Mochiy Pop One is a display style Japanese font that is free to download. It resembles the characters written by young girls in their 20s in Japan. It is suitable to be used in casual design styles for web and print creative designs.

Mochiy Pop One is free to use for any projects, and one thing to note that this is the full-width kana version, it also has a proportionate version called “Mochiy Pop P One“. Just pick any that suits your need.

Usage Permission

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

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

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

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Zero Gothic is another free font designed by Flop Design. Using the Source Han Sans as design base, the bold letters come with the shattered effect, thus giving a very impactful visual effect when viewing it. This font works well for large displays and for call-outs, and perhaps not suitable for body text as it’s difficult to read.

Zero Gothic can be downloaded for free and be used on commercial projects. It comes with 8000+ kanji characters, so you can use it with a peace of mind.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

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

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Otomanopee is an open-source free Japanese font inspired by graphical letters in manga. Created by Gutenberg Labo, the font is quite readable despite being playful in design.

The font comes with the usual Japanese hiragana and katakana characters, but for kanji character, it only comes with 240 characters which is the amount of kanji that is learned in 1st and 2nd grade in Japanese elementary school. The font is released under SIL Open Font License, hence it’s free to use for commercial projects.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects

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Font Download Page

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (240 characters only)
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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Humour font consists of two font styles in Normal and Original version. They have a slight difference in the kanji character design but overall, they are poppy display style font with rounded, even stroke thickness finish. One unique design characteristic of the kanji characters is that there are mainly constructed with straight lines.

Humour font comes with the usual Japanese kana characters and also about 3000 kanji characters (to be updated to Shift Kanji Level 2 standard in the future).

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects
• More details on the usage license here

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (3000+ characters)
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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Buildings and Under the Railway Tracks (ビルの谷間と高架下) is probably the longest name for a Japanese font that I’ve ever seen. It’s a display style font with moderately thick weight, and giving a sense of cuteness with its variety of sizes and cutely designed characters.

The font comes with the common Japanese characters like hiragana, katakana, and about 1000 most appeared kanji characters based on a research from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. You may download the font for free and use it for commercial purposes.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects
• Checked the font licensing document for more information

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (About 1000 common characters)
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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Doki Doki Fantasia (どきどきファンタジア) is a rounded, cute pop free font. Using Zen Maru Gothic font as base, the font was further expanded, then added 2 stroke outlines and reflection effects.

Doki Doki Fantasia is suitable as display type for cute, cartoonish and young designs. It comes with the standard open-source Japanese font characters including all Shift JIS Level 1 and common Level 2 kanji characters. You can download this for commercial and non-commercial projects.

Usage Permission

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

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (About 3000+ characters (full Shift JIS Level 1 and common Level 2 kanji characters))
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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GL CurulMinamoto is a light weight Japanese font that is free to download. The Hiragana and Katakana characters are originally designed, where it’s mainly constructed with rounded, as if they are in a spinning-like motion. To be honest, they are a little bit hard to read, but the design makes it a really fun font to use.

Whilst the Hiragana and Katakana characters are original, the rest of the characters including kanjis are supplemented from Source Hans Serif, a open-sourced Japanese font. So you should have no worries using this font as it should comes with all the basic and common characters you will need. GL CurulMinamoto is designed by Gutenberg Labo, who brought us another font “Otomanopee One“.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects
• Released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Supports JIS X 0208, for a total of 6,355 kanji characters)
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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DelaSuko Gothic One (でらすこゴシック) is a extra bold Japanese font you can download for free. It was based on another free font called Dela Gothic One. The author made the font taller so that it is more equal between the width and the height of the characters.

Because this font is derived from the aforementioned open-sourced font, this font comes with the same character set and also font license. Which means you can use this for free for your commercial projects.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects
• Released under SIL Open Font License

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 3)
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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PopRumKiwi-Telop is a bold rounded free Japanese font that was created based on the LINE Seed JP font. One key feature of this font is the hiragana and katakana comes with alternative glyphs that can be toggled in design tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Additionally, the kanji characters are also modified so that it is ever so rounded and fat.

This font comes only in bold weight, but it’s complete with Japanese characters and kanji characters. This font is free to download and can be used commercially.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects
• Released under SIL Open Font License

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

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

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Imokanpi (イモカンピ) is an eye-catchy free Japanese font that comes with unique stroke end points. It is as if it was written with a rough tip brush, or the effect you get when you cut a clear tap with a tape dispenser. These rugged stroke end point effect can be seen in almost all characters in the font. This font was created by combining characters from FZイモケンピ as the font base, then added additional kanji characters from Swei 3T Sans.

With its bold weight and the rugged stroke ends, this font is great for big displays to capture attention from the audience. It might not work so well on smaller font size display due to the stroke end effect and the thick font weight. This font comes with Japanese letters including hiragana, katakana and kanji characters, plus latin characters. You can download this font for free for personal and commercial use as it is released under SIL Open Font License.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects
• Released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Unknown level support)
• Alphanumerics
• Latin characters
• Symbols and Punctuations

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KeinannPOP (けいなんポップ体) is a trendy looking Japanese free font that comes with kanji characters. It was born from modification of two open source fonts named Genei Pople (源瑛ぽっぷる) and KNBobohei (荆南波波黑). The creator of this font, Yacchan, didn’t exactly mention in detail of the font was being modified. The style of this font design is basically reminded me of the vintage pop font styles, with clean and slightly curved strokes to bring out the dynamic of the font, and soften corners to make this font easy to the eye. This font is suitable for call-outs, video and banner ads. I could imagine this font being used as the call-out subtitle displays on the variety shows, or artworks to promote sales.

KeinannPOP comes with hiragana, katakana and kanji characters supported up to 7,000 characters, pretty much equivalent to JIS Level 2 or Adobe-Japan1-3 standard. Besides that, it also suppots Greek and Cyrillic characters too. You can download this font for free and be used on commercial projects.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects
• Released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1

Link

Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 2, or Adobe-Japan1-3)
• Alphanumerics
• Latin, Greek, Cyrillic characters
• Symbols and Punctuations

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Receipt Font (レシートフォント) is a free Japanese display font that was constructed with dots in grid. According to the font designer, they took references from the font design on the expiry date label of the food products or packagings that you can find in Japan. With my faint memory of my trip to Japan, the expiry date on food packagings from the convenient stores are indeed printed in such typeface. The latin characters are constructed with the classic 5×7 grid, while the Japanese characters are constructed in 7×8 grid.

Receipt Font are display font, with its design, it’s recommended to use it with larger font size. The latin characters are easier to read and well constructed, while for the Japanese characters especially the intricate kanji characters, they are especially hard to read due to the lack of dots available. So I would recommend to use this font mainly for the latin, hiragana and katakana letters and less so for kanjis. Even so, the author has made this font to support all JIS Level 1 characters (about 3000 of them) and plus some additional ones. You can download and use this font for free for commercial use.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial use
• Author specifically mentioned that you cannot use this font for works that are anti society

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Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 1 + few additional kanji characters)
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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Kaisei Opti (解星オプティ) is a modern take to the traditional calligraphy style Japanese font. It is one of the four fonts from the Kaisei Project where it took reference from the calligraphy styled fonts that were the norm in the past, and make it and digitalise it with the modern interpretation. You can see it retained the fluidity and the nature of the calligraphy strokes, with a more streamlined, cleaned up and pop-ish stroke design. The key style of the Kaisei Opti font is the right stroke end is represented with a dot, and they are essential to compensate for the instability caused by departing from traditional forms.

To be honest, this font feels so familiar, I just feel like I have seen this font on many Japanese food and beverage packaging designs. Indeed the font style is eye-catchy, and perhaps cute as well due to the presence of the rounded dots. Kaisei Opti comes with three weights – Regular, Medium and Bold. Out of the four variations, Kaisei Opti is the simplest and the cleanest (hence the name “Opti” which I think it stands for optimised). Besides that it supports kanji character up to Adobe-Japan 1-3, which is comparable to JIS Level 2 character set.

You may download this font for free and use it for personal and commercial projects.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial use
• Released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1

Link

Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Adobe-Japan 1-3 (Comparable to JIS Level 2) about 7000 characters)
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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Chalk-S is a free Japanese font that has the effect of writing with chalk on black board. It was created by modifying an open-sourced font from Fontworks called Stick which you can download from Google Fonts. Basically from the original font, the strokes are being roughen to create the textures that resembles effect of writing with chalk. The intention is to use this font to mimic the writings on the chalkboard, despite the original font itself that Chalk-S is based on is not exactly a handwriting style font, but the effect is strong and obvious enough to express that.

Chalk-S is a fun font to be used to create artworks relating to schools and learning institutions. If you are creating designs that has a chalkboard or black board, then this font is a perfect choice. This font comes with standard Japanese characters including hiragana, katakana with kanji characters supported up to Adobe-Japan1-3 or equivalent to JIS Level 2. You can download this font for free and be used on commercial projects, as this font is released under SIL Open Font License.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial use
• Released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1

Link

Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Adobe-Japan1-3 or JIS Level 2)
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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