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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 — always off from the one in your head by exactly that much, and exactly that much is what drives you mad.

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

Where this is today

1 faces, finished and on sale. Two of them set the European languages written in the Latin alphabet; one of those also sets Japanese — the kana and 6,356 kanji. The complete face, with the Chinese as well, is drawn and is not on sale yet: sixteen thousand Han have not been looked at one at a time, and until they have, selling it would be selling a promise.

Chinese took the longest and is the newest thing here.
The studio — your own face, from your own sentence — opens later.

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How a face gets made

  1. 01

    We decide what we want

    • "Melted poster letters." That is the brief.
    • Ours, in plain words — no design vocabulary needed.
    • Or a picture of lettering we like.
  2. 02

    A model draws a sheet

    • Sixteen characters, on one sheet, to that brief.
    • They settle the weight and the shapes.
    • Nothing else is drawn until this sheet is right.
  3. 03

    It goes on the real page

    • Straight into this site, set at the sizes you see.
    • A sheet that looks good and sets badly is no face.
    • If we do not like it, we go back to 01.
  4. 04

    We draw it in by hand

    • The sixteen get opened and corrected — nodes, curves, weight.
    • Until they are the face we meant, not the one we got.
    • That sheet is the reference for everything after it.
  5. 05

    The rest of the set

    • Drawn against the approved sheet, in small groups.
    • So each character has company to match.
    • A wrong one is redrawn, not kept.
  6. 06

    Every character, one at a time

    • All of them opened again: spacing, height, nodes, curves.
    • This is the slow part, and it is the part that shows.
    • Then out come a TTF and a WOFF2.

What we want it to cover

  • Done

    English and punctuation

    The alphabet, figures, punctuation, currency, maths and symbols.

  • Works

    Accented letters

    á é í ñ ü ç ø — French, German, Spanish, the Nordic languages.

  • Works

    Japanese

    Hiragana, katakana, and the kanji — drawn with the Chinese.

  • Works

    Chinese

    Big5 level 1 and 2 — 13,051 Traditional characters — and the 37 Bopomofo.

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.
Chinese, but not at the extremes
A very heavy or very fine Chinese face is still beyond us. Sixteen strokes in one square close up solid at the heavy end and thin away to nothing at the light end. The weights in between work.

by the Perhapxin team

Perhapxin Tech CO., LTD.

Perhapxin takes work.

perhapxin@perhapxin.com

We work in Chinese and English.