Warichu

[RobJoe]

Are there any plans to include Asian font options, such as Warichu, in Affinity Publisher?

[Peter Werner]

I don't really think Japanese is officially supported yet. Japanese input (IME) is still severely broken both in the latest Publisher Beta (at least on Mac) and the app store build of Designer/Photo. I guess full support for CJK typesetting would require significant development resources and know-how, which is why Adobe outsources the CJK and middle east versions to third party companies, to the detriment of everybody who has to put up with that mess of different versions and file compatibility.

But warichuu in particular is a very useful feature for roman text as well. One great use case is the famous stacked name effect in the billing block on movie posters. Vertical text is sometimes used in western typography, too, so who knows, maybe we'll see these features before full CJK support.