Kochi (東風フォント) was a font development project to build free replacements of proprietary fonts such as MS Gothic or MS Mincho, developed by Yasuyuki Furukawa (古川 泰之).
This version was deprecated in 2003 after it was discovered by Hiroki Kanou, one of the developers, that Watanabe was largely copied from a commercial font, TypeBank Mincho-M;[1] while it was not clear that any law was being broken,[2] the developers were not interested in working with plagiarised material.
While Hitachi, who claimed to own the TypeBank font, had announced that they were willing to permit its restricted use in Linux systems,[3] the direction preferred was to discontinue the old Kochi fonts and replace them with new versions that did not contain any of the plagiarised characters.
Greek and Cyrillic glyphs were built specifically for Kochi-Substitute by Uchida (内田).
OpenType layout tables support Vertical Writing for kana under default and Japanese languages.