Murecho is a low-stroke contrast, flat terminal Gothic style (“sans serif”) Japanese typeface designed for text settings in Japan. It covers Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji (JOYO+). It also supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek. Murecho is available in 9 practical weights and as a variable font.
For anyone who knows me, knows I have a deeply-rooted connection to Japan. As a teenager, I was an exchange student to Murecho, a beautiful town in Kagawa Prefecture on Shikoku, the smallest of the four main islands in Japan. Traveling to Japan was the first time I had traveled abroad since I left Azores for the US as a young child. It wasn’t until I stepped foot in Japan, and in Mure, that I felt like I had a hometown. Nothing felt ‘right’ or intentional until then. Now, I have life-long friends and an extended family with a connection to those people, that town, and country. In 2006, I learned that Murecho would be merged into the expanded city of Takamatsu. I understood the reasoning and the pragmatism behind better supporting the municipality, but it was still difficult to accept as that name meant something to me. So, it was a very easy decision when tasked to name this new typeface… Murecho would live on in a new environment and shared with everyone.
Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.
If you particularly want to build fonts manually on your own computer, you will need to install the yq utility. On OS X with Homebrew, type brew install yq; on Linux, try snap install yq; if all else fails, try the instructions on the linked page.
Then:
make buildwill produce font files.make testwill run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.make proofwill generate HTML proof files.
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.