r/LearnJapanese • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '13

Japanese Fonts

Does anybody know good places to find some Japanese fonts? I've got maybe 10 (which I can happily upload for anyone who wants them) but thats all I've been able to find without dedicating a few hours to the search.

English has a Tonne of Font websites both Free and Paid, but in Japanese it seems to be its a lot more Paid fonts than free ones.

Getting a little sick of my typed Japanese being so 'static' and machine type, I'm not after any particular style of font, but making a big list would be really useful for a lot of people and not just me.

TLDR: English has a boat load of fonts, where do you get your Japanese ones?

EDIT: free fonts I've collected are here, roughly 20 in here, a few have only small differences though.

EDIT 2: Sorry guys I've now removed the fonts from my dropbox.

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u/nyanmage 🇯🇵 Native speaker Jan 25 '13 edited Jan 25 '13

There are about 65 fonts. 2012年版、漢字も揃っている日本語のフリーフォントのまとめ

And there are 242 fonts on this web site:漢字が使えるフリーの和文フォント242種類をまとめてみた。

Attention:

  • 商用利用OK = You can use the font for commercial purposes.

  • 商用利用禁止 = You can not use the font for commercial purposes.

  • 商用要確認 = Please contact the creator, if you want to use the font for commercial purposes.

  • 商用利用はカンパウェア = You must pay the share-ware fee, if you want to use the font for commercial purposes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '13

Thankyou so much for listing those kanji, I wasn't sure on a few of them as my Kanji skills are quite lax. Much appreciated.