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Bitmap Font

“Basic Concept ”

・ Easy-to-read Readable with clarity.

・ Easy-to-see Distinguishable and recognizable with legibility.

・ User-friendly Eye friendly with beauty and grace.

・ Accordance with device design and applicationHarmonious with device atmosphere

“Customer Satisfaction Approach”

• We can answer any inquiries concerning characters, font standard, typefacedesign and so on.

• We propose optimal font for your requirements, such as device conditions andimage that they wish to convey by the display.

• We can offer suitable contracts to meet the customer’s requests.

• We try to respond to any requirements, such as a new typeface, a new size, an unique design, and so on.

HGUM Sans Medium is used at the catalog.

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Bitmap Font Terms

The terms used in this catalogue

◇ Body Size

◇ Letter Size

◇Margin and Margin LocationThe interval between body size and letter size.When characters are displayed consecutively, it might be difficult to read caused by each characters contact with the other.In order to prevent it, it is necessary to have space at the “line” and the “column” without character.The space is made by the interval between body size and letter size.The Margin location, horizontal (left or right) and vertical (above or below), is specified by bitmap font.

[Example] Bitmap /Size : 16x16 (15x15) /Line width : 1 dot

Letter size (height)15dots

◇ Line Width

Body size (width) 16dots

The size occupied by a character.(Character width) ｘ (Character height)

The maximum space size actually occupied by a character in the body size.(Design domain width) ｘ (Design domain height)NOTE: Some characters are design beyond letter size such as box drawing characters, etc.

The dot numbers for thickness of dot strokes (horizontal line, vertical line, dot, etc.)A character with many dot strokes may be expressed with less dot numbers than those of the line width defined by each bitmap font.

◇ Bitmap Size

Body size with letter size

Body size (height) 16dots

Letter size (width) 15dotsHorizontal

margin 1dot

Vertical margin1dot

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Ricoh Bitmap Font Features

Ricoh Gothic Typeface Specially Designed for Text Legible.- the space between lines affects how easy it is to read.

It is easier to read when the space between lines is wide. However, the data volume in one shot may be toosmall when it is too wide.Ricoh’s Gothic typeface is made with well balance by creating small space in the above.

- When reading a long text, it is ideal to make all characters the same size in order to make it readable without tired.But, some characters may look bigger and the other smaller depending on the dot stroke composition. So, sizes in appearance look same by adjusting each character physical size.

Ricoh Bitmap Font Loaded on MS Mincho and MS Gothic.

Ricoh Bitmap Font has been adopted since Windows® 3.1 OS.Small character size fonts frequently used are actually displayed by loaded bitmap fonts.(That is why they are easy-to-read.)

Over 20 years, many people have looked at bitmap fonts without knowing it. Our bitmap fonts are used widely in Japan.

2 dots were omitted 2 more dots were omitted.*Complicated characters only

[Example]:Sharing of dot and strokes

(1) Dot strokes are omitted from the point of view of the balance. No character clogging happens.(The image is shown below).

(2) Character size in appearance keeps same with adjusting the balance as a whole.For instance, complicated characters look smaller, while fewer dot stroke characters look bigger.Also when a surrounded area is large, the character looks larger.

[Example]

“磯” and “臼” are both Gothic typeface with body size 16x16 (letter size15x15).They appear the same size, but the actual domains are quite different as shown below.

← Actual charactercomposition ＝15x15

Actual charactercomposition ＝13ｘ15 →

[Example]:Omission of dot and strokes

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Supports

Please feel free to consult us if you have any request for fonts. They can be not only specific requests, but also, non-specific ones like “this kind of feeling”.We promise to do our best to propose your optimal solution.

◇ Character AdditionsARIB standard (ARIB STD-B24) characters addition: We can provide 536 characters of ARIB standard.NOTE: Please inquire us for the details.

Kanji characters outside of the common list (167 characters) addition and replacement:We can provide 167 characters in CP932 out of 168 whose character style was changedin JIS X 0213:2004.NOTE: Please inquire us for the details.

Original character addition and replacement: We offer legible characters by adding designs to similar character form.

[Example]At small size of similar characters, the design difference becomes smaller (for example, zero as thenumber and O as alphabet).Ricoh make the shape of zero horizontally longer, and the shape of alphabet O rounder. Or it is an alternative solution to add slush to the zero to discriminate.

[Example]

◇ File Format Conversion

- BDF Format ConversionWe can convert to BDF format file (*.bdf) .NOTE: Please consult with us if you have any request, such as specification of typeface name, etc.

- BMP Format ConversionWe can convert to BMP format file (*.bmp) for each character one by one.NOTE: We will confirm specifications, such as colors for use, etc.

- Other Formats ConversionPlease contact us and let you know whether we can do or not.

◇ Bitmap SizeWe can create sizes other than those listed on catalogue.Please contact us and let us know sizes you need.

◇Multi-languages SupportWe can provide languages other than those listed on the catalogue.Please contact us and let us know languages you need.

◇ Others please feel free to consult with us for other requests. For example, adding and removing space, allocation change, monospaced or proportional conversion, etc.

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Language Character Type Total

Characters Character Code

(Encoding)

Japanese

JIS X 0208-1990

- JIS X 0201 (Half-width: 158 characters)

- JIS X 0208 (Non-Kanji : 524 characters)

- JIS X 0208 (Kanji Level 1: 2,965 characters)

-JIS X 0208 (Kanji Level 2: 3,390 characters)

- Characters for vertical writing (53 characters)

7,090 - JIS

- Shift_JIS

- Unicode® encoding

CP932





- NEC special (83 characters)

- NEC selected IBM® extension (374 characters)

- IBM extension (388 characters)


7,990

(Including overlapping)

JIS X 0213:2004









11,489

ARIB STD-B24 (6.1 version)





- ARIB additional code (394 characters)

- ARIB additional kanji (137 characters)


7,626

[NOTE]<ARIB STD-B24 (6.1 Version)>As for overlapping 16 characters of JIS form and ARIB form, ARIB form is loaded.Please consult with us if you prefer to JIS form.

Character Set

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Character Set

Language Character Type Total

Characters

Character Code

(Encoding)

Chinese Characters Big5-1984 (13,556 characters)

＋E-TEN (7characters)

13,563

(Including overlapping)

- Big5

- Unicode encoding

Korean

KS X 1001:2004

(Without hanja)

+ KS X 1003-1993

3,434 - KS(EUC-KR)- Unicode encoding

European

Western Europe

ISO 8859-1 191 - Unicode encoding

In the case of CP1252, ISO 8859-1, etc., Local code can be used.

ISO 8859-15 191

CP1252 218

Central Europe

ISO 8859-2 191

CP1250 218

Southern Europe

ISO 8859-3 184

Northern Europe

ISO 8859-4 191

Cyrillic (Russian)

ISO 8859-5 191

CP1251 223

Greek ISO 8859-7 188

CP1253 206

Turkish ISO 8859-9 191

CP1254 216

North Germanic Languages

ISO 8859-10 191

Baltic ISO 8859-13 191

CP1257 211

Celtic ISO 8859-14 191

Southeastern Europe

ISO 8859-16 191

Arabic CP1256 223 - CP1256

CP1256＋137 characters 360 - Unicode encoding

Thai CP874 192 - CP874

- Unicode encoding

Vietnamese CP1258 214 - CP1258

CP1258＋104 characters 318 - Unicode encoding

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Bitmap Font Lineup

[NOTE] New Gothic M and New Gothic B conformable to Universal Design (UD).

Gothic

Horizontal Vertical Above Below Left Right09×09 08×08 1 1 0 1 0 1 155.910×10 09×09 1 1 0 1 0 1 170.8

1 1 CP932 0 1 0 1 200.41 1 ARIB STD-B24 0 1 1 0 202.3

14×14 13×13 1 1 CP932 0 1 0 1 230.11 1 CP932 0 1 0 1 259.71 1 JIS X 0213:2004 0 1 1 0 392.9

1 1 ARIB STD-B24 0 1 1 0 262.2

20×20 19×19 1 1 CP932 0 1 0 1 467.31 2 CP932 0 1 0 1 200.41 2 ARIB STD-B24 0 1 1 0 202.3

14×14 13×13 1 2 CP932 0 1 0 1 230.11 2 CP932 0 1 0 1 259.71 2 ARIB STD-B24 0 1 1 0 262.2

18×18 18×18 2 2 CP932 0 0 0 0 422.81 2 CP932 0 1 0 1 467.31 2 ARIB STD-B24 0 1 1 0 471.8

20×20 20×20 2 2 CP932 0 0 0 0 467.32 2 CP932 0 1 0 1 556.32 2 JIS X 0213:2004 0 1 1 0 841.7

26×26 25×25 2 2 CP932 0 1 0 1 793.52 3 CP932 0 1 0 1 912.22 3 ARIB STD-B24 0 1 1 0 920.9

40×40 38×38 3 4 CP932 1 1 1 1 1,505.310×10 09×09 1 1 0 1 0 1 170.812×12 11×11 1 1 0 1 0 1 200.413×13 12×12 1 1 0 1 0 1 215.214×14 13×13 1 1 0 1 0 1 230.116×16 15×15 1 1 0 1 0 1 259.718×18 17×17 1 1 0 1 0 1 422.820×20 18×18 1 1 0 2 0 2 467.324×24 23×23 2 2 0 1 0 1 556.324×24 24×24 2 2 0 0 0 0 556.329×29 27×27 2 2 1 1 1 1 882.532×32 30×30 2 2 1 1 1 1 971.532×32 32×32 2 2 0 0 0 0 907.340×40 40×40 3 3 0 0 0 0 1,405.848×48 46×46 3 3 CP932 1 1 1 1 2,157.714×14 13×13 1 2 0 1 0 1 230.116×16 15×15 1 2 0 1 0 1 259.720×20 19×19 1 2 0 1 0 1 467.322×22 22×22 2 2 0 0 0 0 511.824×24 23×23 2 2 0 1 0 1 556.326×26 24×24 2 2 1 1 1 1 793.5

3 3 CP932 1 1 1 1 971.5

3 3 ARIB STD-B24 1 1 1 1 980.836×36 36×36 3 3 CP932 0 0 0 0 1,357.040×40 40×40 4 4 0 0 0 0 1,405.848×48 46×46 4 4 1 1 1 1 2,015.156×56 54×54 5 5 1 1 1 1 2,735.264×64 60×60 5 6 2 2 2 2 3,566.1

20×20 19×19

24×24 23×23

Margin (dot)

12×12 11×11

16×16 15×15

Data volume(KB)

New Gothic M

TypefaceBodysize

Lettersize

Line width (dot)Character set

CP932

New Gothic B

CP932

Gothic M

JIS X 0208-1990

Gothic B32×32 30×30

CP932

12×12 11×11

16×16

30×30 29×29

15×15

JIS X 0208-1990

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Mincho

Horizontal Vertical Above Below Left Right12×12 11×11 1 1 0 1 0 1 200.414×14 13×13 1 1 0 1 0 1 230.116×16 15×15 1 1 0 1 0 1 259.718×18 17×17 1 1 0 1 0 1 422.820×20 19×19 1 1 0 1 0 1 467.324×24 23×23 1 2 0 1 0 1 556.329×29 27×27 1 2 JIS X 0208-1990 1 1 1 1 824.232×32 30×30 1 2 1 1 1 1 971.536×36 35×35 1 2 0 1 0 1 1,357.040×40 38×38 1 2 JIS X 0208-1990 1 1 1 1 1,405.848×48 46×46 2 3 CP932 1 1 1 1 2,157.756×56 54×54 2 4 1 1 1 1 2,735.264×64 60×60 2 4 2 2 2 2 3,566.114×14 13×13 1 2 0 1 0 1 230.116×16 15×15 1 2 0 1 0 1 259.748×48 46×46 2 5 1 1 1 1 2,015.156×56 54×54 2 5 1 1 1 1 2,735.2

Line width (dot) Data volume(KB)

Character setMargin (dot)

TypefaceBodysize

Lettersize

Mincho BCP932

JIS X 0208-1990

Mincho M

CP932

CP932

JIS X 0208-1990

[NOTE] ”Gothic M 24x24 (23x23)” and “Gothic B 24x24 (23x23)” are the same data.”Round Gothic M 24x24 (23x23)” and “Round Gothic B 24x24 (23x23)” are as well.Gothic M and Gothic B keep the same design concept with different line width data.As for 24x24 (23x23), the line width 2 dots are so appropriate for both that they become same as a result.

Bitmap Font Lineup

Horizontal Vertical Above Below Left Right16×16 15×15 1 1 0 1 0 1 259.724×24 23×23 2 2 0 1 0 1 556.348×48 46×46 3 3 1 1 1 1 2,015.156×56 54×54 4 4 1 1 1 1 2,735.216×16 15×15 1 2 0 1 0 1 259.720×20 19×19 1 2 0 1 0 1 467.324×24 23×23 2 2 0 1 0 1 556.348×48 46×46 4 4 1 1 1 1 2,157.756×56 54×54 5 5 JIS X 0208-1990 1 1 1 1 2,735.2

Round Gothic MJIS X 0208-1990

TypefaceBodysize

Lettersize


Round Gothic BCP932

Margin (dot) Data volume(KB)

CP932

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European

Horizontal VerticalPro×12 1 1 14.3Pro×14 1 1 16.4Pro×16 1 1 18.5Pro×20 2 2 33.2Pro×24 2 2 39.5Pro×12 1 2 14.3Pro×14 1 2 16.4Pro×16 2 2 18.5Pro×20 2 3 33.2Pro×24 3 3 39.5Pro×12 1 1 14.3Pro×16 1 1 18.5Pro×20 1 1 33.2Pro×24 2 2 39.5Pro×12 1 2 14.3Pro×16 1 2 18.5Pro×20 1 2 33.2Pro×24 2 3 39.5

* "Data volume" represents file size of each character set.

Typeface

TU Sans M

TU Sans B

Data volume(KB)

Charactersize


CP1250, CP1251,CP1252, CP1253,CP1254, CP1257,

ISO8859-1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16

CP1250, CP1251,CP1252, CP1253,CP1254, CP1257,

ISO8859-1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16Gothic B

Gothic M

Bitmap Font Lineup

[NOTE]”New Gothic M 12x24 (11x23)” and “New Gothic B 12x24 (11x23)” are the same data.Gothic M and Gothic B keeps the same design concept with different line width data.As for 12x24 (11x23), the line width 2 dots is so appropriate for both that they become same as a result.New Gothic M and New Gothic B conformable to Universal Design (UD).

European half-width

Horizontal Vertical Above Below Left Right06×12 05×11 1 1 0 1 0 1 3.208×16 07×15 1 1 0 1 0 1 4.005×10 04×09 1 1 0 1 0 1 2.706×12 05×11 1 1 0 1 0 1 3.208×16 07×15 1 1 0 1 0 1 4.012×24 11×23 2 2 0 1 0 1 10.806×12 05×11 1 2 0 1 0 1 3.207×14 06×13 1 2 0 1 0 1 3.608×16 07×15 1 2 0 1 0 1 4.010×20 09×19 1 2 0 1 0 1 9.112×24 11×23 2 2 0 1 0 1 10.815×30 14×29 2 3 0 1 0 1 13.420×40 18×38 3 4 0 1 0 1 26.1

Character setMargin (dot) Data volume

(KB)Line width (dot)

TypefaceBodysize

Lettersize

CP1252

CP1252

CP1252

New Gothic M

New Gothic B

Gothic M

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Bitmap Font Lineup

Traditional Chinese characters

Horizontal Vertical Above Below Left Right12×12 11×11 1 1 0 1 0 1 357.714×14 13×13 1 1 0 1 0 1 410.716×16 15×15 1 1 0 1 0 1 463.718×18 17×17 1 1 0 1 0 1 755.020×20 19×19 1 1 0 1 0 1 834.524×24 23×23 2 2 0 1 0 1 993.426×26 25×25 2 2 0 1 0 1 1417.2

Korean

Horizontal Vertical Above Below Left Right10×10 09×09 1 1 0 1 0 1 77.312×12 11×11 1 1 0 1 0 1 90.716×16 15×15 1 1 0 1 0 1 117.518×18 17×17 1 1 0 1 0 1 191.320×20 19×19 1 2 0 1 0 1 211.424×24 23×23 2 2 0 1 0 1 251.726×26 25×25 2 2 0 1 0 1 359.0

KS X 1001:2004(Without hanja)

+ KS X 1003-1993

TypefaceBodysize

Lettersize

Line width (dot)

Big5-1984+ E-TEN

Character setTypefaceBodysize

Lettersize

Line width (dot) Margin (dot) Data volume(KB)

Character setMargin (dot) Data volume

(KB)

Gothic M

Gothic M

Arabic

Horizontal VerticalPro×12 1 1 11.0Pro×16 1 1 14.1Pro×20 2 2 25.3Pro×24 2 2 30.1

Thai

Horizontal VerticalPro×16 1 1 20.7Pro×20 1 2 37.1Pro×24 2 2 44.1

Vietnamese

Horizontal VerticalPro×12 1 1 8.7Pro×16 1 1 11.2Pro×20 1 2 20.1Pro×24 2 2 23.9

Sans serif M

Gothic M

CP1258 + 104 characters

Typeface

Character setTypeface

Typeface

CP1256 + 137 characters

Data volume(KB)

Charactersize


Data volume(KB)

Sans serif M CP874

Charactersize

Line width (dot)

Data volume(KB)

Charactersize


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Bitmap Font Typeface Sample

Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

09x09 08x08

10x10 09x09

12x12 11x11

14x14 13x13

16x16 15x15

20x20 19x19

New Gothic M

Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

12x12 11x11

14x14 13x13

16x16 15x15

18x18 18x18

New Gothic B 12~ 18 dots

[NOTE] Conformable to Universal Design (UD).


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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

20x20 19x19

20x20 20x20

24x24 23x23

26x26 25x25

30x30 29x29

40x40 38x38

New Gothic B 20~ 40 dots


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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

10x10 09x09

12x12 11x11

13x13 12x12

14x14 13x13

16x16 15x15

18x18 17x17

20x20 18x18

24x24 23x23

24x24 24x24

Gothic M 10~ 24 dots

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

29x29 27x27

32x32 30x30

32x32 32x32

40x40 40x40

48x48 46x46

Gothic M 29~ 48 dots

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

14x14 13x13

16x16 15x15

20x20 19x19

22x22 22x22

24x24 23x23

26x26 24x24

32x32 30x30

36x36 36x36

Gothic B 14~ 36 dots

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

40x40 40x40

48x48 46x46

56x56 54x54

64x64 60x60

Gothic B 40~ 64 dots

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

16x16 15x15

24x24 23x23

48x48 46x46

56x56 54x54

Round Gothic M

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

16x16 15x15

20x20 19x19

24xx4 23x23

48x48 46x46

56x56 54x54

Round Gothic B

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

12x12 11x11

14x14 13x13

16x16 15x15

18x18 17x17

20x20 19x19

24x24 23x23

29x29 27x27

32x32 30x30

36x36 35x35

Mincho M 12~ 36 dots

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

40x40 38x38

48x48 46x46

56x56 54x54

64x64 60x60

Mincho M 40~ 64 dots

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

14x14 13x13

16x16 15x15

48x48 46x46

56x56 54x54

Mincho B

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Character Size

Sample

Pro x12

Pro x14

Pro x16

Pro x20

Pro x24

TU Sans M

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TU Sans B

Character Size

Sample

Pro x12

Pro x14

Pro x16

Pro x20

Pro x24

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CharaceterSize

Sample

Pro x12

Pro x16

Pro x20

Pro×24

Gothic M

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Character Size

Sample

Pro x12

Pro x16

Pro x20

Pro x24

Gothic B

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

06x12 05x12

08x16 07x15

Half-width Gothic M

Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

05x10 04x09

06x12 05x11

08x16 07x15

12x24 11x23

Half-width New Gothic M

[NOTE] New Gothic M conformable to Universal Design (UD).

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

06x12 05x11

07x14 06x13

08x16 07x15

10x20 09x19

12x24 11x23

15x30 14x29

20x40 18x38

Half-width New Gothic B


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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

12x12 11x11

14x14 13x13

16x16 15x15

18x18 17x17

20x20 19x19

24x24 23x23

26x26 25x25

Traditional Chinese Characters Gothic M

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Size

SampleBody Size

Letter Size

10x10 09x09

12x12 11x11

16x16 15x15

18x18 17x17

20x20 19x19

24x24 23x23

26x26 25x25

Korean Gothic M

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Character Size

Sample ( using the Layout Engine (*) )

Pro x12

Pro x16

Pro x20

Pro x24

Arabic Gothic M

* “Layout Engine”, a software is an indispensable tool for properly communicating textcontent in Arabic with complex grammar rules.

Character Size


Pro x16

Pro x20

Pro x24

Thai Sans Serif M

* “Layout Engine”, a software is an indispensable tool for properly communicating textcontent in Thai with complex grammar rules.

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Character Size


Pro x12

Pro x16

Pro x20

Pro x24

Vietnamese Sans Serif M

* “Layout Engine”, a software is an indispensable tool for properly communicating textcontent in Vietnamese with complex grammar rules.

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