Johnny Shields

Oddly enough Noto Sans CJK JP (and other CJK) appears to use different alphabet glyphs but they aren't significantly larger.  Noto CJK does also have a larger line height,...

> How about an merged font option like Noto sans CJK? Will raise this as a separate ticket

> It was the main reason why the release of the JP fonts were delayed 🤦 This is really unfortunate there was not more community consultation. We had no idea...

@BoldMonday I'd like to make sure we're not talking cross purposes. Japanese charsets do include full-width (全角) alphabet chars: ``` Normal: ABCDEFG Full-Width: ＡＢＣＤＥＦＧ ```  Is it possible Sandoll...

Therein lies another problem. Alphabet characters are typically written upright when Japanese is written vertically, for example the Nikkei newspaper or magazines. Although both ways are possible, upright alphabet feels...

Great! I've been checking magazines around my house and longer words do tend to be written sideways. So it's likely that "IBM", "2021", etc would be upright but "OpenPOWER Foundation"...

@NightFurySL2001 1. If we're going to scale, shouldn't the alpha glyphs be scaled in IBM Plex Sans KR as well then? Presumably a KR hangul glyph should be the same...

Also worth noting Adobe is scaling by different % for different weight. Looking at this proof I can see why they did it... thin alphabet somehow feels larger relative to...

I'd also like to reiterate this is important for app designer's sanity when working in multiple languages. If we can keep ascenders/descenders/bounding boxes the same across CJK it makes things...

@alto I looked into this. The implementation is quite trivial, especially with the new config structure you made in version 4. The core code is only a few lines: ```...