Hiragana Shapeshttp://www.sf.airnet......shape.html
The following hiragana often have different shapes for different fonts. Since all the Japanese characters have the same height and width, they don't have a different width in proportional fonts.
Quick & Dirty Japanesehttp://www.csse.mona......adgtj.html
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese is a canonical classic of the Internet community. Posted years ago on the sci.lang.japan newsgroup, this guide appears in a multitude of pages written by folks such as myself, devoted to the learning of the Japanese language.