Today, Morisawa Inc. (President: Akihiko Morisawa; Headquarter: 2-6-25 Shikitsuhigashi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan; Phone (main): 011-81-6-6649-2151) starts offering two new Japanese fonts (UD Digital Kyokasho NPL and UD Gakusan RGothic) to Canva, and will host a special event to celebrate it on Saturday, September 7, 2024.
Launched in 2013, Canva is an online design and visual communication platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design.. Morisawa has been offering fonts on Canva since December 2023. As information and communication technologies (ICT) make their way to the field of education in recent years in Japan, it’s now more important than ever to equip schools with the technology and tools they need to be creative in the classrooms. Recognizing this, Canva introduced Canva for Education in 2019, allowing teachers and students to access all the benefits of Canva’s premium features — from templates to images, fonts, and more, complete with enhanced safety measures, centralized account provisioning, and tool integrations.
To provide more font options, Morisawa adds new Universal Design (UD) fonts that are easy to teach, easy to learn, and can accommodate more people’s educational needs. UD Digital Kyokasho NPL and UD Gakusan RGothic are a lineup of fonts designed to accomplish inclusiveness in education, aid learning environments, and produce creative materials in consideration of disabilities such as low vision or dyslexia. The more font selections they have, the more hurdles they face could be overcome, providing educational professionals better options for legibility and literacy.
〈 About new fonts 〉
— UD Digital Kyokasho NPL —
UD Digital Kyokasho NPL is designed to be friendly for low vision or dyslexia, based on the same concept from the original Japanese font UD Digital Kyokasho. What makes this NPL version different is the integration of UD Digikyo Latin, a Latin typeface compliant with Japan’s MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) guidelines for elementary schooling materials. This combination of two fonts into one set is made available only for Canva.* NPL’s difference from UD Digital Kyokasho offered by MORISAWA BIZ+
* UD Digital Kyokasho NPL has different specifications from UD Digital Kyokasho which is offered by MORISAWA BIZ+.
* UD Digital Kyokasho NPL has different specifications from standard UD Digital Please see details of specifications here: https://support.bizplus.typesquare.com/hc/ja/articles/35173610599577
— UD Gakusan RGothic —
UD Gakusan RGothic is a rounded gothic font developed for textbooks and teaching materials. Since all Japanese characters in this font are compliant with typefaces in MEXT’s curriculum guidelines, along UD Digital Kyokasho, it will be helpful for many students (including children with difficulty in reading and writing) through their learning experiences. Depending on children’s developmental stages or intended use, it can be used with or without other UD fonts (such as UD Digital Kyokasho).
Difference between UD Digital Kyokasho NPL and UD Gakusan RGothic
Offered fonts:
UD Digital Kyokasho NPL R/M/B/H
UD Gakusan RGothic R/B/H
Available on:
Canva Pro
Canva for Teams
Canva Enterprise
Canva for Education
Canva for NPO Offer starts on:
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 〈 About the special event 〉
Morisawa has been offering optimal fonts for teaching how to read and write, and help providing expertise in creating textbooks and materials that are not only easy to learn for a diverse group of children, but also easy to use for teachers. Celebrating this opportunity to make UD Digital Kyokasho NPL and UD Gakusan RGothic available, we would like to invite users of “Canva for Education” and present how to typeset fonts appropriately for learning environments.
Event detail
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024 from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm (door opens at 1:00 pm)
Location: Morisawa Inc. Headquarter (4th Floor, 2-6-25 Shikitsuhigashi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka)
Format: Both on-site (in-person) and online (virtual)
Fee: free
Requirement: TBD
To learn more and register, click here.
Program contents Through workshops with other participants in this program, you can obtain knowledge about fonts and typography you need to accomplish inclusive education. We will explain characteristics of UD Digital Kyokasho NPL and UD Gakusan RGothic, as well as examples of how to utilize them effectively.
〈 Canva comment section 〉
Kagan Sen
Country Manager, Canva Japan
“We believe in the power of visual communication as an enabler in the classroom. Through this collaboration with Morisawa, we’ll be able to empower more Japanese teachers and students in unleashing their creativity and productivity in the classroom.”
[ About Morisawa ]
Morisawa Inc. is a font creator who pursues research and development with a mission statement “Contributing to the society through typography.” We have developed UD (Universal Design) fonts such as UD Digital Kyokasho and BIZ UD built in Microsoft Windows 10 or later, that were designed to be easy to read for a wide range of users. In addition to our font subscription services such as Morisawa Fonts (with over 2,000 fonts) and MORISAWA BZ+ (with 55 fonts), we are offering various font services suitable for different use, devices, software or web applications. [ About Canva ] Launched in 2013, Canva is a free online visual communications and collaboration platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful.
Canva for Education provides K-12 teachers and students free access to Canva’s full suite of visual communication tools, combined with extra features designed just for the classroom.
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Regarding this subject, please contact:
Morisawa Inc., Oversea Sales Department
E-mail: fontsolution@morisawa.co.jp
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