![]() Also Hiragino Sans has far more font weights (10) than Kaku Gothic (only 2). Unless you want that "retro" feel, is highly recommended to use "Hiragino Sans" (not Kaku Gothic that's deprecated) for macOS and iOS devices for a consistent and modern look and better legibility. The proportional font is the sans-serif font, which is MS PGothic, serif font is MS PMing, and the monospace font is MS Gothic.īTW, the " Osaka" font was a standard font on Japanese Macs in the 90s. These are the default browser font settings for Firefox on my Japanese Windows machine: The " gothic" typeface fonts seem fairly popular these days: on Windows, fonts like MS Gothic, MS PGothic, etc. For example, .jp currently has this CSS: font-family: 'MS PGothic', Osaka, Arial, sans-serif ![]() If you want to use fonts that Japanese sites typically use I would start by browsing some of the more popular Japanese sites and using things like Firebug or the Chrome developer tools to examine the CSS and see what fonts they reference. But those fonts give a kind of Western look to Japanese characters. I am no font/design expert, but just about every Japanese PC should have basic Latin fonts like the ones you mentioned installed, so they will work. Like it or not, I guess that's something to keep in mind when branding. None of the companies above use Mincho as evidence to that. Something I learned working here: some Japanese prefer Gothic or other fonts over Mincho fonts, as Mincho looks more "Chinese" according to some. Note, sometimes it is suggested ( such as here) to use a Mincho font stack like: font-family : 'ヒラギノ角ゴ ProN', 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN', '游ゴシック', '游ゴシック体', YuGothic, 'Yu Gothic', 'メイリオ', Meiryo, 'MS ゴシック', 'MS Gothic', HiraKakuProN-W3, 'TakaoExゴシック', TakaoExGothic, 'MotoyaLCedar', 'Droid Sans Japanese', sans-serif Yahoo JP font-family: "メイリオ","Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Meiryo,"ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3","MS PGothic","MS UI Gothic",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif ロイター / Reuters font-family: "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro","Meiryo","MS Pgothic",knowledge-reg,helvetica,arial,sans-serif ĬNN font-family: "メイリオ", Meiryo, Tahoma, Verdana, "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif Here are what some major companies are using in Japan: I like this article, though it is in Japanese so I'll do my best to summarize. ![]() Here's an answer in 2021 after my research and from my experience living and working in Japan. So the current recommended practice is like this, font-family:"ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Osaka, "メイリオ", Meiryo, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif Meiryo and Hiragino's order is, because Mac users may have Meiryo from MS-Office, and Hiragino is more familiar and matching well on Mac, better by starting Hiragino series. Some old browsers could not understand those font names in English, some others do not recognize the names in Japanese, so it is safe to write both in Japanese and English. For older versions such like Windows XP, it is good to add former default fonts MS Gothic(or MS Mincho)/Osaka. ![]() The latest ones are Meiryo and Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro. Most Japanese websites use default font sets provided on Windows or Mac. As a result of it, there are very few variations in Japanese fonts, and Japanese users also care about fonts less than Latin-character users. This versatile font family was developed together by Google and Adobe, under the name. Usually Japanese font has 8,000-16,000 glyph so making new fonts means you need to make at least 8,000 glyph, which is pretty heavy task. Noto Sans Japanese comes with handy 7 weights, ranging from Thin to Black. * WordPress will use those functions instead of the original functions then.Web-font for Japanese, though there are few providers exist, is not really practical as you found the size of the font data is too big to download. You can also copy some of the theme functions into this file. Although the font show up in the drop down list, nothing changes in the preview, nor does it change on the site. I added this code to the Child theme functions.php. I have been trying to add some google fonts to my Enfold site, however, I only get Noto Serif to work.
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