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Japantown

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1.0.0

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Japantown

Condensed Spacing SF Mono + Japanese Glyphs

4 Weights, supports italic

Japantown-Light.otf
Japantown-LightItalic.otf
Japantown-Regular.otf
Japantown-RegularItalic.otf
Japantown-Medium.otf
Japantown-MediumItalic.otf
Japantown-Bold.otf
Japantown-BoldItalic.otf

For developers like me

I always loved SFMono's look and feel except its too wide letter spacing and lack of Japanese glyphs.
Japantown complements those points.
It's like a modernized brother of Osaka.

Supports Japanese glyphs (by merging: mplus-1m)
Condensed letter spacing
Some glyphs are customized for readability

For people who want to create a font with FontForge

In build script install.sh, I've left comments as much as I can. It's a good start to learn how it works.
Check out References too, they're quite informative.

License

This font inherits SFMono Font License as based on the font.
In other words, binary form of this font cannot be shared.

Install

brew tap aerobounce/Japantown && brew install japantown

Or, clone this repository, put all the fonts below and execute install.sh.

mplus-1m-light.otf
mplus-1m-regular.otf
mplus-1m-medium.otf
mplus-1m-bold.otf

SF-Mono-Light.otf
SF-Mono-LightItalic.otf
SF-Mono-Regular.otf
SF-Mono-RegularItalic.otf
SF-Mono-Medium.otf
SF-Mono-MediumItalic.otf
SF-Mono-Semibold.otf
SF-Mono-SemiboldItalic.otf

Todo

Better way to install
Check all the glyphs

Tips

CoreText based rendering rounds glyph's width.
- TextEdit.app, Terminal.app ... etc
- Be warned that those applications are not suitable to check how a font is rendered.
Xcode.app renders fonts accurately.
Sublime Text 3 with "font_options": ["no_round"] pref renders fonts accurately.