Meiryo uses a customized version of Verdana for italics instead of the generic slanting method. Although the font includes an OpenType table for italics, this feature only substitutes characters already included in the font, instead of applying transformation effects to the affected characters. Since Meiryo only has italic characters for Latin, Greek, Coptic, and Cyrillic characters, it is an indication that Windows Vista does not use emulated italic effects if it uses a substitute font for italic effect but cannot find the correct glyph in the italic font. Similarly, most of the OpenType tables used in the font (except kern) only work if substitute glyphs are available inside the font. Characters for triple and quadruple dash box-drawing characters all have six dashes. Furthermore, all horizontal dash box-drawing characters have three dashes when using OpenType's half-width features. Awards Tokyo Type Directors club awarded 2007 Type design prize to Eiichi Kōno, C&G Inc (Satoru Akamoto, Takeharu Suzuki, Yukiko Ueda), and Matthew Carter for the Meiryo font. See also List of CJK fonts References ClearType page at Microsoft Design メイリオ on the Japanese Wikipedia Channel9 interview with Cleartype Team Design Meets Technology External links Microsoft Typography Sample at Microsoft Japan PressPass (information for journalists) It's Not Just Fonts Japanese ClearType fonts for Windows XP Sans-serif typefaces Windows Vista typefaces CJK typefaces Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2008