dan1101 comments on Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Seriously. I would work very hard on my own font before I would pay to license one.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 11 months ago

I wonder if it's easier now than it was when I was in highschool. 🤔 I remember wanting to make my own "hand written" font after getting a scanner for the first time and it was an ordeal.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How many characters would you have to produce for Japanese?

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Unicode has over 100,000 kanji, though the vast majority of these are esoteric kanji that are rarely used. You could trim it down to just the Joyo kanji list, consisting of 2,136 characters for everyday use.

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Realistically if a game company made their own font, they'd probably do that and then have to go through and piecemeal add more kanji that they used. Or just use hiragana/katakana for those words I guess.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Fuck it, write everything in hiragana and katakana.

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago

Text that's written in kana-only can actually be kinda difficult to read. Japanese is written without spaces between words, so kanji helps to distinguish where words actually begin and end. The language is also full of homophones, words that are pronounced the same but are written with different kanji to disambiguate them.

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