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What is the Default Japanese Font?

I have upgraded to OS X Lion, and I have noticed that there is a new Japanese font used. In the spotlight and also in Xcode. I'm wondering if anybody knows what font it is.. It's not any Hiragino font or Osaka.... I love it! It kind o looks like handwriting.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Mar 17, 2012 11:28 AM

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Mar 18, 2012 5:49 PM in response to griffentate

Your shot is too small for me to tell what font it might be. But 10.7 does not have any "Japanese" font other than Hiragino and Osaka, so if it is not one of those it must be from a Chinese or Korean font or something general like Arial Unicode.


Open Character Viewer (Edit > Special Characters) and go to the gear wheel, select Customize and check the box for Japanese Kana. Then select Japanese Kana in the list on the left and select the first Hiragana character in the list and you can see how it is represented in all the various fonts on the system in the Font Variation box on the right. Which one do you think is being used?

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Mar 17, 2012 7:15 PM in response to griffentate

new w/Lion...

As for the fonts themselves, there’s a cool new one called Apple Color Emoji. Typically used for emoticons, it’s now included in Lion, and its 728 TrueType glyphs can be viewed in Font Book. Apple already supported emoticons in the iOS for Japanese input, but including the Emoji font in Lion (available in the Character Viewer) makes emoticons universal. Lion also adds international language fonts—including Damascus, PT Sans, and Kefa—to Font Book.

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What is the Default Japanese Font?

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