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Have you ever paid attention to the shape of texts?
Maybe, you've hear about Serif or Sans-Serif . like there is small line or stroke attached to end of stroke or not. There is a various fonts in alphabet.
In addition, this can be applied to other languages. Alphabet, Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji, Hangul, Chinese, Arabic...
Today, I'll talk about how fonts have been struggled me on multi-lingual site.
Simply put, there are three points.
- font metrics
- supported character types
- file transfer size
font metrics
About this, seeing is better than reading.
This is sample text. これは、サンプルテキストです。
This is a sample of text where the "Noto Sans JP" font—normally used by this site by default—has been removed, and a font commonly used as the browser default has been specified instead. Depending on your viewing environment, it will likely look quite different.
As an example, in my environment, it looks like this.
The difference of atmosphere is different of fonts design, and the misalignment of characters is due to differences in font metrics.
Difference of design comes from the difference of "cool", "easy to read" shapes among languages, and this causes the difference of impression.
Differences of font metrics came from character constructure. For example, alphabet has character which protrude from the bottom (like g, j, p, q, y), so baseline setted a bit higher than other languages.
Therefore, using same font families as possible is better. I think.
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