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Category
  
Sans Serif, Monospace

Date created
  
2003-11-?

Foundry
  
M FONTS PROJECT

M+ FONTS

Designer(s)
  
Morishita, Cōji (森下 浩司)

Date released
  
2003-12-? (TESTFLIGHT-001) 2016-09-30 v 062

Variations
  
Proportional with 7 weights from thin to black, and Monospace with 5 weights from thin to bold. Two Kana curve styles. See #Naming.

M+ FONTS are Japanese font families designed by Coji Morishita. The 'M' stands for 'Minimum', while the plus sign means above minimum.

Contents

M+ OUTLINE FONTS

The M+ OUTLINE FONTS are sans-serif, with proportional and monospaced fonts and many different weights ranging from thin to black. The fonts support following characters sets: C0 controls and basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Japanese Kana, and Japanese Kanji. The fonts are developed using FontForge. The current version contains over 4600 glyphs.

Naming

A M+ outline font is named in a pattern like M+ [12](P|C|MN?)?. The numbers denote glyph design styles, while the letters denote latin glyph configurations.

  • Kana & latin style numbering. Japanese glyphs are full-width. The ideographic (kanji) glyphs are identical between fonts of same weights.
  • Proportional Latin fonts. Available in thin, light, regular, medium, bold, heavy, black weights:
  • Fixed half-width Latin fonts. Available in thin, light, regular, medium, bold weights:

    • The Latin Type-1 and Type-2 font are designed for use with M+ 1 and M+ 2 fonts respectively. Each Type-2 font has several alternative glyphs different from the respective Type-1 font.

    Awards

    The font family was selected as one of the "free fonts of the month" in Smashing Magazine, and also selected as "Project of the Month" in SourceForge.JP. It has also been selected as an excellent font among eight fonts for print and screen.

    M+ BITMAP FONTS

    M+ BITMAP FONTS consists of raster fonts, originally developed in 2002.

    Font list

  • Japanese and Latin: All Japanese glyphs occupy full-width cells. Fonts are made in heights of 10 and 12 pixels in regular and bold weights.
  • M+ gothic: Japanese with half-width Latin glyphs.
  • M+ goth_p: Japanese with proportional Latin glyphs.
  • Latin only
  • M+ fxd: It consists of fixed-width glyphs. Fonts are made in heights of 10 and 12 pixels in regular and bold weights.
  • M+ hlv: It is a replacement of Helvetica. Fonts are made in heights of 10 and 12 pixels in regular and bold weights.
  • M+ sys: It is designed for user interface. Fonts are made in height of 10 pixels in regular and bold weights.
  • M+ qub: It is a 6-pixel high regular weight miniature font.

    • Licensing

    The license for these font files is as follows:

    These fonts are free software.

    Unlimited permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute them, with or without modification, either commercially or noncommercially.

    THESE FONTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY.

    References

    M+ FONTS Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA