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Pomeranian Font

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Pomeranian Font (ぽめらにあんフォント) is a cute display free font for download. It features slightly thick strokes with a tad rounded finish. Overall it gives a casual, hearty feel exactly the kind of characteristics of a Pomeranian dog would give!

It comes with the standard hiragana and katakana, however it contains only a limited selections of kanji. You can use this font for commercial use.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the link above, then scroll down to find the download link highlighted below. Please use Google Translate tool if needed.

Supported characters

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

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Corporate Logo Maru

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Corporate Logo Maru (コーポレート・ロゴ丸) is a bold rounded font that you can download for free. The font was created with the base from Jikasei’s Genyuu Gothic, and replace it with the original hiragana and katakana character designs. Genyuu Gothic was designed based on open source font Source Han Sans.

Corporate Logo Maru comes with the standard hiragana and katakana, also most of the kanji characters. The font is license under SIL Open Font License, means you can use it for commercial works.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the link above, then scroll down to find the download link highlighted below. Please use Google Translate tool if needed.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji
  • 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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851 MkPOP

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851 MkPOP (851マカポップ) is a free handwriting font written with flat tip marker pen. The handwriting style is quite casual with a mixture of different slanting angle, it can be difficult to read for some.

Nevertheless, it comes with the standard Japanese characters, including commonly used Kanji Characters. 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 blue text link as highlighted below. Just click and the download process will begin.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (commonly used Kanji characters are included)
  • 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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Otsutome Font

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Otsutome Font (おつとめフォント) is a calligraphy free font with high level of readability. Many of the calligraphy font out there aren’t really readable, so this font is trying to bridge the gap between the expressiveness of calligraphy and easy-to-read font styles.

This font comes with standard Japanese characters, and more than 6000+ kanji characters are included too. You can use this font for personal and commercial projects, as this font is licensed under SIL Open Font License.

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 the section as shown below. Click on the highlighted link to start the download. Translate the page if needed.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (6355 characters)
  • Numbers
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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Motoya Kosugi Maru

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Motoya’s Kosugi Maru is a free Japanese font set in rounded sans-serif style, with low stroke contrast and monospaced metrics. It was initially developed by MOTOYA for the Android platform, now it’s available as one of the first batch of Japanese fonts released under Google Fonts, where you can use it straightaway on your website.

It comes with the standard Japanese characters together with punctuations and kanji characters. You can download this font and look for it under the name “MotoyLMaru W3 mono”. You can use this font for personal and commercial projects, since it’s an open source font.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji
  • Alphanumerics
  • 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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851 Gochikakutto

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851 Gochikakutto is a display font that took inspiration from the typography style of electrical appliances. It is slightly slanted and blocky where the letters are mainly constructed with straight lines.

This font comes with standard Japanese and Romaji characters, with Kanji characters supporting up to Shift JIS Level 1 standard. As the website stated, the creator is still in the midst of updating the font, to include more characters in the future.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • It would be great pleasant to the creator if you can notify him 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. Click to start the download.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (Up to Shift JIS Level 1)
  • 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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Nikkyou Sans

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Nikkyou Sans is a display style sans serif font that was inspired by the typography of the propaganda posters during the wartime era. It’s thick in stroke and blocky but soften with subtle rounded corners, giving a sense of muscularity.

Nikkyou sans is 100% free for both personal and commercial use. It supports multiple languages and with a handful but not extensive Japanese kanji characters.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

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

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (less than 1000 kanjis)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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FZ Imokenpi

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FZ Imokenpi (FZイモケンピ) is a display style Japanese font free for download. The strokes of the characters were like being constructed with torn transparent tape. This font can be an interesting choice for typographic works that require some attention. It might not be a good choice for smaller font sizes as it will lose the finer details of the font design.

FZ Imokenpi is totally free to use and it has the basic Japanese and Latin characters. For Kanji characters, it supports up to the primary school level kanjis which is a total of 1000 plus characters.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • Accreditation is welcomed. Read FAQ (Japanese) for more info.

Link

Font Homepage and Download

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

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (about 1000 kanjis)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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Yasashisa Gothic Bold V2

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Yasashisa Gothic Bold V2 is a rework of the Yasashisa Gothic Bold, a free font that was released by Fontna. The hiragana and katakana characters spotted a soft curvature, and the slightly rounded edges giving the font a smooth and pleasing viewing experience.

This font is totally free to download and can be used for commercial projects. It also comes with the kanji characters which was taken from another open source font M+ Fonts.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above and look for the bright blue download button on the right sidebar.
* A Pixiv account is required to download the font.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (about 1000 kanjis)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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Banana Slip Plus

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Banana Slip Plus is a display style free font with a little dose of cute elements. It was being refined from the previous version to improve on the visual balance of the characters, as well as adding more kanji characters.

Banana Slip Plus has a strong structure for the characters’ design but softened with the usage of curve lines. It will work well for posters and signages that requires some attention but not too “shouty”. It includes all the Japanese characters including supporting Kanji up to JIS Level 1 plus some Level 2 characters.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • Readme file is included for more details (In Japanese)

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above and look for the bright blue download button on the right sidebar.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (about 3459 kanjis)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuations

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Noto Serif JP

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Noto Serif JP is the serif version of the Noto Sans. Noto is a font family that aims to support all languages in the world. The Japanese version of the Noto Serif comes with 7 font weights ranging from Extra-Light to Black, making it a versatile font family.

Noto Serif JP is licensed under Open Font License, hence you can use it for commercial projects. For more information on this project, please head to Google Noto Fonts homepage.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above and look for the blue “Download Family” button on the top right corner.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji
  • Alphanumerics
  • Symbols and Punctuations

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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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Yusei Magic

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Yusei Magic is a free Japanese font that is created based on handwriting style with a permanent marker. One of the characteristics of the font is it has thick vertical strokes and thin horizontal strokes, therefore it is highly readable. Besides that, the characters are also squarish and retaining the characteristics of handwriting, making it suitable for resembling handwriting on blackboards and pop art designs.

Yusei Magic comes with the common Japanese characters with huge kanji character support. It is free to use for all projects and you can use it on your website directly with Google Fonts. Also, please visit the Yusei Magic designer website here on tanukifont.com .

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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