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This is for the people who run the site.
The typefaces are on sale to everyone.

Perhapxin Tech CO., LTD.

We are people with jobs, and this was dinner-table talk

We are a handful of people trying to make a living, like everyone else. This one started as a conversation over dinner — an ordinary little idea, nothing clever. We liked it enough to keep picking it up in the hours we had spare, and what came out is a small project that turns out to look rather good.

A complaint over dinner

When we build frontends, the font is never quite right — close enough, or fine, or the one everybody else picked that year.

  • We wanted faces we actually liked.
  • We wanted them to fit the thing we were building.
  • We wanted not to look like everyone else.

Nobody here is a type designer. We drew every one of these ourselves, and the licence is a real licence. The poster tool is free and stays free.

Where this is today

8 faces, finished and on sale. Two of them set every language written in Latin, Greek or Cyrillic; one of those also sets Korean, Japanese kana and Thai.

Chinese is the one still to come.
The studio — your own face, from your own sentence — opens later.

How a face gets made

  1. 01

    A sentence

    • "Melted poster letters." That is the brief.
    • Plain words — no design vocabulary needed.
    • Or a picture of lettering you like.
  2. 02

    Sixteen letters

    • Sixteen characters are drawn first, on one sheet.
    • They settle the weight and the shapes.
    • That sheet is the face.
  3. 03

    The alphabet

    • The rest is drawn against that sheet.
    • Sixteen at a time, so each letter has company.
    • A wrong one is redrawn, not kept.
  4. 04

    A font file

    • Every letter measured and stood on the baseline.
    • Spacing set, outlines traced.
    • Out come a TTF and a WOFF2.

What we want it to cover

A face is only as useful as the alphabet it can set. Here is where each writing system actually stands.

Chinese: all of it, or none
A missing Latin letter is obviously broken. A missing Chinese character looks fine until it is somebody's name. So it gets drawn complete, or not at all.
Nothing that joins up
Arabic, and cursive that runs. Every letter is drawn in its own cell, so none of them knows what it will sit beside.

Perhapxin takes work.

  • Enterprise systems
  • Web frontends and the databases under them
  • Autonomy for unmanned machines — agent brains / model trained by reinforcement learning in simulation
  • We work in Chinese and English.
perhapxin@perhapxin.com

by the Perhapxin team

Perhapxin Tech CO., LTD.

Perhapxin takes work.

perhapxin@perhapxin.com

We work in Chinese and English.