Meiji Sans by Sergio Maria Morganti
Font anatomy of the source font
x height
Body size
Stong contrast between thick and thin strokes
Stren Beak
Bodoni
Giambattista Bodoni, 1798
Unilateral seriff
enght Flat, thin horizontal seriffs on lowercase letters
Bilateral seriff
Ascender line Main line
Base line Descender line
Uppercase Letters
ABCDE FGHIJK LMNOP QRSTU VWXYZ
A
Lowercase Letters
abcde fghijk lmnop qrstu vwxyz
a
Numerals
123 456 789 0
Diacritics, Punctuation, Signs & Symbols
.,:;'"“”«» !?@&#§%€ äöü èé àá òó ùú +-x÷=~<> /\ () {} []
Font sizes in use
Emperor Meiji
30/36 pt
(3 November 1852 - 30 July 1912) was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession.
21/25,2 pt
Reigning from 3 February 1867 until his death, he presided over the Meiji era, and instigated the Meiji Restoration, a series of rapid changes that witnessed Japan‘s transformation from an isolationist, feudal state to an industrialized world power.
12/14,4 pt
At the time of Emperor Meiji‘s birth in 1852, Japan was a feudal, pre-industrial country dominated by the isolationist Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyo subject to it, who ruled over the country‘s 270 decentralized domains. By the time of his death in 1912, Japan had undergone an extensive political, economic and social revolution, and emerged as one of the great powers on the world stage. The New York Times summarized this transformation at the emperor‘s funeral in 1912 with the words: "the contrast between that which preceded the funeral car and that which followed it was striking indeed. Before it went old Japan; after it came new Japan‘'. Since the modern era, when an emperor of Japan dies he is given a posthumous name. Such a name is a combination of the era during which he reigned and coincides with the emperor‘s contribution to the throne whilst he was alive. Therefore, while publicly known during his life merely as "The Emperor‘', he has been historically known as "Emperor Meiji‘', after his death. He obtained this current title in reference to the Meiji era, which spanned almost the entirety of his reign. His personal name (which is not used in any formal or official context, except for his signature) was Mutsuhito.
9/10,8 pt
After the Emperor‘s death in 1912, the Japanese Diet passed a resolution to commemorate his role in the Meiji Restoration. An iris garden in an area of Tokyo where Emperor Meiji and the Empress had been known to visit was chosen as the building‘s location for the Shinto shrine Meiji Jingu. The shrine does not contain the Emperor‘s grave, which is at Fushimi-momoyama south of Kyoto.
7/8,4 pt
Font Anatomy
x height
Body size
Rounded upper terminals
Chan Rounded terminals
Meiji
Low contrast between strokes
ange Rounded base terminals
Ascender line Main line
Base line Descender line
Font relationships
IJHLNMEFUT OQCD PRB VWXYZ Aa Gg
oecbdpq nmhru iljft vwyxz Ss
Kk
Font creation & skeleton
m m m Source font Bodoni
Applied brushes
Source font with skeleton
Final result
Brushes
35°, 60%, 6pt
20°, 50%, 5pt
25°, 60%, 5pt
25°, 60%, 6pt
20°, 50%, 6pt
25°, 48%, 6pt