Font which makes it possible to use ancient characters on PC for free "Shirakawa font"

Developed to make it easy to use ancient characters such as bone scripts and gold sentences which were difficult to use on computers until now even with document creation softwareShirakawa font"Has been released as a free font. Using the developed Shirakawa font, it is possible to input ancient characters easily just as you enter modern Chinese characters.

Shirakawa font
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/re/k-rsc/sio/shirakawa/index.html

Shirakawa fontRitsumeikan University Shirakawa Shizu Memorial Toyo Institute for Cultural StudiesIt is a free font which was born from a research project by Shirakawa Characterology and was widely used for education such as kanji education. The ancient characters recorded in the Shirakawa font are 4391 characters in total including 681 characters of the bone, 1084 letters of the Kanji, 2593 characters of the Kanji sentence, 30 letters of the old sentence and 3 sentences. Those whose ancient characters are known can be converted in 2100 kanji and 650 kanji characters.

Install Shirakawa font from the following.

"Shirakawa font"
http://www.dl.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/Shirakawa/search/index.php


Ancient characters included in the Shirakawa font can also be downloaded separately.


However, this time I will try downloading all the Shirakawa fonts at once. Click "Download" under "All of Shirakawa font".


To download Shirakawa font, enter name and e-mail address, agree to the conditions of use of Shirakawa font, click the check box, and click "Register".


The conditions of use of the Shirakawa font are as follows.

Please download fonts only if you can agree to the following matters.

○ The copyright of the Shirakawa font is owned by Ritsumeikan University Shirakawa Shizen Memorial Toyo Institute of Cultural Studies.
○ Personal use of Shirakawa font · Use for educational purpose is free. However, the Institute assumes no responsibility for any results using the Shirakawa font.
○ Do not redistribute it as a font itself, or modify the font etc.

In addition, since the following usage method is commercial use, separate licensing application is required.

① Use for logo, advertisement, poster, catalog, POP, goods etc. for the purpose of profit
② Use of paper media such as newspapers and magazines in publications
③ Use for movies, TV programs, commercials such as CM, DVD, BD
④ Use for standby screen, deco mail, banner advertisement, wallpaper etc
⑤ Usage on various Web sites of various corporations and government agencies
⑥ Use for PDF embedding for profit-making purposes

When registration is completed, you will receive an email immediately to the email address you entered, so click on the URL listed there.


Then the Shirakawa font is downloaded to the PC. This alone can not use the Shirakawa font, so download the compressed fileExplzhUnzip it with.


Since eight different font data are contained in the decompressed folder, click these ... ....


Click "Install" to finish installing fonts, you can use ancient characters on PC. Please note that you need to install fonts 8 times because 8 font data are included.


When installing, the Shirakawa font is displayed on the font selection screen as shown below, so that ancient characters can be used at any time.


In addition, in order to check whether you can install all the Shirakawa fonts, please access the following page and it is OK if the same glyph is displayed in the "Image" and "Text" columns.

"Shirakawa font"
http://www.dl.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/Shirakawa/search/test_font.html


It actually looks like this.

"Yoshito Masato" is displayed in a sentence


"Night dew of death" is displayed in a sentence


"Kanemon" is displayed in gold text


In fact, when you use it, the text with the largest number of characters can still convert the most characters. Although it is impossible to convert the target kanji or it can not be read, there are other fonts that you can feel the flow of change in kanji with your skin while entering characters.