M PLUS 1p - Google Fonts

About

The M+ Outline Fonts Project develops a superfamily set of several families: 4 families with proportional Latin, 3 with fixed-halfwidth Latin, and 2 with fixed-fullwidth Japanese Kana variations.

The Rounded M+ Project develops versions of the M+ Fonts with rounded terminals.

This set, M+ 1p, are fonts with proportional Latin and fixed-fullwidth Japanese, and 7 weights from Thin to Black. The Kana have contrasting straight lines and hand-drawn curves. The Latin is aimed to be a sophisticated and relaxed design.

8,676 glyphs. This is Version 1.061g, released upstream on 2016-04-12, and slightly modified by Google Fonts. Now released under the SIL Open Font License.

Designers

Coji Morishita

M+ Fonts Project

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.