Furifont Japanese font shows furigana
The gist
OSS developer Anthony Fu released Furifont, a Japanese font that draws furigana above kanji without any markup.
It targets Japanese learners, though Fu says font limits still cause reading errors.
How it unfolded
- Oct 14, 2026The README for the furifont repository was published on GitHub.
- Oct 15, 2026Anthony Fu announced on X that he built a font rendering furigana or romaji above kanji, using ligatures to support words.
- Oct 15, 2026Fu posted that there are still quite a few inaccuracies due to font limitations and that he will keep improving them. The repository listed 158 stars, 1 fork and 135 commits.