Angular Pencil/Fountain Pen Typography


I’ve seen some Japanese typography found on tv/music title cards these past few years that are made of mostly (if not completely) straight lines and at extreme angles (diagonal lines are much more vertical. It’s often katakana as well.

The strokes are either made of thin and thick blocks, fountain pen-like strokes, or very thin pencil-like strokes. The strokes are hyper extended stylistically with “serif-less” “lift-off”. The look is comparable to the same style in [Korean/Hangul](https://imgur.com/a/iXMQJO3).

I’ve seen it tons of times, but for the life of me, I cannot find a decent example. [This is the closest I can find](https://imgur.com/a/TO64p3c) (the “オ” and “メ” are pretty spot on, but for example the “ダ” and “イ” are still a bit round), but there are definitely better examples.

Does anyone know if this style is called by any specific name? I would like to study the style more but I have no idea what to search for.

Also, if anyone can drop some links to similar-looking fonts, that would be great too.

Thanks!

by MasterBendu

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