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Different font for some kanji?

Tanizaki   November 21st, 2013 6:46p.m.

In my more recent lists, I have noticed that some characters are displayed in a "print" style rather than the handwritten style, as seen below:

http://www.anony.ws/k0hC
http://www.anony.ws/k0hD
http://www.anony.ws/k0hf

What I found odd was that the characters appear in handwritten style when I write them, but become print style when displayed as a flashcard or as a successfully written kanji. In this case, the characters are 塡 and 剝. I imagine their variants of 填 and 剥 might display in the handwritten style?

This is more of a point of curiosity than anything else. I was just wondering if others had experienced this, or if the devs could shed some light. Thank you very much.

ジェレミー (Jeremy)   November 21st, 2013 7:17p.m.

The font used for everything besides the writing area is iOS's which does sometimes mix the types as you've noted. It could be fixed by including a custom font on the app, but Japanese fonts are quite large and would add to the app's already large size.

Tanizaki   November 22nd, 2013 11:46a.m.

Thank you very much for the quick reply! Not a problem in the slightest since it doesn't effect functionality - I was just curious.

nick   November 22nd, 2013 3:01p.m.

Actually, to follow up on Jeremy's point, for the iOS version we do actually include a custom font. It's when that font doesn't include characters that you see that print-style fallback.

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