Counterparts

Compare: Magmatic, Occupant Fonts’ industrial sans-serif, pairs well with the robust proportions of Morisawa’s classic MB 101 Gothic. Contrast: Magmatic tends features slightly more squared, industrial curves and feels more technical than the traditional style of MB101.

Compare: Both have similar rounded endings. Contrast: The original Allium is a humanist design, and Jun is more geometric. However, proportions were made more geometric for Allium Rounded, making is harmonize better with how Jun’s wider proportions and how the glyphs evenly fills the squares.

Compare: Serif textfaces and Mincho styles are best for editorial use. The high x-height of Quiosco helps fill lines more similarly to Japanese than oldstyle textfaces with a lower x-height. Contrast: Quiosco is a slightly sharper impression, whereas A1 Mincho has a more delicate feel with smoothed out details, drawing from phototypesetting effects.

Compare: Both are high-contrast display sans-serifs, with movement in stroke weights and open counters. Contrast: Eggwhite is technically a “reverse contrast” where the heavy strokes of the letters are horizontals, and the lighter strokes are verticals. The letters have fairly wide proportions. On the other hand, Puhu sour follows a more traditional contrast, but simplifies the forms to make playful shapes and has a more compact, condensed skeleton.

Compare: Both have an industrial feel, with a denser texture due to more tightly closed counters. Slab serifs can pair nicely with Japanese Sans-serifs (Gothics) due to the intersections of kanji. Contrast: Dispatch’s curves are more square than UD Shin Go.

Compare: Both feature a similar calligraphic stroke modulation. Contrast: Amira’s strokes feel more energetic and gestural, while Folk gives the impression of precious ornamentation.

Compare: Funky, rigid rhythm with a hand-written feel. Contrast: Cinema Letter has details of a pen on paper, with ink blots at all stroke endings and terminals; Pentameter is more of a bent wire, monolinear and vector-based.

Compare: similar color (texture) on the page. Heavier horizontal strokes provide a robust impression, especially at small sizes. Contrast: Reimin is sharper, with more contrast. Reimin is rounder and more fluid, while still highly structured. Ibis has more condensed proportions with squarer counters, and has a more measured, deliberate rhythm.