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Gen Interface JP. A typeface that blends English and Japanese smoothly for websites and apps.

gen.typesetting.jp

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Updates

July 2026

Release —Gen Interface JP v0.8.0 Jul 17
Bump version to 0.8.0 Jul 17
Synthesize halt/vhal from ss09 residuals for CSS text-spacing-trim (#35) Jul 16
Add vertical ss09 alternates and synthesize vhal from Noto baseline Jul 16
Synthesize GPOS halt from ss09 residuals for text-spacing-trim Jul 16
Add Buy Me a Coffee footer link Jul 15
Use threads for WOFF2 subset parallelism (#34) Jul 5
Use threads for WOFF2 subset parallelism Jul 4
Release —Gen Interface JP v0.7.0 Jul 4
Bump version to 0.7.0 Jul 4
Write ss09 UI label as Windows-only name records (#32) Jul 4
Write ss09 UI label as Windows-only name records Jul 4
Add zero-width glyphs for variation selectors and ZWNJ/ZWJ (#31) Jul 3
Add zero-width glyphs for variation selectors and ZWNJ/ZWJ Jul 3
Remove dead glyph classifiers and inline trivial tracking wrapper (#30) Jul 3
Remove dead glyph classifiers and inline trivial tracking wrapper Jul 3
Classify tracking kana/punct via reverse cmap and validate final TTFs… Jul 3
Classify tracking kana/punct via reverse cmap and validate final TTFs Jul 3

June 2026

Release —Gen Interface JP v0.6.2 Jun 1
Bump version to 0.6.2 Jun 1

May 2026

Fix column width May 31
Bump version to 0.6.1 May 30
Release —Gen Interface JP v0.6.1 May 30
[codex] Adjust vertical writing policy (#27) May 30
Release —Gen Interface JP v0.6.0 May 29
Release —Gen Interface JP v0.5.0 May 21
Release —Gen Interface JP v0.4.0 May 19
Release —Gen Interface JP v0.3.0 May 19
Release —Gen Interface JP v0.2.2 May 18
Release —Gen Interface JP v0.2.1 May 18