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[Update] Pigmo 00

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Pigmo 00

The font is now updated to include JIS Level 1 and 2 kanji characters

Pigmo 00 (ピグモ00) is a creative, little hard to read free Japanese font. The creator of the font said that he started working on this font since 2008, now has the common characters including 1000+ kanji (education kanji), and is preparing to increase the glyphs to include JIS Level 1 and 2 characters.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works

Link

Homepage | Download

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (1000 characters)
  • Alphanumeric
  • Symbols and punctuations

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Pigmo 01

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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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Nikumaru Free Font

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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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Kanjyuku Gothic

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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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Sanafon Yu

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SanafonYu (さなフォン悠) is a handwriting free font from Sanafon series. According to the creator Sana, after creating other design fonts, she wanted to have a more relaxing and casual version of a font, thus the creation of this. The design of the font is quite similar to sibling font Sanafonmaru, however the latter has better readability.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and non-commercial
  • Commercial use is ok, but with exceptions. Please refer to this page (in Japanese) to know more.

Link

Download Page

*To download, visit the “Download page” above and look for the download section shown below.

sanafon-yu-download

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (JIS Level 2)
  • Alphanumeric
  • Symbols and punctuations
  • Emoji

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HonyaJi Re

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Honyaji-re is the free handwriting font that was the improved version of based off Honyaji Ver Max. The hiragana and katana characters gets the most of the updates, while some of the kanji were also modified.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial use
  • Using this font as logo is prohibited
  • Readme file included for more information

Link

Font Download Page

Instruction
To download, visit the Font download page above, and look for the download button as highlighted below.

honyaji-re-download

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Alphanumeric
  • Kanji (JIS Kanji Level 1 and 2, IBM Extended Kanji)
  • Symbols, emojis and punctuations

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Mamelon

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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.

mamelon-download

Supported characters

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

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Takumi Yutori Font

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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.

takumi-yutori-download

Supported characters

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

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Mushin

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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.

mushin-download

Supported characters

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

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Kaiso Makina B

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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.

kaiso-makina-b-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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Senobi Gothic

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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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Pop Rum Cute

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Pop Rum Cute (ポプらむキュート) is a rounded, cute but slightly hard to read free Japanese font that you can download. The design point of this font is each letters are trying to fill up the square box as much as possible, creating the fat, bloated and congested sense, while at the same time sacrificing the readability.

This font comes with the standard Japanese characters and including more than 3000 kanji characters where 2900 plus of them are from JIS Kanji Level 1, and the rest from Level 2.

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 (About 3000+ characters)
  • Numbers
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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Ankoku Zonji

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Ankoku Zonji (暗黒ゾン字) is the latest scary style free font series from Ankoku Koubou. The strokes of the font are thick and the spiky and uneven surface makes this font carrying the characteristics of being a horror design font. This font took the inspiration of the old time horror movie or the signage of the ghost houses.

This font is complete with the standard Japanese characters and supports kanji up to Shift JIS Level 2. You can use this font for personal and commercial use.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and non-commercial projects
  • Accreditation to the author would be appreciated

Link

Font Homepage Download Link (vector.co.jp)

*To download, click on the “Download Link” above and find the button shown below. Just click and the download process will begin.

vector-downloadbutton

Supported characters

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

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Ronde-B Square

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Ronde-B Square (ロンド B) is a rounded squarish Japanese font free to download. The letter designs are rigid featuring high amount of straight lines, however soften by using rounded corners. This font might not be a good choice for smaller size displays.

Ronde-B Square comes with the standard Japanese characters, including Chinese kanji characters up to Shift-JIS Level 2 standard. You can use this font for personal and commercial projects.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

*To download, click on the link above and find the big dark grey button as highlighted below. Just click and the download process will begin.

Supported characters

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

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Komorebi Gothic

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Komorebi Gothic (木漏れ日ゴシック) is a casual looking Japanese sans serif font. This font was created with the base from another open source font Ume Gothic. For the hiragana and katakana character style, according to the designer, it was like a combination of digital and teacher’s handwriting on the blackboard. Most of them have the stem disconnected which is the unique design point of the font.

You can use this font for personal and commercial projects.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

*To download, visit the page with the link above. Once loaded, scroll down until you see a cog-like big button as shown below. Click to start downloading the font.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (JIS2004 standard)
  • Numbers
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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Togalite

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Togalite (トガリテ) is a display style free Japanese font which comes with 6 font weight. The font was designed based off the popular open source font M+, the difference is that the edges of the characters are sharpened and protruding out, giving the sense of thorn.

The name Togalite is a combined word of French word “égalité” which means “balanced” and Japanese word “Togaru (尖る)” which means sharp edge.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above the look for the download link as highlighted below.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (5000+ characters)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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Chihaya Jun

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Chihaya Jun (ちはや純) is a cute handwriting font free to download. The characters were written in an expanded style, giving a sense of slight fatness to it. Plus with the extended usage of curves and rounded corners, this font emits the mood of casual, lightweight and pureness.

Chihaya comes with the standard Japanaese characters, and also packed with a massive library of Kanji characters. You can use this font on both horizontal or vertical writing.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • For commercial usage, you are required to report to the font designer on how you use it.

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above the look for the download link as highlighted below.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (Up to Shift JIS Level 4)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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K Gothic

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K Gothic is a free handwriting font that you can download. It retained the texture of handwriting and the look and feel of the font is well balanced in between being tidy and being cute.

K Gothic comes with extensive character library including supporting kanji characters up to Shift JIS Level 4 (Usually Level 1 or 2 is the standard). You can download and use this font for both personal and commercial projects.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • For commercial usage, you are required to report to the font designer on how you use it.

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above the look for the download link as highlighted below. Note that you are required to have Pixiv (art community portal like DeviantArt) account in order to download

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (Up to Shift JIS Level 4)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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Umeboshi Font

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Umeboshi Font (梅干フォント) is a roundish handwriting font free for download. It’s a proportionate font which means that each Japanese character is occupying the same amount of space. It has an extensive amount of kanji characters included in the font so you won’t have to really worry about missing characters. The handwriting style itself is clean and can be read even on small sizes.

You can download this font and use it for both personal and commercial projects. There is a “Read Me” text file for your licensing reference.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • Resale, redistribution and amendment to the font data is prohibited

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above and look for the big grey download button to download the font.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (Includes Shift JIS Level 1, 2 and IBM Extended Kanjis)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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Hachi Maru Pop

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Hachi Maru Pop is a cute roundish free font that was inspired by the font style that was once trended in the 1980s in Japan. Such font style was quite popular among the teenage girls in that era. Hachi Maru in Japanese means 80, and they certainly incorporates the essence of the cute culture of the 80s, while the creator made some adjustments by injecting the modern design style into it.

Hachi Maru Pop comes with the standard Japanese characters with an extensive library of Kanji characters. Since the character design is more pop-py, it might not be suitable for a smaller font size design due to the potential readability issue. Nevertheless, this font is open-sourced, and is totally free to use for both personal and commercial projects.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • Licensed under SIL Open Font License V1.1

Link

Download on Google Fonts

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (JIS Level 1, Level 2, IBM Extended Kanji)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuations

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