(keitai-l) japanese bitmap fonts - smallest possible?

From: Tracey Northcott <tracey_at_enfour.com>
Date: 04/22/02
Message-Id: <20020422080427.22551@mail.enfour.co.jp>
>From: rolf van widenfelt <rolf@pizzicato.com>
>apologies for seeming slightly off topic...
Rolf - this is right up our alley and not off topic at all!!  I wish more
care and thought was taken in the delivery of content on mobile devices.
So much time and resources are spent in creation but not so much on
really making the product look it's best.  

>does anyone know how many pixels (X Y) are required to 
>display readable japanese characters?
>(for kana and kanji)
>for example, for Roman letters one can easily display readable text
>using 5x7 pixels per character.
>
>it seems that 16x16 pixels per character would easily support any
>japanese text,
>but can one go smaller?
>what is typical?

16x16 sounds a bit big for use on a keitai go for a 12x12, 10x10 or even
8x8 is possible on some devices.  Just make sure you pick a good font at
the smaller sizes as there is nothing that bugs me (and users) more than
unreadable characters.    

If you need any suggestions for fonts - just ask - I have engineers
specialising in fonts for mobile devices/applications!!  :-) 

Tracey
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Tracey Northcott
VP International Communications
Enfour Group
http://www.enfour.com
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Received on Mon Apr 22 11:04:52 2002