Fonts and Rendering Support for the ARIB Standard

Monotype Imaging offers Japanese fonts and text rendering support that conform to Japan’s ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Business) data coding and transmission specification for digital broadcasting.

Our ARIB scalable font package features three designs: square gothic, round gothic and bold round gothic. All are stroke-based fonts, built not only to meet minimal storage and memory requirements but also to ensure the highest level of display quality and readability. The fonts support Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana scripts and are constructed of simple, composite shapes that are used repeatedly to build complex Japanese characters, which can add up to more than 7,000 in a single font. Monotype Imaging’s ARIB fonts require approximately 1.5 megabytes of memory or storage, a reduction of more than 80 percent when compared to the use of bitmaps rather than stroke-based fonts.

The ARIB fonts are part of a complete text rendering package that features the iType™ font engine, Monotype Imaging’s scalable font rendering subsystem that has been implemented in millions of consumer electronics devices worldwide. Based on TrueType® and OpenType® industry-standard font formats, the iType font engine allows for the rapid generation of scalable characters at virtually any size, whether characters are written horizontally or vertically.