This Bluesky post sums it up:
We got all the hits:
- purchased by private equity firm
- hid a bunch of layoffs
- invested a bunch of money in AI
- tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned
Ah yes, The Greatest Hits of Capitalism.
Being purchased by Private Equity is basically a death knell for whatever unfortunate company is in their sights
They were purchased by Monotype, a global font monopoly, and the whole “buy all competition, send prices into the stratosphere, then sue whoever can’t pay the extortion or change their fonts” is Monotype’s entire M.O. Every country on the planet should be breaking them into a hundred pieces and locking up their executives for the rest of their lives.
It’s sad that there’s not many Japanese font provider, sure there are free font, but outside a few one, it’s not really well supported with updates and bug fixes.
Event Google’s Japanese Noto font requires contant update and bug fixing.
Why would a font need updating?
A big font with thousands of characters might occasionally have error on them, that’s why someone have to maintain them and checking for all visibility test. This even true for any CJK languages.
Example of error on Google Japanese Noto font: https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/issues/286
Whenever they add new symbols to Unicode, for a start.
Probably other reasons too, on occasion. For non-Latin languages with thousands of characters, I’d imagine certain unusual combinations occasionally get discovered that need rendering tweaks? Things like that.
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There are other Japanese ran and designed font foundries. The US ones have had crazy pricing for a while so I’ve been using maniackers for decades now.
