display and would have to use way higher DPI stuff, with characters taking more pixels.
    Won't be unusable though. Automatically done anti-aliasing tends to be good enough too.

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