For your computer, you can install a 教科書 type font. There's a free one here (the EPSON 教科書体Ｍ).

Kyoukasho (教科書) means "text book".

You can set up a browser to use this font when reviewing on this web site.

In case it's useful, here is a site showing how to write the Joyo kanji. The font used is 教科書.

Install the Greasemonkey addin, download the Change kanji font script, click on the my profile tab, then the font picker page link and select your font. You will probably need to exit firefox once through the File menu's Exit command to make your choice permanent.

See also the Font used in review card thread.

Thanks, woelpad and Katsuo.

woelpad, I installed Greasemonkey and the script, but it doesn't work. My profile says the Kyoukashou script is selected as my preference and I quit Firefox after choosing it, but the website still displays the default boxy typeface. When I select the Kyoukashou tyepface in the font selector page, it doesn't change the sample typeface either.

Katsuo, I tried your exact settings in Firefox which were similar to what I tried yesterday. It doesn't work either.

I know this new font works because if I open a text file in any of my non-browser applications I can change the fonts. It looks like the font just doesn't work in the browser.

I guess I'll have to study with my Heisig book and try not to look at the other Kanji when I check the look of the strokes.

Does the sample change if you select any other font? If it doesn't, then the font picker functionality doesn't work, otherwise it's a problem with that particular font.

BTW, that exit scenario I only added so you wouldn't need to redo the same operation every time you quit and restart Firefox. If you have the story or review page open in another tab, you simply need to reload that page after selecting a different font.

Last edited by woelpad (2008 May 19, 1:34 am)

Katsuo wrote:

Experimenting, changing the Serif font to Kyokashou now makes that font appear in the KanjiKoohii review page.

That got me thinking about what the website is specifying for typefaces. So I looked at the source code. The review cards default to a serif if the specified Japanese fonts aren't available. Maybe the webmaster changed the CSS from san-serif when you first made those test settings.

So... I re-tried changing the serif to the Kyokashou setting and it works as long as I have the Greasemonkey script turned on! Hooray! If I turn the Greasemonkey script off it stops working.

woelpad wrote:

Does the sample change if you select any other font? If it doesn't, then the font picker functionality doesn't work, otherwise it's a problem with that particular font.

Here's where it gets weird.

If I'm using the default Firefox font settings, then only 1 of my Japanese fonts (Osaka) and my "Simplified Chinese" fonts (Kai, Song, etc.) change the sample. While the other standard installed Japanese fonts (Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W6, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std W8, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro W4, Hiragino Mincho Pro W3, Hiragino Mincho Pro W6, OsakaMono) and Kyokashou do not change the sample.

When I changed the Firefox font settings to Kyokashou or de-selected "allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" then none of the fonts changed the sample.

If the default settings and Greasemonkey script are on then Osaka works. If I change the default Japanese serif font to Osaka and turn of the Greasemonkey script the website displays in Osaka.

Anyway, the display problem is sort of fixed even if I don't know why.

MethodGT, I tried setting my offline flashcards to use this Kyokashou font and it won't display above 36 pt and it looks jaggy. I'm thinking it's not a scalable (vector?) font.

Thanks all!