furifont
A Japanese font that shows furigana by itself.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 12, 2026 · 210 upvotes (top 6%)
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial A web demo that layers furigana above kanji is easy, but a real font requires professional Japanese glyph design, metrics, and OpenType engineering that vibe coding can't substitute for.
What it would actually take: The deliverable is an OpenType font built with tools such as FontForge or Glyphs, using GSUB and GPOS features to place small kana above kanji automatically. Hard parts include designing and spacing a large kana and kanji set, handling ruby layout across line breaks, and testing rendering across platforms. It needs a type designer fluent in Japanese typography, plus licensing for any base font.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #67 of 845 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
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