Thinking about kanji characters, one immediatelly associates them with calligraphy. When learning kanji, however, stylized characters, despite their attractive look, are pracitaclly useless due to their at times extremely low legibility.

For the game we were looking for a typeface that would combine the aesthetics of traditional calligraphy with clearity and simplicity of modern digital fonts. The best example of such a typeface is Epson Kaisho. However, because of its licence it may be impossible to use in the game. Therefore we used a “free for commercial use” typeface Yasashisa Gothic.

In the game the characters are displayd as if engraved in stone tables.

Yasashisa Gothic

Epson Kaisho