• skibidi@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The problem is Japanese has so many characters - typically a font would need 5-6000 glyphs to be usably complete - that it isn’t easy to create new fonts.

    English ASCII is 96 characters, for reference. A designer can crank out a new thematically-appropriate font in a week.