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Acknowledgements

last updated June 9, 2026

Special thanks

  • ryry013
    , for running the original EJLX weekly handwriting challenge back in 2017, the direct inspiration for Tegaki Tuesday
  • bellumela
    , for drawing the 字ちゃん (Ji-chan) mascot art
  • drago33
    , I miss you. Thank you for encouraging me over the years and being an awesome friend.
  • mochamoko
    , for the many challenge suggestions over the years
  • steamedbread
    , for help managing the challenge in the early days
  • ...and everyone else who has submitted and contributed over the years!

Fonts

  • Kei Ji (formerly K Gothic) by Kei — default Japanese handwriting font. Free for personal and commercial web-font use under the terms shipped with the font (see LICENSE.txt).
  • KanjiStrokeOrders by Ulrich Apel, the AAAA project and the Wadoku project — kanji glyphs with stroke-number annotations in the Kanji of the Day imagein share previews and announcements. 3-clause BSD-style license .

Japanese-language resources

  • Jisho.org — dictionary integration
  • jpdb.io — kanji info and example words for Kanji of the Day

Stroke-order diagrams

Kanji of the Day page animations, and the GIFs returned by /so, /i, and various other kanji commands, are built with our fork of Kanimaji from KanjiVG data by Ulrich Apel, released under CC BY-SA 3.0 .


Frontend

  • CodeMirror 6 by Marijn Haverbeke and contributors — powers the in-browser challenge editor along with its wonderful ecosystem of plugins.