SOTH Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 (edited) Is there a specific font Paint.NET uses for Japanese characters? I always chose arial assuming that was the one, but it can't be. Also when I choose other fonts the characters stay the same. I want to use the exact same font in another program, but none of the available fonts look like it. Edited January 8, 2023 by SOTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreemoweet Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 (edited) There are no fonts in images, which is what Paint.net deals with. Users of Paint.net can use any font that happens to be intalled in Windows to insert "text" in images, but the text ends up being just pixels in the image, like all other pixels. Paint.net has no particular font(s) associated with it, it just uses whatever is already installed in the machine. Edited January 8, 2023 by kreemoweet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTH Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 9 hours ago, kreemoweet said: There are no fonts in images, which is what Paint.net deals with. Users of Paint.net can use any font that happens to be intalled in Windows to insert "text" in images, but the text ends up being just pixels in the image, like all other pixels. Paint.net has no particular font(s) associated with it, it just uses whatever is already installed in the machine. Thanks for the information. How will I find out which font it is since Paint.NET doesn't give me the exact name of it? Or how can I make it look the same in another program? None of the available fonts look the same when I use that other program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Hello @SOTH and welcome to the forum If you want Japanese Font, you can download some from here then put them in your Windows Font folder. Reopen paint.net and look for it in the Text dropdown. Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTH Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 14 minutes ago, Pixey said: Hello @SOTH and welcome to the forum If you want Japanese Font, you can download some from here then put them in your Windows Font folder. Reopen paint.net and look for it in the Text dropdown. Those are like "Japanese Styled" fonts instead of fonts that support Japanese I'm afraid. Thanks for your repsonse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 If I understand your question . Here is a site with true Japanese fonts as opposed to Japanese “styled” fonts used for English words. Also they can be used with Windows https://jref.com/resources/categories/japanese-fonts.1/ Quote Scooter Age is only a number --in my case a Really BIG number, but there you have it When the prefect paint.net image is created, I will still be wondering "How they Do that?"- sigh☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTH Posted January 9, 2023 Author Share Posted January 9, 2023 11 hours ago, Scooter said: If I understand your question . Here is a site with true Japanese fonts as opposed to Japanese “styled” fonts used for English words. Also they can be used with Windows https://jref.com/resources/categories/japanese-fonts.1/ I found a font that looks similar to what I'm looking for. Gonna use it for now, but thanks for the site. Looks very useful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution SOTH Posted January 9, 2023 Author Solution Share Posted January 9, 2023 I went thorugh my stock fonts again and came to the conclusion that the font is Yu Gothic. It just looked a litte distorted/different in the project I'm using for some reason. Thanks for the help guys. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 On 1/9/2023 at 9:33 AM, SOTH said: I went thorugh my stock fonts again and came to the conclusion that the font is Yu Gothic. It just looked a litte distorted/different in the project I'm using for some reason. Thanks for the help guys. OK, so now that we have helped you, you could now share something/anything from your works. We love to see new talent and all you can teach us. Quote Scooter Age is only a number --in my case a Really BIG number, but there you have it When the prefect paint.net image is created, I will still be wondering "How they Do that?"- sigh☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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