Mamelon

April 1, 2016, 9:20 am

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Mamelon (マメロン) is a free Japanese font with rounded edge design, created by the designer who brought you “Makinas“. The kanji characters were modified based on Makinas kanji, by making it rounded and then pair up with self-made kana characters. It has a total of 6600 glyphs including large collection of kanji characters, making this font a useful font to apply on many different design needs.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Mamelon Font download page

*To download, visit the page above, and scroll down to locate the big grey download button as highlighted below.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 2 + 15 kanji from IBM Extended)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Asago Honmaru Gothic

April 22, 2016, 11:05 pm

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Asago Honmaru Gothic (あさご本丸ゴシック) is a beautifully designed gothic font which was created with the image impression of “Castle of the sky” – Takeda Castle in Asago city. The character designs reflect the beauty and of the castle when it appears on top of the sea of clouds. The free mini version comes with only 1006 kanji characters and other essential Japanese and Romaji characters.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal-use only
• Please purchase the full license here for commercial use

Link

Asago Honmaru Gothic download page

*To download, visit the page above, and scroll down to locate the big blue download button. Click it to start the download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (1006 kanji)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Uzumasa Honmaru Gothic

May 16, 2016, 7:52 am

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Uzumasa Honmaru Gothic (うずまさ本丸ゴシック) is a vintage rounded gothic font that is free to download. The font was inspired by the handwritten subtitles of Kansai’s silent films aired in the 1920s. The strokes of the letters were soften with the main usage of rounded curves and corners, projecting the warm and nostalgic feeling to the viewer. The free mini version comes with only 1006 kanji characters and other essential Japanese and Romaji characters.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal-use only
• Please purchase the full license here for commercial use

Link

Uzumasa Honmaru Gothic download page

*To download, visit the page above, and scroll down to locate the big blue download button as below. Click it to start the download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (1006 kanji)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Taroko Font

May 28, 2016, 3:51 am

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Taroko Font (タロ子フォント) is a cute calligraphy font that you can download for free. It comes with standard hiragana and katakana characters, however only contains 1006 glyphs of kanji characters (教育漢字). Bear in mind that the alphanumerics are 2-byte characters, so you need to type in Japanese keyboard in order to display it.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial-use

Link

Taroko font page | Download

*To download, visit the download link above, then look for the download button on the top left, just below the file title as shown below.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (1006 kanji)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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851 Tegaki Kakutto

June 10, 2016, 10:12 pm

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851 Tegaki Kakutto (851テガキカクット) is a free Japanese font that resembles the look of the digital LED numbers. It has light strokes and slightly slanted design, giving a sense of futuristic and speed. It comes with a substantial amount of kanji characters which is enough for normal usage.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

851 Tegaki Kakutto download page

*To download, visit the page above, and just click on the big blue link.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Takumi Yutori Font

July 17, 2016, 8:00 am

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Takumi Yutori Font (Takumiゆとりフォント) is a free Japanese handwriting font that reflected characteristics of the “Yutori Generation”. Yutori Generation is the generation where they taken the “Yutori Education” where it was much flexible, pressure-free and less strict. So from the handwriting style, you can see it’s more relaxed and roundish.

The download package comes with 4 variations of the font, with fixed-width and proportional version, and also the Mini version where the kana characters are 15% smaller.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Font homepage Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, and just click on the link as highlighted below. Download should start after click.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 1 + 2 + IBM Extended)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Asobi Memogaki

July 23, 2016, 12:06 am

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Asobi Memogaki (遊びメモ書き) is a free handwriting font that is free to download. This font resembles note taking handwriting style on a notebook using a fine-tipped pencil, resulted in this fine, space-saving and realistic handwriting font.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the button as highlighted below. Download should start after click.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 1)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Shigoto Memogaki

July 23, 2016, 12:12 am

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Shigoto Memogaki (仕事びメモ書き) is a free handwriting font that is free to download. It was created by the same designer, Do-Font, who created Asobi Memogaki. Compared with Asobi Memogaki, Shigoto Memogaki is a tidier, resembling handwriting of a working adult. You can put in this way that Shigoto Memogaki is a more matured handwriting.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the button as highlighted below. Download should start after click.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 1)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Mushin

September 9, 2016, 10:47 pm

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Mushin (無心) is a free Japanese handwriting that is available for everyone to download. The designer of the font, handwritten this font with no any theme and concept in mind but just the handwriting style of him. The font comes with the standard Japanese characters with extensive amount of kanji characters.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the button as highlighted below. Download should start after click.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 1 + 2)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Iroha Maru Mikami

September 24, 2016, 7:40 pm

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Iroha Maru Mikami (いろはマル みかみ) is a free Japanese rounded gothic font that is open sourced for everyone to download. This font was based on the Iroha Maru font, but the kanji characters were replaced by the Rounded M+ by Jikasei. It comes with 3 handy font weights: Thin, Regular and Medium.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the button as highlighted below that looks like a gear. Download should start after the click.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 1 + partial level 2 characters)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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GN Kin Iro San Serif

November 9, 2016, 7:21 am

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GN Kin Iro San Serif (きんいろサンセリフ) is a free Japanese display font that comes with modern, pop design feel. It has all the common letters, and also including a whopping 3000+ kanji characters, so you don’t have to worry about the missing characters. You can use it for commercial works too!

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the button as highlighted below. Download should start after the click.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Most of JIS Level 1 + partial level 2,3 and 4 characters)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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GN Koharu Iro Sun Ray

November 9, 2016, 7:32 am

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GN Koharu Iro Sun Ray (こはるいろサンレイ) is a free Japanese display font that comes with retro, nostalgic feel. The letters are extended and bold, making it suitable for big size displays. This font comes with more than 3300 kanji characters and it’s available for commercial works.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the button as highlighted below. Download should start after the click.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Most of JIS Level 1 + partial level 2,3 and 4 characters)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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GN Kill Gothic U

November 13, 2016, 12:18 am

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GN Kill Gothic U (キルゴU) is a display style Japanese font that is free to download. It features ultra thick, angular strokes, makes it suitable for “in-your-face”-ish headlines and titles. It comes with 3000+ kanji characters, as well as the hiragana, katakana and more. This font comes with 3 kana variations.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the link with underline to start the download.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Most of JIS Level 1 + partial level 2 and more)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Kaiso Makina B

December 18, 2016, 1:48 am

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Kaiso Makina B (廻想体 マキナB) is a tall, angular Japanese font that is free to download. Taking the reference from the katakana characters in Morikawa’s Ryobundo (森川龍文堂), the designer uses his interpretation of modernising the font design and made it tall.

The font comes with the essential hiragana, katakana, romaji and fulfilling the JIS Level 1 kanji characters, plus some from Level 2. You can use this font for commercial purposes.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works
• Learn more about font license here.

Link

Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and look for the big black download button as pointed below.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Most of JIS Level 1 + partial level 2 and more)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Source Han Serif

April 14, 2017, 5:52 am

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Source Han Serif (源ノ明朝) is the new open source Mincho (serif) font family released by both Adobe and Google, it comes with 7 font weights from Extra Light to Bold. This is the second font from both tech giant after Source Han Sans, and it has complete font sets for East Asian languages including also Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. This Serif version of the Source Han is acted as the companion font for the Sans Serif version.

You can download the font family for free and use it on any project as this font is licensed under Open Font License. And Typekit is also hosting it as web font and you can use it directly on your website.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Font homepage Download font on Github

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Shirokuma Font

April 29, 2017, 12:42 am

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Shirokuma font (しろくまフォント) is a cute font released for free to download by Tokyo graphic designer Kuma (クマ). Created with FontPainter, the designer’s inspiration of the font design is by taking the polar bear’s paw pad as creation image. It comes with the basic Japanese characters like Hiragana and Katakana, however the kanji characters are only restricted to 339. Nevertheless, it’s a well designed font with a sense of organic hand writing.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects
• Cannot be used as logo mark, and also adult, politics, religion, discrimination related contents

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the bright cyan blue button as shown below

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (339 characters)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Genkai Mincho

May 26, 2017, 11:13 pm

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Designed based on the open source Source Han Serif, Genkai Mincho (源界明朝) is a eroded version that you can download for free. According to the designer, he “distorted” the font until to the point of being barely readable by human eye. However with this effect, it can expresses sense of epic-ness and drama.

Since the font is derived from the open source font, Genkai Mincho also released under SIL Open Font License, which means you can use it on any project. Please bear in mind that, because of this font has huge collections of glyphs with high level of grungy details, the font size is large and it might slows your machine down when you are using it.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the link above to find the download link in underline. The page is in Japanese, be sure to translate it to your language to make it easier for you.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Senobi Gothic

August 1, 2017, 8:38 am

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Senobi Gothic (せのびゴシック) is a free font that was designed based on another open source font M+. The designer modified the font by “machine-ise” it and then condensed it by 30%. This font comes with 3 weights: Regular, Medium and Bold, and equipped with the usual Japanese characters and also 5000 kanji characters.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the link above, then scroll down to find the download link shown below.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 1 + partial Level 2)
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Zakkuri Gothic

August 12, 2017, 7:28 pm

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Zakkuri Gothic is another free font that was created based on open source font M+ Outline. Basically the black font weight was used, and applied with pencil-like scribbling effect. It could be a great font to be applied to posters, pull quotes and more.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Homepage Download Zakkuri Gothic

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Soukou Mincho

August 25, 2017, 9:07 pm

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Soukou Mincho is a free Mincho style Japanese font that you can download. It features strong contrast between vertical stems and horizontal arm strokes, resulting in this readable font with high impact on visual appearance. This font is designed based on the open source font Source Han Serif and was released under Flop Design.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the link above, then scroll down to find the download link shown below.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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