marciska / jitai

The font randomizer that fits

The font randomizer that fits

Jitai (字体) is a userscript for WaniKani.
It sets the font of the radical/kanji/vocabulary automatically to a random Japanese font.

@obskyr: One thing that can become a bit of a problem when using WaniKani is that you are only ever exposed to one font. What this means is that if you ever run into a kanji in the wild, even if you know it, you might not recognize it. Especially with handwriting and calligraphy and all that jazz being around, it helps a lot to get in a bit of training on fonts that aren’t Meiryo.

Features

• Supports fonts installed on your machine¹
• (NEW) Supports webfonts
• (NEW) New settings pannel to disable/enable fonts during review
• Hover over a font to change it back to normal font (useful if you cannot read it sometimes)

Installation

First make sure you have a userscript manager like Tampermonkey installed.
Then click on the link below, and your userscript manager should directly recognize it as a userscript to install:
Download

Questions? Visit the forum.

Note

Jitai has been originally created by @obskyr, but hasn't been maintained since 2018 and already broke functionality. This here is a complete rewrite of the original script, taking into account that some browsers do not support using local fonts in an attempt to prevent Font Fingerprinting.

We greatly accept font contributions and other improvements / bug fixes.
If you like this project, you can visit the forum.

Footnotes

1. Browsers that support this feature are running out. See more. ↩

jitai's Issues

[feature] separate font list to a JSON

This will allow font list to auto-update, regardless of UserScript version.