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Seed. LINE's Custom Typeface

https://seed.line.me/index_en.html
24•totetsu•3h ago

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benguild•1h ago
is this necessary?
halapro•33m ago
My question would be more like "how do you convince the shareholders that this expense is necessary?" Because I bet that for most people this is just Arial or whatever word uses
Semaphor•1h ago
For those who are wondering what Line is, it’s a Japanese messenger turned super-app [0]

> Line became Japan's largest social network in 2013 and is used by over 70% of the population as of 2023; it is also popular mainly in Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand.

The font looks decent, nice of them to have it under the SIL Open Font License.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(software)

James_K•59m ago
I've not a clue what Line is, but their front page contains this gem:

>Listen, Watch and <br>Sing along.

How the hell does that happen in the year of our Lord 2025?

halapro•34m ago
LINE is super popular in Japan and Thailand, where it's the most common messaging platform (although Instagram is most definitely encroaching on both markets.)
Cthulhu_•2m ago
There's so much happening in the mobile app space that a lot of westerners aren't aware of, it's kinda crazy when you think about it. Line has 178 million active users across its largest markets (and hundreds of millions of accounts), WeChat has 1.3 billion users (and 3.7 million apps on its platform), QQ has hundreds of millions, etc.

Granted, Facebook apparently has 3 billion active users per month.

hecanjog•52m ago
I thought the original LINE had made a typeface, bummer. https://www.lineimprint.com/
eptcyka•46m ago
What is the license situation here?
spiffyk•39m ago
> All fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, Version1.1.

> This license is also available with a FAQ at: https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

You get this by clicking the "LINE Seed LICENSE" link at the bottom. Unfortunately just a JavaScript popup, so can't be direct-linked.

eptcyka•36m ago
I searched for the string ”lic”, found nothing. But I’m on a phone.
prodigycorp•23m ago
You can use it commercially for free. You cannot sell it.

> All content of LINE Seed is copyrighted material owned by LY Corp. All fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, Version1.1. This license is also available with a FAQ at: https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

> You can use them for any personal or commercial purposes. However, the software font files themselves cannot be sold by the other parties other than LY Corp. For commercial use, we highly recommend to include attribution in product or service.

wartywhoa23•29m ago
Sorry, it's just yet another faceless and generic font like 100s of others...
andai•49s ago
How long did it take to do the Kanji?

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