antfu/furifont
A Japanese font that shows furigana by itself.
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Furigana, set by the font. A Japanese font that shows furigana by itself. The text stays plain: no markup, no JavaScript, no plugin. It works everywhere that supports custom fonts. Check out the demo and playground on furifont.antfu.me Furifont is compiled from Source Han Sans JP or Source Han Serif JP. A build step reads a dictionary of thousands of words and draws the furigana into new glyphs. For each word, the font holds a ligature: 今日 becomes one glyph with きょう above it. Longer words win (日本語 before 日本), and a kanji with no clear reading stays bare. Details on the website and in docs/design.md. Each release has Sans and Serif, in Hiragana and Romaji, Regular as OpenType and WOFF2, and a variable font of…
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What this repository does
A Japanese font that shows furigana by itself.
Repository facts
- Owner
- antfu
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 330
- Forks
- 2
- Open issues + pull requests
- 1
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-12T10:27:56.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-19T01:54:08.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: devframe, font, furigana, japanese-learning, ligatures-font
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