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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
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So, as far as I can tell, your arguments are that that a normal font is nothing more than the alphabet, therefore there's no art in it, and therefore the creator shouldn't have any claim to it. My argument is that every detail is an artistic choice, and that simply making it look aesthetically pleasing or distinctive is art. If fonts weren't art, why would people even bother with different looking fonts? But regardless of the art question, if the creator can't license their fonts, it would mean that they get no compensation for when some company uses their work.
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> It’s also worth noting that in the case of games in Japanese, it’s not so easy for developers to find alternatives. While games using English can rely on system UI fonts, cheap commercial fonts or open-source options, the sheer number of characters used in Japanese means high-quality fonts are extremely difficult and expensive to make, so few affordable alternatives are available. There's already a decent selection of high quality, freely available Japanese fonts here: https://fonts.google.com/?lang=ja_JpanI'm guessing the problem is they want a relatively unique font to avoid looking the same as other games, and then once they've chosen their font they're pretty much stuck with it unless they're willing to change the look of their game (for live-service games at least). A number of the fonts there might work for new stuff though.
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Excellent time for the Japanese to drop ideogram/logogram system and have an alphabet like a functional language.
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You know what? You are right. That Wikipedia article was a fascinating read. I recant my previous statements uniquivocally, sincerely and unironically. Thank you for the humbling lesson on what it's like to be on the left side of the Dunning-Krueger curve. I'm an ignorant fuck.
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Kanji has over two thousand typical characters. Feel free to contribute several to open-source fonts.
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1) that's literally one of the most bigoted comments I've ever seen in the fediverse 2) your comment is in English, a language so non-functional it's the only one that had to have spelling bees to get kids to learn its asinine rulesUhh... Basically every language I can think of have had some form of childhood activity that pushed learning it's asinine rules at some point in it's history. Cause fun fact. Literally every language that has ever existed is batshit crazy, makes no sense and might as well be unhinged nonsense. That's not a monopoly English has. Not by a fucking long shot. That guy's comment is racist as fuck tho
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You know what? You are right. That Wikipedia article was a fascinating read. I recant my previous statements uniquivocally, sincerely and unironically. Thank you for the humbling lesson on what it's like to be on the left side of the Dunning-Krueger curve. I'm an ignorant fuck.
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Japanese fonts are much harder to make than English fonts. Thousands of characters and all that.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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Uhh... Basically every language I can think of have had some form of childhood activity that pushed learning it's asinine rules at some point in it's history. Cause fun fact. Literally every language that has ever existed is batshit crazy, makes no sense and might as well be unhinged nonsense. That's not a monopoly English has. Not by a fucking long shot. That guy's comment is racist as fuck tho
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Excellent time for Japanese devs to collectively develop some open-source fonts. Many hands make light work.I don't mean to agree with that other person hating on kanji, but if they're going to take on the task of making a new font they could potentially alter the writing system somewhat to simplify some things and/or extend versatility of some characters. A new evolution would be exciting.
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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.Someone with neat handwriting, a few hours to burn, and lots of patience
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I also think it's an excellent time for Americans to drop imperial units and use metrics like a functional measurement system - is this also racist?No, that's a whole new unrelated topic. Any other questions?
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No, that's a whole new unrelated topic. Any other questions?
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Insulin in the US?
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I think ideograms suck because they are an extremely bad writing system, and imperial units suck because they are an extremely bad measurement system... why is one racist and the other is not?>I think ideograms suck because they are an extremely bad writing system That's nice, but what you originally said was that "the Japanese don't have a functional writing system", which is bigoted, because it constitutes an unreasonable belief/prejudice against a particular group of people ("the Japanese"). It's an unreasonable position because the Japanese writing system is obviously functional, as millions of people use it to great effect every day. >imperial units suck because they are an extremely bad measurement system This is not bigotry because it isn't an unreasonable belief, and it doesn't target/prejudice against one specific group (other than 'imperial measurement users', which isn't really an identifying or culturally significant group). >Bonus question: If I say it's an excellent time to drop the Gregorian calendar do I win at racism for expanding it to the whole world? Bonus answer: no, bigotry targets/prejudices against a *specific* identifying group. "The whole world" doesn't qualify as a group that you can be bigoted against. Hating everyone makes you a grumpy curmudgeon, but not a racist. Hope this helps.
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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.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.
