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I feel bad for the font designers who have to put all these inane characters in, have to draw them and hint them, and they have no purpose except they have to b
by kingcharles 5y ago
I feel bad for the font designers who have to put all these inane characters in, have to draw them and hint them, and they have no purpose except they have to be there or someone will complain.
- lifthrasiir 5y agoFortunately there are only a handful of such cases. But unfortunately there are tons of commonly used CJKV ideographs; typical Chinese or Japanese fonts are of course not expected to have all Chinese characters (there are almost 100,000 of them while OpenType fonts can only have 65K glyphs), but they are expected to have thousands of commonly used characters.
- ezoe 5y agoIt must be really nice that even an amateur font designer can single-handedly create a quality font for English usage in his spare time. For Japanese, it requires a minimal of few thousands of characters and symbols and it still doesn't cover all the commonly used characters today.