Cute Japanese font for download
21.09.07Filed Under: Japan, Resources, Typography
To be honest, Asian language fonts that is free are really hard to find, especially Japanese fonts. There are many Japanese fonts that can be type with English input but not the real actual Japanese input fonts. Plus, the system installed Japanese typefaces are so damn boring and too formal. But today I found a cute Japanese font free for download 
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The font name is call “KFHimaji”. This font is multi-talented, because you can type alphabets, punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana and even Kanji and many more. The font example is shown below. The font was roundish, cute and happy. This is really one rare free font. So what are you waiting for? Just go to this page and download the cute font! [Direct Font Link]
Instruction:
In order to use this font, assuming you are using Windows XP, you need to have Asian text languages and input text installed into your machine. Then you can go to Control Panel and double click Regional and Language Options. Then click the Languages tab and click the Details button. In the Settings panel, click Add, then find and select the Japanese Input Languages and click “Ok”. Now, Japanese input is in your input panel. Now, you can type Japanese characters in MS Words, Photoshop etc by selecting the “JP” at the Language Toolbar.
More Japanese fonts goodies
Hunger for more custom Japanese fonts? Just go to 4galaxy.net where the webmaster had compiled a list of whopping 46 free Japanese fonts that able to display Kanji characters for download! One setback is some fonts listed there required you to register thou.
From here I want to introduce you other sites that provide English alphabet input fancy Japanese fonts. First up the Maniackers Design Font. Talented Japanese designers had joined their effort to design and produce some nice and usable fonts for download.
GAU+ also have a nice collection of nice Japanese font for both cute and techno style.
You can download some nice and creative fonts at here too! Hosted by Kotaroh Hataro from Gray Graphics. Just click on those small squares!
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September 26th, 2007 at 1:00 amhow do you download from that site that you linked to? dunno what to click!
September 26th, 2007 at 4:37 pmarigato!
hi there, try looking for this text:
“ダウンロード: ＫＦひま字 ／ ＫＦひま字等幅”
if cant, just follow the link below:
http://www.kfstudio.net/font/KFhimajidotzip
http://www.kfstudio.net/font/KFhimajiMdotzip
just change the [dot] to “.”
September 26th, 2007 at 6:37 pmthank u for putting a link to this cute font up bt i downloaded it and it only shows up in english. i know you said that were supposed to download Asian text languages and input text where do i find these things? and also i am using vista. thank u for ne help ^_^
October 6th, 2007 at 3:50 amHi tinkrbelle85, I’m using XP so I don’t know how to solve it, but I found a guide on Microsoft’s page:
Add an input language
Hope this helps
October 6th, 2007 at 10:44 amthx a lot.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:38 pmi hv try to find this for long time.
hundred thanks. ^^
I’m trying to design a poster for our club’s event and I was looking for cool Japanese fonts (the MS Gothic/MS Mincho look all too ordinary) when Google brought me here
Thanks so much for sharing!! I found them to be real useful!!
January 15th, 2008 at 5:07 pmGlad that it help
You are very welcome! I will find more cool Japanese fonts and post it in future post!
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January 20th, 2008 at 10:18 pmIs there a reason why hiragana and katakana font sets don’t have the ぶ character? So far every font I downloaded are without that one character!
January 21st, 2008 at 1:00 pmi tried it, it has the character “ぶ”. Try type “bu” sound.
January 21st, 2008 at 1:15 pmThanks for the reply!
I’m not sure if this matters, but I’m using a Japanese computer, and for some reason I can’t type in using the fonts with the IME function. I’m sure you’re familiar with Japanese keyboards; you know how there is a different hiragana character on each key? I’m working with that, so typing in a syllable won’t do anything except type out two characters. For example, typing “bu” gives me ”こな” because thone buttons correspond to those characters. It’s a pain in the ass. I looked at the font files too, and the ”ぶ” character is the only one missing.
I’ll keep trying though. Thanks a lot!
January 30th, 2008 at 7:16 amnaruhodo! i’ve seen those keyboard in Japanese drama, but never had the chance to use it thou, but I still can feel your desperation, but that’s strange if a character if left out, I am pretty sure it is hiding somewhere.
Keep trying man, I am sure that you going to find it
January 30th, 2008 at 10:06 ami think you should make cute fonts for korean too(:
February 21st, 2008 at 11:22 amHi, sorry I’m not a font designer
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 pmHey Jayhan, awesome site you’ve got here; very helpful!
I was wondering do you know where to get some cute japanese digbats (.tff); I once randomly came across some but
can’t seem to find anymore. I would really apperciate it, if you do find some would you possiblt be able to email me the links!
Thanks ;D
- Nikki
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:42 pmSorry, please excuse my awful spelling errors.
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 pmthat’s ok Nikki, and glad that I’m albe to help out!
About dingbats, perhaps this site could help. That’s quite a lot there. But not sure is what you want thou:
http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=703
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April 4th, 2008 at 6:59 amHi Jun Han, I’m really really glad I found your site with so many links to great Japanese font downloads. I’ve amassed a lot of fonts today just from the links you shared. Thanks for putting them up! ^_^
May 9th, 2008 at 6:53 amHi Aries, thanks for the words. Actually there is tonnes lot more cool Jap font yet to discover actually, and I hope I can put up another list somewhere in future.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:17 pmThank you so much~!
May 13th, 2008 at 1:00 amI have gone through many, and not found good!
Thank you!
you are welcome 愛する
May 14th, 2008 at 10:02 pmI definitely love your blog! So immersive, so full of trendy stuffs, so clean, so smart, so whatever (^-^) Big shout from France and happy blogging!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pmI definitely love your blog! So immersive, so full of trendy stuffs, so clean, so smart, so whatever (^-^) Big shout from France and happy blogging!!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:42 pmMerci! MangoMango
May 19th, 2008 at 5:04 pmThanks for the font links!
June 7th, 2008 at 4:33 pmyou are welcome Reita!
June 11th, 2008 at 2:26 pmhi Jayhan,
I have downloaded the 2 links but not sure how to install it into my computer. I am using the fonts in my Window 2007 Words and my east asian font is enabled already. Will appreciate your help. >_< Thanks a million!
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:09 pmOk, have you add Japanese as the input language? Make sure is IME keyboard. After that, from the language bar choose Japanese. And then, you also have to make sure that the input mode is Hiragana instead of Direct Input. Once you Hiragana input mode is selected, you can type Japanese in Word already.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:09 pmomg i love you to death >”< I’ve been looking for this for a long time, but everytime i type “japanese font” and search by google I couldn’t find what i need. Ahhh i’ve download quite a bunch of fonts XD
Thanks again
June 25th, 2008 at 3:24 pmyou are welcome tomoiro
June 27th, 2008 at 10:41 pmthanks thanks thanks!!!
September 28th, 2008 at 9:32 pmi really want to hug you now!
Hello.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:48 amSorry, but is there anywhere else to download the KFHimaji font? When I downloaded the .zip file from that site and tried unzipping it, it didn’t wanna work for me. D;
Pleeease. I really love that font. ><;
Thanks
SuperKad~
Hi Superkad, the zip file work for me. Perhaps you can download and try it again?
November 11th, 2008 at 9:35 amI’ve tried many times, but it starts going crazy when I try to unzip it.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:41 amIt gives me this:
http://superkad.co.uk/Screenshot.png
x_x;;
Thank you so much! These links you compiled was a big help for me. Arigatou.
November 30th, 2008 at 2:45 amkonnichiwa from Australia!
February 1st, 2009 at 8:39 amI am a student teacher learning Japanese and I wanted some cool Japanese fonts and found your website. What a great blog and really interesting layout and info. Thanks so much. 本当にどうもありがとうごじました！＾－＾
However, I only have an English keyboard and use Windows, so I type Japanese in Word using the IME format. But I cannot use these cool fonts, as the input is like one character per key. Do you know how I can change the input to typing in the English romaji and the characters come up like other fonts?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again!
@Superkad: it says that there is a file with the same name. Try unzip in another location? And the file supposedly not 0 bytes.
@Shara: You are welcome.
@Lauren: is the font appears on the font list? I’m using MS IME Standard 2002 ver. 8.1, it supposed to type like English keyboard and appears in Japanese text. Try to check your JP language bar?
February 1st, 2009 at 11:40 amThanks Jay-han. You rock!
February 1st, 2009 at 12:09 pmhi, can anybody help me install these fonts on a mac?
March 8th, 2009 at 3:11 amjapanese is enabled on my computer,
and when i click on the file it opens up fontbook, but only the romaji characters from the font show up, there’s no hiragana or anything.
what do i need to do? these fonts are super cute and i’d like to use them
thanks!
Hi breezy, I don’t know because I don’t own a mac. Perhaps this article can help? http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=269791
March 8th, 2009 at 2:10 pmhey but when i go to the website, its all written in jap. how do i still downloaad?
August 10th, 2009 at 6:46 pmHi gabie,
yeah you still able to download the font by following the instruction given here
August 10th, 2009 at 11:55 pmWhat’s the difference between the two links? I installed both of them. One said KFhimaji and the other said KFhimajiMONO. They look the same in Japanese.
August 14th, 2009 at 9:04 amHi Mai, is the letter spacing that is different.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:33 pmThank you for these links! I have a question though, I’ve recently downloaded the KFHimaji one, and it works fine on Microsoft Word. However, it won’t work on my Adobe Photoshop (version CS2) . Do you have any idea how I can fix this? I appreciate any help given!
September 5th, 2009 at 6:19 pmHi Snowie, did you activate the Japanese input and select the font to type it?
September 10th, 2009 at 7:19 pmGood Evening, do you have any fonts which is free and in Chinese?
Thanks alot Computer Admin:)
Yukiko
September 10th, 2009 at 8:42 pmI just want to say, thanks so much for the links. <3 I’ve been trying to look for good japanese fonts, and they’re pretty hard to find for me. So thanks again. (:
September 20th, 2009 at 7:00 pmI have that kfhimaji pack I have all of them but they don’t work when I use them in photoshop. As a matter of fact this happens when I use it.
http://i34.tinypic.com/6gd5a8.jpg
how do I fix that?
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January 6th, 2010 at 2:00 pmHello! I can no longer download KFHimaji from the site u__u!
Would you by chance have the font downloaded? If so is there a
way it can be sent to me? I had to reformat and lost it sadly :/
Thanks!
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:41 am-Mooglegurl
Hi Mooglegurl, thanks for the notification. Seems like they had change the download link. Please use this one instead: http://www.kfstudio.net/font/KFhimaji.zip
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:17 pmDo you have any idea where can i download nice chinese fonts for free?
Its urgent
April 16th, 2010 at 6:37 pmfirst of all , thanks for the links. Do they work in vista? because I installed the kfhimaji font but it won’t show up. I installed the japanese input already but nothing happened. can you help me?
May 16th, 2010 at 8:11 pmHi meidy, because I’m still using Windows XP so I don’t know how to help you. Maybe you try to google on it?
May 19th, 2010 at 9:50 pmErm.. I downloaded this but.. Where can this font show up?? I typed Japanese into Microsoft Word/ Powerpoint, and tried to adjust the font. How do I do it???
May 22nd, 2010 at 6:55 pmHey… I’ve already downloaded the KFhimaji but the font doesn’t show in the list of Fonts in MSword or Ppt.. Please help.. Thanks.
September 6th, 2010 at 2:48 amHey.. I’ve already downloaded the KFhimaji file and extracted them from the zip folder. However it does not show in the list of Fonts in MSWord or ppt. Please help thanks.
September 6th, 2010 at 2:49 amLimitations reside only in our minds. But if we use our creativeness, our choices become endless
September 17th, 2010 at 7:40 pmI have a question, because I really wanna use this font >_<”" Is it free-period, or is it free for personal use only?
Thank you for the help~
- Shii-Chan
September 24th, 2010 at 7:19 amHi Shii-Chan, you can use it for personal and non commercial. You can use it for commercial as well for example poster or brochure etc, but if use for logo/identity design, you might need to contact the font designer.
September 27th, 2010 at 5:44 pmhi! is there anyway to use it on a window 7?
April 17th, 2011 at 5:42 pm@CSX: Yes, I think it can be installed on Win7 system.
April 19th, 2011 at 4:14 pmdo you have it for MAC?
May 6th, 2011 at 9:24 amHi fey, it’s an Open Type font, so by right it should support MAC too.
May 7th, 2011 at 4:59 amI’m using vista (32-bit operating system) and when I installed it and tried it out, it came out in English. How can I fix this?
August 25th, 2011 at 6:53 pmHi C, please change your keyboard input to Japanese in order to type the characters.
August 31st, 2011 at 5:24 amHello, when I opened the control panel and followed your instructions about adding Japanese Language to my computer, I saw none. Will the font not work?
October 28th, 2011 at 2:35 pmthank you for this article~! God bless~ ^^ <3
December 3rd, 2011 at 6:46 am