: It is generally free for personal use when it comes pre-installed on HP hardware.
Nothing kills a presentation faster than a hard-to-read font. HP Simplified is bold enough to be read from the back of a conference room but light enough to not scream at your audience. Use the weight for headers and the Regular or Light weight for bullet points.
A primary technical achievement of the font is its "baseline alignment." The Latin characters within the JP set are scaled and positioned so that English and Japanese text sit on a visually cohesive line without manual adjustment.
When designers talk about corporate fonts, they usually fall into two camps: the classics (Helvetica, Arial, Times New Roman) or the trendy (Montserrat, Roboto, Open Sans). However, buried inside the software packages of millions of computers lies a typeface that is often overlooked but incredibly powerful for modern design.