• expr@programming.dev
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    11 hours ago

    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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      8 hours 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.