36 cool katakana design fonts free download
02.03.08Posted by: Jayhan Sim
There are many cool and creative Japanese Katakana design fonts out there designed by various font designers. Here I compiled a list of 36 cool Katakana font resources which is free for download to add to your Japanese fonts list!
Most of them you can directly type it while some of them you need Japanese IME standard keyboard. Although all of them are free for download, but be sure to read the terms of usage if the font is used for commercial. Scroll down to check out the 36 Katakana design fonts! Original font address and download links also provided too.
Direct input Katakana fonts
Urban Streets — Link | Download
Lovely Capsules — Link | Win | Mac
Nationalyze — Link | Win | Mac
Type Cantabile — Link | Win | Mac
LVDC Arupino — Link | Win | Mac
LVDC Sweet Days — Link | Win | Mac
Ultra Comic Fonts — Link | Win | Mac
Retro Paradise — Link | Win | Mac
Frigate Katakana — Link
Sushitaro — Link
Daidoh Remix JKA — Link
Stupid bug font Series Vol. 2 — Link | Win | Mac
Jackal_08_K02_KANAF — Link | Download
Cool fonts! Do you know if they only support katakana only or do they have english type as well?
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 amhi, i remember some but very less which also has English type, but most of them is just Katakana only.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 amerm…do u mind show me how to use it? thanks!!
March 4th, 2008 at 12:03 pmit’s easy weng, just download the font and install it (Win XP: open Control Panel > Fonts, and then drag the fonts to install it).
If is direct input, you can select the font and type it out straight away. If is Japanese IME keyboard required, you need to install the keyboard at “Text Services and Input Languages”, then only can use it. (If East Asian language is not installed, you need to install it from your XP cd)
March 4th, 2008 at 10:22 pmOmg thanks! I love it! XD
March 6th, 2008 at 2:18 pmyou are welcome!
March 6th, 2008 at 10:26 pma nice add to my collections
March 7th, 2008 at 7:53 pmthnx again for the share jayhan!
glad to be the service
March 8th, 2008 at 2:27 pmOMG!! i wanna write my name in katakana and was struggling to find the fonts. You saved my day! its free and absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for the hard work! *hugs* i love it!
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 amyou are welcome!
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 am[...] 36 cool katakana design fonts free download [...]
May 13th, 2008 at 11:30 amThank you very much for this awsome collection!
It is so great!
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May 14th, 2008 at 12:03 pmYou are welcome Mel!
May 14th, 2008 at 9:59 pmerm…..did you studied japanese?…….n how to write it using standart keyboard,btw nice collection of font…..thanks for sharing.
May 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pmya, i’m studying japanese right now.. I’m not sure what you mean by standard keyboard …
May 19th, 2008 at 5:07 pmsorry for the confusion….what i mean is,i just need to install it and i can use it straight away,is that right.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:59 pmhi Noel,
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 pmyes, just download and install it and you can use it straight way
sorry to bother you but after you download it, i don’t understand because it opens in WinRar. Then also, when i opened control panel, i do not see any ‘fonts’ words.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:41 pmhmm.. its ok, i found the fonts, but.. which one do i have to install? because there are alot of files in the WinRar when i opened it.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:45 pmHi, please check the file extension, normally a font file ends with .ttf, .otf, .lzh.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 amThese fonts are sweet! Thanks a lot! ^^
January 19th, 2009 at 6:06 amcant everyone teach me how to find abc in japan words.tq
January 20th, 2009 at 8:14 pmWow… cool!! But I have to try each button to know what font that I want. This is not automatically change from alphabet to kana, right?
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 amHi Li Partic, no it won’t change.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:38 ammany broken links T.T
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:03 pmso cool man! thank you, big time! ^^
December 4th, 2009 at 9:34 pmlzh…its not recognised in win 7…T_T
November 1st, 2010 at 3:42 pmHow to install it?
Very useful. Thanks alot!!
March 8th, 2011 at 12:19 pmthanks for sharing the greatest professional designs i will use these on my upcoming design
May 24th, 2011 at 6:23 amthanks alot
nice font..thanks lot
July 1st, 2011 at 8:14 amuseful list of font
September 9th, 2011 at 12:04 pmcool fonts.. thanks for sharing..
September 16th, 2011 at 10:43 am