September 15, 2014, 7:25 am
![Mouhitsu bold]()
Mouhitsu Bold Font (毛筆太文字) is a thick calligraphy style font that you can download. It comes with complete hiragana and katakana, however the kanji characters are very limited and only has capital alphabetical letters only.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial and commercial use
- Donationware is welcomed for commercial use
Link
Homepage | Download (TTF)
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji ()
- Capital letters in full-width romaji (2-byte)
- Symbols and Punctuation
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September 15, 2014, 7:45 am
![Rounded Mgen+ download]()
Rounded Mgen+ is a free gothic font that you can download. According to the site Jikasei, the font is actually combination of characters from Source Han Sans and M+ Outline, then made it rounded. It comes with 7 weights from thin to black.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial and commercial use
- License: Apache License 2.0
Link
Homepage | Download (49.7MB)
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and Punctuation
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September 19, 2014, 8:41 am
![Chihaya Font]()
Chihaya font (ちはやフォント) is a free handwriting style font that was handwritten by blogger Chihaya. It supports major characters and has more than 15000 glyphs in it. She said that she created this font just for personal satisfaction. Well I think is a great achievement to have a personal font.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
- For commercial works, you can post it on the Homepage forum as well
Link
Homepage | Download
To download, visit the Download link above and click on red-bordered font image to start the download.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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September 19, 2014, 9:59 am
![G7 Cute Pop Bold]()
G7 Cute Pop Bold (Ｇ７キュートポップ ) is another free handwriting style font but this one has a more rounded finish.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
Link
Font download page
To download, visit the link above and look for the blue link above the image.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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September 19, 2014, 10:16 am
![GN Cute Pop L]()
GN Cute Pop L (ＧＮキュートポップＬ ) is the same handwriting font of G7 Cute Pop Bold but in a lighter font weight. The download comes with 2 weight – Light and Medium.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
Link
Download font
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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September 26, 2014, 8:22 am
![Kokoro Minchoutai free download]()
Kokoro Minchoutai (こころ明朝体) is a lightweight, slightly condensed free Japanese font that you can download. The kana characters are originally designed, while the other characters were borrowed from IPA Mincho type.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
- License: IPA Font License Agreement
Link
Homepage | Download
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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October 3, 2014, 11:07 pm
![Japan Sans]()
Japan Sans is a Japanese font that is suitable to be embedded as Web Font. Japanese font files are usually huge, containing manay characters including the kanji characters. Japan Sans was derived from Source Han Sans/Noto Sans, it only includes the crucial characters like kana, alphanumeric and symbols.
To use this font as web font you need to specify the font family stack as mentioned in this link (in Japanese). Basically, the other characters that were not supported by Japan Sans will be substituted by your device’s/computer’s Japanese system font.
Japan Sans comes with 4 styles, from normal to condensed style.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
- License: Apache License 2.0
Link
Homepage | Download
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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October 4, 2014, 12:20 am
![Yasashisa Gothic Tegaki]()
Yasashisa Gothic Tegaki (やさしさゴシック手書き) is the handwriting-ish version of the beautiful Yasashisa Gothic font. The kana characters were original, while the other characters were included from M+ Outline and IPA Gothic font. Then rough strokes effect were added after that.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
Link
Homepage | Download
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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October 4, 2014, 12:30 am
![Honoka Rounded Gothic]()
Honoka Maru(Rounded) Gothic (ほのか丸ゴシック) is a beautiful free Japanese font that was set in rounded style. As you can see the hiragana and katakana characters are slightly smaller in size compared to the kanji that strikes a nice balance and enhanced the readability of the font.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
Link
Homepage | Download
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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October 4, 2014, 12:35 am
![Honoka Mincho]()
Honoka Mincho (ほのか明朝) is a beautiful free mincho Japanese font that you can download. Similar to Honoka Maru Gothic, the hiragana and katakana characters were slightly smaller and have more white space around them which makes this font an easy-to-read one. The kana were originally designed, while other characters were borrowed from IPA Mincho open source font.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
Link
Homepage | Download
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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November 7, 2014, 11:00 pm
![Pigmo 01]()
Pigmo 01 (ピグモ01) is a unique, artistic Japanese font that you can download for free and use it on your commercial works. This font was derived from Pigmo 00, the hiragana, katakana and alphanumeric characters are brand new while sharing the same kanji character designs. This font supports up to JIS Level 2 kanji characters (6,355 characters).
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
Link
Homepage and Download
*To download, visit the page above and look for the big black “ダウンロード” button at the bottom right of the page. Click to download the font.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (JIS Level 2)
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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November 12, 2014, 6:12 am
![Nikumaru Free Font]()
Nikumaru Font is a cute, rounded and chubby free Japanese font that you can download. You can use this for commercial works and it supports many characters, including kanji characters up to JIS Level 2 standard. This font is great for cute and cheerful designs.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
- Using this font as registered logomark is prohibited
Link
Homepage and Download
*When landing on the font page, scroll down and look for the grey download button as shown below.
![Nikumaru font download]()
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (JIS Level 2)
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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December 9, 2014, 8:00 am
![NicoMoji+]()
NicoMoji+ (NicoMoji Plus) is a font that derived from the official logo mark of the popular Japanese video channel “NiCoNiCo”. The hiragana, katakana and alphanumeric characters are originally designed, while others including kanji characters are borrowed from the open source font “Genjyuu Gothic (源柔ゴシック)”.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
Link
Homepage and Download
*When landing on the font page, scroll down to the bottom of the page and look for the gradient blue download button. The button is just below the social share buttons.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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December 16, 2014, 6:34 pm
![Chogokuboso Gothic font preview]()
Chogokuboso Gothic (超極細ゴシック体) is a free gothic font that is extra thin in stroke weight, as you can see from the preview above. It’s intended to be use for large displays and I doubt it will be useful for body text. This font was created based on the popular open source font “M+“, by making it even lighter and with slight modification to the font.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works
Link
Homepage and Download
*When landing on the font page, scroll down and look for the download button as shown below, it’s situated just below the social share buttons.
![Chogokuboso Gothic - download instruction]()
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (up to JIS Level 1)
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
The post Chogokuboso Gothic (超極細ゴシック体) appeared first on Free Japanese Fonts.
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December 23, 2014, 6:42 pm
![Kanjyuku Gothic]()
It’s near Christmas and Flop Design released a new open source font called “Kanjyuku Gothic” that is available to download. Unlike other Gothic fonts, this font has matured and retro feeling to it, just like well brewed beers. The Hiragana, Katakana and alphabets are originally designed by Flop Design, while others like Kanji was taken from IPAex Gothic.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works
Link
Homepage and Download
*When landing on the font page, scroll down and look for the blue download button, it’s situated after the images and before the social share buttons.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (up to JIS Level 2)
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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December 28, 2014, 7:11 pm
![Chihaya Gothic]()
Chihaya Gothic is a free handwriting-ish gothic font that you can download, brought to you by the author, Chihaya, who also created Chihaya Font and Chihaya Kaku. It supports wide range of characters including kanji up to Shift JIS Level 1 standard. The author said in the future she might extends the kanji character to Level 2, and maybe emoji as well.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works
Link
Homepage | Font Download Page
*When landing on the font download page, click on the red bordered font sample image to start download the font.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (up to JIS Level 1)
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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January 19, 2015, 7:37 am
![bokutachi no gothic 2]()
Bokutachi no Gothic 2 Regular (ぼくたちのゴシック２レギュラー) is a free gothic type Japanese font that is free to download. It’s the updates version of the original Bokutachi no Gothic, and many of the characters inside are borrowed from Noto Sans CJK/Source Han Sans.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works
Link
Font download page
*When landing on the font download page, look for the underlined red download button situated on the right side, under the ad.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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January 19, 2015, 7:43 am
![bokutachi no gothic 2 bold]()
Bokutachi no Gothic 2 Bold (ぼくたちのゴシック２ボールド) is a free gothic type Japanese font that is free to download. This is in bold weight, and it has a regular version of it that posted on previous post. This is an open source font, and it was designed based on Noto Sans CJK/Source Han Sans.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works
Link
Font download page
*When landing on the font download page, look for the underlined red download button situated on the right side, under the ad.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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January 22, 2015, 6:31 am
![Corporate Logo Medium]()
Corporate Logo Font (コーポレート・ロゴ) is a free Japanese font that is free to download. The design of the characters are edgy and has higher design value which can be used as logotype. The hiragana and katakana characters are designed originally while other characters were taken from open source font M+. It comes with Medium and Bold weight.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works
- Can be used as logomark.
Link
Font homepage | Download
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and punctuations
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January 24, 2015, 1:01 am
![Nukamiso Yamiyo]()
Nukamiso Yamiyo is the reversed version of the original Nukamiso font. So it feels like you are highlighting the font while typing it. It’s a cool way to strengthen some words from a sentence.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works
Link
Homepage and Font Download
*To download, visit the page above and click on the nukamiso_yamiyo_20110322.zip. The font is inside this zip file.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji
- Alphanumeric
- Symbols and Punctuation
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