12 Japanese Handwriting Style Fonts. Free download!
01.08.08Filed Under: Downloads, Resources, Typography
Japanese certainly are expert in good looking and cute handwriting style fonts. So, since I wrote about this post a while back, I think it’s time to go hunt for more free Japanese fonts, and the finding was good. I found these 12 really nice handwriting style fonts that are free to use! Banzai!
All these 12 Japanese handwriting fonts here are able to write in Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, as well as Romaji characters and Numbers. There is one even can perform emoji too. So, the font files are quite huge. As usual, I will give you a screenshot of the fonts, as well as the link to the original page and a download link. Many of the fonts are zipped and some of them are zipped in .lzh format. I recommend to use WinRAR to extract it. Here we go.
Japanese handwriting style fonts (日本手書き風フォント)
GN 12 dot bitmap - Link | Download
S2G P Tsuki font Ver1.51 - Link | Download
S2G P Nagurigaki Ver1.6 - Link | Download
S2G Love Ver1.6 - Link | Download
Sanafon Kaku - Link | Download
S2G P Umi font Ver1.6 - Link | Download
TA Bimyoutai (TA微妙体) - Link | Download
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.
Credit: Akibatec.net
awesome links, thanks a bunch
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 amWow!! This is what I’ve been looking for!
Thanks Jay-han for these lovely cutey J-fonts!
And I’m looking forward for more updates in your blog
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pmThanks for the comment awesome and Risu!
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 pmOMG NAISUUUUU!
August 4th, 2008 at 4:31 pmThank you so much!
August 11th, 2008 at 1:18 amSo Nice!!!!! Thx for your sharing!
August 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pmmakasih akhirnya bisa nulis hiragana dan katanaka di komputer
sankyu
August 28th, 2008 at 9:37 amYou are welcome, chingy, Johanna, Penter and bam_e.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:53 amHi there Jayhan! Thank you so much for post AND sharing the download links as well.I was looking handwriting-type font ( damn,it’s hard to find as well),and thank god I found your site.
looking forward for your updates!
Thanks once again.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:51 pmthanks~!!!
September 13th, 2008 at 10:08 pmYAY!! I loved the MIKA CHAN and the Sanafon Kaku BUT it wont allow me to download them and I don’t know that much of Japanese yet… =(
October 5th, 2008 at 2:02 pmHave you ever seen or heard of an Arabic font that has Japanese style letters
November 10th, 2008 at 5:35 pmarigato gozaimasu.. ^_^
November 16th, 2008 at 8:23 pmThanks everyone for the comment.
November 18th, 2008 at 9:15 ami like the aqua font.. downloading it right now.. thanks for sharing!
December 26th, 2008 at 11:03 pmyou are welcome!
December 27th, 2008 at 8:53 pmHi Jay, I just found your site and love the links you put into. Just want to let you know that I found at least 2 dead links in this site, Sanafon & Honya. Well, I’ll leave the rest to you.
Good luck with your work!
February 4th, 2009 at 9:47 amits cool……………………………………..
i like this website please come to my blog at “j-revolver.blogspot.com”
February 6th, 2009 at 9:39 pmありがとうね！I’ve been looking for cuter Japanese fonts for way too long! <3
March 13th, 2009 at 8:34 amHey! Thanks for the S2G Love font! It’s soooo cute!!!
March 20th, 2009 at 10:26 amOMG thanks so much!! hee hee this is so awsome, really thanks!!!
March 28th, 2009 at 10:37 pmThank you so much for download link
May 9th, 2009 at 12:33 amThese fonts are really great!!~
Much thanks for the support Cuiee and TeMassu, yeah they are awesome!
May 10th, 2009 at 12:41 amarigatou.. they’re so nice!
May 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pmHi,
July 6th, 2009 at 2:50 pmCan I ask an extremely silly question?
after downloading the file, how can I type the Japanese in that font?
Thank you very much!!! XD
Hi Belle, you need to change your keyboard input to Japanese keyboard.
July 6th, 2009 at 6:23 pmarigatou gozaimasu … yokatta na … kono site wo mitsuketa
July 29th, 2009 at 12:18 pmi’ve been searching for these kind of fonts,
hontou ni arigatou ne !
ありがとうございます
November 18th, 2009 at 5:11 ami would like to say the same words like aoki-san.
December 6th, 2009 at 12:18 pmI am searching for these kinds of fonts too,because i have problem in writing hiragana and katakana, my Japanesse teacher gave me “wrong” for letter ‘chi’ at last week’s dictation/spelling
Maybe these fonts can help me in writing .
Thank you, doumo arigatou gozaimasu. *bow*
Awesome…. I love these cute fonts. Thanks so much!
December 21st, 2009 at 12:11 amamazing fonts!!! thank you very much! ^^
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January 20th, 2010 at 1:11 pmNiiice. Been looking for Japanese handwriting fonts.
April 4th, 2010 at 9:46 am