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Meiryo

Meiryo (メイリオ, Meirio) is a Japanese sans-serif gothic typeface. Microsoft bundled Meiryo with Office Mac 2008 as part of the standard install, and it replaces MS Gothic as the default system font on Japanese systems beginning with Windows Vista.

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Category
Sans-serif
Date released
2008
Designers
C&G Inc., Eiichi Kōno, Takeharu Suzuki (Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji), Matthew Carter, Tom Rickner (Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic)
Foundry
Microsoft Typography
Trademark
Meiryo is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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Etymology

Meiryo UI

Characteristics

Availability

Authors

Problems

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Meiryo

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples119
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1

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Meiryo

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related to Problems · 51
Meiryo → Academic, According, Although, At, Because, Characters, CJK, ClearType, Coptic, Cyrillic, Education, European, For Vista, Furthermore, Greek, However, Japanese, Japanese Industrial Standard, JIS, JIS90 Forms OpenType Layout
related to Authors · 22
Meiryo → According, American Tom Rickner, Apple, Ascender Corporation, British-born, By, Eiichi Kōno, English, Inc, Japanese, Johnston, Latin, London Underground, Matthew Carter, Microsoft, Microsoft's Georgia, New Johnston, Rickner, The Japanese, The Latin
related to Characteristics · 12
Meiryo → CJK, In, Japanese, Latin, MingLiU, PMingLiU, The, To, TrueType, Unlike, Verdana, Windows
related to Awards · 8
Meiryo → Eiichi Kōno, Inc, Matthew Carter, Satoru Akamoto, Takeharu Suzuki, Tokyo Type Directors, Type, Yukiko Ueda
related to Etymology · 7
Meiryo → According, ClearType, Eiichi Kōno, English, Japanese, The, The Japanese
related to Availability · 6
Meiryo → As, Each, For Microsoft Windows, TrueType Collection, Vista, Windows
related to Meiryo UI · 6
Meiryo → Meiryo TTC, Meiryo UI, MS UI Gothic, Similar, Windows, Windows Vista
Category · 1
Meiryo → Sans-serif
Date released · 1
Meiryo → 2008
Designers · 1
Meiryo → C&G Inc., Eiichi Kōno, Takeharu Suzuki (Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji), Matthew Carter, Tom Rickner (Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic)

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font japanese cjk microsoft fonts windows gothic characters ms use latin also used hinting version glyphs vista kana eiichi kōno

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
MeiryoCategorySans-serif1.00infobox
MeiryoDate released20081.00infobox
MeiryoDesignersC&G Inc., Eiichi Kōno, Takeharu Suzuki (Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji), Matthew Carter, Tom Rickner (Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic)1.00infobox
MeiryoFoundryMicrosoft Typography1.00infobox
MeiryoTrademarkMeiryo is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.1.00infobox
Arial Unicode MSinstance ofwith the exception of some fonts0.80text
MS Gothic.Because of its compliance with Japanese Industrial Standard for encoding JIS X 0213instance ofstroke reduction is not consistent with the methods used by other fonts0.80text
Meiryorelated to AuthorsThe Japanese0.60section
Meiryorelated to AuthorsInc0.60section
Meiryorelated to AuthorsEiichi Kōno0.60section
Meiryorelated to AuthorsJohnston0.60section
Meiryorelated to AuthorsLondon Underground0.60section

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