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Fri Aug  6 15:08:17 2004  Mike FABIAN  <mfabian@suse.de>
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About the ORADANO Mincho font Ver. 0.2003.1026

October 26th, 2003.
Akira? UCHIDA (内田明)
<uchida@happy.email.ne.jp>


- What is the ORADANO Mincho font?

The ORADANO Mincho font is a font being created by Mr. Uchida aiming
to cover all non-kanji from JIS X 0213:2000 and most of the kanji.

The outlines for the Kana glyphs and the related symbols in this font
are created by Mr. Uchida based on the "size five" typeface which was
used for printing and sold by the Toukyou-Tsukiji printing factory
during the years 30-31 of the Meiji era [1].  The other non-kanji
glyphs are an original design by Mr. Uchida.

The outlines for the kanji glyphs in this font have been drawn by
Mr. Uchida while consulting the glyphs from the general sample
catalogue of "size five" mincho type face glyphs published in the year
2 of the Taishou era (1912 - 1926) by the Toukyou-Tsujiki printing
factory which are recorded in the "Mincho type face character style
table" of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.

- usage of the ORADANO Mincho font

Everybody can use this font free of charge for printing, display,
embedding into electronic texts and similar purposes.  This font may
be distributed and redistributed freely without having to pay any
royalties. This font may also be bundled with other software which is
sold. This font may also be used to develop new fonts.

- exemption from responsibility

The ORADANO mincho font is offered "as is". Neither the creator nor
the redistributor give any guarantee concerning the quality, the
usefulness or the suitability for public and personal standards and
language customs.  Any damage which occurs due to the use of this font
is solely the problem of the user.  Even if they know about
possibilities to inflict damage, the creator and the redistributor
will not take any legal and moral responsibilities.  If this font is
proved to be defective, the creator and the redistributor have no
obligation neither to fix it nor to announce it.


Translation notes:

[1] The Meiji Era (明治時代 1868-1912) denotes the reign of the Meiji
Emperor. I.e. the year 30 of the Meiji era is 1898 in the western
calendar).

[2] Taishou Era (大正時代 1912 - 1926). I.e. the year 2 of the
Taishou Era is 1914.