Meiryo font family
Overview
Meiryo is a very versatile modern sans serif type designed to give an exceptionally clean appearance on screen, as well as in print. It is optimized for on-screen reading. The letterforms are generously open and well-proportioned; legible and clear at smaller sizes, and dynamic at larger display sizes. The beauty of this face is that it sets text lines in Japanese with Roman seamlessly and harmoniously. The balanced inter-letter spacing enhances horizontal alignment, facilitating smooth reading flow. Meiryo has a very large character set with Japanese and Roman combined, fully scalable outline technology, making it extremely functional for all aspects of communication and publishing. It is a robust legible typeface yet compact enough to enable tight inter-line spacing which is good for space economy.
| Description | |
|---|---|
| File name | Meiryo.ttc Meiryob.ttc |
| Styles & Weights | Meiryo Meiryo Bold Meiryo Bold Italic Meiryo Italic Meiryo UI Meiryo UI Bold Meiryo UI Italic Meiryo UI Bold Italic |
| Designers | C&G Inc.; Eiichi Kono; Matthew Carter |
| Copyright | © 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. |
| Font vendor | Microsoft Corp. |
| Script Tags | dlng:'Hani', 'Hira', 'Hrkt', 'Jpan', 'Kana' slng:'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Hani', 'Hira', 'Hrkt', 'Jpan', 'Kana', 'Latn' |
| Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1257 Windows Baltic 932 JIS/Japan Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) OEM OEM Character Set 869 IBM Greek 866 MS-DOS Russian 865 MS-DOS Nordic 863 MS-DOS Canadian French 861 MS-DOS Icelandic 860 MS-DOS Portuguese 857 IBM Turkish 855 IBM Cyrillic; primarily Russian 852 Latin 2 775 MS-DOS Baltic 737 Greek; former 437 G 850 WE/Latin 1 437 US |
| Fixed pitch | False |
Licensing and redistribution info
- Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
- License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations
Products that supply this font
| Product name | Font version |
|---|---|
| Windows 11 | See the Windows 11 page. |
| Windows 10 | See the Windows 10 page. |
| Windows 8.1 | See the Windows 8.1 page. |
| Windows 8 | See the Windows 8 page. |
| Windows 7 | See the Windows 7 page. |
| Windows Vista | 5.00 |
| Windows Server 2008 | 5.00 |
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.
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