Kagawa is a love letter to Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, made with the tools a type designer has at hand. The typeface draws its character from the region itself: soft stroke terminations that carry the warmth and generosity of the people, a texture that remains inviting across every weight, and a gentleness in the letterforms that reflects the quiet beauty of the Seto Inland Sea, the granite quarries of Murecho, and the forested hillsides above Takamatsu.
Nine weights with a variable font covering the full weight axis provide complete typographic range. The Japanese offering is fully realized: JIS X 0208 Level 1 and Level 2 coverage at 6,707 kanji, full hiragana and katakana, vertical typesetting features, halt and palt for automatic punctuation spacing, proportional kana widths, and contextual half-width spacing. Kagawa is built to the standard that Japanese typographers expect from domestic foundries.