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Discussion on: What side projects are you currently working on and how can others be of help? (Feb 4)

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Daniel Strunk

Adobe and Google partnered to release an open source font for Japanese, Chinese and Korean in 2014… maybe it will be of use to you! You can either use Typekit for the fonts, or download the fonts directly from GitHub:

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Joshua Carmody

Thanks! I'm aware of Noto and am currently using it, but unfortunately it's not "textbook style". It's too squared-off and stylized to use as a model for teaching handwriting.

I'm looking for something more like this: wazu.jp/gallery/views/View_epkyouk...

I'd use the font I linked, except that the license only allows it to be used with Epson printers, and I doubt Epson is interested in making an exception for a free app that can't offer them any significant money.

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Sir Scott

Hey Joshua! I use daily KanjiSenpai and it's proposing alternative font and two of them may correspond to you criteria: