POP (Point of Purchase; ja, ポップ体) is a mono-weight typeface for the Japanese
kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...
writing system. It is similar to both
sans-serif and
script-based typefaces in the
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and th ...
. The POP typeface is designed to effect the look of handwritten Kanji, as though produced by a felt-tip marker. Its loose, casual structure makes it similar to casual scripts in the Latin alphabet.
A common misconception is to associate POP with ''HGSoeiKakupoptai'' (), but it is only one of many types of casual script fonts produced in Japan, even from the font foundry Soei (). Its popularity came from being distributed with Japanese version of
Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 2000 (version 9.0) is a release of Microsoft Office, an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for the Windows family of operating systems. Office 2000 was released to manufacturing on March 29, 1999, and was made av ...
,
and it was also sold by
Ricoh
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational imaging and electronics company (law), company. It was founded by the now-defunct commercial division of the Riken, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken) known as the ''Riken ...
under TrueTypeWorld ValueFontD2.
References
External links
Tutorial for writing in POP(Chinese)
Casual script typefaces
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