5-B3. Kiri Gothic

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Kiri Gothic

Kiri Gothic (Kirigo) is a font family derived from Source Han Sans, an open source font family from Adobe. Differences between Kiri Gothic and its original Source Han Sans JP are as follows:

Because every modification has been applied to source code and I build it using Adobe's tool (AFDKO), the quality and features are basically as the same as the Source Han Sans family, except the changes mentioned above. Hinting, IVS, GPOS and GSUB data have been inherited from Source Han Sans.

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The following fonts are provided under SIL Open Font License 1.1, following Source Han Sans.

* Italic versions were removed from the line-up on 31st January 2025.

Variable font version

The following is a variable font version (VF) of Kiri Gothic. As apprarently even the Kozuka Minchō/Gothic families of Adobe have not had a variable font version as of 2021, this is likely to be the first variable font whose CIDs are compatible with Adobe-Japan1-7.

* 2024/09/08: According to the issue#290 of Source Han Sans, a bug of Windows 10/11 that caused rendering the VF version to fail has been fixed.
I have personally confirmed that the variable font version above is rendered correctly on Windows 10 22H2 (19045.4780).

Glyphs for Western Letters

Glyphs for Western letters included in Source Han Sans (SHS) are based on Source Sans Pro (SSP), another open source font family from Adobe. SSP includes many characters that are not supported by SHS. To bring in part of them into Kiri Gothic, in Kiri Gothic version 2.100 and later, glyphs for Western letters such as the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic characters and IPA symbols have been replaced with ones that have been generated directly from the source code of the variable font version of SSP.

Because both the glyphs for Western letters in Kiri Gothic and the ones in SHS came from the same glyph outline data, they have fundamentally the same shapes. But it does not have been open to the public how Adobe converted glyphs of SSP to the ones included in SHS.

Consequently, for Western letters, every glyph in Kirigo does not have necessarily the same outlines as the one in SHS. Some glyphs in Kiri Gothic may be the same as the ones in SHS to such an extent that both glyphs have the same outline data, whereas some in Kiri Gothic may have a shape being slightly different from the one in SHS.

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