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Poorly written Japanese button text

Open maekawa-mugi opened this issue 2 years ago β€’ 4 comments

Emoji has several Japanese buttons, but the characters they contain are poorly written. I am Japanese, but it is difficult to explain in English. 🈯:Totally poor. 🈚:The bottom four points must not be placed in an arc. γŠ—οΈ,γŠ™οΈ:The left and right radical of kanji are too far apart. πŸ‰:The "ζ—₯" in the upper right corner is too large. 🈳:Poor Contrast.

Also, most of the characters is not snapped to the top and bottom center.

maekawa-mugi avatar Nov 24 '22 04:11 maekawa-mugi

Dear @maekawa-mugi, many thanks for pointing this out! As we don't have a clue about these Japanese buttons (nor can the team read/write Japanese) ... it would be great if you could provide a PR and fixes on them.

b-g avatar Nov 24 '22 07:11 b-g

If anyone would like to take on this task, the following may prove helpful:

Here is a list of Japanese characters that appear in emojis: γ‚³γ‚³,γ‚΅,月,ζœ‰,ζŒ‡,εΎ—,割,η„‘,可,η”³,合,η©Ί,η₯,秘,ε–Ά,ζΊ€

And for inspiration, here is a comparison of how they appear in several rounded sans-serif typefaces:

Zen Maru Gothic image

Kosugi Maru image

M PLUS Rounded 1c image

Resource Han Rounded image

RobertWinslow avatar Dec 27 '22 20:12 RobertWinslow

Resource Han Rounded looks the most natural.

maekawa-mugi avatar Dec 27 '22 21:12 maekawa-mugi

As Korean which uses Chinese characters(/or kanji /or hanja), I also understand the problems. Those emojis look quite unnatural.

xnousnow avatar Mar 01 '23 04:03 xnousnow