A Japanese company called Morisawa has teamed up with Fujitsu Labs to invent a new product called "KeiType." I'll summarize by just saying they're vectorized Japanese fonts, but I think in real life, things are much more complicated.

Morisawa has jointly developed the "KeiType" vectorized fonts in conjunction with Fujitsu Labs, intended for use o­n mobile phones. The technology is currently inside of Fujitsu's "F901iC," as well as Mitsubishi's "D901i," and they plan o­n continuing to load the software into Fujitsu's phones.

KeiType is a lightweight vectorized font software for usage in mobile phones, car navigation systems, and so forth. When compared with PostScript o­n the PC, o­ne character takes up about a fifth of the space; the characters employ vectored curves found in current vectorized fonts, but also use optimized elliptical shapes and straight lines to allow for this data reduction and enhanced display speed. Also, the fonts can be optimized for for the display's resolution, so that even when the font size is increased or decreased, the font size remains the same.




Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/22449.html

Press Release (PDF):
http://www.morisawa.co.jp/news/press/pdf/M-PRNo_101.pdf

KeiType Product Page:
http://www.morisawa.co.jp/products/software/keitype.html