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Shirokuma Font

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Shirokuma font (しろくまフォント) is a cute font released for free to download by Tokyo graphic designer Kuma (クマ). Created with FontPainter, the designer’s inspiration of the font design is by taking the polar bear’s paw pad as creation image. It comes with the basic Japanese characters like Hiragana and Katakana, however the kanji characters are only restricted to 339. Nevertheless, it’s a well designed font with a sense of organic hand writing.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • Cannot be used as logo mark, and also adult, politics, religion, discrimination related contents

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the bright cyan blue button as shown below

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (339 characters)
  • 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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Hatsukoi Friends

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Hatsukoi Friends (初恋ふれんず) is a free font that emits the aura of a young girl experiencing the mood of first love. As you can see from the font design, it feels lightweight and feminine, and the subtle texture of the strokes kind of representing the shaky voice, the uncertainty and blushing face of a teenage girl falling in love for the first time.

I think this font is perfect for spring feel design, or of that portrays the pure unpolluted love. This font is free for personal use only, you will have to purchase the full license for the commercial use, which also contains more character set.

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 shown below.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (About 3000+ characters)
  • Numbers
  • Symbols and Punctuation

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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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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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Komadori Mini

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Komadori Mini is a cute Japanese font that uses small bird as design inspiration. The character designs are suitable to used as labels, headlines or as type companion for illustrations.

Komadori Mini is the free version which comes with limited sets of characters (282 in total), and only 80 kanji characters is provided. It’s only free for personal use, and you will need to purchase the full version to unlock all characters and be used in commercial works.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal projects only

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above the look for the download link as highlighted below. You will be in the download page where you will be able to see a blue download button link. Click to start the download.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (80 characters only)
  • Limited alphanumerics and symbols

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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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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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Mochiy Pop One

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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

Link

Font Homepage and Download

To download, visit the page above and look for the download button on the top right of the page.

Supported characters

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

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