2apes.com
[Taishi Yokoyama]

Original katakana fonts and dot fonts by Taishi Yokoyama. Mac and PC: ApeliumK (1999) and Receipt43 families. [Google]

3D Mild

DEAD LINK. Four free fonts, all called Mild, at this Japanese site. Three of the fonts are katakana. One is a grunge Latin font. [Google]

3dlogo

Interesting archive with MSMincho, MSGothic, Wadalab Gothic, dfpop9, hgrgep, hgrskp, hgrsmp, all Japanese fonts in truetype. [Google]

4galaxy

Type blog and news site, in Japanese. [Google]

55

"Minmes", aka "55", is the designer of SmallFont 4th (2002) and SmallFont 6ty (2002), both extreme pixel fonts. Alternate URL. [Google]

A-1 Corp

Commercial Japanese foundry with beautiful fonts: Zen Old Minchou R, Marumin Old, Kurenaido, Zen Antique, Dots, Zen Loop, Zen Loop Italic. [Google]

Abe Kazuma

Designer of the handwritten kanji/kana/Latin/Cyrillic face Hikaisho (2003). Alternate page. [Google]

Aboutfont

Japanese font vendor. [Google]

ACAF

ACAF stands for Ascender Compact Asian Fonts. Their blurb at the launch in 2006: ACAF uses proprietary techniques to render the complex ideographs found in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts. By using component outlines, versus entire character outlines, ACAF offers significant benefits over standard TrueType or OpenType font formats. And unlike other compact font formats, such as stroke or stick fonts, the quality of Ascender Compact Asian Fonts is such that no embedded bitmaps are necessary for typical screen sizes. This savings in space by reusing pierces of font outlines is useful for high quality (scalable) fonts on mobile devices and digital TVs. [Google]

Act Select (Segasonic)

Major Japanese free font foundry with techno, katakana, hiragana, comic book Latin, techno and game fonts. List: NiseAirTrix, NiseAlienFront, NiseAstroCity, NiseChuChu, NiseColumns, NiseEnduroRacer, NiseEswat, NiseGalaxyForce, NiseGameGear, NiseGenesis, NiseGreatestNine02, NiseGunstarHeroes, NiseHangOn, NiseHornet1994, NiseHornet1997, NiseIchidantRK, NiseIsao, NiseJSRF, NiseJoypolis, NiseKidChameleon, NiseKnuckles, NiseMarkIII, NiseMegaDriveEU, NiseMegaDriveK, NiseOverWorks, NisePico, NiseR360, NiseRoboPitcherK, NiseSG1000, NiseSGGG, NiseSega, NiseSegaK, NiseSegaKara, NiseSegaKn, NiseSegaNet, NiseSegaRosso, NiseSegaSaturn, NiseSegaSports, NiseSegaSports2k, NiseSegaSports2k1, NiseSegaSports2k2, NiseSegaSports2k3, NiseShiningD, NiseShinobi1987, NiseSonic, NiseSonicBattle, NiseSonicIcon, NiseSonicK, NiseSonicKb, NiseSonicShuffle, NiseSpaceHarrier, NiseSuperHangOn, NiseTantRK, NiseTera, NiseTheDead, NiseThunderBlade, NiseUfoCatcher, NiseVFkids, NiseWonderMega, NiseZaxxon, NiseZillion, NiseHotRod, NiseMajorLeague, NiseMegaDriveBR, NiseSegaSonic. [Google]

Active girl (or: Cat House)

Japanese designers of the free fonts Momo, Inapple, Flower Bold, Candy Bold and Mika Hiragana. [Google]

Add (Aoki Digital Design)
[Atsushi Aoki]

Geometrically strong Mac fonts by Atsushi Aoki: AddFatMan, Shade, Speedy, Round, Steel, Line, Rusty, Loops, Shark (not free), WASP (not free), Jazz, IronPoint7, StandardBitmapPoint9. Mac type 1 and Windows truetype. Font names: AddCityboyNormal, AddElectricCity, AddFatMan, AddJazz, AddLGBitmap09, AddLine, AddLoopsNormal, AddMBitmap06, AddRusty, AddShade, AddSniperNormal, AddSpeedy, AddStarSugarNormal, AddStarSugarOblique, AddSteel, AddWBitmap09, Addround. Font Pavilion sells AddWasp (1999). He designed PointN (1999) at Digitalogue in their DPI72 series. Alternate URL. [Google]

Addax Designs
[Gurucho]

Japanese foundry with a nice web presence. Free original fonts made in 2000 and 2001 by "Gurucho": Spiral-Bitmap, TeaPot, XSquare, XSquare-Katakana, XSquare-Lite. Most of these fonts are either pixel fonts or inspired by the pixel movement. Teapot (2001-2006) is an informal sans. Hosobiki (2005) is a paperclip font. N.E.L. (2007) is a sans face. [Google]

Affection

Japanese designers of the pixel fonts nindots (2004, Latin) and Kakuji (2004, kana). [Google]

Ages5&Up
[Katsuya Nakamura]

Japanese site with one original free font each week. Some fonts are great, such as 5&up-Namco, 5&up-Airport, 5&up-KC, 5&up-Peanuts, and 5&up-Sega. There are also hiragana fonts for free. Designer: Katsuya Nakamura. Dead link! [Google]

Ahoi

Paul Rädle's great jump page for foreign fonts and phonetic fonts. [Google]

Ainezunouzu
[Akira Hayashi]

Akira Hayashi (Ainezunouzu) is the Japanese designer of the experimental Latin fonts UzuAutotwo, UzuBalloonO, UzuBalloon, UzuBiscuit, UzuBmp01_06 (pixel), UzuCheeseO, UzuCheese, UzuCracker and UzuRenga. He also made the handwritten kanji fonts UzuPen, UzuPencil, UzuKaku, UzuMaru, UzuFace, UzuOfTsuchiyaB, UzuOfTsuchiya, UzuFude. [Google]

A-kei

Commercial Japanese truetype fonts (kanji). [Google]

Akibatec Wabunfont

Links to free fonts for Japanese. Also, discussion and news on commercial Japanese fonts. [Google]

Akihiko Seki

Designer of Aki Lines (1970, ITC), a delicate multiline Latin display face. [Google]

Akira Kobayashi

Born in 1960 in Niigata, Japan. Studied at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. He also studied calligraphy at the London College of Printing. He became a freelance designer in 1997. Akira Kobayashi, who was based in Tokyo prior to his move to the Franfurt area, is an accomplished type designer who has created numerous typefaces for Sha-Ken, Dainippon Screen (where he made the kanji font Hiragino Mincho), TypeBank (from 1993-1997), ITC and Linotype, where he is Type Director since 2001. Interview. His numerous awards include the Type Directors Club awards in 1998 (ITC Woodland), 1999 (the art deco styled ITC Silvermoon, and ITC Japanese Garden), and 2000 (FF Clifford), the 1999 Kyrillitsa award for ITC Japanese Garden, the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library (for the informal and quirky 4-style Linotype Conrad (1999): Linotype states that Kobayashi took his inspiration from a print typeface of the 15th century created by two German printers named Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz), and the 5th Morisawa International Typeface Competition (in which he received an Honourable Mention for his typeface Socia Oldstyle). CV at bukvaraz. Interview in 2006. His typefaces:

• Dainippon Screen: the kanji font Hiragino Mincho.
• ITC: ITC Scarborough (1998), ITC Luna, ITC Silvermoon, ITC Japanese Garden, ITC Seven Treasures (1998), ITC Magnifico Daytime and Nighttime (1999), ITC Vineyard (1999), ITC Woodland Demi (1997).
• Adobe: Calcite Pro (sans-serif italic at Adobe, in OpenType format).
• Linotype: Eurostile Candy and Eurostile Unicase, Cosmiqua (2007, a lively didone serif family based on 19th century English advertising types, and in particular Miller & Richard's Caledonian Italic), Metro Office (2006, a severe sans after a family of Dwiggins from the 20s), Neuzeit Office (2006, modeled after the original sans serif family Neuzeit S, which was produced by D. Stempel AG and the Linotypes design studio in 1966. Neuzeit S itself was a redesign of D. Stempel AG's DIN Neuzeit, created by Wilhelm Pischner between 1928 and 1939), DIN Next (2009, based on the classic DIN 1451), Times Europa Office (2006, modeled after the original serif family produced by Walter Tracy and the Linotypes design studio in 1974. A redesign of the classic Times New Roman typeface, Times Europa was created as its replacement for the Times of London newspaper. In contrast to Times New Roman, Times Europa has sturdier characters and more open counter spaces, which help maintain readability in rougher printing conditions. Times Europa drastically improved on the legibility of the bold and italic styles of Times New Roman.), Trump Mediaeval Office (2006), Linotype Conrad, Optima Nova (2003, a new version of Optima that includes 40 weights, half of them italic), Linotype Avenir Next (2003, 48 weights developed with its original creator, Adrian Frutiger, and to be used also by the city of Amsterdam from 2003 onwards), Zapfino Extra, Palatino Sans and Palation Sans Informal (2006, with Hermann Zapf; won an award at TDC2 2007). Frutiger Serif (2008) is based on Frutiger's Meridien and the Frutiger (sans) family. Diotima Classic (2008, with Gudrun Zapf von Hesse) revives Gudrun's Diotima from 1951. In 2008-2009, Akira Kobayashi unified and extended Trade Gothic to Trade Gothic Next (17 styles). Neue Frutiger (2009, with Adrian Frutiger) has twice as many weights as the orifinal Frutiger family.
• Fontshop: Acanthus (2000, large Fontfont family), Clifford (gorgeous text face!). In 2009, he and Hermann Zapf cooperated on Virtuosa Classic, a calligraphic script that updates and revives Zapf's own 1952-1953 creation, Virtuosa.
• Typebox: TX Lithium (2001, The Typebox).
• Oddities: Skid Row (1990), Socia Oldstyle.
• Suntory corporate types (2003-2005), developed with the help of Matthew Carter and Linotype from Linotype originals: Suntory Syntax, Suntory Sabon, Suntory Gothic, Suntory Mincho.

Akira Uchida

Akira Uchida (Hitachi, Ltd. and TypeBank Co, Ltd) developed a very useful free full Latin/Kanji/unicode "didone style" font called XANO-mincho-U32 (2003). Opentype included. A thing of beauty. Direct download. He also made another full (free) didone-style unicode font, Kandata (2004). Here you can download his Tsuitiku-Kana family from 2004-2005. [Google]

Akubin

Original fonts for Mac and PC, mostly Latin letters, but also a few kana faces: AKAkubit12H, AKElephant3, AKMyPrince (2004), AKOsaruH, AKOsaruR, AK-Keroyon (2003, alphadings), Akubin (handwriting), AKAppriqueBlack, AKANGEL, AKAppliqueWhite, AKUNCIAL, AKCalligraphy, 09Keroyon (2004), AK Jelly Beans (2004), AK-Piyoko (2004, egg dingbats), AK woopaa, AK Roopaa, AK-Halloween (2004, dings), AK Sweet Prison (2004, Fraktur), AK-BlackCastle (blackletter, 2004), AK-WinterYawns (2004, winter dings). AK-Shanghai 1930 (2005), AK-Japonesque (2005), AK-My Baby (2005, child dingbats), KS Lovers (2007, handwritten Latin and kana). In 2008, they stopped offering free fonts. [Google]

Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

Great Unicode jump page. Has a page showing all fonts that support the various Unicode ranges. Check, for example, his Shavian Unicode sub-page. Unicode font utilities. Some font downloads, including the Unicode font MPH Damase (2005, Mark Williamson). [Google]

AlohaFont

Japanese foundry. Creators of the free dingbat font AlohaFont 01 (2007). [Google]

Altosoft

Japanese type blog and news site. [Google]

Andrzej Lapa

Katakana and hiragana fonts attached to commercial learning software by Andrzej Lapa. [Google]

AnimeComic-Ink

The free handwritten kana font "Cinema" is here. [Google]

animes

Japanese (a WSI truetype font with about 40 kanjis). Also, Retortot and Sumire, two katakana families by Yuji Saiki, 1999. Truetype. [Google]

Apricot Color
[Kyoko]

Free handwritten full kanji (anzumoji) fonts made by Kyoko: Anzu, APJapanesefontPrecocity, APJapanesefontPrecocityT, APJapanesefont, APJapanesefontF, APJapanesefontK, APJapanesefontT. [Google]

Apropos

Explanations of Japanese/Chinese typesetting. [Google]

Arabia Ware Benelux

Vendor of Mac and PC fonts for several languages and from a variety of companies. Only commercial stuff for Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Tamazight, Turkish, Greek, Indic, Thai, Eastern European, and Korean. [Google]

Arphic Technology

Four high-quality Chinese TrueType fonts generously provided by Arphic Technology to the Free Software community under the "Arphic Public License". The four free Chinese truetype fonts are about 10MB each: ZenKai-Medium, BousungEG-Light-GB, GBZenKai-Medium, ShanHeiSun-Light. Alternate URL. One more site. Yet another URL. This site has a file called fireflysung, which has the full Chinese font AR PL New Sung (1994-1999). [Google]

Art and Fonts by Sean (aka The BlackBox)
[Sean Moldenhauer]

Free fonts by Sean Moldenhauer of Michigan City, Indiana, a graduate of the Art institute of Chicago now apprenticing with Donna Karen. Sean has beautiful Japanese calligraphic prints (shodo style) as well as fonts based on carefully researched historical typefaces. Examples: JapaneseZenSampler1 (2001), TheTombwinterandspring1 (1997, "heavily inspired by the incised letters from the tomb of Henry III, Westminster Abbey, about 1272"), Thorns (1997), VampyresGarden (1997, initial caps inspired by a copy of the Romant de la Rose from the beginning of the 16th century), HoursintheRain (1997), SevenWavessighsSalome (1997, caps). [Google]

Art and Fonts by Sean (was: the Black box)

Sean BW showcases great Arab, Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. In addition, his free fonts include Thorns, Hours in the Rain, The Tomb, Vampyres Garden (initial caps inspired by the Romant de la Rose from the beginning of the 16th century), and Seven Waves Sighs Salome. Very nice gothic and medieval style creations. Many caps, great historical fonts, with sources discussed. I wish the designer would divulge his name. See also here. [Google]

Ascender Corporation

Elk Grove Village, IL-based company established in 2004, which specializes in font development, licensing and IP protection. It rose from the ashes of a major bloodletting at Agfa/Monotype at the end of 2003. Its founders are Steve Matteson (type designer, formerly with Agfa/Monotype), Thomas Rickner (of Microsoft fame, where he hinted many Microsoft families), Ira Mirochnick (founder and President of Monotype Typography Inc in 1989 (where he was until 2000) and a Senior Vice President and director of Agfa Monotype Corporation (2000-2003), a self-proclaimed expert in font licensing issues and IP protection), and Bill Davis (most recently the Vice President of Marketing for Agfa Monotype). Their typefaces include Endurance (2004, Steve Matteson, an "industrial strength" Grotesk designed to compete with Helvetica and Arial; it supports Greek, Cyrillic and East European languages). Also included in this notorious group are Josh Hadley, Brian Kraimer and Jim Ford (since 2005), and Jeff Finger (as Chief Research Scientist, since 2006). In April 2005, they announced that they would be selling the Microsoft font collection. They also started selling and licensing IBM's Heisei family of Japanese fonts in April 2005: Heisei Kaku Gothic, Heisei Maru Gothic and Heisei Mincho. Also in 2005, they started distributing Y&Y's Lucida family. In October 2005, Ascender announced the development of Convection, a font used for Xbox 360 video games. Their South Asian fonts cover Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, amnd include Ascender Uni, Ascender UniDuo and Arial Unicode for general use across all Indic languages, and, in particular, the Microsoft fonts Vrinda (Bengali), Mangal (Devanagari), Shruti (Gujarati), Raavi (Gurmukhi), Tunga (Kannada), Kartika (Malayalam), Latha (Tamil) and Gautami (Telugu). Thus far, it does more type trading and licensing than type creation. As usual, "download" on this site means "pay and then download", a practice Ascender is well-known for. Their brand value took a hit when they started selling scrapbook, handwriting and wedding fonts under the name FontMarketplace.com. MyFonts link. In 2009, they started a subpage called GoudyFonts.Com to sell their Goudy revivals. [Google]

AsiaFont Studio

Font editor by Pyrus/FontLab for Asian type design. Mac and Windows. [Google]

Asiasoft

Vendor of Korean, Japanese and Chinese software, including font packs for Mac and PC. AsiaSoft Inc./AsiaTech Inc. is located in Vero Beach, FL. Their font Urdu Naskh Asiatype (2001) for Urdu can be found here and here. Pashto Kror Asiatype (1994-2002) is here. [Google]

Atomic Media (was: SmartDust)
[Matthew Bardram]

Matthew Bardram (b. New York City, 1965) is the Tucson, AZ-based [T-26] founder of Atomic Media, and designer of Atomic, Centrifuge, Bromide (at T-26), Crackle, Klaxon. At Nakedface (now gone), he made Arachnid, Bitpak, Bylinear, DhexInline, Genetica, Economy Large, Empiric, Hypersigna (2005, bitmap face), Montreal (the family) and two katakana fonts. His Bitpack includes the following pixel fonts: Arachnid, Bylinear (2000), Cellular (2000), Genetica (2000, free download), Genetrix, Macroscopic, Metodic, Microscopic, Noir, Scriptometer, Remote (2000), Monocule (2000), Joystik, Centrifuge, Quantaa (2000), Bionika, Megalon (2000), Wired. Bitmap font specialist. Alternate URL. Interview. His Digipak includes Atomic-Inline, Atomic-Outline, Bionika-Black, Bionika, Genetrix-Crossed, Genetrix-Square, Genetrix-SquareCore, Genetrix-SquareHollow, Joystik, Macroscopic-A, Macroscopic-B, Macroscopic-C, Macroscopic-D, Macroscopic-E, Methodic-Bold, Methodic, Microscopic, Noir, Scriptometer-SanScript, Scriptometer. And he did a 3D pixel font called Boxer 3D (2002), Neuronic (2002-2004, nice outlined pixel font; see also here), Fusionaire (2002, a display font) and Wijdeveld, a squarish font based on the lettering of poster artist Wijdeveld from The Netherlands. In 2005, these fonts were added: Magnetica, Imperium, Ratio, Hypersigna, Sequence and Tempora, all by Matthew Bardram. Sausan Kare's pixel fonts at Atomic Media: Mini Food, Kare Dingbats, Biology, Everett, Harry, Ramona, Kare Five Dots, Kare Five Dots Serif, Kare Six Dots, Kare Six Dots Serif. [Google]

Atsuko Onozato

Designer of Pazool (Maniackers). [Google]

Atsushi Kadono

Atsushi Kadono is a Japanese type designer who sells his fonts via Font Pavilion. Check his dingbat font Monochrome City. There are also austere katakana font families, Asahi and Shin-Asahi. [Google]

Autorain Font

Japanese foundry that markets about ten Latin and twenty full kanji fonts. Among its type families is LSN or Lambda Truetype Font. Finally, it sells a font editor for Japanese fonts, called LFEdit. [Google]

Autumn Mist

Dead link. This was a huge truetype and type 1 archive. The biggest font here is the 22MB Arial Unicode MS monster. There are many Monotype and Font Bureau families as well. Plus the Microsoft collection, MS Mincho (full font, by Ricoh), Palatino Linotype, SimSun (10MB multipurpose font by Zhongyi Electronic, 1995), and about 600 other basic fonts. One of the most useful archives anywhere, with every font seemingly included only for its usefulness. The fonts are now in one zip file. [Google]

Aya Suzukon

Designer of handwriting fonts for Japanese: chimacoron (2004), chimacoronhoso (2004), Tinkling Bell (2003), OhiruneFont, kotorimojiFONT-TT (full kanji font, also called TheLittleBirdFONT), RuFont, WarabeFont, TheLittleBirdFONTS (2003, full kanji face, handwritten), WarabemojiKTT (2003, full kanji font). Home page. Alternate URL, which has these free Latin/kana techno fonts: ChimaChima, Dekaji, Funyaji, MaruMaru, MiniChima, MiniChimaKaku, all made in 2003 by Aya Suzukon. Is this by the same type designer? [Google]

Aya Yamamoto

Japanese designer of alphabets Ope Font, which can be downloaded here. [Google]

Ayako

Designer of the Latin/kana handwriting font ayaFONT01. Alternate URL. [Google]

Ayumi Takeshima

Kakuji1 (2000) is a great artistic font with some kanjis, designed by Ayumi Takeshima. Look also for his calligraphy called Hudeji and Kamon (1999). [Google]

Azipon

Two huge font files for Windows: Dameji (by Takuya Ando), Habadasa (by Tetsuya Hozaki). I suspect they are two kanji truetype fonts. [Google]

Azuki Font
[Azusa Hyuga]

Azusa Hyuga's Japanese foundry Azuki offers the handwritten Japanese font Azuki. Alternate URL. Uzura (2007) is a handprinted Latin/Cyrillic/kanji font. [Google]

Bagel & Co
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

Japanese foundry that offers these free Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa: Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Coconut (noisy outline face), Coconut Split, Fresh Tomato (LED simulation), Dried Tomato (LED simulation), Dutch Style, Mocha Harrar (great stencil face), 103 (experimental, Bank Gothic style), Airhead, ArealBlack, Awkward, BagelNew, BagelOld, Banbino, Bebas, Berlin89, Blackout, Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb, Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Meegoreng, Mikrob, Natsupopy, Overwork, Palsu, Plamo, Plasitico, REC001, REC002, REC003, Resistance, SQRT, STdigi (LED font), Shandy, Superstar, Tembaga, Tenaga, Tomodachi, Tragedia, Trucker, VRdigital, VRembroidery, Welcome2M, Workaholic, Zeebraa, plot-A, plot-K, Appendix 3, Gesso, Pusab, Sushitaro, Typewrong. Alternate URL. [Google]

Bajoka

Small commercial Japanese foundry specializing in handwritten and extreme brush fonts. [Google]

Baka Fonts (or: Kyakirun, KYA, Kyakirun's Pasomono)

Free fonts for PC and Mac: OhHiGe (2003, OpenType), Kakudaron B (2003), Kakudaron IB (2003), GoJuOn (2003, kanji), Kurogama TsubuChan, After_Attack, CHOP!!!!!, MouTen-Dattayo-Soitsu-Wa (2002), Soitsu-Wa-MouTen-Dattayo (2002), Chain-Reaction, Chain-Reaction-Itaric, Kunyulla-Black, mimizu, HONEBONE-Ukokkei, PENTAGRON (2001), TALL-TWIN (2001), TECNO-STRESS, TECNO-STRESS-HIRAGANA, TECNO-STRESS-KATAKANA, Yura_Hiragana, Future-Chibaraki2, Tokyo Honey Chan (2002), DeJi (2002), Hone Bone Ukokkei, Hone Bone Hakkotsu (2001), Yurayura Hiragana, Tecno Stress, Before_Attack, KICK!!!!!, PUNCH!!!!!, Tall Twin (2001), Pentagron (2001), Chain_Reaction, Kemushi_Hira, Kemushi_Alp, Kemushi_Kata, Mystery-Circle, Oshare-Black, YuraH, TecnoS-K, TecnoS-H, Oshare-Honenuki, Suehirogari, JIHAI, MANZ, PINZ, SOUZ [the last four fonts are for mahjong and other games], The-ManPu, Chibaraki-Now, Future-Chibaraki, Oshare, IAmNotWeapon. Many fonts have Latin and kana versions. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Yep, another URL. One more URL. [Google]

Batsuka Typeworks

Japanese outfit. Designed the commercial fonts Makuhari, Metropolis 2001, Yobatsuka. Roman and katakana versions. [Google]

Beer
[Hiroyuki Tsutsumi]

Japanese and other font utilities resource page kept by Hiroyuki Tsutsumi. Freeware utilities by him, developed from 2003-2005:

• fonted (for taking truetype fonts apart)
• img2ttf (image to ttf, bitmap style)
• ttfdasm (truetype disassembler)
• macttf2be (ttf trnasformed into a bitmap ttf and a format called bmf, BeBitmapFont)
• bdf2ttf
• bdf2bmf
• mrk2ttf
• ttfcnv_a (ttf ShiftJIS encoded to ttf Unicode)
• ttc2ttf
• ttf2ttc
• edbmf (edits his own bmf format bitmap fonts)
• mkbmf (ttf to bmf conversion)
• bmf help utility

Beer fonts
[Karo]

Free fonts by "Karo", made in 2001: BEER01-H-ENIKKI (kana), BEER02-A-CROSS, BEER03-H-HEBEREKE (kana), BEER04-A-FASTENER, BEER05-H-MEDAMA (signs), BEER06-H-LOLITA (kana). [Google]

Beijing Hanyi Keyin Information Technology Co Ltd

The Beijing Hanyi Keyin Information Technology Co is a joint venture between CAPT (the Chinese Academy of Printing Technology) and TAICEM, based in Singapore, and was established in 1993 in Beijing. The company developed many (principally Chinese and Japanese) fonts using the Ikarus system, and partners on many projects with URW++, which sells these Hanyi fonts: Fang Song, Hei, Song, Song Medium, Yuan, Hupo, Kai, Lishu, Wei Bei, Zong. [Google]

Bharatic
[Tamon Yahagi]

Free original fonts by Tamon Yahagi: Bharatic (Latin, all formats), Devanagarish (Indic simulation), Ananda (handwriting), Ame, Apparappa-House (2003, handwriting), Hiran-Kanan (kana). [Google]

Biblos Font

Biblos is a commercial kanji font. [Google]

Bitstream Cyberbit

From Bitstream's web page: "Bitstream Cyberbit is our award-winning international font. Based on one of our most popular and readable type designs (Dutch 801 BT [note: Bitstream's version of Times and Times New Roman]), it includes all the typographic characters for most of the world's major languages. Cyberbit is now available! The product release includes the roman weight of Dutch 801 BT, a "serif" font. (A serif font has small finishing strokes at the end of the main stems, arms, and tails of characters, while a sanserif font does not.) The font is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Future releases will provide support for "sanserif" typefaces, other platforms, other font formats, and even more languages. Bitstream Cyberbit is a work in progress. Bitstream is now distributing the roman weight of Cyberbit, free of charge, over the Internet! Remember, this release is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT". --- Well, Bitstream no longer offers the font. It is still out there however. Try here, here, here, or here. Has these unicode ranges: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Spacing Modifier Letters, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew Extended (A and B blocks combined), Thai, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Dingbats, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Combining Diacritical Marks, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A and -B, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul Compatibility Jamo, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, CJK Compatibility, Hangul, CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Forms, Small Form Variants, and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. [Google]

body-G katakana font site

Japanese foundry selling two katakana font packs. Mac. [Google]

Bonten

Japanese designer (b. 1988) who made these free grunge, pixel or handwriting fonts for Latin and/or kana in 2008: def_puni2, def_rabbit, def_summer, def_summer2, hand, loveletter, toller_Ba-Ba-Banbi, toller_By-the-way, toller_Chelsea, toller_Don't-miss-it, toller_OCEAN, toller_amenimomakezu, toller_cassis, toller_crazy, toller_emoji, toller_fruit, toller_mocomoco, toller_mocomoco2, toller_no-name, toller_prettypuppy, toller_sarah, toller_shake, toller_sunshine, toller_vitamin. [Google]

Bosskete

Font site possibly related to Nan Sakurai's N+ Download. Find the dingbat font Efoodde (2001) and the kana fonts BSkkh, BScth, BSnjh. [Google]

Bridge Corporation (aka Fontasma)
[Jin Hashiba]

Japanese site with original truetype fonts for Mac and PC made by Jin Hasiba. Includes techno and pixel fonts, a neat Mahjong font, a Japano-English font (Lightmorning), and some katakana fonts. The font names: Amoebic-kana, Amoebic, BRIDGEco, Chicagothic, Chicagothic-Outline, Gear-Proportion, Gear, Harb, Lightmorning (1999), Liner-HH, Liner-HS, Liner-SH, Liner-SS, Mahjong, Millennium, PEZ-font, Shuttle-Form, Shuttle, disc, disc_black, Bc.BMP07_A, Bc.BMP07_K, Teacher_A (2001), Teacher_K. [Google]

Bruce H. Liu

Bruce works at Dynalab, which offers Japanese and Chinese fonts. Examples: DynaLab Premium 17 Japanese Truetype fonts for JWindows3.1 US $30. DynaLab Premium 30 Japanese Truetype fonts for JWindows3.1/95 or Mac. US $50. Lots of Chinese fonts on sale at 8$ per font. DynaLab 15 artistic Truetype fonts for Windows95 or Mac for US $50. Sample fonts: DFBiaoKaiShu1B, DFBiaoSong1B, DFFangSong1B, DFGirl1B, DFGuYinMedium1B, DFHeiBold1B, DFHeiMedium1B, DFHeiUBold1B, DFKaiShuMedium1B, DFKanTingLiu1B, DFLiFancySong1B, DFLiHeiBold1B, DFLiHeiLight1B, DFLiHeiMedium1B, DFLiKingHei1B, DFLiKaiShu1B, DFLiSongBold1B, DFLiSongLight1B, DFLiSongMedium1B, DFLiYuanBold1B, DFLiYuanXBold1B, DFLiShu1B, DFMingBold1B, DFMingLight1B, DFMingMedium1B, DFMingUBold1B, DFPOP1B, DFXingShuMedium1B, DFYuanBold1B, DFYuanLight1B, DFZongYiBold1B, DFLiSongLight1B-GB, DFFangSong1B-GB, DFHei1B-GB, DFKaiShu1B-GB, DFSong1B-GB, DFSongXBold1B-GB, DFWeiBei1B-GB, DFZongYiBold1B-GB. [Google]

Brush Art Design Office
[Teruyoshi Matsui]

Brush Art Design Office is the Tokyo-based foundry of brush art designer Teruyoshi Matsui. His brush fonts include Lethal Fake (2009), Brush Type Italic (2009), Brush Type Michiko (2008) and Brush Type Standard (2008). [Google]

burodestruct (or: Typedifferent.com)
[Gianfredo Lopetz]

Gianfredo Lopetz's foundry in Bern, Switzerland, est. 1994, called Burodestruct and Typedifferent.com. Free fonts include(d) the gorgeous GalaQuadra (by Angela Pestalozzi, 1999), Eject Katakana (1998), Dippex (1995, erasure font), Ticket (1995), Rocket 70 (1996), Ratterbit (1995, pixel font), Plakatbau (1995), Lodel Fizler (1996), Flossy (1995), Faxer (1995), Console Remix (1998), Cravt (1998, by "Katrin"), Stereotype (1998, by M. Brunner), Brockelmann (1995, free), Kristallo (1997, very original display face) and Billiet (1996). Other fonts: Acidboyz (1998), Alustar (1999), BD Asciimax (1999, ascii art font), Bdr_mono (1999), Brick (1996, like Kalendar), Cluster (1996), Console (1997), Doomed (1998), Eject (1998), Electrobazar (1995), Elside (1995), Globus (1996), Fazer (1996), Lofi (1997), Medled (1995), Paccer (1995), Solaris (1998), Spicyfruits_brush_rmx (1998, a nice high-contrast face), Spicyfruits_rmx, Wurst (free, by Heiwid, 2000), Relaunch (2000), Relaunch Katakana (2000, free), Rainbow (2000), DeLaFrance (2000, free, by Heiwid), Electronic Plastic (2000), Colonius (2001), Cash (2001), Cashbox (2001), Bilding (2001), Meter (2001), Mustang (2001), Bankwell (2001), BD Alm (2001), Balduin (2001), Tatami (2001, oriental look font), Hexades (2001, free), Nippori (2002, techno), Jura (2002), Bonbon (2002, free), Band (2002, free), Navyseals (2002, kitchen tile font), Ritmic (2002), BDR Mono (1999, OCR-like font), Mann (2003, ultra fat stencil), Aroma (2003), Zenith (2003), Nebraska (2003), BD Equipment (2004), BD El Autobus (2004), BD Unexpected (2004), BD Wakarimasu (2004, free kana face), BD Bernebeats (2004, futuristic), BD Deckard (2004), BD Spinner (2004), BD Victoria (2004), BD Designer (2004), BD Kalinka (2005, a curly ultra-fat display face), BD Equipment (2004), BD El Autobus (2004), BD Unexpected (2004), BD Varicolor (2005, stencil), BD Chantilly (2005), BD Memory (2005), BD Emerald (2005), BD Kalinka (2005, cyrillic simulation), BD Extrwurst (2005), BD Aquatico (2005), BD Mandarin (2005), BD Polo (2005), BD Beans (2005), BD Tiny (2005, pixel face), BD Times New Digital (2006), BD Panzer (2006), BD Jupiter, BD Jupiter Stencil (2006), BD Pipe (2006), BDR Mono 2006 (2006), BD Fimo Outline (2007, free, by Nathalie Birkle), BD Bermuda (2007), BD Smoker (2007, psychedelic), BD Radiogram (2007), BD Mother (2007, exaggerated black Egyptian), BD Fimo Regular (2007, free), BD Demon (2007), BD Reithalle (2007, free), BD Halfpipe (2007, free), BD Broadband (2008, free; not to be confused with the much older fonts BroadbandICG or FLOP Design's Broadband), BD Viewmaster and BD Viewmaster Neon (2008), BD Electrobazaar (2008), BD Motra (2008, stencil), BD Virtual (2008), BD Spacy 125 (2008), BD AsciiMax, BD ElAutobus (2004), BD Equipment (2004), BD Ramen (2003), BD Retrocentric (2009). Links. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. At Behance, he is known as Lopetz Gianfreda. [Google]

Buuchan
[Mikumo Sato]

Buuchan is a free handwritten Japanese kanji font, drawn by Mikumo Sato. Home page. [Google]

C9H7O4GRaPhICs

Designers in 2000 at Font Pavilion 12 of the simple fonts OMA2 (Latin, katakana, hiragana). [Google]

CAI's Software Page

Yidao Cai's free software. Most interesting is CNPRINT: "CNPRINT is a utility to print Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) text (or convert to PostScript) under DOS, VMS and UNIX systems. It works just as a print command on your system. Currently GB, Hz, zW, BIG5, CNS, JIS, EUC, Shift-JIS, KSC, UTF8, UTF7 and UTF16 formats are supported. With its full Unicode support, it should be able to print other language (e.g. Thai, Vietnames, Arabic as well)." Also, MSHei and MSSong truetype fonts for Chinese, Korean and Japanese, developed by Stone Corporation, Zhuhai, China. [Google]

Candy Machine

Designers of the font families CactusCurds, CactusFlowers (katakana, 2001), and LoveDollSalon (1999). [Google]

Capsule Machine

Original fonts by "Akiko": Hyper Capsule (1999), Kitsch Candy (hirgana), Childish Alpha, Creamberry (katakana). [Google]

Caramel Syrup Font Shop

Free original Latin and kana fonts by "Charlie": cute bit club band (pixel), 59th-street-bridge-song (2002, pixels), atarax-p-white, atarax-p, cute-bit-club-band (2002, pixels), copike-kana, kimidori-mugcup (2002, grid font), musekinin-katakana, musekinin (2002, handwritten), orange-phone, tomato_coffee (2002, elegant white on black dot matrix font). Another URL. [Google]

Cascading style sheets

The cascading style sheets info page on fonts translated into Japanese by Kazuteru Okahashi. [Google]

Cat House

Free Mac fonts: MoMo, Flowerbold, In-Apple, Mika Hiragana and Candy Bold (also hiragana). [Google]

C&G

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Channel 67

Japanese foundry which made Maniac 2K and Maniac 2A, available from Maniackers (MKS). [Google]

Chiaki33

A fresh Japanese kanji and kana font. No downloads. [Google]

Chiehou Bonjie

Fonts Bonji Chiehou and Bonjie (tattoo-based glyphs). Mac only. [Google]

Chi-heart

Handwritten Japanese fonts. Need a user ID to download them. [Google]

Chiho Aoshima

Chiho Aoshima's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Kodomo-Manju (Marshmallow) would make a nice Japanese comics book font. [Google]

Chinese/Japanese tips

Tips on how to use Japanese and Chinese in web pages. Get MS Gothic (Japanese TTF) here, as well as MingLiU and MS Song (Chinese) and GulimChe (Korean). These are mostly Microsoft give-aways. [Google]

Chiphead

Free fonts: FAMania (pixel), Cinecaption (2003-2008, kana, kanji, Latin, Cyrillic, Greek handwriting font), Tompa (huge stick figure and pencil drawing dingbat face). Alternate URL. [Google]

Chocolat Font
[Ayumu]

Free Japanese and Latin fonts designed by Ayumu in 2006: biz-hiragana (Hiragana pixel font), Choco-oiwai (Latin, kana and kanji handwriting), biz_alp (Latin pixel font), biz_pencil (hiragana), Biz-Utatane (Latin and cyrillic handwriting), biz-chocolat (curly lettering, Latin only). Alternate URL where we find the handwriting fonts Banana Chips (2008) and Burst Chocolate (2008). The designer is called Akira there, and another URL is given as well. [Google]

Cihpar Graphic
[Chikako Hannoura]

Commercial Latin fonts: Cihpar Font 04, 01 and 03. Kana font Cihpar Font 02. By Chikako Hannoura. [Google]

CJK Fonts

Listing of CJK fonts, as of 2009.

• Simplified Chinese, serifed: Beijing (M), Bitstream CyberBit (W), Bitstream CyberBitCJK (W), Code2000 (M), Fang Song (M), Kai (M), MS Song (W), NSimSun (W), NSimSun-18030 (W), SimSun (M W), SimSun-18030 (W), Song (M), STFangsong (M), STKaiti (M), STSong (M), STSong Std Acro (W), TSC JSong S TT (W).
• Simplified Chinese, sans: Arial Unicode MS (W), Hei (M), MS Hei (W), SimHei (W), STHeiti (M).
• Traditional Chinese, serifed: Apple LiSung (M), BiauKai (M), Ming (W), MingLiU (W), MSung Std Acro (W), PMingLiU (M W), TSC FMing S TT (W).
• Traditional Chinese, sans: Apple LiGothic (M), Taipei (M).
• Japanese, serifed: Hiragino Mincho Pro (M), Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro (W), MS Mincho (M W), MS PMincho (W), MS UI Gothic (W).
• Japanese, sans: Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro (M), Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro (M), MS Gothic (M W), MS PGothic (M W), MS PMincho (M), Osaka (M), Osaka-Mono (M).
• Korean, serifed: AppleMyungjo (M), Baekmuk Batang (W), Batang (M W), BatangChe (W), #GungSeo (M), Gungsuh (W), GungsuhChe (W), HY Shin Myeongjo Std Acro (W), #MyungjoNeue (M), #PCMyungjo (M).
• Korean, sans: AppleGothic (M), Baekmuk Dotum (W), Baekmuk Gulim (W), #GothicMedium (M), Gulim (M), Gulim Che (W), Gulim Old Hangul Jamo (W), New Gulim (W), Hangang (M), Seoul (M), #TaeGraphic (M).

CJK Quick Start

Pages by Gyula Zsigri on reading and writing Chinese, Japanese and Korean in English Windows. Mirror. [Google]

CJK Type Blog

The CJK Type blog was started by Gu Hua in Adobe's Beijing office, with active contributions by Ken Lunde. [Google]

ClearType

On November 15, 1998, Microsoft claimed a major breakthrough in font technology with what they are calling "ClearType". They state: "The effective tripling of horizontal resolution in ClearType subpixel rendering allows much greater fidelity to the true angle of italic type, and ClearType's patented color-filtering techniques maintain high contrast and so enable comfortable [on screen] reading". The book "Now read this" (John Berry and John Hudson, 2004, Microsoft Reading and Advanced Reading Technologies Group) explains the technology in more detail. In the ClearType project (2004), Microsoft releases six Western families (Calibri and Consolas by Luc(as) de Groot, Candara by Gary Munch, Corbel by Jeremy Tankard, Cambria by Jelle Bosma, and the extraordinary Constantia by John Hudson) and one full Japo-Western family, Meiryo, developed by Eiichi Kono and Matthew Carter. Review by Anne van Wagener: Calibri is a pleasure to read, Cambria is a formal and solid workhorse serif, the informal sans Candara is her least favorite, Consolas is a monospaced typeface, Constantia is her favorite--it is a clean and readable serif, and Corbel, a sans, is crisp and refreshing. On a trademark note: Constantia is the name of a pre-2000 typeface designed by Bill Horton (Foster & Horton)---if Bill plays his card right, he could make some good money off this. Typohile discussion. Microsoft we page on the ClearType font collection. [Google]

CLOPS

Japanese foundry established in 2000. Has some gorgeous screen fonts. Fonts include Capsule-Maker, Childish-Alpha, Kitsch-Candy, Kitsch-Candy-Alpha, Micro-Bit+1, Micro-Bit, Minimum, Ozon, Petit, SilhousTwo, Speed, Yoppy. Also some kana fonts. At FRONTLINE 01, they published Dachshund (2002). [Google]

CN Balloons

Archive with five full Chinese/Japanese fonts. [Google]

Coliss

Japanese font blog. Some links to interesting new free fonts. [Google]

Column about the Useful SoftWares on MS

Many links about Japanese fonts, character codes, unicode, and the like. [Google]

COM4t (or: Communicate by Four Typeface; was: Font Factory Field)
[Hideki Katayama]

COM4t (which was FFF or Font Factory Field) has some nice free fonts in all formats, by Hideki Katayama: COM4t Ascripta (2008, connected upright script), COM4t Ongac Script (2008, connected), COM4t Nuvu Regular (2008, upright script), COM4t Fine (2006), Melton (2005), EXCEEDMediumOblique (2002), EXCEEDMedium, EXCEEDNormalOblique, EXCEEDNormal, FamilianElderOblique, Elder (2003), FamilianElder, Familian (2001), FamilianOblique, Familian Son Oblique, Familian Son (2002), MaximumLine Speeder (2002), OLDNEWAxis (2002, slab serif), OLDNEWSlider, QuillineScriptThin (2004, calligraphic handwriting), Spirequal Light (2003), COM4tSansMedium (2005). See also here. [Google]

Communication Design Laboratory

Japanese outfit who made the lofo font Eyecatch (2003). [Google]

ComStar: Japanese

Japanese commercial font software. [Google]

Copanda Varelser

Original Mac fonts: CPD-Orgel (screen font), Lego (dingbats), Tokyo-1 byte (pixel font), Comic, Invader, Illum (pixel font). [Google]

Corel 13 CD: CJK fonts

The CJK fonts on the Corel 13CD, all by DynaLab, made in 1997: DFGothic-EB, DFGothic-SU, DFGothic-UB, DFGyoSho-Lt, DFKGothic-Bd, DFKGothic-Md, DFKMincho-Bd, DFKMincho-Md, DFKaiSho-Lt, DFKaiSho-Md, DFKaiSho-SB, DFKaiSho-UB, DFKoIn-W4, DFKyoKaSho-W4, DFLeiGaSo-W9, DFMaruGothic-Bd, DFMaruGothic-Lt, DFMaruGothic-Md, DFMaruMoji-SL, DFMaruMoji-W9, DFMincho-SU, DFMincho-UB, DFMincho-W5, DFPOP1-SB, DFPOP1-W12, DFPOP1-W3, DFPOP1-W5, DFPOP1-W9, DFPOP2-W12, DFPOP2-W9, DFRuLei-W5, DFRuLei-W7, DFSinSo-W3, DFSoGei-W7, DFSoKing-W3, DFSumo-W12, DFTFLeiSho-W5, DFTFLeiSho-W7, DFTFLeiSho-W9. [Google]

Cosmic Graphics
[Shinji Shimada]

Original fonts by Shinji Shimada. Font Pavilion sells his Space Colony (katakana). Hiroshi Kumabe made HardBoiled, Niale, Pow-waw (flowery dings). [Google]

COSMIC-COSMOS

Techno, dot matrix and pixel fonts made in 2001 by Kenichiro and Yoko from Sendai (Japan): Asianpearl, Blockn, CosmicdustST, Dotspitch, Funkyteam, Funpotch, Mahawa, Majispirit, Neroppu, OrientalSea, OrientalSeaB, Sexyimpact, Spacebit, Tibitto, [Google]

Cossack.jp
[Hiroya Sato]

Fonts by Hiroya Sato. The two free fonts here are cossamoji (dingbats of figures dancing like cossacks), Elena (kana and kanji, handscripted) and hetarosia (handwritten cyrillic font). Alternate URL. [Google]

Coup Chips

Japanese pixel type designers, both for Latin and kana. The following fonts were made in 2002: rr_basic01, rr_basic02, rr_basic03, rr_basic05, rr_basic06, rr_basic07, rr_basic_k, rr_cinderella, rr_dogway, rr_laundry, rr_regular. At another site, we find more work by Guby (b. 1977), the Japanese designer of the the fonts 0064_001 through 0064_011. The series through 0064_008 are pixel fonts for Latin and kana, and were made in 2001. 0064_009 through 0064_011 were made in 2002. Of these, the oriental simulation font 0064_011 is the most interesting. [Google]

Cout Works/Drop Design

Cout Works publishes commercial fonts such as Cosmos8 (1998), Neural (Latin and kana), and Clip. At FRONTLINE 01, they published DSCF (2002). Daisuke Sato made Clip, Cosmos8 and Moon8, which he sold through Font Pavilion. Another recent font is Monolica. The Cout Works fonts are also available under the company name Drop Design. [Google]

Creation Freefont (or: C-font; was Creation Design Font)
[Masato Shimojima]

From Iwata City, Japan, Masato Shimojima's fonts at C-font/Creation Freefont include about 90 free fonts (Mac PS, PC truetype): The JapaneseBaseball dingbat font (2006), Check (2007), Chair07 (2007), Corner (2007, octagonal), Chape2AL (2005), Chape-001 (2005), Century Solid (2004), Cream Bold (2004), Cream Regular (2003), Caldia (2003), Hope Regular (2003, typewriter type), Speed Solid (2003), Speed (2002), CeresTriangle (2002), PC Button (2003), Cask4Bitmap (2002), CoolBitmap9 (2002), Cheese (bitmap), Crash, Crash Bold, Camel Open, Crash-12Bit, C-Numf, CamelBold, CamelliaExtraBold, CamelOpen, Camellia, CandyBold, CelboBold, CelboExtraBold, Celbo, CelonBold, ChaingothicBold, ChaingothicExtraBold, ChaingothicLight, Chaingothic, ChapeOpen, CharacterBold, CharacterOpen, CharacterShadow, Circle20, CityBold, CityExtraBold, City, ClearBold, ClearKana, ClearLigh, Clear, CliperBold, CliperLKana, CliperOKana, CliperOpen, CliperSKana, CliperShadow, ComdoBold, ComdoShadow, ComonsBold, ComonsExtraBold, ComonsLight, Comons, Consolekana, ContactBold, ContactExtraBold, ContactLight, Contact, Coronaslyz, Cosmos, CootBitmap, CubeBitmap, CreamLight, Cube2000, Cube2000Open, CupolaBold, CupolaOpen, Cupola, CupolaRoman, Cute (oriental simulation font), Cool, CoronaBold, Crossbar, Coot2000, Coot2002, Comdot series. Font Pavilion sells Chape, Connect and Console. Go here for Chain, Chair, Chariot and Condle. Direct access. Newest fonts. The shareware fonts are called C-NUM followed by two digits. Some fonts have katakana versions. [Google]

C-Rockets
[Takahiko Yamashita]

Publishers in 2000 at Font Pavilion 12 of ImoFont, a font designed by Takahiko Yamashita. [Google]

CSS Fonts

Listing of the most popular CSS fonts specified in Japanese web pages. At the top: MS P Gothic, MS UI Gothic, Osaka, Times New Roman, MS Gothic, Arial, Verdana, MS P Mincho, Courier New, Comic Sans MS, and so forth. [Google]

CTC Taiwan

Truetype font archive. Has MSMincho, MSGothic, LucidaSansUnicode, the standard Latin font sets, the Microsoft collection, many Letraset fonts (JokermanLetPlain, JokermanAltsLetPlain, JohnHandyLetPlain, OrangeLetPlain, AcademyEngravedLetPlain, UniversityRomanLetPlain, UniversityRomanAltsLetPlain, VictorianLetPlain, MilanoLet, SmudgerLetPlain, SmudgerAltsLetPlain, WestwoodLetPlain, RuachLetPlain, RageItalicLetPlain, LaBambaLetPlain, QuixleyLetPlain, PumpDemiBoldLetPlain, TirantiSolidLetPlain, MekanikLetPlain, OneStrokeScriptLetPlain, HighlightLetPlain, OdessaLetPlain), and the Chinese fonts InnMing-Medium, GBInnMing-Medium, MingtiEG-Light-SJIS, MingtiEG-Medium-KSC, Sshlinedraw, DFKaiShu-SB-Estd-BF, New-Gulim (this one is a full Unicode font for all languages). [Google]

Cutegirl

Dense Japanese font site with many links. No font downloads. [Google]

CWTTF
[Edward J. Lee]

Some Taiwanese Free Software Foundation supporters designed a number of free Chinese truetype fonts under the guidance of Edward J. Lee between 1999 and 2005. People involved include Tsong-Min Wu and Tsong-Huey Wu. As of 2005, the fonts are cwTeXFangSong, cwTeXHeiBold, cwTeXKai, cwTeXMing, cwTeXYen. All fonts cover Chinese, Korean and Latin as well. The project is part of CLE (Chinese GNU/Linux Extensions) located in Taiwan. The fonts are especially useful with cwTeX. [Google]

Cyclone Graphics Online

Japanese company marketing their own Japanese fonts. Their web page is too complicated to be useful. [Google]

Cyclone Graphix (or: sav-wo)
[Nobutaka Sato]

About 15 original fonts, of which about half are katakana fonts and the others are romaji. Several fonts are free, and others cost about 25USD. Especially interesting are the thick kana fonts juicyfruits2.0 and spicyfruits, and the Latin face Retroheavy Future (1998). Some would classify these as Japanese techno fonts. Alternate site. Font Pavilion sells Juicy Fruits and Metro (1998). Models (silhouettes of people) was designed by Nobutaka Sato (1998). All fonts are designed or co-designed by "savwo". These include Aquasky 2.0, TGR 3.-, Typeout2097 and Space. Alternate URL. With Shin Sasaki at Extra Design, he made Cubicle in 1999. He also made Fat Ultra (1998, Extra Design). Alternate URL. [Google]

D Mario

100 font-archive with many Latin and some kana fonts. [Google]

Dainippon Type Organization

Japanese commercial foundry. Creators of the commercial fonts Military (Kata, hira), Y.M.C.font, UnionJack, KUROFUNE20000, Typostock, Dentypo, and kurofune95. Some free stuff: English-Kunyomi font "Kurofune". This font is present to the admiral Perry he came to Uraga in 1853. This is "Kanji-font" meets "English-font" (sic). Older URL. [Google]

Daisuke Sugisawa

Daisuke Sugisawa is a Japanese type designer who sells his fonts via Font Pavilion. BackSeat is a Japano-Latin sales ad font. Go here for Chopress-825683, and here for Backseat, Marmelade (1997) and Pomade. In Font Pavilion 12 (2000): Giddy-Alphabet, Giddy-Katakana, TeaSpoon-Alphabet, TeaSpoon-Katakana. [Google]

Dakeja

Free Latin and Japanese pixel fonts: Untitled, momoarufa, momokana1, momokana2, momokana3, momokana4, momokana5. In addition, this site has a number of dingbat faces, many containing hearts and cute objects: momofancy1, momofancy2, momohana, momoharu, momoheart, momoheart2, momohorror, momokira, momoosyare, momotegaki. [Google]

Damedame Corporation

Designers in 1999 of the font Katakana Textbook. [Google]

Das Nest der Qualle
[Ren Kiryu]

Ren Kiryu is the Japanese creator in 2007 of RN-DawnRaid (handprinted), RN-Digitalian (LED simulation), RN-EasyCirclet-OL, RN-EasyCirclet-WL, RN-EasyCirclet, RN-Fraktur1 (blackletter), RN-Gothic1 (blackletter), RN-HoneyBlade, RN-Italic1, RN-Laboratory, RN-Lagopus, RN-LovelyBaby, RN-MilkCafe, RN-RibbonSweets (curly), RN-RoughhewnRomancer, RN-SealingClub, RN-SugarRuskHoney, RN-SwingingJohn, RN-UncialHalfUncial1, RN-disStrayedGhost. Free downloads. [Google]

Dasombang

Cloer (kitchen tile fiont from FLOP Design), Humanbuilding, Pilgi2 (Hangul font), SAKURAhira (kana font), SnowDream, Toon-Plain, VintageDingbats, ZingDing. [Google]

Daughters of the Nile
[Melinda Windsor]

Melinda Windsor from Ocala, FL (b. 1960), designed the occult dingbats font OccultDiary02 in 2001. Free Tamil fonts designed by her: KoothuCapsPlain, KoothuTamelTee, KoothuTamilFont, KoothuTamilFontBold, ThinaKoothuPowderCakes. Frigate (2001, Apostrophic Labs) is a display font family that includes kana characters as well. She is making a new font set, Plastic, at Apostrophic Labs. The Cyrillic/Latin version of Plastic No. 28 (2001). [Google]

Death Hand

Japanese techno fonts (katakana, hiragana): Galaxy, Galaxy Seventeen, Widow, Widow Bold. [Google]

Debian

Kochi Mincho and Kochi Gothic: public domain kanji truetype fonts. [Google]

Debian JP Project

Free Postscript interpreter w/ Japanese text processing capabilities, Aladdin copyright: package gs-aladdin-vflib 5.10-7.2. Page by Atsuhito kohda. Note: package contains a kanji truetype font from the Kakugawa font library. [Google]

Debian.org

Freely distributable complete Japanese truetype fonts: wadalab-gothic, watanabe-mincho. [Google]

dejikame

Font links from a site in Japan. [Google]

Dejima fonts
[Yoshiki Hayashi]

A free Japanese font derived from Tsukiji Mincho, by Yoshiki Hayashi: Dejima Mincho (2006-2008). [Google]

Delta Computer Homepage

Font vendor: has OCRA and B, APL, LetterGothic, Courier, Script, Arabic, Katakana, Korean, and Russian fonts. [Google]

Demiplane Cultural Bureau--Japanese Language

A free XWindows kanji font, and a free PostScript kana font. Plus some Japanese language links. [Google]

Denenchofu Design
[Shuichi Ono]

Original kana and Latin fonts by Shuichi Ono, often of the comic book type. Fonts: Paranoia (2003), DD PARANOiA-MAX (2003, kana), November, DDDynamiteRave-N (2001), Poppers, Miracle Moon, Allnight, PetitCapsule, Dynamite Rave, Boys, DDboomboomkana, DDboomboom, DDbwonderland, DDheroBold, DDheroItalic, DDheroNormal, DDMiracleHiragana, DDMiracleNormal, DDwonderful, DDwWonderland, DDmerrowBold, DDmerrow, DDboomboomkadakana, DDMiracleKadakana, SacchiHiragana, Paranoia, Brilliant2U (circled letters), Lucky Love (pixel font), PetitLove (pixel font for kana), Kaorin (irregular handprinting). The latter fonts are not free. [Google]

DEPOTzNET

Organized font archive. Many subcategories including Party fonts, Holiday fonts, Balloons, Halloween, Christmas, screen fonts, phonetic fonts, African, Balinese, Bengali, Burmese, Cambodian, Croata-glagolitic, Cyrillic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Malayan, Nepali, Nko, runes, Tamil, Vietnamese. [Google]

Design Signal

Japanese foundry with some interesting output: Whisper (1997, curly Latin display font), Walk (2000, kanji font at Font1000), Shunyo Sora (2000, handwritten kanji face), Shunyo Yama (2000, handwritten kanji face), Shoten (2000, liquid Japanese face), Gakuen (2000, kanji as written by school kids), Bokusui (2000, minimalist kanji face), Bokkoku (2000, a sword-blade style kanji face), Kogatana (2000, sans serif kanji?), Tsumikishin (1999, a very liquid kanji face), Suiken (1999), Momotaro (1999, from the famous children's comic strips), Sekiin (1998), Kinshun (1998), Taikairei (1997, ink-run kanji face), Tsumiki (1997, rectangular letters), Taikaishinsyo (1997), Kururun (1997, curly kanji face), Bobu (1997, comic book font), Shunin (1996, ancient way of drawing kanji), Maimu (1996, geometrical kanji), Shunboku (1994), Buhin (2000, Latin letters made up from mechanical parts). [Google]

Designers HIGH (or: Keisuke Asami Design)
[Keisuke Asami]

Keisuke Asami's fonts for Mac and PC at Designers HIGH include kana and Latin versions for each typeface. Commercial, sold through Font Pavilion: KSKD3 (2003), DAF (2003, liquid crystal font), Strange Days, Arc and Line (1999), Octagon (1999), Massive, Ecoda. Free: 4or5H, Bitween10A, Bitween10A2, Bumpy (pixel font), COMMUNICATIONA, COMMUNICATIONH, COMMUNICATIONK, EDIFICE, EDITION12A, EQUIPMENT10, EQUIPMENTMONO, EQUIPMENTMONOLight, EQUIPMENTMONORoundLight, EQUIPMENTMONORoundRegular, FONTDELIC, KEY14A, KSKDATA10 (2000, pixel face), MASSIVE10A, MASSIVE10K, MULTIPLIESH, NERIMA, QUIPMonoRegular. Almost all are geometric techno fonts with Roman and Japanese versions. In Font Pavilion 12 (2000), they published MASSIVE, a Latin/kana font family. At FRONTLINE 01, they published Elephant (2002) (Elephanta, 2003). [Google]

Dex Image

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Dex Web

Japanese font vendor. It also sells Shotai style (brush stroke) kanji fonts. [Google]

DiD

Commercial katakana/hiragana fonts. Several families such as Blade, Electric, Ghost, Rally, Twinkle, Reindeer, Slender. For the Mac, type 1. [Google]

Didier Mas

Didier Mas designed the Sword Kanji font (2002), a Japanese font based on the Jim's Kanji font by Jim Kurrasch. Basically, Mas placed all the glyphs in one unicode-compatible font. [Google]

DIGIGA

Japanese techno fonts (katakana, hiragana): Astro Pop, Cage, Cocoon, Cyborg Assassin, Discotic, Metallic Combatant, Spermula, Spermula Oblique, Spermula Ultra, Spermula Ultra Oblique, Terror Reverse Wing, Terror Wing, Third World Cinema Kana, Third World Cinema Latin, Ultraman Album Collection. [Google]

Digital Works Upside K

Japanese foundry. At some point, some of its fonts were part of FRONTLINE 01. The list of fonts fonts (free, kana only): Kannana, Hitsujigumo, Harigane, DB Straight10 (pixel font, Latin), Aoi-Kaku, Ayase, Madara, Hanahata, Ohzakai, Motogi, Gaura. [Google]

DigitalDreamDesign
[Yoshiyasu Ito]

Yoshiyasu Ito's free fonts (Roman and Katakana): the gorgeous Calligraphism, the interesting Labyrinthism. More complete list: D3-Archism, D3-Archism-I, D3-Beatmapism, D3-Beatmapism-Curve, D3-Beatmapism-Neo, D3-Biscuitism, D3-Biscuitism-Bold, D3-Calligraphism, D3-Concretism-typeA, D3-Concretism-typeB, D3-Cosmism, D3-Cosmism-Hiragana, D3-Cosmism-Hiragana-Oblique, D3-Cosmism-Katakana, D3-Cosmism-Katakana-Oblique, D3-Cosmism-Oblique, D3-Cubism, D3-Digitalism, D3-Digitalism-Italic, D3-Factorism-Alphabet, D3-Factorism-Italic, D3-Factorism-Katakana, D3-Factorism-Katakana-Italic, D3-Guitarism, D3-Honeycombism, D3-Honeycombism-Bold, D3-Honeycombism-Sorround, D3-Isotopism, D3-Labyrinthism-katakana, D3-Labyrinthism, D3-Mochism, D3-Mouldism-Alphabet, D3-Mouldism-Round-Italic, D3-Mouldism-Katakana, D3-Mouldism-Round-Alphabet, D3-Parallelism, D3-PazzlismA, D3-PazzlismB, D3-PipismS, D3-PipismW, D3-RoundSquarism, D3-Stonism, D3-Streetism, D3-Streetism-Katakana, D3-Sufism, D3-Surfism_I, D3-Surfism_IO. Alternate download place where you can also find D3-Circuitism, D3-Circuitism-Oblique, D3-Concretism-typeA, D3-Concretism-typeB, D3-Cozmism, D3-Cozmism-Hiragana, D3-Cozmism-Hiragana-Oblique, D3-Cozmism-Katakana, D3-Cozmism-Katakana-Oblique, D3-Cozmism-Oblique, D3-Electronism, D3-Electronism-Katakana, D3-Smartism-TypeA, D3-Smartism-TypeB, D3-Witchism. [Google]

Digitalogue

Commercial Japanese font outfit, involved in various font activities. Their fonts are featured at and sold by P22 in the Font Pavilion CD series. Each set features several Roman and Katakana fonts in TrueType for Windows and PostScript for Macintosh. Of particular interest is the DPI72 series, all screen pixel fonts in type 1 format:

• Eriko Tomita: 10GIRLS series (1999), JISBIT11 series (1999).
• Takafumi Miyadima: 4030STARCH (1999).
• Kato Masashi of FLOP Design: AMI-alp and AMI-kat (1999).
• Masahito Hanzawa of Power Graphix: ASTROCREEP-7pt (1999), Eightball-8pt (1999).
• Takuya Sato: BrokeBack series (1999), Pastel (1999).
• Yuji Adachi: CODE14X (1999), DryBones7 (1999), Tempo9 (1999).
• Taku Anekawa of Param: Dannybitman-7pt, DingBit-FreeSoul, DoshinFont.
• Yosiro: Echo8 (1999), Riddim7 (1999), Vibes10 (1999).
• Hideaki Ohtani of fontgraphic.com: F2-BoldScriptALP, F2-BoldScriptKT, F2-ScriptALP, F2-ScriptKT.
• Hyperion Graphics: GIGANTIC-9 (1999), HELLFIRE series (roman, katakana, 1999), Inferno series (roman and kata, 1999), Starlight9 (1999).
• Sasuri\245Vivs: Kyosen-TsukaenaiMappo (1999).
• Atsushi Aoki: PointN (1999).
• Masayuki Sato of Maniackers Design: Zerozero series (2000).

Divo

Japanese font CD-ROM vendor. [Google]

Dom's Kanji Tattoo Archive

Kanji pictures. [Google]

DOT

Designer(s) of the free kana and alphading faces DOT-BAMBI (groovy kana), DOT-CHAMELEON (curly kana), DOT-FROG (alphading), DOT-MARGARET (kana), DOT-PICKLES (comic book kana). [Google]

Download Tantei

Free Nihongo-dayori 48x48 pixel bitmap printer font for Japanese (.exe format, 1.5MB). [Google]

Dragonfly

Downloads of many truly free font packages for all languages. Besides the Ghostscript type 1 collection, the free CharterBT fonts, and the Utopia, Luxi and Courier series, we find these truetype fonts: 09t@, AndaleMono, Antiqu@rk, Arial-Black, Arial-BoldItalicMT, Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, ArialMT, Baekmuk-Batang, Baekmuk-Dotum, Baekmuk-Gulim, Baekmuk-Headline, Bandal, BitstreamCyberBase-Roman, BitstreamVeraSans-Bold, BitstreamVeraSans-BoldOblique, BitstreamVeraSans-Oblique, BitstreamVeraSans-Roman, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Bold, BitstreamVeraSansMono-BoldOb, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Oblique, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Roman, BitstreamVeraSerif-Bold, BitstreamVeraSerif-Roman, BousungEG-Light-GB, ComicSansMS-Bold, ComicSansMS, CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT, CourierNewPS-BoldMT, CourierNewPS-ItalicMT, CourierNewPSMT, Eunjin, GBZenKai-Medium, GeometricSlab703BT-Light, GeometricSlab703BT-LightItalic, Georgia-Bold, Georgia-BoldItalic, Georgia-Italic, Georgia, Impact, LuxiMono-Bold, LuxiMono-BoldOblique, LuxiMono-Oblique, LuxiMono, LuxiSans-Bold, LuxiSans-BoldOblique, LuxiSans-Oblique, LuxiSans, LuxiSerif-Bold, LuxiSerif-BoldOblique, LuxiSerif-Oblique, LuxiSerif, Kochi-Gothic, Kochi-Mincho, Ongdalsam, Sazanami-Gothic-Regular, Sazanami-Mincho-Regular, ShanHeiSun-Light, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPSMT, Trebuchet-BoldItalic, TrebuchetMS-Bold, TrebuchetMS-Italic, TrebuchetMS, UnBatang-Bold, UnBatang, UnBom, UnDotum-Bold, UnDotum, UnGraphic-Bold, UnGraphic, UnGungseo, UnJamoBatang, UnJamoDotum, UnJamoNovel, UnJamoSora, UnPen, UnPenheulim, UnPilgi-Bold, UnPilgi, UnShinmun, UnTaza, UnYetgul, Verdana-Bold, Verdana-BoldItalic, Verdana-Italic, Verdana, Webdings, ZenKai-Medium. They cover European, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. [Google]

Drop In
[Haryu]

Japanese foundry. Besides a few katakana and hiragana fonts, they have these Latin pixel fonts made in 2002 and 2003: HM-Applique, HM-BitBox, HM-Break-Bit, HM-Coron, HM-D-HaryuBitOne, HM-EasyBitHR, HM-EasyBitKT, HM-Fine-Bit-Beam, HM-Fine-Bit-Edge, HM-FineBit, HM-FirmBit, HM-HaryuBitOne, HM-LankyBit, HM-LeanBit, HM-OthelloBlack, HM-OthelloWhite, HM-Sinker-Bit, HM-SlenderBit, HM-SquareBitHR, HM-SquareBitKT, HM-TinyBit, HM-Typer-Bit, HM-Wire-Bit. The designer is Haryu. Old URL. [Google]

Dry Heaves Fonts (was: Phil Fonts)
[Phillip Andrade]

Not to be confused with Phil's Fonts, Phil Fonts offers charityware fonts by Phillip Andrade who uses the nicknames Dry Bohnz, neatoguy and spamboy: BlownDroid, Neatified, HappyLarry, IShotTheSheriff, Alien Marksman, EvilCow, Corporate Suit, BadHairDay, Tiptonian, Philbats. Grouped as Scroll fonts from the dead Sea, we find: Habbakuk Scroll (Hebrew), Manual of Discipline (Hebrew), Parthenon (Greek), Ambrosius, Problem Secretary (old typewriter), DeadCircuit, MoldyPillow, Pastorswrit, RadiatedPancake, StolenLlama, Untitled, WetNapkin, WornManuscript, DustyWombat, NasalDrip, Alphasnail, CarbonatedFont, RaptorAttack (2001), Warped Greased Monkey, Alphasnail (2001), Beth David (1999, Hebrew), Greased Monkey (2001), Lost City (1999, Hebrew), Missing man out (2001), No Brainer (2001), Raptor Kill (2001), Spazbats, Speed of Oatmeal (2001), Troglodyte (2001), Polyphemus (2000), Infestation (2000), Hand Drawn Wasabi (2002, katakana font), Neosight (2003), FirstTemple (2003, an old Phoenician lettering font), ScreamingGuitar (2002, guitar dingbats), DHUgaritic (2003), PeskyPhoenicians (2003). Alternate URL. The page seems to be in limbo. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. [Google]

DVSoft

Japanese company that produced the dingbat fonts KamonJTCC, KamonLTCC in 2001. Other fonts are mostly kana fonts: FKG5, Gdmc5, Ioa5, Ss5, Ufo5 (kana). Hkf is Latin connected handwriting. Gdks is a partially full kanji font. Alternate URL. [Google]

DynaComware Corp

Japanese foundry which made fonts such as Lihei Pro (2003, for Chinese), which can be downloaded here. [Google]

DynaFont

Major producer of Chinese and Japanese fonts. Dynafont OpenType 127 Chinese Fonts (2006) is Dynafont's latest OpenType Chinese font package with 127 fonts. It retails for 200 USD. see also here. [Google]

DynaFont 54 CD-ROM

54 full-fledged Japanese fonts on one CD. Price: 150 USD. Windows or Mac. See also here. [Google]

DynaLab

Japanese company, selling Japanese and Chinese postscript fonts here. Example: 38 fonts for 2400 USD. Demo download page. See also here. The Corel 13 CD has these DynaLab CJK fonts, dated 1997: DFGothic-EB, DFGothic-SU, DFGothic-UB, DFGyoSho-Lt, DFKGothic-Bd, DFKGothic-Md, DFKMincho-Bd, DFKMincho-Md, DFKaiSho-Lt, DFKaiSho-Md, DFKaiSho-SB, DFKaiSho-UB, DFKoIn-W4, DFKyoKaSho-W4, DFLeiGaSo-W9, DFMaruGothic-Bd, DFMaruGothic-Lt, DFMaruGothic-Md, DFMaruMoji-SL, DFMaruMoji-W9, DFMincho-SU, DFMincho-UB, DFMincho-W5, DFPOP1-SB, DFPOP1-W12, DFPOP1-W3, DFPOP1-W5, DFPOP1-W9, DFPOP2-W12, DFPOP2-W9, DFRuLei-W5, DFRuLei-W7, DFSinSo-W3, DFSoGei-W7, DFSoKing-W3, DFSumo-W12, DFTFLeiSho-W5, DFTFLeiSho-W7, DFTFLeiSho-W9. [Google]

Ebisu

Commercial Japanese foundry. [Google]

eCreo

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Edge of Perspective (or: EOP_takeshi)
[Takeshi Ooya]

Takeshi Ooya (Edge of Perspective owner) designed the Latin and kana fonts EOPcouponE, EOPcouponE, EOPlaahiragana, EOPlaakaakana, EOPlava, EOPshion, all made in 1998. [Google]

EduThink

Five commercial Japanese truetype fonts by EduThink in their "KanjiKit 2000": TAmadam, TAsamurai, TAamayadori, TAtegaki, TAtsurara. [Google]

Efont (Electronic Font Open) project
[Hiroki Kanou]

A Japanese font project at Sourceforge being led by Hiroki Kanou. Fonts in this distribution include Kochi-Gothic, Kochi-Mincho (both are spindly), Sazanami-Gothic-Regular, Sazanami-Mincho-Regular (for Sazanami, see also here). Related projects: VL Gothic, Electronic Font IOpen Laboratory, Project Vine (by Daisuke Suzuki). The VL-Gothic-Regular and VL-PGothic-Regular (2006; VL stands for Vine Linux) also evolved from the Wada fonts but are associated with the Vine Linux Project and Daisuke Suzuki. Another subpage of links. [Google]

Eiichi Kono

Japanese type designer. He started out in the photo optical industry in Tokyo with Carl Zeiss and American Optical. He studied type design at the London College of Printing and the Royal College of Art. From 1979-1985 he worked at the graphic design firm Banks&Miles in London. There he redesigned Johnston Underground Sans for text setting as well as display use, now known as New Johnston, and carried out a feasibility study for space saving and legibility for the BT telephone directory, proving that Matthew Carter's Bell Centennial was the best suited typeface for the purpose. He also taught typography at Middlesex Polytechnic between 1980 and 1988. With Matthew Carter, he developed the full Roman and kanji OpenType font family Meiryo (2005), as part of Microsoft's ClearType project. Other participants on this project included Takeharu Suzuki of C&G and Yukiko Ueda. Meiryo won the Tokyo TDC 2007 award. He is currently a senior research fellow at University of Brighton, leading research into Edward Johnston's legacy. At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke about Sustainability and typography. [Google]

Eiji Sunaga

Designer in 2000 at Maniackers Design of Tanrei Katakana, a Latin simulation in katakana. [Google]

eKanji fonts

Japanese page, where you can download Kanji bitmap fonts. From the Human Sciences Institute at Kyoto University, by Niwa and Katsumura. [Google]

elefont
[Mattias Jakobsson]

At elefont (and before that at subform) we could fond the free (non-commercial use only) fonts Halvar, Bailando, Onaka (katakana) and Atmosphere (fantastic LED font), designed by Swede Mattias Jakobsson. Elefont disappeared but is revived at typOasis by CybaPee. Alternate URL. [Google]

Elephant Shape Productions (ESP)

Great futuristic fonts for the Mac and PC by an unnamed designer: Doubt, Porhythm, Offon, Sneakout, Stride, Cosmos0, and a katakana font, ESPF-9806. Direct access. Alternate URL. [Google]

Eliza Ling Suet Fung

Designer of Yuuku, the silver prize in the 6th Morisawa Awards International Typeface Design Competition, 1999. A great brush kanji font. [Google]

Elmer Keddy

Designer of the free handwritten Latin and kanji fonts ElmerFont and ElmerPFont. Alternate URL. [Google]

Emperorsoft (was: Tetsu, or Death and Graphics)

Original fonts by Tetsu such as Devil Head (1997), ASAKI-YUMEMISI, Benzen-Ring, COASTER-TO-HELL, DEGI-pulse, GRCaGoon, JIGOCK-COASTER, MATH-BOOK, Panda-Boy, PromptDream, X-dotz, bonapalt-F, devil-head, gulchagon-gothic, hell-2. Alternate URL. Site vanished. [Google]

Enfour Media Laboratory

Japanese outfit based in Sendagaya, Tokyo, which made the commercial truetype font Keitai, based on a 12x12 bitmap. See also here. Other products include the Enfour Type Collection and the Type Bank Professional Font Series. [Google]

Every Witch Way
[D. Paul Alecsandri]

D. Paul Alecsandri designed the runic fonts Futharc (2001), NewSymbolFont (2000) and samaritan (2001). We also find the rather complete Unicode truetype font Roman-Unicode (2001), which cover all European, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai and Indic languages, and provide kana as well (but not kanji). All parts of unicode covered. See also here. Samaritan (2001) deals with a pre-Samaritan or pre-Babylonian Hebrew. Originally designed for linguistics, the free typeface Chrysanthi Unicode (2001) contains all Unicode Latin characters (including Basic Latin, Latin 1 Supplement, Latin Extended A & B, IPA, and Latin Extended Additional) as well as Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and everal others. [Google]

evm web channel (was: e-val Monkeys)

Free Mac and Windows fonts: the katakana SteelEdge and Heroic, and the Latin fonts Cootan, Cyclops and CKP (Chuck Kichit Pichit). The last three fonts are commercial. Some of these may be bought through Font Pavilion. Flower. [Google]

Extra Designs
[Shin Sasaki]

Based in Sapporo, Japan, Extra Designs offers free original Mac fonts designed by Shin Sasaki. All information is hidden by flash and shockwave and midi and what have you. Good luck. Offered are freeware/shareware/commercial Mac fonts: Takugin (romaji, kata, commercial), Animals, Compact, Cubicle (1999, 3d lettering, done with Nobutaka Sato), Dotchinhime, FatUltra, HelvetikanaBold, Leaves (original!), Nippon-Bold, Roundstyle, Diet (commercial, 2001, a simple script), Pavement, Squaretype 1.0 and 2. Direct access. Some of these are katakana fonts. At Shift Factory: Nippon Bold 2.0, Helveticana Bold, Squaretype 2.0, Fat-Ultra 2.0, Animals, Leaves, Child Blocks, sebastian. Paraline (2001) is a circle-geometric tri-line font family. Homepage. [Google]

Family Font Mart
[Akihiro Oya]

Free fonts by Akihiro Oya in truetype format for Mac and PC: Nishichiba, NerimaNumber, BERLIN-REDRAIN-Italic, BERLIN-REDRAIN-Regular, Canarendon-Broken, Chubu-08-Normal, G.B.BOOT, GENERAL, GUNJU (very original stencil font), Horror-Impact-B, KANEIWA-alp-regular (simulated Japanese), Logic-twenty-five-A, Logic-twenty-five-Normal, Logic-twenty-five-Q, MEN'S-COSME, MINIMALHARD, MINIMALHARD2, NAKAMURA, Overheads, R.P.G.-KATAKANA, R.P.G., TAPEMAN, Telavision, VIET-MAP-LOVE, cubic-millimeter, enikusu-HG, square-millimeter, super-detective-kids, tamio-qn6, trattorian-2, videobeast-80's, namco_regular. Two of these are katakana fonts. All of them may be classified as experimental. Many can be used at small sizes on screens ("pixel fonts"). Alternate URL. Another URL. [Google]

Fancy Graphic
[Keita Soejima]

Keita Soejima's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Squash, SPORTS WEAR, Portable, Cheese, Mog (2000), Plamoframe, Scooter E, Scooter J, Sportswear Sweat E, Sportswear Sweat J. Many fonts have katakana and romaji versions. Home page. Newest additions: Cartridge E, Edit E, Sponge E, Basic E, Portable E, Squash E. Mac fonts by Keita Soejima and Yo-Yo: two free Roman fonts (French Curve, Marking Marker), one Thai font (Taikana) and an experimental hiragana font (Koike) at this site run by Keita Soejima. Page at DEX Image. [Google]

fatdesign
[Hiroyuki Watanabe]

Hiroyuki Watanabe (fatdesign) is a Japanese free font maker whose motto is It is one vomited by the individual. Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of fatbitboy. Their other creations from 2008, both Latin and Hirgana/Katakana, are often techno or experimental: FDF_Adapter, FDF_Architectsis, FDF_Beehive, FDF_HiragaNize, FDF_IrishIrish (stitching font), FDF_MiCRO-MINI (pixel face), FDF_Modanium, FDF_NANAMETTA-PIENETTA-TAKANA, FDF_Taspotron, FDF_WeatherPictgram. [Google]

fdiary

Japanese page which explains the nature and design of pixel faces, and gives an overview of the main font formats. Another subpage of links. [Google]

Field's Colour
[Souka]

Souka designed these mostly handprinted Latin and/or kanji fonts: FC-Wind, FC-Earth, FC-Flower, FC-Grass, FC-Stone, FC-Sun, FC-Water. [Google]

figfonts-cjk 2.2-3

Chinese-Japanese-Korean fonts for figlet, a GNU Linux program by Francesco Tapparo. "Figlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters. It can create characters in many different styles and can kern and "smush" these characters together in various ways. Figlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the end of e-mail and Usenet messages. " Fonts included: Fang Song Ti, Song Ti, CNS, Jiskan 16, Hanglg16, Kanglm16. [Google]

Fisher Virginia

Download Ming Liu (TrueType) for Chinese Traditional, MS Hei (TrueType) for Chinese Simplified, MS Song (TrueType) for Chinese Simplified, MS Gothic (TrueType) for Japanese, MS Mincho (TrueType) for Japanese. [Google]

Flat-It
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

Japanese foundry in Nagoya that offers these free and commercial Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa (Nagoya, Japan), who also runs Bagel & Co and HolidayType and Prop-A-Ganda: Concrete Stencil (2009, a stencil calligaphic script), Perfect Magic (2009), HT Maison (2009, signage face), HT Farmacia (2009, connected school script), HT Espresso (2008, upright script), HT Cartoleria (2008, connected script), HT Cafe (2009), Sneaker Script (2009), Bistro Mono (2007, an awkward monoline face), Balaghat (2008), Garash Script (2008, a Halloween face), Woodstamp (2008), Banana (2008, brush script), Rebel Train Goes (2008, a piano key font), Rouge (2007, an elegant lipstick-on-the-bathroom-mirror pair of faces), Yasashii (2007, a great art deco Briadway-style family), Lily Wang (2006, calligraphic script), Nothing (2007), Garash (2007, Arab simulation), Moon Star Soul (2007, Western saloon font), Grandes Vacances (+ Une, Deux) (2007), Pansy Bo (2006, calligraphic), Dremie (2007, an art deco headline face with Open and Fill weights), Grandes Vacances (2007, based on 19th century billboard letters), Xesy (2007, a fantastic "ronde" high-contrast upright connected script), Deluta Black (2007), Cigarette (2007, Bauhais/Peignot-style), Cotoris (2007, a 4-style family that takes inspiration from Koch Antiqua and the art nouveau movement), Daisy Lau (2006, calligraphic), Agedage Luxeuil (2006, based on a monasteric script from the 8th century), Amsterdam Modern (2006, art nouveau influences), Flat10 [Holly, Holy, Stencil, Fraktur] (2006, a set of pixel faces), Machiarge (2006, a heavy brush script), Chic Hand (2006, connected script), Double Dagger (2006, geometric stencil family), Fault (2006, an art deco striped lettering face), Killernuts (2006, headline serif face with brush stroke endings), Underconstructionism! (2006, a rectangular look family with associated dingbats), Machia (2006, decorative script), Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Jaguarundi (2006, distressed), Boycott (2006, distressed), Tokyotrail (2006, futuristic techno family), Coconut (noisy outline face), Coconut Split, Fresh Tomato (LED simulation), Dried Tomato (LED simulation), Dutch Style, Mocha Harrar (great stencil face), 103 (experimental, Bank Gothic style), Airhead, ArealBlack, Awkward, BagelNew, BagelOld, Banbino, Bebas, Berlin89, Blackout, Boycott (grunge), Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Camera (2007), Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb, Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Machia (2006, a calligraphic family), Meegoreng, Mikrob, Natsupopy, Overwork, Palsu, Plamo, Plasitico, REC001, REC002, REC003, Resistance, SQRT, STdigi (LED font), Shandy, Superstar, Tembaga, Tenaga, Tomodachi, Tragedia, Trucker, VRdigital, VRembroidery, Welcome2M, Workaholic, Zeebraa, plot-A, plot-K, Appendix 3, Gesso, Pusab, Sushitaro, Typewrong, Celtics Modern (2006, a Celtic family of fonts). Alternate URL. At T-26, he published CRZ (2006), Guppy, Ohana (2006, octagonal), Picnica (2006), and Wearetrippin. MyFonts link. [Google]

Flavor

Japanese outfit. Designed the commercial katakana comic book font Comic. [Google]

FLOP Design
[Kato Masashi]

Japanese site with original fonts by Kato Masashi (b. 1973), who lives in Takasaki (Gunma prefecture, Japan): Parismatch (2004), SAKUalp (2000, handwriting), Steeltype, Broadband, Hivision, Cinematime, Ultracomic, Ice Cream, Be Happy, Summer Beauty, Flyermix, Cheerscript, Breakstyle, Breakfont, Round, H-Five, Natsucomi, Long Vacation, Lovers, Breakfont (2003, graffiti style), Pokkaman, BeHappy, Natsucomi, Momolcan, Seasons Dings, Electron, Round, Lovers, FlyerMix (fifties style), CheerScript (comic book style), Hi-Five (pixel font), Summer Beauty, SummerDrive, White Day, Long Vacation, Amayadori (high contrast kana font), Fuyucomi, Icecream, Pickett, 321, Pingpong, Frontline, Ginza, Yago (nice free dings), Polaris, 321eng, 321kana, APPLE, CLIQUE, Clover (kitchen tile font, 1998), DIGI, Eneneng, Enenhira, FDalp, FDwhie, Hnoodle, Hanko (free black on white stamp font, 1998, see also here), MKCuer, MOOGIRLALP, MOOMILKKANA, Noodle, Origami, Pers, SA0kmh, SA100kmh, SA50kmh, SK0kmh, SK100kmh, SK50kmh, Template6, Tenten, Ami Font, Speedfont, Supercar, Sakura, Regoty, Shopping Famiry, Ticket, Yohic, Recording, Akachan, Wafont, Frontbit7, MusicNetwork, Yakitori (free handwriting font), Ticket, Folkdance (pixelized people), Human Building (dings of famous buildings), Bunny (free), Frontline0, Side5 (pixel font), Side6, Side7. Some pixel fonts, many techno fonts, some kana fonts, and the Japanese kids dingbat font, Folkdance. Some fonts, such as his Latin/Japano font ShoppingFamily (1998), are sold by Font Pavilion. Major Japanese free font links. In 1999, he published the AMI screen pixel font series in Digitalogue's DPI72 package. Other commercial fonts: Pine Apple, the WM family, Cutie Girl, Astratic, PictPlasma, Minivan, Frontbit 7, Ginza, Zoological. Most downloadable fonts are either demos or rather incomplete. Direct access. Alternate URL for free stuff. And another URL. Free fonts in 2005: 321Alphabet, 321Katakana, APPLE, BITNEON, Border7alp, Border7Kat, BroadbandRegular, Broadbandoblique, BunnyAlphabet, CheerScriptEdgeBold, CheerScriptROUNDRegular, CinemaTimehiragana, CLIQUE, CLIQUEBold, DIGIT, FlyermixOblique, Flyermix, Folkdancealpalp, FolkDancewhite, Folkwhite, Hanko, HiFive, ICHIGOCharacter, ICHIGORegular, KEYmodeAlphabet, KEYmodeKatakana, Noodleh, Noodle, OkonomiAlphabet, OkonomiHiragana, OkonomiKatakana, Origami, ParismatchBright, ParismatchRegular, Pers, Popstarregular, Popstarpop, REGO, SA0kmh, SA100kmh, SA50kmh, SK0kmh, SK100kmh, SK50kmh, SAKURAalp, SAKURAHiragana, SummerBeautyAlbum, SummerBeautyRegular, SUPERCARAlp, SUPERCARKana, Tentenalphabet, Tentenhiragana, TwinkleLine, UltraComicalphabet, UltraComickatakana, YAGO, Yothic. Free in 2007: Aiko, a 4-weight rounded sans with support for Latin and kana (see also here). Fonts made in 2007-2008: MobileDisco, AbbeyRoad-Alternative, HighwayStar, Kompakt, AbbeyRoad, Prefuse, Readymade (didone inspired by Corvinus and Giorgio). Additions in 2009: Kanna W4, Sweet Doughnuts (rounded sans). [Google]

Flyer's Feeling
[Izumi Najamura]

Izumi Najamura is the Japanese designer of these free fonts: FF_FamilyCockpit (2006, blocky), FF_Himekazura-H (2006, blocky hiragana), FF_Himekazura-K (2006, blocky katagana), FF_LogicBox, FF_PetitBiscuit1.9, FF_SingaSong, FF_Suzuki-Al, FF_Suzuki-K. Mostly, these fonts are experimental and incomplete. [Google]

Fonderie de Bertrand Loeulliet
[Bertrand Loeulliet]

Fonderie de Bertrand Loeulliet was a Paris-based foundry specializing in foreign languages in the 19th century. Léon de Rosny and Bertrand Loeulliet published "Spécimen de caractères japonais Kata-Kana / gravés par Bertrand Loeulliet; sous la direction de Léon de Rosny" in 1858. This 4-page folio is available at the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels. [Google]

Font

Japanese font links. [Google]

Font Avenue

Type series sold by NEC consisting of 18 full kanji fonts. [Google]

Font Frontline

A collection of fonts by Japanese artists (not free): FRONTLINE01 (Bonus Title Font), Add (AddBlackImpact), COOZ (BMspiral), C-FONT (Cube01), CLOPS (Dachshund), COSMIC-COSMOS/Kenichiro (Neroppu), COUT WORKS (DSCF), Designers High (elephant), DigitalDreamDesign (D3 Groovism), Digital Works Updside K (Aoi-Kaku), FLOP DESIGN (FRONTLINE), Graphic Arts Unit (editmode16), GRAYVISION (Solidstate), KEIY (Pipot), Kivart (Punition), kuzumiHK (DustGhost), Miffies (M42_FLIGHT 721), Maniackers Design (ARAWASU), Naba (STONE), norm09 (Virus), nowconceptsite/makoto (sandpaper), PSYCHOGRAPHERS!/KOU (BIRDISH), SHAKAGRAPHICS/COLA (GRIDSYSTEM), Smile Girls with FD (Cutie Girl), softroclub (Janis Heavy), Third Entertainment featuring MKSD (Honey), Tosouka Utaru (Gatload), holiday (Ribbontic), Love Radio (TMRfont), YUKI (flow&passage), ZETUEI FONTS (emiwareru -oblique (Hiragana)), RIM FILMs (Suehirogari+90), kurihara taketugu (Frost-Medium), Denenchofu Design (poppers), Petuko (OLDA), OHMINATO Kazuaki Design (Twist(Katakana)), Wing.zero (TYPE-CHAIR), plus about four other fonts. [Google]

Font Museum

Japanese language font site. Links, and an archive. [Google]

Font Pavilion

A set of 15 font CDs from Digitalogue in Japan, marketed through P22. 1000USd for the full collection. About 70USD per CD, wth each collection containing about 50 fonts from about 20 Japanese designers. Font names. [Google]

Font Silo

Free bitmap/screen fonts. Also, these outline fonts: Voltage, Starbow, StarDust, Cocoon, Horn Medium, all made in 1993. Also: Crescent Moon, Millennium, Whie Hole, Black Hole, Egghead, Cross-Stitch, Hypnosis, Spaghetti, Soft Cream, Town House Maxixe, Sikibu, Kurenai. I have no idea how to download these. [Google]

Font Silo

Japanese outfit selling Mac and Windows display fonts such as Voltage, Horn Medium, Cocoon, and StarDust. Includes Latin and Japanese fonts. [Google]

Font Utility Made in Japan

Links to made-in-Japan font utilities: FontPeeper 1.4, FontShop 1.2, SmallCaps 1.34, FontList 1.2, Hetaji 7. Mac only. [Google]

FONT1000

Commercial Japanese fonts. Alternate URL. [Google]

Fontchu.com

Vietnamese site. It has an archive of Vietnamese, Korean, Latin, Chinese and Japanese fonts. [Google]

Font-Font

Digital font FAQ, in Japanese. [Google]

fontgraphic.com
[Hideaki Ohtani]

Hideaki Ohtani is the main designer at fontgraphic.com. In Digitalogue's DPI72 package, he published the screen fonts F2-BoldScriptALP, F2-BoldScriptKT, F2-ScriptALP, F2-ScriptKT. Old pagers with about 15 pixel/dot matrix fonts with kana and latin glyphs, very legible on screens. Font list: F5-Normal, FN35, FR57, F0 through F5, Diagon, DK, BK, Codename DB, Codename DKB. [Google]

FontGroup
[Michael Hernan]

Creator of the Neotechnic series of (free) fonts: Accudigit Regular, Accudigit Body, Parma, Intermatrix (1998), Matricies, Hako, Basic. The designer, Michael Hernan made these fonts between 1995-1998, and writes: About Neotechnic Series: This series of Fonts reflect the information industry at the end of the 20th century and its obsession with classification. Each typeface captures a different aspect of our recent info-culture. He obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in 2008. At Reading, he designed Pseudo (2008). He started FontGroup in 2008. His old site, sitehernan, has not been updated in many years. The typefaces now shown at FontGroup (without downloads): Helvetica Kiss Fit, Helvetica PointSign, Helvetica MultiDigit, UnicaDeux, KataKana, Galactic Slab, Hako (dot matrix), Bodoni Arabic Numerals, Accudigit Body (pixel face), AfterModule, Basic RCT (pixel face), Block Normal, EuroPop, 469 (numerals), g1055 (shown on the right), InterMatrix (dot matrix), Matricies Positive, Matricies Negative, Newer Alphabet, Octane (octagonal and geometric), Fuiji Numbers (pixel face), Parma Sixtyeight, Photo Numbers (pixel face), Pre Recollect, Quartz, Readable Dog, Shasyoku Moji II, Steiner Numbers, Week Day, Alumi, Astra, Epps Evans, New Alphabet (experimental, minimal), Volume Control (dings), Fine Line, Humana, Clock Face (numbers for clocks). [Google]

Font-Kai

Commercial Japanese foundry, which is selling the 12-weight kanji family called Kai. Their work is exquisite. Alternate URL. [Google]

Fontmania

Listing and showing of many fonts by Japanese foundries. [Google]

Fontmenu.com

Michel Bujardet (a Frenchman living in West Hollywood, CA) runs Matchfonts, and started Fontmenu.com in August 2001. Commercial fonts, but free demos in all formats. A partial list of fonts: Square Text (old English), Block Letters (orthography for kids), Skryptaag (2001, educational), Boulons (letters made from nuts and bolts), Kindergarten (funny faces), Learning Handwriting (K2), Learning Cursive Handwriting (Grade 2-4), Japanese Hiragana-Katalana (Year 1), Morse code, Dictionary phonetic notation for pronunciation, the calligraphic fonts Chancellerie Moderne, Oncial, Rodolphe, Willegha, the dingbat fonts Dinosotype, Matched Potato, Nahkt hieroglyphs, SilBooettes, Angelots. Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, the monospaced fonts Bordofixed, Dactylographe, Normafixed, Oloron fixed width screen font), the mathy fonts Oloron program, Hexalist and Numberslist, the handwriting fonts Charlotte, Louise, Mariette, Milko, Pierre, Quinze, Raoul, and Thibault, the pixel font 8-PinMatrix, the Bauhaus font BabyFace, the Chinese simulation font Chinoiseries, the LED fonts Diode, Cristolikid and Display, the Greek simulation font Grecques, the display fonts Zebrures, Venitiennes, Ruban Dis-Moi, Parador, Osselets, Octogone, Metropolitain, Malabars, Halloween Match, Coulures, Chapou Relief, Candy Kane, Calebasse, Bujardet Freres and Big Bacon, the MICR font MICR E13B, the serif faces Baguad, Chap Clerk, Parlante, Presse, TSF&Co, and the sans serif faces Bordini, Boum-Boum, Halotique (a sans family), Junien, and Normographe. Alternate URL for his shareware typefaces. MyFonts link for his commercial typefaces. Alternate MyFonts link. [Google]

FontMiru 1.0

Kei Matsumoto's Windows font viewer (for Japanese and Latin fonts). Free. [Google]

Fontopo

Free fonts made in Japan from 2006-2007: FontopoBREEZE, FontopoELEPOP, FontopoFONTOPO, FontopoHATOPOPPO, FontopoNEUTRAL, FontopoNIKUKYU, FontopoSOLID, FontopoSUBWAY, FontopoYANWARI. Mostly typographical experiments with incomplete character sets. Some handwriting fonts. Kana and Latin. Other designs: Synapse (2007), Planet to Planet (2007), Retro Paradise (2007). [Google]

Fontosaurus
[Dan Bailey]

Fontosaurus has about 75 original ``giftware'' fonts by Dan Bailey (b. Minnesota, 1972) from Eagan, MN (PC, Mac; type 1 and TTF): Blowfish (2001), Negotiated (2006), GhettoBooty (2003), Laika (2003), Amerinese, Heptathalon, Riffic (2002), XMR (2002), Amerikatakana (2002), Experimenta (2002), Tapdance (2002, a great ultra-high contrast Broadway face), Casual Roman (2002, not free), Casual Roman Capitals (2002, not free), Heater (2001), Crank (2001), Halloweenies (2001), GaramOrbital (2001), Microbial (2001, pixelized), Inception (20USD), Fallen Thyme, Candycorn Overdose (2001), Statebats (2001), Whackbats (2001), 5by (bitmap font for the Mac), Deadwrong (2001), Alien Artifact (2001), Hoodoo Two (2001), Noonan (2001), YChrome (2001), Martini (2001), DresdenFirestorm (2001), Backlash, Brainwave, Whiplash, BlockheadInsecure, Blockhead, BlockheadSpeedy, CancunSiesta, CitizenDick (double writing), CSDAnorexic, CSDMegabold, CSDNormal, CSDPhattie, Danwriting, Eagan, Ebola Jones (2001), FallenDirty, Fallen, KaffeinePsychosisHeavy, KaffeinePsychosis, LucidityNormal, LuciditySlasher, MankatoHalfwit (outlines), MarsColony, MyFriendPoopa, OralExpulsive, Preternatural, Psychoactives (great!), RadiationBurn, Soviet2002, Starvetica, 989MaxProtect, Ablative (2001), Crackaddict, Harleysville, Juggernaut, LoveBot (a mashed Times Condensed), Packer, Sexypants (rework of Calligraphic 421), Shadowboxer, Skylab (2000), Arduous, Bewbz, BungholioSurprise, Crotchrot, Numatrix, Oddziab, RonnieRaygun, Rusch (2006), Runningback, 1978NYC, Erg, Exclaim, Gigaton, Grackle, Kiloton, MashedPotatoes, Megaton, Moonbase, Mullet, Pornstar, PornStarAcademy, Scumbucket, SnowCrash, Speeddealer, SpringBreak, Statebats. Gumbo (2001) and Tirade (2001) are commercial. Most fonts have no punctuation. Does also custom work. At some point, it was part of the Chank Army, where Fontosaurus had the commercial pixel font Noonan (2002). MyFonts page. Interview. Creator of Jantze (2003), a comic book font based on the cartoon The Norm by Michael Jantze, and whose profits will go to the Lance Armstrong Foundation. [Google]

Fontpark 2.0 Morisawa

Annoying Japanese site by Morisawa in which users can play with glyph components to create new things. [Google]

FontPnP

Mizuki Takanashi's Japanese font software for Windows. [Google]

Fonts and font facilities supplied with ghostscript

Information on fonts in ghostscript. Discussed are the 35 free URW type 1 fonts, Basil Malyshev's Paradissa fonts for Computer Modern, the use of the Fontmap, the prfont.ps program for printing a sample sheet, the free Hanzi font (Chinese) by Jackson Technologies, the free Kanji type 1 fonts by Tetsurou Tanaka of the Department of Engineering, University of Tokyo, N. Glonty and A. Samarin's CM Cyrillic fonts, the bdftops (BDF font to type 1 font) conversion program, and many technical details. [Google]

Fonts available

Links to major Japanese foundries. [Google]

Fonts66

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

FontSalon

Font archive (Japanese). Has some original kana fonts such as Mind Force, Orbit 9, Orbit 9 Oblique, Orbit One, Orbit One Oblique. [Google]

Fontsonic (or: Newconceptsite)
[Makoto]

Fontsonic (Newconceptsite, also known as Makoto) is Japanese pixel font maker. Their delicate and well-balanced PC and Mac fonts include BesideAL01, BesideAL02, DotAddAL01, DotAddAL02, ShadowAL01, StreamAL01. All fonts made in 2001 and 2002 by "Makoto", who lives in Tokyo. [Google]

FONTSTUDIO

Japanese foundry with free and commercial fonts. [Google]

Font-TOO

Japanese Mac and Windows font vendor. [Google]

Font-Too

Japanese font vendor. [Google]

FontWizard

Japanese font editor. Will create a variety of Japanese glyphs based on simple instructions. [Google]

Fontworks

Some beautiful commercial Japanese fonts: UtrilloPlus-DB, Kakurei-EB, PopFury-B, PopJoy-B, Mystery-DB, MatissePlus-L, GrecoPlus-DB, PopHappiness-EB, Chiaro-B, Anito, KokinHige-EB, CattleyaRod, NTLG_Rod, ElegantoMat. "Fontworks is a leading developer of Japanese fonts for desktop publishing. We are revolutionizing the way Japanese fonts are designed and produced with our ground-breaking, stroke based Kanji software tools. These tools automate much of the routine work associated with Japanese font production, enabling our designers to concentrate on development of new typefaces." Great font page as well. The company needs font programmers: apply! A set of 24 Japanese fonts costs 14,000USD. Individual (one weight) fonts at 1000USD a shot. In addition, there are many kana fonts, such as the MinoriYaMat family (Kinichi Imada), the WakabaYaMat family (Kinichi Imada), the HatsuhiYaMat family (Kinichi Imada), the WanpakuRod family (Yutaka Sato), the HimawariRod family (Toshiyasu Sato), to list the latest ones. This outfit also markets Gaiimaster, software for oriental stroke-based fonts. Alternate URL. Opentype subpage. [Google]

Frank Tang

Frank Tang on how to View Chinese/Japanese/Korean HTML with Netscape Communicator on US version of Windows 95 or NT. Has links to many Chinese, Japanese and Korean faces, and some downloadable fonts, such as a collection of Chinese truetype fonts from INDEED Information Computer Co. [Google]

FREAKyBUNNy

Free dot matrix and dingbat fonts by "2001Nisicasino" from Osaka, Japan. Some names: Chemi, ETC, Washing_indication, chemi, fb_kiriko, fb_onroad, khemi, licabitz-box, licabitz, licadotz-box, licadotz, Nyan, Mapmark, Kiriko, OnRoad, EtcLicabitz-bitmap. [Google]

Free Font Frontline

Japanese links to free fonts. [Google]

Free Handwritten Japanese Font

Links to free handwritten Japanese fonts, with a blog-style discussion. [Google]

Free Mind

Six free Windows truetype fonts: Alphabet 01 through 04, Hangul, and Katakana. [Google]

Free Software Foundation
[Primoz Peterlin]

The "Free UCS Outline Fonts" project is part of the larger Free Software Foundation. Its aim is to provide a set of free outline (PostScript Type0, TrueType, OpenType...) fonts covering the ISO 10646/Unicode UCS (Universal Character Set), released under the GNU license. Character sets to be covered are: ISO 8859 parts 1-15, CEN MES-3 European Unicode Subset, IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 850, 852, 1250, 1252 and more, Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4), KOI8-R and KOI8-U, DEC VT100 graphics symbols, International Phonetic Alphabet, Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian, Thai and Lao alphabets, including Arabic presentation forms A/B, Japanese Katakana and Hiragana, mathematical symbols, including the whole TeX repertoire of symbols. The first free font families are FreeMono (2002), FreeSerif (2002) and FreeSans (2002), all done in truetype. See also here or here for the latest updates (2006). The people and companies who have cooperated on the font effort are:

• Primoz Peterlin, the coordinator at the Institute of Biophysics of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• URW++.
• Yannis Haralambous.
• John Plaice.
• Young Y. Ryu.
• Valek Filippov.
• Angelo Haritsis.
• Virach Sornlertlamvanich.
• Wadalab Kanji Comittee.
• Shaheed R. Haque.
• Sam Stepanyan.
• Mohamed Ishan.
• Sushant Kumar Dash.
• Harsh Kumar.
• Prasad A. Chodavarapu.
• Frans Velthuis.
• Anshuman Pandey.
• Hardip Singh Pannu.
• Jeroen Hellingman.
• Berhanu Beyene, Manfred Kudlek, Olaf Kummer and Jochen Metzinger.
• Thomas Ridgeway.
• Kulbir Singh Thind.
• Pravin Satpute, Bageshri Salvi, Rahul Bhalerao and Sandeep Shedmake.
• Sonali Sonania and Monika Shah.
• Solaiman Karim and Omi Azad.
• K.H. Hussain and R. Chitrajan.
• Denis Jacquerye.
• Abbas Izad.
• Dan Shurovich Chirkov.
• DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt (Columbia University).
• M.S. Sridhar.
• Panayotis Katsaloulis.
• Vyacheslav Dikonov.
• Maxim Iorsh.

FREELANG Fuentes

Spanish language site for various non-Latin language fonts. A sampling: Afus Deg Wfus 2 (for Berber), AlKatib1 (2001, an Arabic face by Naseem Amjad), Albanian, Alice_0 (Lao face by by Ngakham Southichack), LAOMAY_5 CHAREUNSILP (Lao face by by Soupasith Bouahom), Arial AMU (1999, Armenian face by Ruben Tarumian), BaltFrutigerLight, BaltHelveticaMedium, BaltNewCenturySchoolbookMedium, BaltOptimaMedium, BaltTiffanyMedium, BaltUniversityMedium, CarloAtor (1997, Arabic family by Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Caligraf-W, Ciula (1996, a Romanian face by Paul Hodor), Cursiv (Romanian), AnlongvillKhek, GabrialAtor (another Arab family by Timm Erickson), Gin, Greek (1993, by Peter J. Gentry & Andrew M. Fountain), HandSign (1993, Sam Wang), HFMassisShantNUnicode (1990-1994, an Armenian unicode face by BYTEC Computers and Massis Graphics), HONGKAD (1994, a family by Dr. Hongkad Souvannavong), IsmarBold, IsmarLight, Lakshmi, X000000A (1994, a lao face by Sith Bouahom), LAOMAY_2-CHAREUNSILP, Alice3Medium, Alice0Medium, Langagedessignes (1998, by Philippe and François Blondel), NorKirk (1997, a great Armenian face by Ruben Tarumian), NovaTempo (for Esperanto), Pazmaveb (for Armenian), ILPRumanianB100 (1996, by Charles J. Coker), Saysettha-Lao, Saysettha-LaoBold, SenzorgaAnhok, Timok, Tribuno, Turn-W, TimesUnicode, ArialAMU, PoliceTypeAPI (for Armenian), Cieszyn-Regular, PoojaNormal, Shibolet (1995, Hebrew), Shree-Ass-0552 (2000, by Modular InfoTech), Tudor-Semi-Lite, Webdunia, TimesNRCzech, TNRLiboriusVII (2001, a fully accented Times face by Libor Sztemon), GreatMoravia (2001 Libor Sztemon, Czechia), Johaansi-ye-Peyravi (2001, a full accent blackletter face by Libor Sztemon, Czechia), TimesNREuskaraEuransiEsperanto (2001, Libor Sztemon). [Google]

FS Fonts

Free Japanese public domain fonts, FS Gothic and FS Mincho. [Google]

Fub

Japanese site with some original fonts. Creators of Mofuji (2007), a very original display face. Makers in 2007 of the free Latin/Cyrillic/Greek/kana/kanji papercut grunge font Kirieji. Other fonts: Minamoji, 3D Kirieji, Ibaraji. Alternate URL. [Google]

Fudeyokocho

Commercial Japanese fonts for public displays or comic books: Amakara, Sekizou, Fight, Shanaari, Mokuhen, Kiraku, Kamifuusen, Kareha. [Google]

Fukuhara Hiroshige

Fukuhara Hiroshige's FCL Equi and FCL-Thyroxine are sold through Font Pavilion. Check also FCL-HeavyMossR. [Google]

Full Scratch Font
[M. Urawa]

Free techno and pixel fonts by M. Urawa: EGG!, abc, NO1,itaric, abc, NO1, abc, NO10, abc, NO12, abc, NO13, abc, NO13a, abc, NO14, abc, NO15, abc, NO16, abc, NO2, abc, NO5, abc, NO6, abc, NO7, abc, NO8, abc, NO9, abc, Q, abc, Q2, abc,core, abc,ic, abc,otete, abc,pipe, abc,trapezoid, abc,trapezoid2, abc,unknown1-, abc,unknown2, katakana, NO9, katakana, NO6, katakana, NO12, katakana, NO13, katakana, NO13a, katakana, NO14, katakana, NO15, katakana, NO16, katakana, NO2, katakana, NO3, katakana, NO4, katakana, NO5, katakana, NO7, katakana, NO8, katakana, Q,2, katakana, Q2, katakana,block, katakana,core, katakana,ic, katakana,pipe, katakana,trapezoid1, katakana,trapezoid2, katakana,runner, wire,katakana, ZERO, abc, NO11, abc, NO3, abc, NO4, abc,runner, abc.dama, f,f,techno,abc, f,f,techno,katakana, katakana, NO10, katakana, NO1-kai-, katakana, NO11, katakana.dama, wire,abc. [Google]

Fu's Page

Marukan font (Mac only). [Google]

Fuziman Graphix

Designer at Font Pavilion 12 of Sechinparadise (2000). [Google]

GADGET (also: SubGraphics)
[Rikiya Nishimura]

Original techno fonts Rikiya Nishimura for Windows and Mac: Sub, Camouflage, Deformation, Deformation Super (the last two fonts are katakana), Airgun (katakana), alpha (katakana), Dust, Ape, System-K, F.M.J., Prompt (katakana), Green Hill, Ninja2, Dust2, Sub 2000, Fude (great Japanese simulation), Square. Dead link. [Google]

Gaia Production

Free Mac fonts: Teigay, DaiChalk (handwriting), TimeTrek (blocky MICR font), the handwriting Gaiasian (2001), FudenM, Floydian (scratchy), the hiragana font REO, the display fonts Daipop, Daiblur, DaiheadB, and the geometric experiment Kackin-01. Virtually no punctuation. Unclear who the designers are: Masako Ibayashi, Daisuke Katayama, Masako Tsuda or Naoki Matsui. Site not updated since 2001. [Google]

GakuSoft

GakuSoft markets KingKanji, a free Japanese flashcard program for Windows.a Included are free Japanese, Chinese and Hangul fonts. [Google]

gau+
[Toshiyuki Takahashi]

Gau stands for "Graphic Arts Unit". Original roman and kana fonts: GauFontMilkChoco, GAUfontcubeB, GAUfontcubeR, GAUfontkana0816, GAUfontkanaAtomic, GauFontKusanagi, GauFontShirousagi, GAUfontkanaRefresh, GAUfontmodernSemiRound, GauFontPopMagic, GAUfontPRIVAtE, GauFontExpositionR, GauFontExpositionW, GAUfontRootNormal, GauFontOverDrive, GauFontWhiteBase, GauFontKarin91, GauFontRelax, GauFontTampopo, GauFontLoveRocket (2001), Milk Choco (2001), SpyLetter (2002), Rubber Soul (2002), GauFontDonutShop, GAUfontRootNormal, Editmode16 (commercial screen dingbats font by Toshiyuki Takahashi, 2002). [Google]

Gebsite
[Keiichi Satoh]

Advertised as a Japanese game font site. It carries these original creations (Latin alphabet) of Keiichi Satoh: Commune, Corner Boy, Gebapolis, Fantasy-Gezone, GSP-RADE, GamelTry, Gebange, Gebrider, Gebulasray, Geho-Daisakusen, Gradion-Txt-Style-III, geppon, OGEBA-FIGHTER, Gradion, The-Yellows, Borderheaven, geppon, Sencoron. Plus the kana game font Hyria-kana. All made in 2003-2007. [Google]

Gekiketz

Japanese free font maker. Besides some kana fonts, the following Latin fonts are available: GKZ-0701 (pixel), GKZ-BurnBurn (pixel), GKZ-CLB (pixel), GKZ-Frox (party face), GKZ-GAZI, GKZ-KAKU, GKZ-Oriduru (oriental simulation), GKZ-Speedwrite, GKZ-crossjam. Most of these are pixel fonts or experimental. Hiragana faces: GKZ-Okome, GKZ-Shiranami, Katakana faces: GKZ-ORIDURUKANA, GKZ-RAIGEKI, GKZ-Radiohour (pixel), GKZ-Sryder. Obsolete URL. [Google]

Genkis

The 10MB font file has the Microsoft collection, plus Dynalab's MingLiu (1996), and some standard Monotype fonts. [Google]

Genshichi Yasui

Genshichi Yasui's free truetype fonts that emulate screen pixels. Direct access to all Techno fonts. List of fonts: G7-Gradius3-TTS, G7-Genshichi-Kana-1, G7-Check-writer-(TT), G7-Copic-TTF, G7-cute-pop, G7Tani-6-Medium, G7Tile(Katakana), G7Tile(ver2), G7Teishi(FL), G7-Genshichi-Tani-4-L-TTE-ver, G7CoconaworldDIGITAL, G7CoconaworldTTF, SpellofMagic, SpellofMagicDigital. Some katakana and kanji fonts, such as RsbNVhE. Game fonts: G7_1943-TTF, G7-Mr.Do!,-vs-unicorns,-wild~, Solomon's-Key-True-Type, Solomon's-Key-True-Type-Smoose, G7-After-Burner-TTF, G7-A-Jax-TTF, G7-Walt-Disney's-Aladdin-TTF, G7-Assault-TTF, G7-Atomic-Robo-kid-TTF, atari_rounded, G7-Athena-TTF, G7-Butasan-TTF, G7-Chelnov,-Trio-the-punch-TTF, G7-Cho-Makaimura-TTF, G7-Cocona-world-TTF, G7-Command-TTF, G7-Dragon-Spirit-TTF, G7-Exed-Exes-TTF, G7-Family-stasium-TTF, G7-Final-Fantasy-Font-TTF, G7-Flicky-TTF, G7-Gemini-Wing-TTF, Gradius,-Gradius-2-TTF, G7-Gradius3-TTF, G7-Gradius3-TTS, G7-Hydlide2-for-MSX-TTF, G7-Image-Fight-TTF, G7-Kiki-Kaikai-TTF, G7-Adventures-of-Lolo-2-TTF, G7-Mahou-Daisakusen-TTF, G7-Makaimura-TTF, G7-Meikyujima-TTF, G7-Moero-!!-Pro-Yakyu-TTF, G7-Nakayoshi-to-issyo-TTF, G7-Newzealand,-Dondokodon-TTF, G7-Parodius-TTF, G7-PuLiRuLa-TTF, G7-R-Type-TTF, G7-Ryger-TTF, G7-Same!-Same!-Same!-TTF, G7-Shalom-MSX-TTF, G7-Silkworm-TTF, G7-Chee_chai-Alien, G7-Spelunker-TTF, G7-Family-Tantei-Club-1-TTF, G7-Tashiro-Masashi-no-princess, G7-Twinbee-for-arcade-TTF, G7Wakuwaku7, G7-Wizardly-for-famicom-TTF, G7-Xevious-TTF. [Google]

Ghost Workshop
[Toshimichi Aoki]

Toshimichi Aoki (Ghost Workshop) is the designer of the OpenType font AokiTegaki (2002, handwriting). This also exists in type 3 format. [Google]

Ghostscript and Wada fonts

Craig Toshio Oda explains how to use the free Wadalab kanji fonts with ghostscript. And here, we find instructions for using the Wada fonts with ghostscript on the Mac. [Google]

GHS Web Graphica

Japanese outfit. Designer of the commercial katakana fonts Cleaning (1999) and Moriguchi (1999). Check also Snake Cube Font (interesting!). P22 connection. [Google]

Gigamix (MSX Association)

Free sample kana/Latin truetype fonts by Gigamix: MSX-WIDTH32J, MSX-WIDTH40J. [Google]

GKR Karate

Creators of the Japanese face Epgyosho. [Google]

Glavy Fonts
[Jason Glavy]

Jason Glavy, who lives in Yokohama, runs Glavy Fonts. He has created some free fonts: JGLepcha (2001, a West-African language font), JG Chantabouli and JG Sasettha (cleaned up and extended unicode vesions of Sasettha and Chantabouli fonts created by John Durdin), JGAksaraBali, JGBasicLao, JGChamVer2, JGChamCambodia, JGChamVN, JGChantabouliLao, JGHurufJawaSanskrit, JGLaoOldArial, JGLaoOldface, JGLaoTimes, JGSoyombo (Tibetan), WL-LatinIPATimes. He used to have a bunch of Japanese fonts on his web site, including his Jindaimoji series. He also created three fonts for Makassarese/Buginese. At some point, he was associated with Saronix Japan. His Hmong page has JGCwjmemFinalVersion, JGCwjmemSecondVersion, JGCwjmemThirdVersion, JGNaadaasFinalVersion, JGNaadaasSecondVersion, JGNaadaasThirdVersion, JGPahawhFinalVersion, JGPahawhSecondVersion, JGPahawhSourceVersion, JGPahawhThirdVersion, JGPuajTxwm, all made in 2002: of these, the Pahawh series is original, while Cwjmem and Naadaas are improvements of other fonts. West African fonts designed by him: JGBassaVahHandwriting, JGBassaVahPrint, JGBete, JGKpelleA, JGKpelleB, JGNKo, JGVaiA, JGVaiB, JGVaiC. These fonts are well researched, and are based on drawings and findings by Dalby, Dr. Welmer, and Jensen. This page has some of Glavy's fonts for other languages: JGBasicLao, JGChamCambodia (1998), JGChamVN (1998), JGChantabouliLao, JGHurufJawaSanskrit (2001), JGLaoOldArial, JGLaoOldface, JGLaoTimes, JG Lepcha (2001), JGSoyomb (2001). [Google]

Glyph

It is rumored that you can buy cheap Japanese fonts here. [Google]

GO!GO! POP FONT (or: M/M Font Design)

Japanese site with free original fonts (Pop (1998), Restaurant (1998)--note, the T is missing; it can be hacked to reappear, by the way), Soda (kana font), and some commercial fonts (3 Cinderella dingbats, and 11 animal shape dingbats called Cookies). Mac and PC, T1 and TTF. [Google]

GOO

Japanese font links. [Google]

Gothic Japanese typefaces

The Japanese "gothic" typefaces (gosshiku) are equivalent to the Latin sans-serif typefaces. Typically, strokes have a uniform width and do not have any decorations. There are two main categories, the standard gothic and the maru (= round) gothic, which is a style in which the ends of the lines are rounded off. Maru gothic is the typeface used in Japanese road signs. [Google]

Graphunki

Free and commercial (predominantly techno) fonts. Among the free fonts: KZ-Cubist, KZ-Gravity, KZ-Turbo. The commercial fonts are sold on a CD: KZ Tank, KZ Spellbound, KZ Scratcher, KZ Radiostar, KZ Racer, KZ Lord, KZ Cybone1 and 2. [Google]

Grass Onions

Free original fonts in truetype (PC) and type 1 (Mac): Beat, Soul, Motor, Popy (katakana), Saffraan (katakana), Tiruru (hiragana), Airron (kata), Marchen (kata), Coupe, Plate, Eagle (kata). GoMotor (1997) is in the Pavilion collection. GoSoul (1999) can be downloaded at DaFONT. [Google]

Gray Graphics
[Kotaro Hatano]

Free Latin fonts: Nationalyze-ALP, Snow Dream, Lumine Sign, Pollyanna, Quick Express and Milky Well, designed by Kotaro Hatano. Find also the katakana fonts Orange Ade, Happy Frame, Panda Chang Bold, Technopolish, Fancy Balloons, CandyStore, LivingToys, Nekoyanagi, Commercial Break, Citrus Fruits, Nationalyze, NatsuMikan, and Lovely Capsules. Font Pavilion also sells his Fancy Balloons (romaji, katakana for comics). [Google]

GRAYVISION
[Hiroki Itoh]

GRAYVISION is a Japanese foundry. Free fonts: Diesel, G.I.Jackie (2002), Monobits+, Monobits, Muschavroui (2002, kana), Drop, Genesis, Handwriting-E, handwritingja, Qubrick, Smarten, Solidstate (kana), Thread. Most of these are great pixel fonts (Mac and PC) designed by Hiroki Itoh (b. Niigata, Japan, 1984). [Google]

gs-cjk

"The package distributed in this site provides the patches for gs6.50 to handle CJK (Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean) TrueType fonts as CID-keyed fonts and some improvements upon CID-keyed font handler in gs6.50. We also aim to add our results to the original Aladdin/Artifex ghostscript. " The developers are Toshiya Suzuki, Masatake Yamato, Taiji Yamada, Hideyuki Suzuki. [Google]

GT TrueType fonts
[Atsuhito Kohda]

Free Kanji truetype fonts developed in 2001 for use with Debian Linux by Atsuhito Kohda: GT2000-01, GT2000-02, GT2000-03, GT2000-04, GT2000-05, GT2000-06, GT2000-07, GT2000-08, GT2000-09, GT2000-10, GT2000-11, GT2000-K1, GT2000-K2. They are Unicode compliant and contain also complete Latin, Cyrillic and Greek character sets. Alternate URL at Open Text. Yet another URL. [Google]

gynic.net

69 Chinese/Japanese truetype fonts. About 400MB in all. Slow page, but good quality fonts. Unfortunately, this server shut down. [Google]

Habian2000
[Toshiyuki Imamura]

Full Japanese/Latin font in the public domain, Habian2000. Alternate URL. The fonts: Habian2000, habian2k, habian2kh. The letters are monospaced and Courier-like. The fonts are based on the old bitmap fonts jiskan16-1990.bdf and jisksp16-1990.bdf, which were merged with newly designed characters by Toshiyuki Imamura and Hanataka Shinya. [Google]

Hajime Kawakami

Graphic designer, b. 1953, who started out as an industrial designer, and became a graphic designer in 1974. Won the 1990 Morisawa International Typeface Design Competition with an Honorable Mention in the Latin Category. Designer of Seed (2005, URW, a sans face), With Ink (2005, URW, a handprinted face), Wavy Rounded (2004, Bitstream), Hiromina03 (2003, kana and Latin), Rakugaki (2003, kana and Latin), Basala (2001), Vidro, Ching Mang (2003, dingbats based on a cartoon character Hajime created for a Japanese mag in the 1980s), Relax (2003), Relax Mix (2003), Komusubi (2005, informal face including Latin, Hiragana and Katakana), and Akebono (2001) at P22. He designed Letraset Magatami (2001), a contemporary face. MyFonts page, where you can buy P22 Akebono, P22 Basala, P22 Ching Mang, P22 Hiromina03, Magatama, P22 Rakugaki, P22 Relax, P22 Vidro, Wavy Rounded BT. He created FontForum Catcatcat (2005, URW, cat dingbats), FontForum Mond One and Two (2005, URW: construcyivist faces), and FontForum LightFit (2005, URW: a hairline sans). [Google]

Hakushu

Small commercial Japanese foundry specializing in handwritten and extreme brush fonts. Gorgeous stuff! [Google]

Hakusyu
[Masanori Maruoka]

Hakusyu is a Japanese font vendor. Their Hakusyu Kyoiku kanji fonts (HakusyuGokubutoKaisyoKyo, HakusyuGyosyoKyokan, HakusyuInsoutaiKyo, HakusyuKaisyoKyokan, HakusyuKointaiKyokan, HakusyuReisyoKyokan, HakusyuSeigyosyoKyo, HakusyuSousyoKyo, HakusyuTensyoKyokan, HakusyuTenkoinKyo), all made in 1998-1999 by Masanori Maruoka, can be downloaded here. See also here. The latter page has more Japanese font links and a small Latin font archive. Specilaizing in calligraphic and old writing style fonts. Recent additions: Geikai, Kyomadoka, Samurai, Shunpu, Karakusa, Tenshin, Hakuu, Seigetsu, Konshin, Ohka, Sousho, Inshou, Reisho, Gyosho, Koin, Kiwami, Kaisho. [Google]

Hakyusyu

This company sells a gorgeous artistic hand kanji face called Samurai. [Google]

HAM Fonts

Download some Japanese kanji fonts. [Google]

Hanazono

At Hanazono University in Japan, we find a free full kanji font called HanaMin (2007-2009). A part of this font was completed with the support of Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2005) and the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism (IRIZ), Hanazono University. [Google]

Handwritten Japanese fonts

Article by Kyoko and Uleshka for Ping Mag in 2006 on the handdrawn letters found on the streets of Japan. [Google]

Happy Child's Town
[Yokoyoko]

Original fonts by Yokoyoko: bmbold, bm-kirakira, bmshironuki, heart-emboss, heartfont, kakurin-Font, kerokero, kerorin. Alternate URL. [Google]

Happy Island

Japanese foundry, also called "Noize of Zappin". Their free Mac and PC fonts, all made in 2002-2003, include 25th-Miseducation, Bit-Boy!---d, Bit-Boy!, Dockin'-Dots-Bold, Dockin'-Dots, Don't-Make-Me-Blue, Go-Right!!---italic, I-wanna-be-a-Happy-Star!, It-is-so-Busy, Laser-Grill, Mozaix-Matrix-reMix---d, Mozaix-Matrix-reMix, Open-----Bind-*advanced---d, Open-<->-Bind-*Advanced, Open-<->-Bind, Piled-Boy,-Stackin'-Girl---d, Piled-Boy,-Stackin'-Girl, Pinch-Up-Bold, Pinch-Up, Shi-No-Bi---d, Shi-No-Bi, TYO-Jimbouchoh, TYO-Kamata, TYO-Kameido, TYO-Kichijohji, TYO-Monzen-nakachoh, TYO-Nishi-Shinjuku, TYO-Shiodome, TYO-Tsukiji, TYO-Udagawachoh, Transforming-Trancer, Vivid-*-Curry---d, Vivid-Curry, Vivid-Stew---d, Vivid-Stew, Wipe-in, Wipe-in, blinkin'-blicks, chill-out---c, chill-out---f, degaussed-pipeline, diecut, trickish-tribute. The Mozaix series is in a kitchen tile style. Most others are pixelized. Update in 2004: TYO-Jimbouchoh (gorgeous oriental simulation font), TYO-Kichijohji, TYO-Kameido, TYO-Kamata (pixel face), TYO-Monzen-nakachoh (labyrinth face), TYO-Nishi-Shinjuku (3d blocky look), TYO-Shiodome (multiline face), TYO-Tokiwa (oriental simulation face), TYO-Tsukiji, TYO-Tokyo (pixel face), TYO-Tokyo---d, TYO-Udagawachoh. [Google]

Hare Gon

Japanese commercial foundry related to Jikji Soft, Hanyang Systems and Yoon Design. Fonts:

• From Jikji Soft (Korean): KRJBatang120, KRJBatang125, KRJBatang130, KRJBatang140, KRJBatang150, KRJBatang210, KRJBatang220, KRJHangSer, KRJSongMyung, KRJDotum110, KRJDotum130, KRJDotum135, KRJDotum140, KRJDotum150, KRJDotum230, KRJDokDo, KRJFreeTourM, KRJGMokPan, KRJJunEum, KRJKidM, KRJMokPan, KRJMyungMoon, KRJNonSquare2M, KRJNonSquareM, KRJORyoun, KRJRGra, KRJSatGat, KRJSeVal, KRJSunFlowerM, KRJTimeMachineM, KRJWallin.
• From Hanyang Information & Communications Co: KRHYMokPTrace-Bold, KRHYMokPTrace-ExtraBold, KRHYMokPTrace-Medium, KRHYNamu-Bold, KRHYNamu-Light, KRHYNamu-Medium, KRHYPillGi-Light, KRHYPMokGak-Bold, KRHYPMokPan-Bold, KRHYPMokPan-Light, KRHYPop-Bold, KRHYPop-Light, KRHYPop-Medium, KRHYPost-Bold, KRHYPost-Light, KRHYPost-Medium, KRHYSam-Bold, KRHYSam-Light, KRHYSam-Medium, KRHYSan-Bold, KRHYSan-Light, KRHYSan-Medium, KRHYSeNse-Bold, KRHYSeNse-Light, KRHYSinGraPhic-Medium, KRHYTaJa-Bold, KRHYTaJa-Light, KRHYTaJa-Medium, KRHYTaJaFull-Bold, KRHYTaJaFull-Light, KRHYTaJaFull-Medium, KRHYTeBack-Bold, KRHYYeaSo-Medium, KRHYYeaSol-Bold, KRHYYeatGul-Bold, KRHYYeatGul-Medium, KRHYYoyo-Bold, KRHYYoyo-Light, KRHYYoyo-Medium, KRHYBackSong-Bold, KRHYBada-Bold, KRHYBada-Light, KRHYBada-Medium, KRHYBaram-Bold, KRHYBaram-Light, KRHYBaram-Medium, KRHYBuDle-Medium, KRHYBuwhaL-Bold, KRHYBuwhaL-Light, KRHYBuwhaL-Medium, KRHYChunjyin-A, KRHYChunjyin-B, KRHYCrystal-Bold, KRHYCrystal-Light, KRHYCrystal-Medium, KRHYCSWheysang-Bold, KRHYCSWheysang-ExtraBold, KRHYCSWheysang-Medium, KRHYDongNyuk-Bold, KRHYDongNyuk-Light, KRHYDongNyuk-Medium, KRHYGraPhic-Bold, KRHYGraPhic-Medium, KRHYHaeSo-Medium, KRHYInyoen-Bold, KRHYInyoen-Light, KRHYInyoen-Medium, KRHYKang-Bold, KRHYKang-Light, KRHYKang-Medium, KRHYKumgangsan-Bold, KRHYKumgangsan-ExtraBold, KRHYKumgangsan-Light, KRHYKumgangsan-Medium, KRHYMokGak-Bold, KRHYMokPan-Bold, KRHYMokPan-Light, KRHYGungSo-Bold, KRHYMyeongJo-Bold, KRHYMyeongJo-ExtraBold, KRHYMyeongJo-Light, KRHYMyeongJo-Medium, KRHYMyeongJo-Ultra, KRHYSinMun-MyeongJo, KRHYSinMyeongJo-Bold, KRHYSinMyeongJo-Medium, KRHYSooN-MyeongJo, KRHYGoThic-Bold, KRHYGoThic-ExtraBold, KRHYGoThic-Light, KRHYGoThic-Medium, KRHYHeadLine-Bold, KRHYHeadLine-Medium, KRHYKHeadLine-Bold, KRHYKHeadLine-Medium, KRHYRGoThic-Bold, KRHYRGoThic-Medium, KRHYSuPungSun-Bold, KRHYSuPungSun-ExtraBold, KRHYSuPungSun-Light, KRHYSuPungSun-Medium, KRHYTeGoThic-Bold, KRHYWulNunDo-Bold, KRHYWulNunDo-ExtraBold, KRHYWulNunDo-Light, KRHYWulNunDo-Medium.
• From Yoon Design: KRYD-Mincho110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160; KRYD-Gothic110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 220, 230, 240, 250; KRYD-Yoon [B, M, L, UL]; KRYD-GamenB, KRYD-GamenM, KRYD-GamenL, KRYD-HawheB, KRYD-HawheM, KRYD-HawheL, KRYD-TogeB, KRYD-TogeM, KRYD-TogeL, KRYD-SapphireB, KRYD-SapphireM, KRYD-SapphireL, KRYD-KaisouB, KRYD-KaisouM, KRYD-KaisouL, KRYD-ChildB, KRYD-ChildM, KRYD-ChildL, KRYD-GyosonB, KRYD-GyosonM, KRYD-GyosonL, KRYD-TonboB, KRYD-TonboM, KRYD-TonboL, KRYD-KasasagiB, KRYD-KasasagiM, KRYD-KasasagiL, KRYD-DirtyB, KRYD-DirtyM, KRYD-DirtyL, KRYD-PanchiGo, KRYD-PanchiMin, KRYD-SaleB, KRYD-SaleM, KRYD-SaleL, KRYD-KakkouB, KRYD-KakkouM, KRYD-KakkouL, KRYD-KaiB, KRYD-KaiM, KRYD-KaiL, KRYD-YamabikoB, KRYD-YamabikoM, KRYD-YamabikoL, KRYD-ShosetsuB, KRYD-ShosetsuM, KRYD-ShosetsuL.

Haregon

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Hatelabo

A list of links to useful free fonts for Latin and Japanese. [Google]

Hatena Diary

Japanese type news. Not updated since 2005. [Google]

Heart Font

Three kanji/kana/Latin fonts by Zen and Syoko: heart-font-by-syoko, Heart-Font-by-zEn, Heart-Font(w)-by-zEn. Free, truetype. Alternate URL. [Google]

Heita Higaki

Japanese designer of the experimental face Kyokon (1998), and the techno faces Iyopon (2004-2007) and Iyopon Rounded (2004-2007). Other fonts include range (1996), C-Orange (1996), Alastor (1996), Open Mind (1995) and Frutima (1997, a blend of Frutiger and Optima). [Google]

Henry Warwick

New Jersey native who lives in San Francisco. He states: "Over the years I've had the good fortune to be very involved with photolettering and type design. In the 1980's I set headlines, letter by letter by letter, on a VGC Typositor at Phil's Photolettering in Washington DC. The desktop computer quickly destroyed that entire industry, and that is how I became involved with computer graphics. In the early 1990s, I designed type for FontBank, and consulted for several other type companies, including Microsoft and Galoob Toys. It's nearly impossible to make a living in type design these days, as the industry was basically done in by a combination of legal precedents and rampant piracy. Having worked on "conventional" / Wester / Roman fonts for so long, I've acquired a preference for unusual or obscure fonts or alphabets. I am always available for type design work or consulting." His designs (not downloadable) include Coptic Chelt, Fruthrak Sans, Ojibway Futurae, Cyrillic-Helv-Flash-8pt, KTR-katakana10, Celestia, Daggers, Enochian Times and Nugsoth. [Google]

Hermil

Designer of the font "hg10". [Google]

Hershey fonts
[A.V. Hershey]

The Hershey Fonts are stroke-based fonts that were originally created by Dr. A.V. Hershey while working at the U. S. National Bureau of Standards. Alternate link. The description of the strokes is done according to a scheme invented by Hershey. Free download of the English and Japanese font sets. [Google]

Hideki Inaba

Tokyo based designer and head of Hideki Inaba Design. Designer of TEST (katakana, 1997), sold at Font Pavilion. At Shift Factory: Musasabi, Throw Underthrow, Note Font. WDFB (2001, Hideki Inaba Design) was made for a Japanese children's clothing company. He also designed the dotted line font Designate (1999). [Google]

Hidemi Kurishashi

Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic/Greek/Kana/Kanji handwriting font Zatuji. [Google]

Hideo Akiba

Designer of Sousui, the bronze prize in the 6th Morisawa Awards International Typeface Design Competition, 1999. A simple, light and elegant kanji font. [Google]

Hinting and Japanese fonts
[Hiroshi Utumi]

Hiroshi Utumi states: Hinting is not good for square characters (Japanese, Chinese etc). Run kcontrol and disable hinting please. $ kcontrol Font -> Settings -> Hinting style -> Choose "None". His advice is for Linux users. Mire specifically: see here. [Google]

Hirofumi Suzuki

Hirofumi Suzuki's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Kerpentine is a katakana font. [Google]

Hiroki Mighty (or: Mighty's Notebook)
[Hiroki Inoue]

Free handwritten kanji fonts by Hiroki Inoue: Maitei-Kaisho-Pro-T (2005), Maitei-Kaigyo-Beginners-S (2004), Maitei-Kaigyo-Beginners-T, Maitei-Sosho-. There is also a demo version Mighty's-Kaisho-Pro-Eval (2003). And by Jirou: yuta_maru, Yuta-Semicircle (letters made out of semicircles), yuta-Underline, yutapon_Coding_Plus_BMP, yutapon_Coding-PlusBMP-spc. Some of these are full handwritten-style kanji fonts. [Google]

Hiromasa Mori

Hiromasa Mori's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Talk is a katakana font. [Google]

Hiromi

Free kanji font, Hiromi (handwriting). Alternate URL. [Google]

Hiroshima University

Big Japanese free font archive. Includes the free fonts that come with GIMP (from URW), many BDF and PK bitmap fonts, Kanji bitmap fonts, X-Windows fonts. Plus useful installation instructions for X-Windows/UNIX platforms. Lots of links to UNIX utilities and software. [Google]

Honey and Death
[Mitsutoshi Nobusawa]

Honey and Death offers free Mac fonts designed by Mitsutoshi Nobusawa: Spacy has letters made out of bubbles, Layerface is a comic book font, Blindfaith (2001) is a striped font family, Constellation and Dotline are dots and lines fonts, Sparkling is a graph theorist's font, Saigi and Tansen are kana versions of this, and Ryousan is a script kana font. Also, Lovedrops (2004), Tapefont (2004), Strongcil (2004, stencil), Connectline (fifties face), Zigzag, Blackoron, Galaxyface, Judaslike, Fatfont, Griffinize, Paddleface, Cooper Black in kana (2004), Makestencil (2004), Honeycomb (2004), Keymaps (2004, a dot font), Fatfont (2004), BlackoronAlp, BlackoronKat, CooberBlackKat, CooberBlackOblKat, DotlineKat, GalaxyfaceHirAno, GalaxyfaceHirReg, GalaxyfaceKatAno, GalaxyfaceKatReg, HoneycombOut, HoneycombReg, HoneycombSol, Ironbeadsfont, KnitfontA, KnitfontB, Lightningvolt, Lovedrops, MakestencilAlp, MechamaruAlp (2006), MechamaruKat, TapefontAlp, TapefontAlt, TapefontKat, Westerner (2006). Direct download of the type 1 fonts and the truetype fonts. [Google]

Honya
[Rufu Suzuki]

Free handwritten kanji fonts by Rufu Suzuki: Nikukyu, HONYA-JI-F, HONYA-JI. He also made the free Latin pixel font series called PITIJI. [Google]

How to Compile and Install Ghostscript 5.50 + Japanese Kanji fonts

Instructions on ghostscript 5.50 and vflib, kanji, Wada kanji (Uix), and kanji (Windows), by B.H. Far at the Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Saitama University. [Google]

HTML International

Japanese company specializing in Chinese character sets. You can download sample TrueType files (single byte). HTML International is the USA counterpart of Dynalab in Hong-Kong, Japan and Taiwan. [Google]

HTMLCOM's Chinese and Kanji fonts

Bruce H. Liu. [Google]

Hui

Hui designed this free Japanese handwriting fonts in 2004: HuiFont, HuiFontP. In 2005-2006, OhisamaFont and MakibaFont were added. [Google]

Hwkatakana
[Gernot Hassenpflug]

Gernot Hassenpflug provides half-width katakana Type 1 fonts in SJIS encoding are provided to integrate with the Wadalab fonts for use with, for example, the CJK package. The origin of the font is the Wadalab gothic font katakana glyphs, which have been modified to make up the JIS X 0201 set of half-width katakana characters using Fontforge. The Wadalab fonts need to be available for this package to work. The original Wadalab fonts were designed by Tetsuro Tanaka. [Google]

Hyperion Graphics
[Eisuke Furukawa]

Hyperion, a Japanese outfit, has commercial fonts, mostly made by Eisuke Furukawa: Gigantic, Inferno, Hellfire and Starlight9 are all pixel or futuristic fonts. Eisuke Furukawa also made Zodiacok (1999), Falcon and Believer, another pixel font. Other fonts, some of which used to be shareware: Biomechanic, Capsule-3, Controler-demo, DotfontEng, TECSCRIR, TECSCRIS, Hexaglamorous, Mirage/Illusion, Overloader, Es, ConTrolerdemo, DotFontKat, MirageJap, Overloader, PhantomK. Font Pavilion site. At Shift Factory, we find FBI, Hyperion, Techno Script, Dreamer, Biomechanic 2.0, Controller-demo, Capsule 3, Falcon, Controller, and Galaxy. [Google]

I Love Epson

Great full free kanji truetype fonts: epgyobld, epgyosho, epkaisho, epkgobld, epkyouka, epmarugo, epmgobld, epminbld. [Google]

I2f

Original fonts, mostly katakana and hiragana, but also some Latin alphabets. Some pixel and manga fonts, but overwhelmingly, this collection is techno. The font names: ArabiaConsole (2002), ArtificialSatellite, AstroN, AstroT, BiscuitBank, Cocoon, ComBattler, CyborgClassic, DanceMixN, DanceMixR, Discotic, DragonBird, EosE, EosK, FatManLite, FirstGundam, FuwafuwaFururuHS, FuwafuwaFururuHW, FuwafuwaFururuKS, FuwafuwaFururuKW, GalaxyI, GalaxyN (2002, pixel font), HappyChicken, Hearts (parts one and two), HyperLalabellEI, HyperLalabellEN, HyperLalabellJI, HyperLalabellJN, Ideon, JointBump, Jojomix, KoukakuE (2002, pixel font), KoukakuJ, MacrossE (2002, pixel font), MacrossJ, MechaPlate, MobileSuit, Potted, PrePrePretty, Raideen, Robodatch, ShortPart, SpaceResortLite, Sunplaza, SuperLovelyI, SuperLovelyN, TechBonR, TechBonS, TechnoBrush, Thoroughbred, TrigunMaximumE, TrigunMaximumJ, TumblinDiceE (dice: note that there are errors in the dice!), TumblinDiceJ, Vifam, VitaminTabletE, VitaminTabletJ, Xanadu (2000, pixel font), Zambot J Lite. [Google]

iAi-jp (was Fontage and Kivart)

Free Mac/PC fonts at this Japanese site, including several brush faces, some dingbats of samurai fighters, and several experimental and techno faces: 26Floor, Ange-Italic, Ange-Regular, Ange-Symbol, Anneau, Asie, Ballon-Alphabet, Ballon-HKF, Ballon-KKF, Canne, Canon, Dactylo, Fantome, Faux, fleur, Garcon, Glace-HIRAKANA, Glace-KATAKANA, Goutte-Alphabet, Goutte-HKF, Goutte-KKF, iAi-Alphabet, iAi-HKF, iAi-KKF, iAi-SF, Ivresse-fleurs, Moped, Neige, Ombre, Paresser, Phoque, Pollen-Alphabet, Pollen-HKF, Pollen-KKF, Prise, Punition, Raffine-Hiragana, Raffine-Symbol, Ruban, Slide, Stitch-Beads, Stitch-Single, Stitch-Vase, Stitch-draft, Vitesse, Volant. [Google]

Iceman's Emulation Page

OS X fonts in truetype: HardGothicNormal (squarish; a full kanji font as well), AppleGaramond-Bold, AppleGaramond-BoldItalic, AppleGaramond-Italic, AppleGaramondLight, AppleGaramondLight-Italic, AppleGaramond (all by Bitstream, 1991), LucidaGrande (Bigelow&Holmes). [Google]

idfont (was: Inoue Design)
[Inoue Masaru]

Inoue Design (idfont) is Inoue Masaru's Japanese foundry: there are about 30 original kana fonts, often of the comic book style. They are named Kaiseki (2003), Kaifu2 (2003) and Kaifu3 (2003). Other fonts: Kairyu (full kanji font), Kai (kanji font), Kaiseki (kanji font). Kairyua and the kanji fonts have a good representation of Latin, Cyrillic and other characters. The full list of font names: Kaifu2 (2003, thin Latin letters), Kaifu3 (2003, thin Latin letters), kairyu1 (2003, thick roman letters, full kana and kanji set), kairyu3 (2003, thick roman letters, full kana and kanji set), kaiseki, kana001, kana001p, kana002, kana002p, kana003, kana003p, kana004, kana004p, kana005, kana005p, kana006, kana006p, kana007, kana007p, kana008, kana008p, kana009, kana009p, kana010, kana010p, kana011, kana011p, kana012, kana012p, kana013, kana013p, kana014, kana014p, kana015, kana015p, kana016, kana016p, kana017, kana018, kana018p, kana019, kana019p, kana020, kana020p, kana021, kana021p, kana022, kana022p, kana023, kana023p, kana024, kana024p, kana025, kana025p, kana026, kana026p, kana027, kana027p, kana028, kana028p, kana029, kana029P. Alternate URL. People are saying good things about his hairline sans id-Kaze2OT-Light. [Google]

Igor C. Barros

Sao-Paulo-based illustrator who designed Arigatou-Kamisama (2000), Mottley-HorneyHiragana (2000), Morte e Vida Severina (1997). [Google]

Inaka Software

Mike McGee sells a Japanese Font Pack for Mac OS users, which has all hiragana and katakana symbols, and some kanji characters. Some (free?) downloads. [Google]

Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan

A large free Japanese kanji font that also covers IPA and comes in several styles: IPAGothic, IPAMincho, IPAPGothic, IPAPMincho, IPAUIGothic. [Google]

interweave

Commercial katakana/hiragana and Latin fonts such as the Moosaka family (Moosaka stands for Minimalism Obsessed Oosaka) and the Container family. These fonts are adjusted for screen displays. [Google]

Introduction to Japanese calligraphy

Grahan Hawker's intro page to Japanese calligraphy. [Google]

IS X 0213:2004 vs Unicode mapping table
[T. Fujiwara]

Listing of glyphs with their Kuten, JIS, SJIS and Unicode numbers, as well as their Unicode names. [Google]

+ism
[Matius Gerardo Grieck]

The gorgeous fonts by London-based Matius Gerardo Grieck at this commercial foundry include: Dysthymia, Typographiction, Idiosynoptium (very very original), Arsmagna, Transhuman, Xyperformulaic, Requiem (phenomenal face!), Karoshi, Nanoscopics, Kunstware (techno font), Circumcision (1999, simulating Hebrew), CQN-Molecular, Anthropolymorphics (2000), Arsmagna, Dysthymia, Hypertexturion, Karoshi, Metastases, Netopath, Transhuman (has a katakana component), Transkryption (one of the latter fonts in the family was done by Tsuyoshi Nakazako). Great web page (but a bit slow). Some of the fonts are also available at T26/MyFonts. [Google]

Isotope

Free kana and Latin destructionist fonts by Shin (Isotope): S_Series-0001 through S-Series-0017. Alternate URL. [Google]

Itou font

Japanese commercial font maker. [Google]

Itou Inzai

Small commercial Japanese foundry specializing in glyphs used in historical documents. [Google]

ITP Berkeley

A 2MB file Fonts.zip has a full Unicode font FGGYM_0 (with Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Chinese), and the font Transistor. [Google]

Ivory

"Ryo" is the Japanese designer in 2006 of mixed Latin/hiragana handwriting fonts: AP-hiragana, APJapanesefontBLUEt, APJapanesefontBLUE. The latter two also have handwritten kanji letters. Free downloads. [Google]

Iwata

Commercial Japanese foundry. [Google]

Jackal

Two Chinese/Japanese fonts. [Google]

Jafont

Japanese font site links. [Google]

Ja-Font

Japanese font links. [Google]

Jan Poland on Japan Fonts

Jan Poland explains how to work with Japanese and CJK fonts in LaTeX. [Google]

Japan Typography association

Japanese brush calligraphy

Japanese brush calligraphy (shodo) comes in various styles:

• tensho: the style of seals.
• reisho: scribe's style.
• kaisho (square or block style): write one stroke after another. Time-consuming, and not often used.
• gyosho: semi-cursive style, a bit less legible than kaisho, but more fluent.
• sosho: cursive style, even less legible, but often used.

Japanese calligraphy

Introductory page with links. [Google]

Japanese font links

Huge list of Japanese font links by the ComStar company. [Google]

Japanese font technology

Great article by Ross Evans, president of Fontworks International Limited on Japanese font technology. [Google]

Japanese Fonts 01
[Hiroshi Utumi]

Links to free Japanese and Chinese fonts. Plus a free direct downloads, such as

• IPAGothic, IPAPGothic, IPAUIGothic, IPAMincho, IPAPMincho.
• UmePlus-Gothic, UmePlus-P-Gothic by Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo. The Ume fonts were modified by Hiroshi Utumi so that the Latin and kana part are taken from the M+ fonts.
• UmePlus-CL-Gothic, UmePlus-CLP-Gothic by Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo. The Ume fonts were modified by Hiroshi Utumi so that the Latin and kana part are taken from the M+ fonts.
• KonatuPlus fonts (KonatuPlus Light and KonatuPlus Mono Light) created by Mitiya Masuda and Hiroshi Utumi from Konatu (for kanji) and the M+ family (for Latin and kana).
• M2Ipa-Gothic, M2Ipa-P-Gothic by 1990-2003 Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo, and the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. These are modified IPA and M+ fonts for Japanese.

Japanese free font

Links to free Japanese fonts. [Google]

Japanese sake barrel fonts

Article by Kyoko for Ping Mag in 2005 on the letters found on sake barrels, all dating back to the Edo era, and thus called edo-moji. The characters with swooshy wind-blown endings are called hige-moji (hige is a whisker). The most frquent character is the ultra-black one, naturally called sumo-moji. The more subtle Kanteiryu is designed from the image of a female Kabuki character. [Google]

Japanese Standards Association

Association that developed some Japanese fonts, such as the Heisei Kaku Gothic, Heisei Maru Gothic and Heisei Mincho families at Adobe. IBM commissioned their own versions of the Heisei family. These IBM versions can be bought and licensed from Ascender Corporation. [Google]

Japanese Unicode Fonts

Japanese Unicode font page by David McCreedy. Has tens of downloads as well. [Google]

Japanese Unicode Fonts

Japanese Unicode font page by David McCreedy. Has tens of downloads as well. [Google]

japanreference.com

Japanese font archive. [Google]

Jaspell

The Jaspell Jaldi multilingual word processing software comes with three free truetype fonts: JHIRAG01, JKATAK01, JROMAJ01, for hiragana, katakana and romaji. [Google]

Jayhan
[Sim Jun Han]

An archive with 36 display style katakana fonts. Main page with more blogging on Latin and other typography. It is run by Sim Jun Han ("Jayhan") who graduated in graphic design from KBU International College, and now works in a games production company called John Galt Games Malaysia, located in Kuala Lumpur. [Google]

J-brain

Original free Mac fonts: Frippa, Hayarn, Fifth-rotten, Fifth, Tisyo, Cream, Snoop, Hawaian, Mikan, Orange, Esnical, Milmil, Bazaar. Type 1 and truetype. Half the fonts are katakana, and half are Latin. Dead link. [Google]

JDIC

Japanese dictionary. [Google]

JETAA Region 9

Links to Japanese computing and fonts. [Google]

Jim Breen

Australian researcher and Japanese typography expert. Maintains an on-line Japanese dictionary, and offers many useful links on Japanese. [Google]

Jim Breen's Japanese ftp site

Jim Breen, Department of Digital Systems, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia 3168. The files ie3lpkja.exe and JpnSupp.exe contain the extremely useful full kanji fonts MSGothic and MSMincho (truetype). [Google]

Jim Breen's Japanese page

Jim Breen's useful page on Japanese word processing. Tons of links and goodies. [Google]

Jim Kurrasch's Kanji
[Jim Kurrasch]

Jim's Kanji are shareware kanji characters (2550 in all) drawn in 1994 by Jim Kurrasch from Goleta, CA. James Kenneth Kurrasch (1948-2003), a Vietnam veteran and Japanese sword expert, died in 2003. His fonts can be downloaded here and here. They are converted to type 1 in 1999 by Jim Parsons (Verge). [Google]

JIS codes

Japanese character coding scheme. [Google]

Jiyukobo

Commercial Japanese foundry which makes and sells many full Japanese fonts. Free trial font. Alternate URL. Nifty Japanese font design explanations. [Google]

J-Junction
[Y. Ishibashi]

Free Windows fonts by Y. Ishibashi at J-Junction: Dancing Doll, NiseHangle, DetaraMe, Innchiki (hiragana), Jichitai (katakana), Dancing (dingbats), Morse, Gaiden (wonderful deep sea creatures dingbats), MachineGO. [Google]

Johan Prag

Johan Prag is a Swedish Art Director living and working in Tokyo, Japan. Before coming to Tokyo, he was part of renowned design agency Stockholm Design Lab where he among other things worked on the rebranding of Scandinavian Airlines System. His typefaces include SUN (for UA's SUN album), and Breathe (for UA's Breathe album). [Google]

Jojo Font

Original handwritten kana font Bizareadventure (2002), made by "out of base". [Google]

JRPM noarch

Japanese kanji fonts in truetype: wadalab-gothic, watanabe-mincho. Page by Kazuhisa Furusawa. [Google]

Julmeme
[Julien Mercier]

Foundry in Tokyo. Creators of the the techno faces Juleme Kun (2009) and Kaminari Kun (2009). The foundry is run by Swiss-born Julien Mercier (b. 1983), who works as a graphic designer in Tokyo. [Google]

Jun Itadani

Designer of Millio NN (multiple master katakana), sold at Font Pavilion. [Google]

Junichi Omi

Japanese designer of Omiyage (2007, Maniackers, with Masayuki Sato), a simple script font with Latin, katakana and hiragana versions. [Google]

K. Yoshida

Designer of PictureFont (kana, Latin handwriting). [Google]

K3 Online
[Ukino]

K3 Online is a Japanese font outfit offering fonts designed by Ukino. These include UkinoMaruHira, UkinoMaruHira, UkinoMaruHiraLight, UkinoMaruHiraNormal, UkinoMaruKanaNormal, UkinoPopnCircleNormal (dot matrix font, 2002). [Google]

Kakibito Sirazu

Japanese foundry with experimental kana fonts: ahiru-tate, ahiru-yoko, ajichi, katakamuna. [Google]

kanatran

Two free truetype fonts, PJ-Hiragana, and PJ-Katakana. [Google]

Kandata

Full Japanese/Latin font, Kandata. In the public domain too. [Google]

Kandent

From Nippon Information & Science Ltd (1994), the full Unicode kanji/Latin/Cyrillic typefaces Haru-Regular, Haru-Bold, Haru-Tohaba-Regular. [Google]

Kanji fonts

Page about kanji fonts, in Italian. [Google]

Kaolla Su

Designer of the free handprinted kana face Sakura_Irohanihoheto (2008). Born in 1988, Kaolla lives in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. [Google]

Kaori Takahashi

Kaori Takahashi's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion. Look for the katakana fonts AirPacking and Kome. She also designed Crawler (1998, Fontaxe Digitype). [Google]

Kasai Hakuh

Kasai Hakuh's site called The longing fonts has a few free fonts grouped under the heading TenjiFont. They appear to be fonts for Braille. [Google]

Katakana Text Key V3.3

Free katakana truetype font. [Google]

Kataoka Design Works

Japanese foundry. Commercial fonts include the extensive Iroha Gothic family (Popura, Momi, Kaede, Matu, Icho, Tubaki, Keyaki, Kiri, Ume, Momiji, Nire, Sakura) and the Marumin family (Tikuma, Kiso, Shinano, Fuji, Yoshino, Katura). Alternate URL. [Google]

Katsuya Kawata

Codesigner of Junkissa (Latin/katakana/hiragana font family), sold at Font Pavilion. [Google]

Kawasemi's font main

Commercial Japanese fonts by Kawasemi. [Google]

Kaz Oomori

Designer of Katakana Naniwa Scratch, sold at Font Pavilion. [Google]

Kazuhiro Nakazato

Designer of OS Cinema (1998, hiragana), sold at Font Pavilion. [Google]

Kazuhisa Furasawa

Wadalab-Gothic and Wadalab-Mincho kanji fonts in truetype format. Free. [Google]

Kazuyoshi Ishikawa

Japanese creator in 2002 of the oriental simulation faces faces KZBLADERUNNER1 and KZBLADERUNNER2, the 3d faces KZCUBIStSKELEtON, KZCUBIStSOLID, the techno faces KZEXCELALP and KZWEDNESDAYAL, the psychedelic face KZGRAVItY, and the display faceKZtURBO. He lives in Tochigi and was born in 1969. Dafont link. [Google]

KBS Japan

Commercial type 1 fonts for Chinese (DLCHei, DLCSong, DLCKaishu, DLCFangSong, DLCZongYi, DLCWeiBei, GBYen, HeitiCSEG, TankuinEG, HeitiEG), Thai (DBErawan, DBFongNam, DBNarai, DBPradit), Hangul (HYGothic, HYTeGoThic, JCLIGHT, HYMyeongJo), Vietnamese (Vina family), Cyrillic (Vina, Helvetica, Newton), and Arab (Geezah, Nadeem, LotusTT, Yakoot, DedanAB). [Google]

Kei Homepage
[Kei Matsumoto]

Two free original font sets by Kei Matsumoto: KeiBoots (free grungy truetype Latin character font), KakuKaku1 (3 Kanji font sets, unclear whether free or not). See also here and here. [Google]

Ken Graphix
[Ken Hoshino]

Ken Hoshino's free fonts for the Mac (T1 and TT): grasshopper, plus a katakana font. Ken Hoshino (b. 1969) lives in Aichi, Japan. [Google]

Ken Lunde

Dr. Ken Lunde is Manager of CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA. He holds a Ph.D. (1994) in Linguistics from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wrote Understanding Japanese Information Processing (O'Reilly & Associates, 1993), and CJKV Information Processing (O'Reilly & Associates, 1999). In 2010, Adobe will release the first genuinely proportional Japanese font, Kazuraki (by Japanese type designer Ryoko Nishizuka), which was developed at Adobe in 2009 under his management. [Google]

Kenichi Uehara

Japanese designer of The Writing of Atlantis (2005). [Google]

Kenji Ohta

Dot matrix truetype fonts by Kenji Ohta: 35dot-LCD_E, 35dot-LCD_J. Latin and kana versions. [Google]

Kenji Takeuchi

Kenji Takeuchi's Mac fonts (free) are beautiful. The list: 24H-A, 5ZIRA, AJfry, Birthday, Country Road-A, Country Road-H, Country Road-K, Diet, Heavy Q-A, Heavy Q-H, Heavy Q-K, Hirarin, Janken, Jinba, Okumusasi, OshaberiCat, Panic, Picnic, Satellite-K, Sub3, Takao, Take1, Teatime, funrun, kannaduki, pomeranian, satellite-N. [Google]

Kenjo Kito

Designer of the Japanese font CKbonji-Font (1999). [Google]

Kentaro Fujimoto

Designer of Electronica-Akihabara, Electronica-Manseibashi, Electronica-Sotokanda, all sales-type katakana; and Urban Children (romaji, hira, kata), sold at Font Pavilion. Kentaro is the cocreator of Nendo. [Google]

KF Software

A free kana truetype font with calligraphic lettering by "Kyuh": KF HentaiKanaFont. Alternate URL. [Google]

KF Studio
[Sachie Shimokawa]

Japanese foundry of Sachie Shimokawa. Free fonts made by them include KFhimaji, KFhimajiMONO. Subpage with marker fonts for Latin such as Fel and Toho and for kana such as Mojii, all dated 2003-2005. [Google]

Kimassiya

Asian font archive. Carries Dynafont, CREOFont, Vodafone Opentype, Ricoh Valuefonts, Osaka.ttc, and more. [Google]

Kimie Suzaki

Kimie Suzaki's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Flamingo is a Latin-Japano font family (1999). [Google]

Kinema Moon Graphics
[Yuichi Nakagawa]

Kinema Moon Graphics has Yuichi Nakagawa's fonts. Some free fonts: Betulehem, Fude (2008, handwriting), Fushi, Fuu, GolgothaObliqueE, GolgothaObliqueJ, Golgotha, HOSHI, Hane, InKanji, In, Ishi, Ito, KADOkaku, KADOmaru, Kakato, KATACHI, Kodama, Koto, Looper, Mizu, Moleculemodel, Namida, OTOchouha, OTOtanpa, Sakura, Shiziku, Sinobi, Sora, Sputnik (1998), Take, TenRegularE, Tsuno (gothic), Tsuta, V2, Yoru. Commercial fonts: Toge (2007-2008, gothic), Yari (2008, a pointy blackletter), Some of its commercial fonts are sold through Font Pavilion. Check here for the very nice medieval Spanish-look font Ibara (Roman and Japanese versions). In Font Pavilion 12 (2000), SORA-RegularE and SORA-RegularJ. [Google]

Kinkido

Gorgeous Japanese kanji fonts. No downloads. [Google]

Kinkido

Medium-sized commercial Japanese foundry. [Google]

KI's Atelier Moonglow

Japanese foundry, est. 2003, which made the (incomplete) kana/Latin display font Doraemoji, the Hankyu Station font, 55font*, DOUTOR (stencil), The-Font-of-DRUAGA-, guruhude (curly kana), HABBO, KAIJI-no-"ZAWA", Laundry, PSX! (2003, futuristic design), Quintetto, UNAO-JAPON-PRO (handwritten kanji face), UNAO-JAPON, UO-FONT, womusubikun, Strawberry (2004), Goonies (2004), Siusendo (2004, handwritten kanji face), Hentaikana (2004), Osushi (2004, sushi ding font), Strawberry, Ozen (2004, sushi ding font). Alternate URL. Font names: 70:nine-round, Akou-47, 70:ARAHABIKA, 70:BIKKORO, 70:D-FONT, DORAEMOJI, 70:DOTTY-SQUARE, 70:DOUToU, 70:The-Font-of-DRUAGA, 70:GOOONIES, GuruguruFudemoji, 70:HABOBO, 70:Hankyu-Station, HenTaiKana, 70:O-DE-N, 70:O-SU-SHI, 70:PSPS, 70:Quintetto, 70:reclining-chair, Siusen-Do-Font, Siusen-Do-Font, 70:SPOOK, 70:-STRAWBERRY-, 70:Sakura-Valuation-Stamp, 70:Syouwa-Nostalgie, 70:TIROLING, 70:TOYBOX, UNAO-JAPON-pro--new--, UNAO-JAPON-PRO, UNAO-JAPON, 70:UO-FONT, 70:womusubikun, 70:Wonta, 70:ZAWA-ZAWA, 70:Laundry, 70:Mushroom-Land, 70:M*O*O*N*G*L*O*W (moon phases). [Google]

KIY

A free Japanese (kana/Latin/kanji) handprinted font, Rufuji. [Google]

Kiyocchi

Designers of Kaos (Latin and kana). [Google]

Kochi fonts

Free kanji truetype fonts Kochi-Mincho and Kochi-Gothic. [Google]

Koji Naito

Koji Naito's Instant Font series is sold through Font Pavilion: Airline (1997), Capsule (LED), Chocolate, Hamster (alphadings, 1997), Lemonade (katakana). On the Font Pavilion 08 CD: Astronaut 2001 (1998), Mechanics (1998). Both fonts have roman and katakana versions. [Google]

Koji Nakamaru

Page by Koji Nakamaru from which you can download these CID fonts (PostScript) for Japanese: Kochi-Mincho (like Ryumin-Light), Kochi-Gothic (like GothicBBB-Medium). [Google]

Kool Type Lab
[Naonori Kato]

Kool Type Lab sells its techno fonts through Font Pavilion: Jerusalem, Spacecraft. The type designer is Naonori Kato. Katakana versions included. [Google]

Korean Computing and Tools

Links to Korean fonts and font software. Includes six Type 1 Mac or PC fonts for free download: these are Frank's Breve fonts that allow the transcription of Korean and Japanese according to the systems of McCune-Reischauer and Hepburn. Mainly Mac-oriented page. [Google]

Koueisha

Makers of commercial Japanese brush/calligraphic fonts. [Google]

Kouga

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Kouga Grotesque

Original Japanese type family. [Google]

Kouzan

Japanese designer of AoyagiKouzanFont2, AoyagiKouzanFontSousyo2, both handwritten kanji fonts. Alternate URL. See also here. [Google]

Krovha

Designers of the commercial font (Latin, kana) Uscita. [Google]

K's Bookshelf
[Yoshio Kobayashi]

K's bookshelf has great free fonts made by Yoshio Kobayashi: WeatherJ (2001, Japanese Weather Chart Symbols), RoadSignJ (2001, Japanese road sign symbols), Shogi (2001, Japanese Shogi pieces), and Elements Kanji. [Google]

Kubisuji

Designer of the Latin/kana pixel font Font-666 and of Bonji-Font. Alternate URL. [Google]

Kuusou

Designers of the Koubou and Fontametsuti fonts. Alternate URL. [Google]

Ku-Wa

Designers of the Syoubou font. Alternate URL. [Google]

Kyoko Katsumoto

Designer of Logo Jr Black (2007, with Shigeru Katsumoto), a winner in the TDC2 2008 competition. Katsumoto is associated with Visual Design Lab in Japan. [Google]

Kyouzai (or: Techno Advance Company)

Free fonts: TAbimyou_Add, TAbimyou_Add_p, both handwritten kanji fonts by the Techno Advance Company, 2003-2005. [Google]

LaTeX Navigator
[Denis Roegel]

General links on typography and fonts, compiled by Denis Roegel (with earlier contributions by Karl Tombre who is no longer involved). Very, very useful. This page contains, among other things:

• METAFONT for Beginners (Geoffrey Tobin)
• The METAFONT book (TeX source) (Donald E. Knuth)
• How to Create Your Own Symbols in METAFONT and for use in LaTeX Documents (Richard Lin)
• Milieu -- METAFONT and Linux: A Personal Computing Milieu (Thomas Dunbar)
• Simple drawings with METAFONT (Zdenek Wagner)
• Some METAFONT Techniques (article from TUGboat, 10 pages) (Yannis Haralambous)
• List of all available Metafont fonts
• Liam Quin's Metafont Guide (last version)
• MetaFog: Converting METAFONT Shapes to Contours (Richard J. Kinch)
• METAFONT source
• Design of a new font family (slides) (Gerd Neugebauer) (1996)
• PERL Module for reading .tfm files (Jan Pazdziora) (1997)
• fig2mf (UNIX manual) (Anthony Starks)
• bm2font (Friedhelm Sowa)
• Essay on math symbols by Paul Taylor
• drgen genealogical symbol font by Denis Roegel, 1996
• Chess fonts
• The Marvosym Font Package (Martin Vogels)
• Eurosymbol, another font for the euro symbol
• Lots of stuff on virtual fonts
• P. Damian Cugley's Malvern (Greek) font
• Yannis Haralambous's Omega project
• DC and EC fonts by Joerg Knappen
• Technical notes on Postscript fonts, and Postscript fonts in TEX
• Computer Modern type 1 fonts
• Articles on computer typography by Sebastian Rahtz, Aarno Hohti & Okko Kanerva, Richard J. Kinch, Basil K. Malyshev, Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Karl Berry, Victor Eijkhout, Vincent Zoonekynd, Tom Scavo, David Wright, Erik-Jan Vens, and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
• Articles on mathematical symbol fonts
• Links to essential pages for Cyrillic, Japanese, Berber, Khmer, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Indic, Syriac, Hebrew, Hieroglyphic, Tibetan, Mongolian, African fc

Latinotype
[Miguel Angel Hernández Montoya]

Latinotype was founded in 2007 by Felipe Soto and Miguel Hernández, and is based in Chile. Miguel Angel Hernández Montoya is the Santiago, Chili-based graphic designer, type designer and illustrator who has a BFA in graphic design from the UBB School of Design. In 2007, he set up Latinotype. Before that, he was involved in many font projects and specialized in pixel fonts. Latinotype now also includes the work of Luciano Vergara and Joaquín Contreras. Hernández's fonts:

• LlanquihuePIXEL, based on the great font TCL Llanquihue by Francisco Galvez.
• The truly perfect pixel font family Fundamental (2003).
• The pixel font Sligthest.
• The sans family Chile (2004), Chile Sans (2005). Chile Sans won at the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition.
• The highway signage face Optica (2004).
• The fifties diner-style screen font Detroit 45 (2002).
• The bitmap display font Kuppa (2003).
• The church stone engraving simulation face Finaita (2002).
• The Western pixel font Arizona (2003, perfect!).
• The bitmap handwriting font Wolfgang Bold.
• The screen font Screenager (2002).
• The funky bitmap font Groobit.
• Minority (2002, a very small screen font).
• Fundamental (2002, a very original screen font, with ligatures for "rr" and "LL", for example), which was subsequently published at tipografia.cl.
• The ultimate pixel font Miguel's Three Dots (2002).
• The pixel display font Circa (2002).
• The pixel fonts Capitalista, Garadot (2003, a fantastic pixel version of an elegant Garamond) and Harmonica.
• The script pixel fonts Anticrisp (2003) and Essential Bold.
• The gray pixel face Sushi (2004, hiragana, katakana, Latin).
• The serif font Quetzal (2003).
• The bitmap family Sugar (2003).
• The bitmap family Apple (2004, based on Apple's Chicago).
• At Atomic Media, he released Carbona and Carbona Bold in 2002, as well as 12 bitmap fonts in 2003: Maya, Fundamental, Azteca, Tekilla, Aymara, Minority, Quadratis, Carnoa Plain & Bold, Machina Typewriter, Dotic (blackletter), Mezcal, Circa.
• In 2004, he joined Ultra Pixel Fonts, where he made the pixel faces Orbital, Sugar, Odyssey, Solar, Voltage, Jetson.
• At Latinotype, he made Picara Sans (2007, an organic sans), Cadena (2007, a rounded sans which won at Tipos Latinos 2008), Love (2007, ultra fat rounded) and Mote (2007, rounded sans display face).
• Stgotic Textura and Pintana are pixel font award winners at Tipos Latinos 2008.

LGJ Font Notes
[Edward G.J. Lee]

Edward Lee's font information pages (in Chinese). Has useful technical discussions on Metafont, OpenType, Truetype and type 1. Downloadable full CJK fonts include cwHBMono (2008, Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu and Edward G.J. Lee). [Google]

L-H Favorite Fonts

Commercial Japanese fonts at the LightHouse Inc: Higagino-Mincho family, Higagino Gothic family, Higagino Tokubuto Gyosyo. [Google]

Library

Japanese Mac and Windows font vendor. Has fonts by Dynafont, NIS, Ryobi, Adobe, Morisawa, Iwata, Motoya, Ricoh, Canon, Fujitsu, Nihon Lieral, Arphic, Fujisoft, VDL, Taka, NTF, Fontworks, Maruokahakushu, Souei. [Google]

Library Palooza
[Qianqian Fang]

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a huge unicode-compatible Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Latin (CJK) truetype font, available for free under the Gnu license. From the web page: The WenQuanYi Zen Hei font is a Chinese (or CJK) outline font with Hei Ti style (a sans-serif style) Hanzi glyphs. This font is developed for general purpose use of Chinese for formating, printing and on-screen display. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Latin, extended Latin, kana etc were merged from cmunss.ttf from the CM-Unicode project, and mplus-1p-medium.ttf from the M+ project. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi contributors and Qianqian Fang based on the bitmap fonts by firefly.
WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographics. This font provides full coverage to the required code points for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk and zh_mo locales. The total vector glyphs in this font is over 35000 including Latin characters, Japanese kanas, hanguls and symbols from many other languages. Developers:

• Qianqian Fang: Developer for online and off-line stroke decomposition software, server-side scripts and database, software for vector glyph generation, font creation and version control, all the spline Hanzi glyphs, document and tutorial contributors and release manager. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
• Ailantian: key developer for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
• Haitao Han, "twang467", and Qing Lei: key developers for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.

Lilly's Site

Japanese font archive with Jim's Kanji font and many kana fonts: Akihibara, ArawasuKatakana, ColopocleKT, Chicagothic, DigiMode1988K1, DigiMode1988, GtinformatAL, GtinformatKT, HachipochiA, HachipochiK, PJ-Hiragana, Japanese, JHIRAG01, JKATAK01, JROMAJ01, JayCons, PJ-Katakana, NihonbashiKatakana, OrangeLight, Parade20A, Parade20K, Shear-15_A, Shear-15_H, Shear-15_K, typoBokankaakana, Teacher_A, Teacher_K, AirlineKatakata, OrangeLightK1, Receipt43K, StampyK. [Google]

Limit Type

Free fonts made in Japan: Lt-alphaDot (pixel face), Lt-angular, Lt-etudy-alpha, Lt-etudy-katakana, Lt-failsafe-alpha, Lt-failsafe-hiragana, Lt-failsafe-katakana, Lt-handy (hand and finger dingbat face), Lt-hexen, Lt-Hatukari-Alpha, Lt-Hatukari-Kana, Lt-kanaDot, Lt-precautor, Lt-regulator, Sans-Copperplate-Gothic, Lt-strings-alpha, Lt-trisos. Alternate URL. [Google]

Limit.type fonts

Alternate URL. Original roman and kana fonts: Hatukari-Alpha, Hatukari-Kana, Sans-Copperplate-Gothic, alphaDot, angular, etudy_alpha, etudy_kata, failsafe, handy [hands], hexen [oriental simulation font], kanaDot, precautor [dingbats], regulator-b-01 [dingbats], strings, trisos. [Google]

Lineasolido

Japanese foundry. The free fonts:, all dated 2002 Albero, Antico, Coda, Curva, Diritto, Droga, Edificio, Forma, Largo, Puro, Solido, Spicchio. [Google]

Linux and Nihongo

Craig Oda's page on Japanese in Linux. [Google]

Livid.cn

Chinese archive: Gulim (Latin/Cyrillic/universal and Korean face by HanYang, 2000), Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro W4 (OTF by Dainippon, 2002), Hei (for Mac), Heiti (Chinese font by Changzhou SinoType Technology Co, 2002), Lihei Pro (Chinese font by DynaComware Corp, 2003). Also, the Luxi family. [Google]

Living Plant
[Takafumi Miyadima]

Takafumi Miyadima's commercial Roman and Katakana fonts: Nickel, Xylitol, Titanium, Uranium, Latex, Celluloid, Steel, Acrilic, Polyester, Rayonne, Plastic, Concrete, Urethan, Carbon, Silicone. Type 1 for Mac and truetype for PC. [Google]

Living Typedrive
[Takafumi Miyadima]

Takafumi Miyadima is a Japanese type designer who sells his fonts via Font Pavilion. The Living Typedrive 1.0J CD has 2070 Polyester, 2100 Celluloid, 2120 Latex. The Living Typedrive 1.0J CD has 2010 Silicone, 2040 Concrete, 2130 Uranium. The Living Typedrive 3.0J CD has 2080 Acrylic, 2110 Titanium, 2170 Glucose, typically with romaji, katakana, hiragana. There is also 2021 Carbon, 2051 Plastic, 2030 Urethan, 2060 Rayonne, 2081 Acrylic, 2091 Steel, 2140 Xylitol, 2160 Nickel Alp (1999), Acrylic 2081 (kata, romaji). At Digitalogue, he designed 4030STARCH (1999). [Google]

Logix Press

Japanese font producer. Makes fontface4550 (SymonGW3P font and Gothic, a kanji font). [Google]

Lomokon

Free Latin and kana pixel fonts by C-moko, dating from 2001: BM_diet_09, BM_dokan_11, BM_fatakana, BM_gatakana, BM_moko_07. [Google]

Lonesome Type Factory
[Susumu Tanaka]

Susumu Tanaka's fonts such as Desert-J, D1980s-West, CamouflageWoodland, CamouflageDesert. [Google]

Love Font Vapour Trail
[Kaaya]

Japanese foundry with principally free bitmap-style truetype fonts and some techno faonts, all made in 2001: BlockBlackBitA12, BlockWhiteBitA12, CherishBitH7, CherishBitK7, ChibiBitA5, DayDreamTrainH, DayDreamTrainK, DayDreamTrain, FloppyBitA16, HappyBirthdayMoon, JungleGymBitA6, OneBitA10, PopsceneBitK9, PopTuneBitA12, PopTuneOutBitA12, PopTuneRound, RadioRadioRadioBitA10, Romantic, SavouryBitK7, ShoplifterABitA16, ShoppingBitA10, SoLongBitA15, SpreadBitA10, StadiumBitA10, StartBitA10, StetchBitA13, SugarBoy, TinyBoxBitA10, TinyBoxBlackBitA8, TinyBoxCollageBitA12, WeekBitA10. The designer is "Kaaya". [Google]

Lovedesign Company
[Wataru Osakabe]

Lovedesign offers free fonts, mostly by Wataru Osakabe (aka J. Brain): Fool22, CommonPixel, Haris, SecretPassage, SucideNote, Vanilla, Arupino (2001, kana), CherryBlossom (futuristic, 2001), Metropolis (Bauhaus style, 2001), Lovedesign 99 font kana, Gulico Extra Bold, Han-Rice (2000, Asian lookalike font), Tytyle kana, Tytyle Regular (kitchen tile face), Cobra-Ld Regular, ErisKana, MonnaLisa, LovelyDesign, Aurora Devil, Tonight Tonight, Cobra2, GENOCIDERMX, GameOver, HEIGHt, Loedesign99HIRABold, Metamorphose, SweetDays, Poo, tonighonigh, Tytyle, Romantic9 (2004, with Junichi Kato), Papicon (techno), Gameboy gamegirl, Ookami-girl, Hirakumo, Ikkoue, TKO Crazy, F39 Gold (stencil), Fickle, Mr. Chan, Aurora Dance, Masshimo (dingbats of figures made by Akiko Yaeshima). As of January 2004, these can be downloaded: LVDCCLASSIX, LVDCCobra4AL, LVDCCobra4KN, LVDCDisco02, LVDCDubKana, LVDCErisSQ, LVDCFool22, LVDCGOLD, LVDCGulico3, LVDCIKKOUE, LVDCLovelydesign, LVDCMirinda, LVDCNextGames, LVDCOtsukaDream, LVDCPapicon, LVDCPoo3, LVDCSecretPassage, LVDCSucideNote, LVDCSweetDays, LVDCTonightTonight, LVDCVanilla, LVDCauroradance, LVDCver5, LVDCArupino, LVDCBloodyValentine, LVDCCommonPix2, LVDCDubKana, LVDCHaris, LVDCauroradevil, LVDCHanricever3, LVDCMrsChan, LVDCGarnet (2004), LVDCMelos (2004), LVDC Berlin, LVDC Rebirth, LVDC Parthenon, LVDC Nina. [Google]

Lucifer Web

Japanese font links. [Google]

Luluw

A 9.5MB file with MSGothic and MSMincho. [Google]

Luon.net

Custom fonts made by Martin Majoor for Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in 1999. In truetype: TUELogosVLBold, TUELogosVL, TUEMeta-Book, TUEMeta-Medium, TUEMetaWide, TUEScala-BoldItalic, TUEScala-Bold, TUEScala-Italic, TUEScala. [Google]

M+

Free Japanese fonts: IPAGothic, IPAPGothic, IPAUIGothic, IPAMincho, IPAPMincho. All copyright of Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. [Google]

M+ Fonts

Free BDF bitmap font producer in Japan. Download page. Free outline fonts containing kana and Latin (sans), all made in 2006: mplus-1p-black, mplus-1p-bold, mplus-1p-heavy, mplus-1p-light, mplus-1p-medium, mplus-1p-regular, mplus-1p-thin, mplus-2p-black, mplus-2p-bold, mplus-2p-heavy, mplus-2p-light, mplus-2p-medium, mplus-2p-regular, mplus-2p-thin. The M+ Fonts Project is jointly run by Coji Morishita, Hiroki Kanou, Imazu Kazuyuki and Taro Muraoka. [Google]

Macware Font

Mac font archive. Has some Japanese fonts: ASLFont+ (by Hiroo Yamada), Kagurazaka12a (by Keitarou Hiraki), Makuhari and Narita (by Tosiaki Oorui), Setsugetsuka (by Emuxu), Youxi (by Tomohiro Sudo). There are many fonts by Marty Pfeiffer, and a Mac Chess font by Rolf Exner. [Google]

Maktak

MT_TARE (2003) and MT_TARE-P (2003) are two full kanji/kana/Latin/Cyrillic/Greek handwritten truetype fonts, free to download. See also here. [Google]

Mami Kobayashi

Codesigner, ca. 2007, with Masayuki Sato (Maniackers Design) of Detroit Type City-AL, Foood-AL, KT, Pokupoku-AL, KT, HR, Ball2-AL, Box2-AL, Button2-AL, Xtal-AL, KT, HR, Ikaho-AL, KT, MD Radiogram-KT, HR, Nepon-AL. By herself, still at Maniackers, the following fonts were designed: Ikaho-HR, TypeCantabile-KT, Kotodama-KT, Sandy-AL / 2Type, Yonimofushigina-AL, KT, Cloooud-AL, Yonimofushigina-HR, Timber-AL,KT, HR, Sunday-AL / 3Weight, Hyonnakotokara-AL, KT, HR. In 2009, Mami designed the pen scratch face Dandro AI. [Google]

Maniackers Design (or: MKS)
[Masayuki Sato]

About 150 free original fonts by Masayuki Sato (from Futaba, Japan), over half of them pixel fonts. For most fonts, he has a Latin alphabet (denoted by AL) and a katakana alphabet (denoted by KT). Some also have a hiragana version (denoted by HR). All fonts were made between 1998 and 2009.

• By Masayuki Sato & Tsuyoshi Nagae: Merumo-AL, KT, PonyPony-AL, KT, HR, Topo-AL, TM Extended-AL / 2Type, MinnanoUta-AL, KT, HR, Seele-AL / 2Type, Robin-AL, Peco-AL, KT, Honey-AL, Blur-AL.
• By Masayuki Sato & Eri Nagae: Stitch-AL.
• By Masayuki Sato & T. Waka: Chihuahua-AL, KT, HR / 3Type.
• By Masayuki Sato & Mami Kobayashi: Detroit Type City-AL, Foood-AL, KT, Pokupoku-AL, KT, HR, Ball2-AL, Box2-AL, Button2-AL, Xtal-AL, KT, HR, Ikaho-AL, KT, MD Radiogram-KT, HR, Nepon-AL.
• By Mami Kobayashi: Ikaho-HR, TypeCantabile-KT, Kotodama-KT, Sandy-AL / 2Type, Yonimofushigina-AL, KT, Cloooud-AL, Yonimofushigina-HR, Timber-AL,KT, HR, Sunday-AL / 3Weight, Hyonnakotokara-AL, KT, HR.
• By Eiji Sunaga: Tanrei 2.0-KT.
• By Junya Yamada (Channel 67): Drip-KT, Bobo-AL.
• By Masayuki Sato & Junya Yamada: Maniac 2-AL, KT.
• By Atsushi Moda: Angle.
• By Shinji Naka: Typobokan katakana (at least, the graphics of this comic book style font were by Shinji Naka).
• By Masakazu Fukushima: Lucha-doll mask (a fantastic mask dingbat font).
• By Atsuko Onozato: Pazool.
• By Malte Haust of Bionic Systems: DorisOrange.
• By André Nossek: Collage Rmx-AL, Hard Rmx-AL.
• By Masayuki Sato & Hiroko Takiguchi: Holiday Bitmap14-AL, Holiday Ultra-AL, KT, HR, Holiday Bold-AL, KT, HR, Holiday-AL, KT, HR, Holiday-illust, Holiday Tategaki-KT, HR, Holiday-MDJP03 / 2Byte, Ribbontic 2.0-AL.
• By Masayuki Sato and Masashi Kato: Pico (2009, rounded comic book style).
• By Masashi Kato & Mayucco: Yakitori-AL, KT, HR / 2Byte.
• By Masayuki Sato & Ryo Asoda: Wallpainting-AL, Cosmic-AL, Bellows-AL, KT.
• By Masayuki Sato & Kaori Inada: Sennin-AL.
• By Masayuki Sato & Shizuka Yamazaki: SwingingBird-AL, KT, HR.
• By Masayuki Sato & Junichi Omi: Omiyage-AL, KT, HR.
• By Masayuki Sato & Rollingcradle: Poranger-AL, Lucha doll-mask.
• By Masayuki Sato & Omnikono: Gt informat-AL, KT.
• By Masayuki Sato: 235MKSD (2009, thin octagonal), Nepon-KT, Nepon-HR, Monday-AL / 3Type, Childish-AL, KT, HR, Volt-AL, KT, HR, Gavadon Ultra-KT, Building 2-AL, KT, Gachapon 2-KT, FSB08 Klang-AL, KT / 3Type, 224MKSD-AL, 223MKSD-AL, CinemaMa-AL, KT, HR, Skinny-AL, Magatama-AL, Astro 3.0-AL, KT, 160MKSD-AL, KT, TypoBokan-KT (3DCG), Lunch-KT, HR, Partner-AL / 3Type, Pico Super Ultra Bold-AL, 096MKSD-Synapse-AL, Millennium 5lines-AL, Tekuteku Round-AL, Warp-AL, Cherry Cherry-KT, Donki-KT, 078MKSD Medium Con-AL, Poco-AL, Temporary Extra-AL, 071MKSD Medium-AL, KT, 071MKSD Bold-AL, KT, Paco-AL, Collage-AL, Zerozero Nine-AL, KT, HR, Finger Five-AL, Electronica Nine-AL, Drifter Five-AL, Ultra Seven-AL / 3Type, Thaitype Ten-Thai, AL, KT, Gogo Five 2.0-AL, System Seven-AL / 7Type, 201MKSD-AL / 4Type, Fluorescent-AL / 2Type, FSB07 Astra-AL, KT, HR / 4Type, Nihonbashi 2.0-AL, KT, 176MKSD-AL, Continue-AL, Spaghettini-AL / 3Type, Pinponpan2, 3, 4-HR / 3Type, Pico-AL / 2Type, Kokecco2-KT, Charakyoro-AL, Coppepan-AL, KT, HR, Sardinen-KT, HR, Hachipochi Eight-AL, KT, Janis Heavy-AL, Futaba-KT, April Fool-AL, KT, HR, Arawasu-KT, Airline-AL, KT, HR, Astro 2.0-KT, Snail-AL, KT, Akachan-AL, KT, HR (Flop Design), Dorisorange-AL, KT (T26), Parade20-AL, KT, UFOnt-51silhouette, Rabbit35-silhouette, Dog30-Silhouette, Coil-AL, KT / 3Type, Frankfurter Custum Black-AL, COLOR-AL, Fivemani-AL, KT, Astroro-AL, KT, Puco-AL, 184MKSD Omnibus-AL, Alfadental-AL, FSB08 Klang-AL, KT / 3Type, TDA140607-AL, Shotaro V3-AL, KT, Colopocle-AL, KT, Melt-AL / 3Type, Tekuteku-AL, Crayon-AL, Digits-AL, Performar-AL, Pinponpan-HR, Airplane 2.0-AL, KT, Button-AL, Ball-AL, Box-AL, OLD CUBE-AL, Elekitel-HR, Retroket-AL, MKS Dot-AL, RikuKaiKu-Illust, Angle-AL, FontRemix 02 (36-kanji dingbat font). Font Pavilion sells these fonts: Building, Gavadon (kata), Volt (romaji, kata), Colopocle (katakana, romaji), Shotaro (katakana, romaji). Typo Bokan, Sennin, Snail. At Digitalogue, he published the screen font series Zerozero in 2000.

Marshall's Japanese Web Page

Marshall Ramsey's page is dedicated to programs and information for Japanese language learning including freeware and shareware Kanji flashcards. Download Union Way's Mincho TTF, or one of the two Microsoft TTFs (Mincho, serif, or Gothic, sanserif). Lots of links as well. See also here. [Google]

Marukan font

Japanese pixel font sample and link site, with some downloads. [Google]

Masahiko Kozuka

Designer of the Kozuka Mincho (serif) and Gothic (sans serif) kanji families at Adobe, available in OpenType. Adobe writes: Masahiko Kozuka began making type in 1952. At that time, he had started working at the Mainichi newspaper, one of the leading nationwide daily newspapers in Japan, where he made hot metal text and headline typefaces. [...] In the 1970s, in the transition from hot metal to digital type, he redesigned many fonts of Mainichi's newspaper faces. From 1984, as type design director for Morisawa & Company, he supervised many type development projects such as the popular ShinGo typeface family. [...] From 1992 to 2001, he supervised the Adobe Originals Japanese typeface development, and designed the Kozuka Mincho and Kozuka Gothic typeface families. Download these OpenType fonts for free: KozGoPro-Medium, KozMinProVI-Regular, developed from 1997-2004. In 2009, Kozuka Gothic Pro conatined 15,713 glyphs. [Google]

Masashi Kato

Font designer at Maniackers, where he made Pico (2009, with Masayuki Sato, a rounded comic book face) and Yakitori-AL, KT, HR / 2Byte (with Mayucco). [Google]

Masatake Ito's Graphics Gallery
[Masatake Ito]

Free fonts: MSTKELEGBold1, MSTKKEY, MSTKboundroundBold, MSTKboundroundlight, MSTKdeep1, MSTKextreme2, MSTKfirst2, MSTKhude1a, MSTKhude2a, MSTKkatana, MSTKmno1, MSTK Rufcut, MSTKrufrufBold. Mainly Mac fonts, TrueType and T1. Direct access. Some kana fonts. Alternate URL. [Google]

Masayo Nakamura

Masayo Nakamura's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: his GuruGuru is a curly hiragana font. Maharani has both hira and kata versions. [Google]

Masayuki Harada

Designer of the free kana/kanji/Latin fonts SR1Jproto, SR1math-proto, SR1proto. [Google]

Masayuki Yamamoto

Masayuki Yamamoto graduated in visual communication design from University of Tsukuba before he studied typography at University of Reading. He taught graphic design at the Department of Fine Arts & Music, Hyogo University of Teacher Education, and is now professor at Tama Art University. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Harmony of type mixture in Japanese typography, and at ATypI 2007 in Brighton on Measuring harmony of type mixture. These statistical studies concern the Latin/Japanese type mixture focusing on four recent fonts: Heisei-Mincho W3 (1991), Hiragino-Mincho W3 (1993), Kozuka-Mincho R (1997), Yu-Mincho R (2002), and various sans (gothic) fonts for Japanese. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, she spoke on legibility research of Japanese typography. [Google]

Matthew Arciniega

Designer of Surakarta (1992, screen font for the traditional Javanese script called Hanacaraka) and KepatihanPro (for the Central Javanese musical notation system called Kepatihan). [Google]

Mayumi Kakegawa

Designer of the Latin/Kana brush face Yakitori, which can be found here. [Google]

m.d.cafe design
[Satoru Haneishi]

Japanese outfit. Its main designer Satoru Haneishi's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: MassPro (techno font with katakana and romaji), Showa73 (1998, romaji and katakana). [Google]

Meguro Design
[Yukiko Ooi]

Japanese outfit. Designers of Sabure (kata, hira), Tuki-ALP (by Yukiko Ooi, 1998), sold at Font Pavilion. [Google]

Microsoft

Seattle-based company involved to some extent in typography. Until 2002, the fonts developed by them were free. That is no longer the case. They are major players in multilingual typeface development, type for on-screen use, and type formats such as OpenType. A listing of their typefaces:

• Andale: a monospaced TrueType font by Microsoft developed specially for Web applications by Steve Matteson. Formerly known as Monotype.com from Monotype.
• Impact: designed by Geoffrey Lee, based on an issue by the Sheffield foundry, Stephenson Blake.
• Arial: a sans serif family. Functional, but ugly.
• Times-New Roman and Courier are the bread and water.
• Comic Sans: designed by Vincent Connare.
• Verdana (sans serif) and Georgia (serif): font families by by Matthew Carter.
• Trebuchet: a humanist sans serif by Vincent Connare.
• Webdings: designed in 1997 as a collaborative work between Microsoft's Vincent Connare and top Monotype designers Sue Lightfoot, Ian Patterson and Geraldine Wade. The images are intended for web designers who wish to include live fonts as a fast way of rendering graphics.
• Nina: the latest face (2000), a pixel font signed by Matthew Carter. Hinted by Tom Rickner, it is designed to show well on screen at small point sizes.
• Calibri and Consolas (2004): a sans and a monospaced/typewriter font family by Luc(as) de Groot developed as part of the ClearType project. Calibri received a TypeArt 05 award.
• Candara (2004): a playful sans font family by Gary Munch developed as part of the ClearType project. Candara received a TypeArt 05 award.
• Cambria (2004): a font family by Jelle Bosma developed as part of the ClearType project.
• Corbel (2004): a simple sans font family by Jeremy Tankard developed as part of the ClearType project.
• Constantia (2004): a beautiful serifed text font family by John Hudson developed as part of the ClearType project. [Personal note: the name Constantia is already used for over a decade by Foster and Horton.]
• Meiryo (2004): a full roman and kanji font family by Eiichi Kono and Matthew Carter developed as part of the ClearType project.

Microsoft fonts for Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Someone posted this on alt.binaries.fonts. To obtain a free Japanese TrueType font from Microsoft: (1) run Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE); (2) go to any web page; (3) change the View menu / Encoding item to Japanese; and (4) wait for several megabytes to download. Use the same procedure for Chinese or Korean. Microsoft has a web page for these downloads. Search for the keywords "Chinese", "Japanese", or "Korean" (without the quotes) on the http://office.microsoft.com/ web site. You want the "language pack" downloads. These pages often move, but recently were: Japanese (2557 KB with the "MS Gothic" font), Korean (1985 KB with the "GulimChe" font), Simplified Chinese (2561 KB with "MS Hei" and "MS Song" fonts), Traditional Chinese (3541 KB with the "MingLiU" font). [Google]

Microsoft Japan

Japanese fonts by/for Microsoft. [Google]

Mika

Mika, a young Japanese designer, created a free handrwritten Japanese font set, called Mikachan. [Google]

Mika Hiragana font

The free Mika hiragana font (Mac). Dead link. [Google]

Mika Kyubi

Designer of the hiragana handwriting font "mikaspecial". [Google]

Mikachan

Designer of Mikachan. Alternate URL. [Google]

Mikachan

Free full Japanese handwritten fonts: mikachan-P, mikachan-PB, mikachan-PS, mikachan. Direct download. Now also in OpenType. See also here. Latest resurrection. [Google]

Miki Nakatani

Miki Nakatani made the nice screen font family Rafu (Latin and kana versions). I cannot figure out how to download the fonts though. [Google]

Mikiyu Showji

Original handwriting type designer: Mikiyu-Font--OneLove- (2003), Mikiyu-Font-Alphabet (2002), Mikiyu-Font-Crayon (2004), Mikiyu-Font-Hiragana1 (2001), Mikiyu-Font--Honey-Candy-, Mikiyu-Font--PENJI--P, Mikiyu-Font-Mouhitsu, mikiyufont-crayon2. [Google]

Mikoto Cat Food

Japanese foundry. Creators of a few Mac fonts in handprinted style: Aneji, Bonji, SeiraSeira Ribbon. [Google]

Mikoto Catfood

Japanese fonts (with Latin components): Seira, Ribbon, Aneji, Bonji. These are mostly drawn by hand. No kanji. [Google]

Mild 4128

Original screen and handwriting fonts: mildfontNo3, milds-E, bit-font-#2, bit-font_J, mild-font-S, marine-font-S, mildfont1, mild_whispoer, mildfont1, mildfont2, bit-font, marine-font. [Google]

Millimeter

Japanese foundry. Alterate URL. Designers of Armed Banana and ArmedLemon. These are fuill kanji handwriting fonts. [Google]

Min Wang

Nine Chinese/Japanese/Cyrillic truetype fonts: GCdls, GCWei, GCXfang, TCHei, TCSun, GCFang, GCHei, GCKai, GCSong. Unicode versions. Alternate URL. [Google]

Mincho

From the wikipedia: style of Japanese typeface commonly used for printed material such as books. The name Mincho literally means "Ming Dynasty". It is a printed variant of the kaisho style of calligraphy originally intended for woodblock printing. The shapes are squarish. The horizontal strokes are thin and the vertical ones thick. Strokes end with brushy fish scales (uroko). Variants of Mincho include kykashotai used for educational materials for children, and shinbuntai used for printing newspapers. [Google]

Mincho.ttf

Canadian mirror of the Australian Monash University Nihongo site. Mincho.ttf is downloadable from here (see JpnSupp.exe). Plus a million other things. [Google]

Mind Kinetics
[Shigeru Hasegawa]

Shigeru Hasegawa (Mind Kinetics) designed these free fonts: Kollong-Bold, Kollong-Regular (2002, runic), Atle-D (runic), futuu3-kana (kana pixel face), Ninepoint (pixel face), Razor-Edge-Alphabet (pixel face), Razor-Edge-Katakana, SteelArm (kana pixel face). Earlier versions of his pages were called Tabledesign and SITEUNTITLED. He also had Slantica, Enkin (techno), and Squarepuller (techno-kana) back then. [Google]

Minori

Designers of the free kanji/Latin/kana handwriting face New Reikofont. [Google]

Minoru Kamono

Designer of the huge Kamono Kana font series at Adobe, available in OpenType. [Google]

Minoru-W

Japanese font archive. See also here. [Google]

MITI

Japanese font maker, whose fonts can be bought at URW++: URW Heisei Gothic bold, URW Heisei Gothic heavy, URW Heisei Gothic regular, URW Heisei Mincho bold, URW Heisei Mincho heavy, URW Heisei Mincho regular. [Google]

Mitiya Masuda

Japanese designer of the quite interesting Konatu family (Konatu, Konatu Tohaba): Latin, Cyrillic, dingbats, kanji, kana, the works. Konatu seems most appropriate for setting programs and lettering architectural drawings. A later update of this is called Systema 21. [Google]

Mitsuhiro Isoda

Mitsuhiro Isoda's dasaji truetype font (roman, cyrillic, kana, kanji) is 1.54MB large. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. [Google]

Mitts Web

Mitts Web is a free handwritten kana/kanji OpenType font, published in 2003. Main page. [Google]

Miura

Small commercial Japanese foundry specializing in minimalist handdrawn characters. [Google]

MLand 98 for TurboLinux

Japanese software site, which carries Wada Lab's Kochi Gothic, Kochi Mincho, Sazanami Gothic and Sazanami Mincho, as well as the handwritten kanji font Mikachan. [Google]

Moisture

Japanese creator of the child handwriting font simply called ChildFont (2008). It covers Latin, greek, Cyrillic, hiragana, katakana, and the simple kanjis that a child would know. [Google]

Mojikyo CD-ROM

Japanese 24 dot font bitmaps at A-I Net in Yokohama. [Google]

Mojikyo English Page

The Mojikyo Institute is in Yokohama, Japan. Its goal is to produce free universal tools for Japanese, Chinese and Korean word processing and typesetting. Several tens of complete fonts are already finished, in all possible font formats (truetype, type 1, metafont). "Mojikyo is the newest kind of software for Chinese Character word-processing. More than 80,000 character fonts have been built in Mojikyo. So, everyone in the world can use any font of Mojikyo, free of charge. Moreover, if you want to use Chinese Character which cannot be found in Mojikyo Internet fonts, you can ask us to make new character provided that you inform us the source(s) of the character. We make them, and put them on our Home Page free of charge for public use." Truetype fonts for Chinese and Japanese characters: The Mojikyo fonts are Japanese Shift-JIS-encoded fonts for the 48,902 Chinese characters in the Morohashi dictionary, along with tens of thousands of additional characters. Each character is assigned a six-digit Mojikyo number. The Morohashi characters are contained in fonts M101-109. Fonts M110 and above contain characters not in Morohashi. These include, for example, oracle-bone characters [M117-118], Siddham [M119-121], and Tangut [M202-203]. Mojikyo Windows truetype fonts. TEX-specific download page. More on this truetype set of fonts named Mojikyo-M101, Mojikyo-M102, Mojikyo-M103, Mojikyo-M104, Mojikyo-M105, Mojikyo-M106, Mojikyo-M107, Mojikyo-M108, Mojikyo-M109, Mojikyo-M110, Mojikyo-M111, Mojikyo-M112, Mojikyo-M113, Mojikyo-M114, Mojikyo-M115, Mojikyo-M116, Mojikyo-M117, Mojikyo-M118, Mojikyo-M119, Mojikyo-M120 and Mojikyo-M121 here. [Google]

Mona Font

Mona Font (2002-2003) is a free Japanese font family for text arts, as part of a project by The Electronic Font Open Laboratory (also called efont). It is based on Shinonome & Kochi-Subst, and is in the public domain. Included are Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, kana and kanji. Historical note: the Shinonome font was originally developed by Yasuyuki Furukawa. Alternate URL where, as of 2006, the fonts are IPAMonaGothic, IPAMonaPGothic, IPAMonaUIGothic, IPAMonaMincho, IPAMonaPMincho, with copyright to IPA, or the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. The readme file was written by Jun Kobayashi and thanks Wada Laboratory, the University of Tokyo and the Electronic Font Open Laboratory. [Google]

Mono Studio

Small Japanese bitmap and monospaced font archive. [Google]

Monotype

Monotype sells fonts for the following languages: Amharic, Aksara Kaganga, Arabic, Armenian, Balinese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Coptic, Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi/Nepali), Farsi, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gujerathi, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hebrew, Japanese, Javanese, Jawi, Kannada, Korean, Laotian, Lontarak, Malayalam, Old Bulgarian, Oriya, Pushto, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Surat Pustaha, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese. [Google]

Monotype

Japanese fonts at Monotype Imaging:

Japanese
Font Name	Character Set	Encoding
Japanese HGPGothicB	Kana + Kanji	Shift-JIS
HGPMinchoL	Kana + Kanji	Shift-JIS
HGGothicB	Kana + Kanji	Shift-JIS
HGMinchoL	Kana + Kanji	Shift-JIS

[Google]

Monotype's East Asian Stroke Font Set

Monotype states: Traditional Asian TrueType fonts require megabytes of storage too much for most memory-restricted or low-resolution devices. Yet, storage requirements can be reduced 90 percent or more using our stroke-based fonts. For example, a standard GB 2312 Simplified Chinese TrueType font with 7,663 characters is about 2.7 MB. Our stroke font equivalent is under 250 KB. Cell phones, set-top boxes, PDAs, most other wireless devices and even operating systems benefit from stroke-based fonts. Our fully scalable stroke-based fonts consist of composite strokes or graphemes. These simple shapes appear as pen strokes or lines and are used repeatedly to build complex East Asian characters. Graphemes offer huge storage savings. The same graphemes are used to construct various characters that can add up to thousands in a single font. Another major advantage lies in the technologys simplicity: less than half the number of points are needed to render characters much less than building characters using traditional outlines where points are located on the edges of shapes rather than at the centerlines. Our stroke-based fonts support both native and Unicode encodings and are available for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts. [Google]

Moon's Typeface
[Shigenao Uzuki]

Shigenao Uzuki (Moon's Typeface) makes and sells 29 Japanese type families. He won the Kozuka Prize at The Seventh Morisawa International Typeface Design Awards competition for 2002. [Google]

MOP Studio

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Morisawa

Respected Japanese foundry, based in Osaka. English pages. Alternate page. It has the best and most extensive PostScript kanji library. Since 2003, many of their kanji fonts are also available in OpenType format. These include A-OTF-GothicMB101Pro-Bold, A-OTF-GothicMB101Pro-Heavy, A-OTF-GothicMB101Pro-Ultra, A-OTF-Jun201Pro-Regular, A-OTF-Jun34Pro-Medium, A-OTF-Jun501Pro-Bold, A-OTF-KyokaICAPro-Light, A-OTF-KyokaICAPro-Medium, A-OTF-KyokaICAPro-Regular, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Bold, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Heavy, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Medium, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Regular, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Ultra, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Bold, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Heavy, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Light, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Medium, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Regular, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Ultra, A-OTF-ShinseiKaiPro-CBSK1. The PostScript collection includes these families: Ryumin, ShinGo, FutoMinA101, MidashiMinMA31, GothicMediumBBB, ShinMaruGo, GothicMB101, MidashiGoMB31, FutoGoB101, KaishoMCBK1, ShinseiKaishoCBSK1, KyokashoICA, Kanteiryu, Folk, Takahand, Jun, MainichiShinbumGothic, MainichiShinbunMincho. Alternate URL. [Google]

Morito Comori

Japanese creator (b. 1982) of the dingbat face Morito (2009). [Google]

Motoki Shozo

Also called the Gutenberg of Japan, Motoki Shozo (1824-1875) was a Dutch interpreter at the Nagasaki magistrate's office. He ordered a Stanhope hand press from Holland, which would be the first movable type press in Japan. He had to learn to make Japanese type, and finally set up the Kiyo Shinjuku Type Foundry. Near the end of his life, Shozo stepped down, leaving the business in the hands of a trusted pupil, Hirano Tomiji (1846-92). In 1872, Tomiji attempted to revive the company by moving it to Tokyo -- Japan's new capital and the most modern city in the country. Tomiji first set up shop in the Kanda district, then moved the factory to Tsukiji, eventually renaming his company the Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry. [Google]

Motoya Font

Commercial Japanese foundry. It sells Japanese fonts (free trials per email). Free fonts. See also here and here. Free font (ask by email). [Google]

M's Studio Inc
[Masanobu Narusawa]

Masanobu Narusawa's site. Commercial hiragana and katakana fonts, such as the Anito family of kanji fonts made jointly by Yutaka Sato and Masanobu Narusawa between 1992 and 1996, IPSio, Ridoc, Marui Circle DB, Marui Normal, Ricoh Condensed, Taigaa, lion, momo50. [Google]

MSGothic, MSMincho

Microsoft fonts for Chinese and Japanese. Some sites where you can find them: Kodyzone, TZoNE, Deepmind, MSIME98, Technote2002, Wintness Peacenet, Lantern Festival. [Google]

MUJI-Hani

Japanese free font site with mostly dingbats, and one kana font. Fonts: Dhani, Oyatu, Susi, Mcafe, Kazoe, Nageyari. [Google]

Multi Font

Free truetype versions of MSGothic (Japanese), GulimChe (Korean), MingLiu (Chinese), MSSong (Chinese), MSHei (Chinese). Page seems down. [Google]

Muneo Amano

Muneo Amano's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: the Nohofont family (1998) includes Cat's White, Cat's Black (cats take the shape of letters), Crayon (alphabet, katakana, hiragana), Rakugaki (child's dingbats), Usamoji. [Google]

Mutsumi Ishikawa

Free Japanese truetype fonts by Mutsumi Ishikawa. [Google]

Mutsumi Styling Research

Free hiragana font. [Google]

Mutsumi Styling Research

Free hiragana font by Mutsumi Kaneko. [Google]

Nacos

Written characters of the world: all alphabet sets shown and explained (in Japanese). [Google]

Nagakura Font Collection
[Sakae Nagakura]

Sakae Nagakura's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion. Check NumberMM, Dripping MM and Mugnitude MM. Home page. Many Japanese fonts such as Suuji, MMkatakana, MMhiragana. Font Pavilion showing. See also here. Other fonts: the medieval handwriting fonts Jupiter (1995-1999) and Jupwash (1995-2002), and the scary faces Drippin0 (1998) and Dripping 1000 (1998). [Google]

Nagoya Institute of Technology

"A Method to Generate Writing-Brush-Style Japanese Hiragana Character Calligraphy" is an interesting project by Junji Mano (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Lifeng He (Aichi Prefectural University), Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Enowaki, Atsuko Mutoh and Hidenori Itoh (Nagoya Institute of Technology) for generating writing-brush-style Hiragana calligraphy using an electronic pen. [Google]

Nagumo

Creator of Dragon Ball (dingbats) and Katakana. Home page. [Google]

Nakedface

Extinct digital type foundry that had commercial fonts by Todd Masui, Stefan Hattenbach, Claudio Rodil, Brian Einarsen and Matthew Bardram. Their blurb: "Nakedface is a co-operative type alliance made up of creative young designers from all over the world. We offer truly unique and expressive typefaces that are handcrafted with precision and oftentimes love. Our fonts contain full character sets, including foreign accents for that discerning European. Each font is available in both Macintosh and PC format." Free font: Teknikohl. Commercial fonts: from Matthew Collins, Octoplzogg; from Brian Einarsen, Myopic; from Claudio Rodil, Franzen; from Matthew Bardram, Dhex Serif, Arachnid, Atomic, Bitpak, Bromide, Bilinear, Centrifuge, Genetica, Economy Large, Badfish Plain (katakana), Centrifuge Katakana, Empiric; from Stefan Hattenbach, Global; from Fontwhore, KlaxonHeavy; from Todd Masui, Quiver, Steadfast, Vestige, Alloy. Pixel fonts in the lists above: Genetica, Quanta, Cellular, Remote, Arachnid, Megalon, Wired, Bylinear, Methodic, Microscopic, Atomic, Genetrix, Noir Braille, Scriptometer, Monocule. [Google]

Nanase

A free Japanese Mac font, Na-Fo. [Google]

Naoki Hatsugai

Naoki Hatsugai's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Jiro katakana, Jiro hiragana, Rikimaru (kata and hira), Masshie. [Google]

Natsuko Hayashida

Born in Takamatsu, Kagawa-ken, Japan, in 1984, Natsuko is a Canadian-educated graphic designer who created the high school handwriting fonts Geisha Holiday (2008) and Exchange Student (2008, Okaycat), and the dingbat fonts Little Japan (2008, exquisite Japanese dingbats) and Trees of Africa (2008, Okaycat). Hand Cursive and Stitch Cursive (2009) are upright connected scripts. Ribbon Cursive (2009) was developed from Mercator's Italic Hand. 3D Blocky (2009) is a hand-drawn 3-D font done with Luke William Turvey at Okaycat. Art of Japanese Calligraphy (2009, Okaycat) is a kanji font with calligraphic glyphs. [Google]

Nattchi

A free font called Nattchi. [Google]

Nega Software Library

Mac font: Marukan. [Google]

Nendo graphixxx
[Tsuyoshi Kusano]

Nendo graphixxx is a Japanese graphics outfit set up by Kazuo Anazawa, Tsuyoshi Kusano and Kentaro Fujimoto. Tsuyoshi Kusano is the designer of the commercial fonts Ariake (kata), Parking (1998), sold at Font Pavilion. Kentaro Fujimoto designed Electronica-Akihabara, Electronica-Manseibashi, Electronica-Sotokanda, all sales-type katakana; and Urban Children (romaji, hira, kata). Home page. [Google]

Nergal Net Works

Two truetype fonts from Neon Genesis Evangelion: Ayanami, Asuka (truetype). Not downloadable, it seems. [Google]

Neuron

Japanese outfit. Designer of the commercial fonts Matenrou, D-Smoke, Egypt (kata), sold at Font Pavilion. [Google]

Neuron Software

Designer of commercial kanji fonts. [Google]

New Breed Software

Free truetype fonts for Greek (Thryomanes by Herman Miller, 2002), Chinese (AR PL SungtiL GB by Arphic Design, 1999), Japanese (Kochi Gothic by Wadalab), Tamil (TSCu_Comic by Thukaram Gopalrao, 1999), Hebrew (Nachlieli Light by Maxim Iorsh, 2002) and Korean (Baekmuk Gulim by Hwan Design, 2000). [Google]

Nihilstorguk

A free handwritten kanji font, dated 2006: KanjiStrokeOrders. Plus another free kanji font, Choumei (2008). [Google]

Nikolai Belkov

Russian graphic designer, who was selected to design the pictograms for the 1976 Olympic Games in Moscow. He did go about it in a systematic and geometric way. [Google]

Nippon Type Industrial Co

Commercial Japanese fonts at about 430 to 4000 USD per family. All platforms. [Google]

Nipponkan

Subpages of this Japanese blog include free Japanese type foundries [Google]

NIS

Japanese kanji font developer. [Google]

Nis

Commercial Japanese foundry. [Google]

NJStar Company

Commercial Chinese and Japanese fonts and word processors. [Google]

Noel Cafe

Designers of Rococo (2003), a pixel font for kana and Latin. [Google]

Nucleage

Japanese techno fonts (katakana, hiragana): Mech Code (1997), Super Sexy (1997). [Google]

office BOYA

Japanese fontmaker, established in 1996. [Google]

Ohka Library

Ohka, a Japanese font vendor, lists the major Japanese commercial foundries and their typefaces. [Google]

Ohminato.jp (was: Ohminato Kazuaki Design, or OK's Design)
[Kazuaki Ohminato]

Kazuaki Ohminato designed commercial commercial fonts: Chocolate Cream, Metallic Element, Magnet, Conect, Common, Common katakana, Common hiragana, Common Slide, Twist, Common Dot, Framework, Music, Moment (architecural letters), Soft Font, Kitchen Room (at the basis of the awful Uniqlo sans face, as well as double and triple-lined versions), Visual Sensation, Soft Font Sun, Structure (an octagonal family), New Twist, Crystal, Common Flash, Sensibility. Ohminato Kazuaki's fonts were also sold through Font Pavilion: Metallic is a mathematical graph font with roman, katakana and hiragana versions. Common is free. So is RogoFont (1999, dingbats). In Font Pavilion 12 (2000): ChocolateCream, Conect-Regular, Twist-Regular. [Google]

Okaycat
[Luke William Turvey]

Takamatsu, Japan-based design division of The LOLO, a content creation company, which was established in 2006. Luke William Turvey (b. London, Ontario, 1978) who lives in Japan started out with street murals but is doing digital work now. His fonts include Giacinta Ornate (2008, a lovely bastarda), Parabrite (2008, techno), Stefani EHYO Sans Rounded (2008, a clean geometric sans), Antikka (2008, art deco), Calisso (2008, experimental), LOLO Dingcats (2008), Clementine (2008: artsy serif), Okaytext (2008, a fashionable geometric sans in the style of Bernhard Fashion), Okay Cursive (2008, an upright connected script), Okay Crayon (2008), Okay Paint (2008), Japanese Brush Master (2008), Tag Banger (2008, graffiti font), Bapalopa (2008, more graffiti), Hive Mind (2008, nuts and bolts look), Trees of Africa (2008, dings), 3D Fantablock Beveled (2008), Shababa (2008, shadow font), LOLO Animals (2008), LOLO City (2008), LOLO Cursive (2008, curly handwriting), Japoneh (2008, a great oriental-look drippy paintbrush font), Arco Crayon (2009, blackboard writing), 3D Blocky (2009, with Natsuko Hayashida), Carbon Neutral (2009), Hand Writing OC (2009), Okay Cotton (2009), hand Cursive (2008), Stitch Cursive (2008), Antique Dubplate (2009), Porto (2009, rough calligraphic), Brush Writing OC (2009), Nouveau Rock (2009, engraved), Shababa (2009), 3D Techno (2009), Stefani EHYO (2009, 4-style geocratic sans). Japanese calligraphy poster. [Google]

Omoitsuki Song River

Free fonts: Tanaka (2005, kana). [Google]

On The Edge

Seems to be Japanese free font site. Useless without Flash. [Google]

Open Printing Project

Free fonts by the Information-technology Promotion Agency at this Japanese site: IPAGothic, IPAMincho, IPAPGothic, IPAPMincho, IPAUIGothic. These 2003 fonts all cover kanji, hiragana, katakana, as well as Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, and are Unicode compliant. A nice alternative for the proprietary MS Mincho and MS Gothic. See also here. [Google]

OReilly

Free type fonts for Chinese (MOEKai, MOESung), Korean (Munhwa) and Japanese (WadaGo, WadaMaruGo, WadaMin). [Google]

Osaka

Various versions (Windows, Mac) of the Osaka Japanese font. For a Unicode version in truetype, see here. The latter site also has the Latin/kana font y2hFONT. Both fonts have very unequal stroke widths, which make them virtually useless. Osaka, Osaka Narrow and Osaka Bold are dated 1998-1999 and belong to Apple. Old URL. [Google]

Osaka Arisaka Tarisaka Unicode

A number of free Japanese unicode-compliant fonts based on the Japanese font Osaka. Arisaka stands for Arial+Osaka, and Tarisaka for Tahoma + Osaka. There are also fonts for Trebuchet + Osaka and Verdana + Osaka. Font names in 2008: ARISAKA-fix, ARISAKA, ARISAKA_AA, Arisaka-Unicode-MS---AA, Arisaka-Unicode-MS---P, Arisaka-Unicode-MS, Osaka-Unicode-MS---AA, Osaka-Unicode-MS---P, Osaka-Unicode-MS, Tarisaka-Unicode-MS---AA, Tarisaka-Unicode-MS---P, Tarisaka-Unicode-MS, Tarisaka, Trebuchet-Osaka--Provisional-, Trebuchet-P-Osaka--Provisional-, Verdana-Osaka--Provisional-, Verdana-P-Osaka--Provisional-, Osaka-Mobile. [Google]

Osaka font

Apple Osaka Unicode, a Japanese Unicode font in truetype. Has also full sets of Cyrillic, Greek and dingbat characters. [Google]

Osamu Torinoumi

Winner at Jiyukobo of the Type Design Prize of the TDC Tokyo 2008 for Yu Mincho - R / Yutsuki Shogo Gothic Kana / Yutsuki Midashi Mincho / Yutsuki Shogo Kana / Yutsuki Kyokasho - M (Osamu Torinoumi, Jiyukobo). [Google]

OTEdit

OTEdit is a free opentype font editor for Windows and Mac. Page in Japanese. [Google]

Oxygen
[Takashi Konuma]

Oxygen sells its fonts through Font Pavilion: the katakana fonts Neuron, One Dot, Robotech, Ticker-S, Ticker-M are the main ones, all designed by Takashi Konuma. Check also Chibacity (katakana). [Google]

Pacific Rim Connections

Japanese commercial font vendor. [Google]

Pain and Belief

The zip file has PJ-Hiragana, Jim's-Kanji, and Gemelli. [Google]

Paladin

Designer of the Japanese runic font AhiruMoji. Alternate URL. [Google]

PALCOM (or: sei project)

Original techno fonts made in 2002: i9-ari-font_alpha (handwriting), i9-ari-font_hira, i9-ari-font_kana, i9-KAKUatom, i9-KAKUatom-15-degrees, i9-KAKUatom-a, i9-KAKUatom-h, i9-Beating (futuristic stencil font), i9-cooking-school, i9-DDRfont-re, i9-gikogurumi (dingbats), i9-kitchen-school, i9-kitchen-school-yellow-news, i9-+-hagesikuninja-+ (dingbats), i9-hyu-poket, i9-to-hu, yeti-square. [Google]

Paper Heart

Free Mac fonts: Karuji (Japanese), HetaDasa (Japanese), Seventeen (Latin font), Marker Light (Latin letters). [Google]

Parallel Starts

Japanese barcode and morse font site. Free downloads here: MorseSQ, BARCODE-JAN and Code39 T25W10 are by Parallel Starts. [Google]

PAWFONT

Free truetype and bitmap font: PAWFONT (Japanese). [Google]

Pentacom
[Eiji Nishidai]

Japanese foundry and software producer which offers a free dingbat font called Webicons (2002). Usagi is a rabbit ears alphading truetype font made in 1998 by Eiji Nishidai and Yuko Washizu. See also . (ca. 1100 as of November 2006). [Google]

Peter Specht

Designer who created the pixel grid face z001-rom (2008), Elektrogothic (2008, futuristic), Laurier Test (2009, serifed), Laurier No. 7 (2009, an extensive Unicode face that covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, most Indic languages, Thai, Hebrew, Lao, Tibetan, runic, Khmer, and mathematical, chess and other symbols), Kinryu No. 8 Regular (2009, an extension of Laurier towards Japanese), Clucky Duck (2008, rounded), and the double-scratch handwriting face Wild Freak (2008). [Google]

Petit Graphics (was: Petit.tv)
[Misato]

Misato (Petit Graphics) is the Japanese designer of the pixel fonts PG005A05, PG006A05, PG007H10, PG008A10, PG009A10, PG010K07, PG001A05, PG002K05, PG003A00, PG004A05, PG011H10. These were made between 2004-2006. Some are for Latin, others for kana. Alternate URL where these pixel fonts can be found: PG001A05, PG002K05, PG003A00, PG004A05, PG005A05, PG006A05, PG007H10, PG008A10, PG009A10. [Google]

Petitboys Font Blog

Japanese font blog by Petitboys. [Google]

Phontografics

100-font Swedish archive. Has an Arabic shareware font section. In the Asian font section, grab Arakawa (katakana), and a few far-from-complete Chinese fonts. [Google]

Piccolo

A Japanese typeface characterized by spiral endings of the strokes of each glyph. [Google]

Pilar Cano

Graduate from the University of Reading, 2006, who started out life in Barcelona. After graduation, still in 2006, she co-founded Mídori, a graphic design studio specialised in editorial design. Creator of Edita (2006), an informal sans family that also covers kana for Japanese. This typeface was finally published in 2009 at Type Together. Coauthor, with Marta Serrats, of Typosphere (2007, Harper Collins). MyFonts link. [Google]

Ping Mag

Japanese design magazine (with English translations) that has regular features on typography and type design. [Google]

Playtown Domino
[Pippi]

Japanese site with these original faces by "Pippi": ninedots_3A (pixel face), kakuji (futuristic Latin/kana/kanji face). There is also an archive of about 100 Latin fonts. [Google]

plx.system

Free Japanese fonts by Jirou: yuta_maru, Yuta-Semicircle, yuta-Underline, yutapon_Coding_Plus_BMP, yutapon_Coding-PlusBMP-spc. [Google]

PMT

Japanese font maker, whose output can be bought at URW++: PMT Casa bold, PMT Casa light, PMT Casa medium, PMT Gokufuto Gothic standard, PMT Iwata Chu Gothic standard, PMT Iwata Chu Mincho standard, PMT Iwata Futo Gothic standard, PMT Iwata Futo Mincho standard, PMT Iwata Hoso Gothic standard, PMT Iwata Hoso Mincho standard, PMT Kunko light. [Google]

Pocket iLAND
[Kato Masashi]

Free fonts such as the Folkdance family of dingbats by Kato Masashi (of Flop Design, 1999), as well as Border, Amifont, and Keymode, all digital letters in roman and kana, by the same designer. Mac and PC. [Google]

Pop Suzuki

Pop Suzuki (Junzo Suzuki) is a Japanese type designer who sells his fonts via Font Pavilion. Pop-Bob, Pop-Rei, Pop-Ultra and Pop-Doheta have katakana, hiragana and romaji versions. [Google]

Popputai

POP or popputai is a style of Japanese typeface which looks like handwritten characters obtained with a felt-tip pen. [Google]

Positype
[Neil Summerour]

Positype was founded in 2002 by Athens, GA-based designer and typographer Neil Summerour (b. 1972, Azores, Portugal). Neil began developing typefaces in 1996 with the 1996 Olympic Brick Paver Project proprietary typeface. He is the co-principal and senior designer of Athens-based interactive, design, and advertising agency Genetic:ICG. In the summer of 2003, he began teaching Advanced Electronic Design in the Graphic Design Department at The University of Georgia. In 2001, Neil published his first two type designs with [T-26] Digital Type Foundry in Chicago, IL. Since then, he has released 11 font families including hiragana and katakana fonts. Positype fonts are sold by Myfonts.com and [T-26]. List: Ginza (2008, a squarish techno family), Truss Ultra Light (2006, hairline architectural font), Baka (2005, a fantastic scratchy handwriting face), Baka Too (2006), Ego (2003, octagonal family), Kari (2005), Juicy (T-26, 2004, brushdrawn family), Aaux, Aaux Office, Aaux Pro (2004), Aaux Next (2009, 72 typefaces), Aaux Alphanumera, Aaux Emoticons, Altar (8-weight Gothic family), Claustrum (2003), Ether, Ether Connected, Iru1, Iru2, Kryptk Flash, Kurosawa Bastard, Kurosawa Hand, Kurosawa Sans, Kurosawa Serif, Kurosawa Hiragana, Kurosawa Katakana, Penumbra, Aaux Office (2002), Cynapse (2003), Sneakers (2003). At Union Fonts, he published Ether, Ether Connected, AMP, Yumi (2003, techno), Anarcharsis (2002, serif family inspired by incomplete rubbing made from a stone wall located in the Bahamas), Eva and Kryptik Flash in 2003. At Umbrella Type/Veer, he published the Bodoniesque family Donatora (2004), Kari (2005, connected upright script), Luce (2004), the athletic lettering family Sneakers (2004), Headcold (2004), Cynapse Pro (2004, 12 weights), Plastek (2004), Aaux Pro (2004), and Ayumi (2004). Some fonts are sold by The Type Trust: Kari Pro (2005), Kari Display (2009), Romp (2009, condensed handprinted), Vekta Serif (2009), Plastek, Headcold, Sneakers, Donatora, Cynapse Pro (sans family), Baka, Baka Too, Sneakers Script, Yumi, Ayumi Pro, Altar, Epic (2007, a 12-weight serif family), Akagi (2008, 20 style sans family), Angel Script (2009, TypeTrust), Vekta Neo and Vekta Sans (2009, a sans family at TypeTrust), Organic (2009, sans family), Plastek (2009), Muscle (2009, TypeTrust---a futuristic family), Fugu (2009, rough-outlined script family), Epic (2009, a multi-style contemporary garalde). he R.E.M. Athens project involves three fonts published in 2009, REM Orange, REM Accelerate and REM Tourfont. They are based on ideas by Chris Bilheimer for the band R.E.M. (Michael Stipe and Chris Bilheimer). Both attended the fine arts program at the University of Georgia. Michael Stipe, singer and lyricist, formed R.E.M. in 1980. Bilheimer began working with the band in 1994.Link at Veer. Facebook link. Blog. [Google]

Postal Buddy
[Osamu Miki]

Japanese site with free software called Postal Buddy. You can also download a font called PB Barcode. Mac and PC. A barcode truetype font, Postal Buddy (or: PB-Barcode). 35USD shareware, Mac and PC. By Osamu Miki. Alternate URL. [Google]

Power Graphixx

Japanese outfit. Designer of the commercial fonts Burkin, Dioxin (kata, hira), Citizendick (kata, hira), sold at Font Pavilion. Check also Hellbetica-Regular. [Google]

Power Graphixx

Maker of commercial fonts, such as 100 degrees (futuristic font sold by Shift Factory), and the sans serif Grasshopper (also sold by Shift Factory). Font Kure is sold by Digitalogue. [Google]

Project SP

Japanese free font foundry. They have Rakukana (2007). [Google]

ProjectDARTS

Japanese foundry which published the following free truetype fonts: HANDARTS_MAX (Latin, kana and kanji, handwritten), HANDARTSa (Latin and kana only), PASON (stickfigure alphading face), SAYAGON, PASSU (blockletter face, Latin and kana). [Google]

Prop-a-ganda
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

Retro font foundry, est. 2008 in Nagoya, Japan, by Ryoichi Tsunekawa. Fonts sold via MyFonts include PAG Ministero (2008, poster font), PAG Libre (2008), PAG Marina (2008), PAG Liberta (2009, poster stencil), PAG Sototerra (2009, art deco), PAG Karogs (2008, art deco), PAG Julio (2009, art deco), PAG Industria (2009, caps only), PAG Demokratie (2008), PAG Etiketa (2008, a great poster face from the 1930s-1950s era), PAG Auto (2008, a sans headline face based on art deco posters from the 1940-1960 period). Tsunekawa also runs Flat-It, a foundry whose output consists mostly of calligraphic and script fonts. Other fonts: PAG Auto, PAG Bankas inspired by retro lettering on advertising & propaganda posters from the 30s to 60s), PAG Bravos, PAG Club, PAG Etiketa, PAG Industria, PAG Karogs, PAG Norm, PAG Novembris (2008), PAG October (2008), PAG Revolucion (2008), PAG Smoke (2008, art deco in the style of Mostra), PAG Syndicate (2008), PAG Tekov, PAG Theater, PAG Transformacio, PAG Bravos (a great propaganda poster geometric display face), PAG Brigade. [Google]

Psy Zo Lab (was: Psyborg)
[Hirofumi Nishida]

Free Mac fonts by Hirofumi Nishida: HNDash, HNKani, HNRumine. [Google]

Puchikan

Free handwritten Japanese fonts called Puchi Kuma and Puchi Kuma Hosome. [Google]

PumpCurry

Japanese foundry with these free fonts: GD-TiVangerion-JA, GD-Digit13LED-OTF (pixel font), GD-HighwayGothicJA-OTF (highway lettering, kanji included), GD-AirportRunway-OTF (2008, octagonal lettering), GD-TiVangerionJA (2006, kana). Fonts without downloads: GD-HyperElectricJA, GD-HyperSuperEnergyJA, GD-OCR-K_JA, GD-SunnyEgg320, GD-MorseBarcode-JA, GD-InaniwaUdon, GD-ProjectNotes, GD-Koigokoro-JA, GD-ComicTitle-JA, GD-Digit17LED. [Google]

Qooc
[Hajime Kudo]

Free kana fonts made by Hajime Kudo: KesaranPasaranKT, TowerGothicKT, qoocRomanKT, qoocRomanBoldKT, SampomichiHR, Tokage-no-ShippoHR. [Google]

quwon

Free font "Kigo". [Google]

R. Bernard

R. Bernard designed the free fonts Hiragana and Katakana (1996) as well as Dragon Ball (1999, kanji dingbats). [Google]

rain-road

Japanese foundry that published some free alphadings and pixel fonts in 2001 (Latin and kana): X.O., coopchick, coopoppo-3D, coopoppo-bold, coopoppo-edge, coopoppo, coro, coro3D, coroedge, deco, dekisokonai, ecoco, sheepish, scrappy-dot, 100t, beaaaar, cocoro, coopchick-bold, coopchick-edge, coro3D, U.S.A., Miu, Whipping Cream, Kokoro, Coopchick 3D, Coopoppo Serif, Leap in Wired, Dekusikonai. Fonts made by "Rina". [Google]

Ravina

Download Orient (Mac, PC), a special font for romanized Japanese. [Google]

Reboot (or: famipla)

Japanese site with free original techno fonts for Mac and PC, in all formats: Pubblicita, More, Dispenser, Moneco, Oreji (Japanese bitmap font), ArtmGrotesk, 45rpm. [Google]

Red Design
[Tadahiro Fukai]

Free original fonts by Tadahiro Fukai: Red Font, Left Font, Kan Font (a spectacular display font, partly latin, partly kana), Joint Font, Cube Font, Scrap Font (kana), Circle Font (kana), Dizzy Font. Mac and Windows. TrueType only. Alternate URL. [Google]

Richtiger Zweig

Free fonts at this Japanese foundry: Denji (2004, brush script for Latin and kana), Bonji (2004, old kana writing). Download here and view here. [Google]

RichWin Chinese support software

"A new generation of Asian language software for Windows. RichWin is an add-on software that fits between Non-Chinese Windows and other Windows applications, enabling users to process the two-byte languages Chinese, Japanese and Korean on non-Chinese Windows and on other platforms. It provides 30 different Chinese fonts." For more info, email Bruce Liu. [Google]

Ricoh

Japanese truetype fonts by Ricoh. Some Ricoh fonts can be found on the web. For example Fontchu carries HGMaruGothicMPRO (2002) and HGSeikaishotaiPRO (2002), as well as HGSGothicE (1997), HGPSoeiKakugothicUB (1997), HGSoeiPresenceE (1997) and HGSoeiKakupoptaiHeavy (1997). [Google]

Riko's Page

Lots of (mainly Japanese) links. [Google]

Rimzin Index

Links to Japanese free font sites. [Google]

Rin Minahara

Designer of the handwriting kana font BUSAIKU. [Google]

rinpin

Archive with: ClowningWayText-Condensed (Imageline), the following fonts by Yoshiyasu Ito of DigitalDreamDesign: D3-Concretism-typeA, D3-Concretism-typeB, D3-Cubism, D3-CuteBitMapism-TypeA, D3-CuteBitMapism-TypeB, D3-Electronism, D3-Electronism-Katakana, D3-Honeycombism, D3-Honeycombism-Bold, D3-Honeycombism-Sorround, D3-Littlebitmapism-Katakana, D3-Mouldism-Katakana, D3-Parallelism; Faerie (Scriptorium dingbats), Freecityrhyme (Bradford Cox, 2000), Freekitten (Bradford Cox, 2000), Hiragana-Regular, Japanese, Kemuri (Toxic Type, 1997), LittleTroubleGirlBV, MotterFemD, RetroBatsOne, ROTORkeffBold, ROTORkeffRoundedBold, ROTORkeffRounded, ROTORkeff (all ROTOR fonts by Jonas Petersson of ROTORtype), Setsama (by Amanda, 2000: cat dingbats), Sumdumgoi (Mike Allard), UniCase (squarish font by Jacky Frossard, 1999), Bit4 (pixel font by Magnus Högberg, 2000), DFFangSong1B-GB, PrincessBV, RotodesignDingbats, Silkscreen, Valium, Velvet (by Faizal Reza, Squirtgun, 1997, based on URW's KunstlerschreibschD-Medi). [Google]

Rinrinrin

Designer of the kana handwriting font Michiko (2004). Alternate URL. [Google]

RM

Japanese web designer, b. 1981. His free fonts at his company, Prismtone, include the sans family called Nordic with styles such as Nordic Round and Nordic Standard (2008). Alternate URL. [Google]

Robundo

High quality Japanese type site. They also sell some nice original creations such as Revision 9 (2003, katakana and hiragana). [Google]

Rolling Cradle

Designer at Font Pavilion 12 of Oniku-kata (2000), a katakana display font. [Google]

Ross Evans on Japanese font technology

An essay by Ross Evans, president of Fontworks, about the creation of Japanese fonts, and in particular about Fontworks' "2x2" stroke-based tool. [Google]

Rout Three Graphics
[Yoshihisa Nakai]

At Route Three Graphics, Yoshihisa Nakai's (free) creations: the Latin fonts Waterdrop, Flower, Planet to Planet, Buddhism, Tokyo, and Planetarium, and the Japanese fonts Cassis Orange, Nikukyu, Tokyo Square, Afrotic, Drop G. Mac postscript and PC truetype. All fonts are kana-only. In Font Pavilion 12 (2000), he published Afrotic. [Google]

RPM

Japanese pixel font maker. Free fonts (Mac only) include RPMBF-01RE, RPMBF-02RE, RPMBF-03RE, RPMBF-04RE, RPMBF-05RE, RPMBF-07E, RPMOF_01E, RPMOF_01J, RPMOF_02E, RPMOF_02J. Kana and Latin. [Google]

RS Font Works (was RS125)
[Ryosuke Sato]

Free original TrueType fonts for the Mac and Windows by chain-smoking Ryosuke Sato. His work covers mostly katakana fonts such as Bluetype, Prototype, Stone and Orthodox. But there are also Roman fonts such as Defactica, Continuous, RS125 Original, Dot 28, Cybe, Orthodox English, Stone (katakana), Bluetype, Orthodox_K (katakana). lzh-encoded files. Dead link. [Google]

Ryobi

Commercial Japanese foundry. Home page. [Google]

Ryohayu

Japanese designer of the handwritten kanji font ryoha-yu2003. Alternate URL. [Google]

Ryoko Nishizuka

Kazuraki is an Opentype kanji font developed in 2009-2010 by Adobe for script applications. The Kazuraki design is inspired by the calligraphy of 12th century artist and writer Fujiwara-no-Teika, who is considered one of the greatest poets in Japan's history. It features vertical ligatures. Designed by Ryoko Nishizuka (Tokyo), it was produced by Masataka Hattori (Tokyo) and Ken Lunde (Adobe, San Jose, CA) under the management of Taro Yamamoto (Tokyo) and David Lemon (San Jose, CA). In 2002, Ryoko Nishizuka had won the Morisawa Award for type design for Teika, a precursor of the 2009 Adobe font. Morisawa commented at the time: Turning superb calligraphy into a typeface requires surmounting many obstacles, not least of which is getting characters of differing size to line up correctly. The designer here controls the direction of the brush strokes in order to give the typeface a stability in horizontal typesetting, and in that coherence one can find the traces of her struggle. The ligature in vertical typesetting has also been given full attention, and the result is a generally excellent work. Specimen. [Google]

Ryougetsu Manufactory

Japanese foundry. Has Japanese font news pages. RyougetsuPakkieH Bold (2003) is a free original handwriting kana face. [Google]

Ryuichi Tateno

Japanese designer of the Pirouette family of calligraphic faces (2003, Linotype), which won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003 and at the TDC2 2005 type competition. [Google]

Saburou Akita

American fantasy writer (b. 1994?) who created the handprinted Verdok Foundation in 2008 for the manga called Verdok. [Google]

Saikix Font Distribution
[Yuji Saiki]

Freeware Mac and PC fonts (PostScript, TTF) for hiragana and katakana by Yuji Saiki: Saitech, LCD, Takuan2, Alarla, Circuit, Kakumin, Gelnicarna, Voltline, Progress, Syntech (a multiple master font), Sumire100, Sumire250, Sumire400, Sumire550, Sumire700, Retort, Scarlet, Mint, Onesize, OnesizeReverse (pixel fonts for Latin). [Google]

Sakura

A free Japanese font, developed in 2006. See also here. [Google]

Salika

Commercial Khmer font producer. Salika Ltd is located in Tokyo. Their Khmer fonts are named Khm-1 through Khm-4. They also have fonts for Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Latin, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Nepali, Cyrillic, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese. [Google]

Sample of Japanese CIDFonts, CMap and AFM files. See here for some Japanese bitmap fonts.

Sana's Original Fontbox (was: Heart to me)

Sana (Heart to me) is the designer of the handwritten Latin/kanji/dingbat faces SNSanaFon (2003), SNsanafonmaruP, SNsanafonP, SNsanafonkakuP, SanafonKakuOT, SanafonMaruOT, SanafonGyou, SanafonMugi, SNchibo, Reizou, SanaFon, SanafonKazari, SNsanafonObi, SanafonPro, SanaFonKaku, SanafonkakuP, SanafonKakuOT, SNsanafonObi, SanaFonMaru, SanafonMaruP, and SanafonYu. They also made the free Latin fonts SNCircuitLine (multiline caps face), SNRoPetit (pixel), SNSharp (pixel), SNchibiB_6, SNchibiU_6, SNchibi_6, SNchibi2_5 (pixel), SNchibo, SNslit, SNslit_black. [Google]

Sanriowave

Japanese (Latin and kana) alphadings. [Google]

Screen

Commercial Japanese foundry and font vendor. [Google]

Second Wave (Kilo Font Works)

Japanese designer of the handwritten kanji fonts kiloji, kiloji---B, kiloji---D and kiloji-P (2006). He also made the techno face TimeLeap. Home page. [Google]

Seiwado

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Seiwado

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Senjudo

Japanese outfit that produced the commercial font Junkissa (Latin/katakana/hiragana font family), sold at Font Pavilion. They also made JK004NewMelody (2001). [Google]

Sent

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Shakagraphics

Original fonts, very legible at small point sizes. Nice web page design. The fonts are called Shakagraphics 01 through 16. Recently developed: Gridsystem (published at FRONTLINE 01, 2002), Brokenhead. [Google]

Shampolyon

Shampolyon / FontViewer is a free font viewer for Japanese and Latin fonts. [Google]

Shichiko

Archive with a full kanji handwriting truetype font, Bgpenkb. In addition, we find Jim's Kanji family, PJ-Hiragana and PJ-Katakana. [Google]

Shift Factory

Japanese font distributor. Both Japanese and roman fonts. Carries fonts from Extra Designs, Hideki Inaba, G2System, Waap Designs, Hyperion Graphics (who made Capsule3), GEI, Maniackers Design, and Fontage / Kivart, and Fontstudio. Mac and PC. [Google]

Shigeki Yamada

Shigeki Yamada's font Eriki is sold through Font Pavilion. Fusoso (katakana). [Google]

Shigeru Katsumoto

Designer of Logo Jr Black (2007, with Kyoko Katsumoto), a winner in the TDC2 2008 competition. Katsumoto is associated with Visual Design Lab in Japan. [Google]

Shikaku Design

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Shinji Blues
[Shinji Hamada]

Free fonts made in 2003 by Shinji Hamada (Shinji Blues): 100Soul, 100Strange, AlrightB, baboo, beck, Devil-Number, Eye, GetTheBluesP, Gold, hige, HundredItsGodEnough, Jelly-Stones (katakana only), KIDS, ODORONO, OldFont, ReafFont (caps with leaves), RecFont (white on black background), romantic (has roman numerals), SevenBeams (pixel), SevenHead (pixel), Shinji Blues, Sweet-Nipple, TelephoneCaster, WooWooWah. Alternate URL. Another URL where we find (with repetitions): 100Soul, AlrightB, baboo, beck, BroadCaster, EYEfont, GetTheBluesP, Gold, hige, HundredItsGodEnough, KIDS, ODORONO, OldFont (Western), ReafFont, RecFont (ransom note), romantic, SevenBeams, SevenHead, WooWooWah, TelephoneCaster. [Google]

Shinji Naka

Japanese designer of TypoBokan (2005, Maniackers, with Masayuki Sato). [Google]

Shirog

Designers of SG-Stitch (2004) and SG-konogana (2004, a kana face). [Google]

Shizuka Yamazaki

Japanese designer with Masayuki Sato of SwingingBird-AL, KT, HR (Maniackers). [Google]

Shodou's room

Mayumi Kitazawa demonstrates shodo (brush calligraphy) writing. [Google]

Shotai

Japanese word for writing style. Of particular interest are the writing sdtyles grouped under Edomoji, invented for advertising in the Edo period. These are uniquely Japanese. Examples include

• Kanteiryu: used for publicity and programmes for arts like kabuki and rakugo. Invented by Okazaki Yakanroku, the name derives from Okazaki's nickname, kantei.
• Yosemoji: Yose is Japanese comedy theatre such as rakugo and manzai. TThis style was used for posters.
• Kagomoji or cage letters: thick and square.
• Higemoji: letters with whiskers (hige), often used on sake barrels.
• Sumo moji: thick black letters, initially used for sumo prpgrammes and ads.
• Chochin moji, or letters for hanging paper lanterns. Used in izakayas.
• Kakuji, a rectangular style popular for making seals.

Shozo Motogi

Founder of one the earliest typefoundries in Japan in the late 1800s. Robundo Publishing will soon realease "Biography of Shozo Motogi". [Google]

Shu Atsumi

Designer of the kana/kanji calligraphic fonts rkgyou and rkten, both free. [Google]

Shukudai fonts

Anarchistic, Arial-Black, Arial-BlackItalic, Arial-BoldItalicMT, Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, ArialMT, ArialNarrow-Bold, ArialNarrow-BoldItalic, ArialNarrow-Italic, ArialNarrow, Avantque..., BookmanOldStyle-Bold, BookmanOldStyle-BoldItalic, BookmanOldStyle-Italic, BookmanOldStyle, DanielBlack, Garamond-Bold, Garamond-Italic, Garamond, Georgia-Bold, Georgia-BoldItalic, Georgia-Italic, Georgia, HeartlandRegular, KRHeartalicious, MicrosoftSansSerif, MonotypeCorsiva, Moon-font-PRO, SanaFonKaku, Sea-font, TeenDreemMagazeen, aquafont. Has some kanji fonts. [Google]

Shuzo Fujita

Shuzo Fujita's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: 1999Font has Roman and Japanese versions. [Google]

SIMA-BOX
[Naoyoshi Shimada]

Naoyoshi Shimada's (b. 1977, Gunma) font creations at SIMA-BOX: by clicking on the "download" on top of the page, you will find some Mac fonts: Rough, F-bit (pixel font), Moony, Iroen, Sakura and Sakurakana (the latter two are dot matrix fonts). [Google]

Simone Guerra

Fantastic web page about kanji and Japanese language software. Includes the following fonts: SimonRad, BlabyNewRoman, Japanese&Sanskrit. [Google]

Simple 164 (was: Rosh Font)

Nice set of original Latin and kana pixel fonts: RF-b23r10-schirm, RF-b04r12-necklace, RF-b06c09-noeks-condensed, RF-b06r09-noeks, RF-b07r32-technor, RF-b07t32-technor-thin, RF-b08r12-goodd, RF-b10r07-f-system-outline, RF-b10r07-f-system, RF-b12r11-egg-face, RF-b14r12-square-bit, RF-b15r18-mildlife, RF-b16r07-f-system-kk-outline, RF-b16r07-f-system-kk, RF-b17r20-ocr-R, RF-b21r18-mildlife2, RF-b22r18-mildlife3, RF-t01r08-liquid-status, RF T03I00 Conceptless (2006), RF B23R10 Schirm (2004). [Google]

Sin Cafe
[Sin Kubota]

Japanese foundry with a hard-to-decipher web page. There are free Mac techno fonts here, made by Sin Kubota, who runs Sin Cafe. The names: R_sin_regular, sinLED, sin_bold, sin_round. [Google]

SLIME

Designer of the free kana pixel fonts DragonQuestFC and DragonQuestFCIntact (2005). [Google]

Smile Studio

Japanese design studio with about ten wonderful free and original fonts: Butthole Surfers (curly), Pavement (papyrus type), Taitoh Katakana (square katakana), Fresh Young Fellows (handwriting), BMX Bandits, Dinosaur Jr (grunge), KC (ink run), Michael's Type (erased), Onsoku-Seinen (erasure), 3Code (not free), Garbage- Garbage-Version2, Ministry, Pavement-Alternative (old typewriter), SummerCamp (4 font-family, including katakana), Views, Taitoh (not free), RapidEyeMovement, MichaelsType-Life Rich Pageant, and MinistrySansSerif. Mac and PC, type 1 and truetype. The fonts have an SS prefix. [Google]

Some places that have Japanese fonts

Help on finding Japanese fonts. [Google]

Sonic Fucktory
[Katsuyoshi "Kappon" Okuhara]

Katsuyoshi "Kappon" Okuhara, who runs Sonic Fucktory, is the designer of the 3d fonts Battle-Royale-Font and BattleRoyaleKatakanaFont. Home page. [Google]

Sotsu Agency

Designers in 1998 of MangaSoundEffects and TrigunMaximum. [Google]

Southern Software Inc. (SSi)

SSi sells foreign fonts for Arabic, Urdu, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Baltic, Burmese, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Cree, Simplified Chinese, Ethiopian, Inuktitut, Gaelic, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mayan. Farsi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Syriac, South Arabian, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese. Plus musical dingbats. Of course, they did not make a single of these fonts themselves. [Google]

Square Soft
[Keigo Hirooka]

Keigo Hirooka (Square Soft) is the designer of Final Fantasy (P) and Dragon Quest (P), two Latin/kana pixel fonts. Alternate URL. [Google]

sRB-Powers

Saru's fonts and a TTF collection (about 1000 fonts). Font links. Japanese font links. Saru's fonts: BallDot-(sRB), Biscuits-(sRB), Bit-Cheese10-(sRB), Bit-Ranger-(sRB), Bit-Rope20-(sRB), Bit-SARU18-(sRB), Bit-Screen-(sRB), Bit-Station16-(sRB), Bit-TV18-(sRB), Bit-Twinkle15-(sRB), Bit-Web10-(sRB), Gravity-(sRB), Milk-Cocoa-(sRB), PU-RI-N-(sRB), Side-Winder-(sRB), Z-machine-(sRB), COM-(sRB), Drunker-(sRB), Flag-(sRB), idle-(sRB), mumumu-(sRB), nazonazo-(sRB), ONSEN-(sRB), saru-(sRB), sarus-for-web-(sRB), saru's-Flower-Ding-(sRB), sparrow-(sRB), Step-Up-(sRB), Washable-(sRB), week-(sRB), Bit-Darling10-(sRB), Bit-Daylong11-(sRB), Bit-Folder15-(sRB), Bit-Light10-(sRB), Bit-Line15-(sRB), Bit-Lines15-(sRB), Bit-Tough15-(sRB), Bit-Toys20-(sRB), Bit-Trip7-(sRB), Hotplate-(sRB), Monday-(sRB), Monday-Bold&Wide-(sRB), Monday-Bold-(sRB), Orange-HK-(sRB), Pencil-(sRB). English version. The fonts with the prefix "Bit" are typically pixel fonts. Alternate URL. [Google]

SRH

Free fonts designed by "Miu". Bitmap fonts: BA-Venus, BA-Venus-plus, BA-Mars, BA-Mars-plus, BA-Crescent, BA-Moon, BA-Jupiter, BA-Jupiter-plus, BA-Vanilla, BJ-Cynical, BJ-Lovits, BJ-Petit-Lovits. Fonts for Latin: OA-Olive, OA-Cacao, OA-Comical. Japanese fonts: OJ-Tsunoda, OJ-Maruta. Dingbats: OI-Cotton-Candy, OI-Funny. Japanese and Latin fonts in password-protected zip files: SRjupiter, SRvenus, SRcacao, SRmars-plus, SRcomicalB, SRmoon, SRcrescent, SRvanilla. [Google]

StarSuite 8

SUN's trial software comes with some Japanese, Chinese and Korean fonts (choose the right platform/language and throw away the software after locating the fonts). [Google]

Steven Borthick

American designer of Binary Code Font (2005, letters are in binary), Borthick's Braille Font (2006), Braille 2 (2006), Hiragana Bold (2005), Steve's Handwriting (2006). URL for his fonts. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. And another one. [Google]

Stroke font technology

Essay By Joel Breckinridge on stroke font technology for Japanese fonts. Link has died. [Google]

Studenti

Italian students run this page where you can download MSMincho (truetype) and UWJMG3. [Google]

Studio 2G

Shino made several Japanese kanji handwriting fonts, including Moon-font-PRO, Moonfont, S2G-love, S2Gmemo, Sea-font-pro, Sea-font, moon-font-PRO, moon-font, nagurigaki-P, nagurigaki, seafont, uni-font-PRO, uni-font. The uni-font series is quite remarkable as it covers most of the Unicode spectrum (besides Japanese, also Cyrillic, Greek, many dingbats, astrological symbols, chess symbols, the works). Alternate URL. Alternate URL. [Google]

STUPID

Designer of the commercial font Osakasashi (romaji, kata), sold at Font Pavilion. Web site. [Google]

Stupid Net

Free fonts made in Japan, dated 1998-2007: 1000000voltKanaOblique, 1000000voltKana, 1000000voltOblique, 1000000volt, 120000voltKanaOblique, 120000voltKana, 120000voltOblique, 120000volt, 21, 21KanaOblique, 21Kana, 21Oblique, Bhoochoo, FlookeKana, Flooke, Fuuka, HellbetikaBold, MassimoBoldOblique, MassimoBold, MassimoOblique, Massimo, NyoooBoldOblique, NyoooBold, NyoooOblique, OsakashiBoldKana, StensEr, SublimationLight, SublimationMedium, TimuzRoman. These fonts cover Latin or kana, and generally fall in the category of grunge or techno fonts. [Google]

Subaru Online

Links to the major Japanese foundries. [Google]

Subaru-G

127 Japanese fonts for pricing in stores (numbers, Yen sign, related signs). Commercial. [Google]

Sucharaka Paradise

Great fonts readable at small screen sizes, both kana and Latin alphabets. The fonts, all made in 2001: SP-Blue-Candy-H, SP-Loppi-Alphabet-a, SP-Loppi-Alphabet-b, SP-Loppi-Katakana, SP-Qp-Alphabet-a, SP-Qp-Alphabet-b, SP-Qp-Hiragana-a, SP-Qp-Hiragana-b, SP-Red-Candy-H, SP-Skeleton-A, Sucharaka-Font, Sucharaka-Maru-Font, SP-Abit-01, SP-Abit-02, SP-Abit-03, SP-Abit-04, SP-Hbit-01, SP-Hbit-02, SP-Kbit-01. Also, Quarter, PeaCan, Magical Candy, PeaCan A, Apolon. [Google]

Sugargliderz
[Shuji Kikuchi]

Shuji Kikuchi from Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan, was born in 1972 in Osaka. His foundry, est. 2006, is called Sugargliderz. Free fonts: Cuneiform, Proto Uncertain (handwriting), Shears, Unnamed. Commercial fonts: Uncertain Felttip (2008), the Palindrome family (2006, experimental), Pinch (2007, handprinted), ScratchWithTheCoin (2007, grunge), Bagworm (2007, four styles, influenced by Tekton), Decay (2008, grunge), Beg Before (2008, grungew), Beg After (2008, grunge), Phoebus Palast (2008), Kropotkin (2008, 24 styles of a sturdy early 20th century grotesk), Rebuild-Square (2009, totally square family), Ponytail (2009, rounded), Violadabraccio (2009, serif), Long Haul Trucker (2009, alphading/logo font), Michel (2009, didone). [Google]

Sunale

Designers opf the free pixel dingbat font Iemoji (2000). [Google]

Sun-Ext

Sun-ExtA and Sun-ExtB are two full free Unicode fonts, covering everything under the sun. [Google]

Suzuki and Kanbun fonts

Japanese fonts. [Google]

Swamp Design
[Johan Ahlberg]

Johan Ahlberg's site on pixel fonts that are very readable at extremely small point sizes, on screen. Click on Swamp 2097. Download about 30 original fonts (called pixel fonts and dot fonts). Very impressive displays! Font names: Pixel, Pixel4x4, PixelClassic. Plus an archive of techno/computer/dot/pixel fonts, including many Chinese and Japanese character fonts: 35base, 35basewide, 35lines, 35rounds, ArakawaPlane (katakana), BMUGAsianFont, Beatbox, BlobThin, DFFangSong1B_GB (simple Chinese characters), DotplLCD_KANA, Dotplain, Flytningar (Tarmsaft), Flytningarsprutande, Futalic_win (kana), BlockOut2097 by Matthew Sephton, CoilKtb, MM, Parade20, Pinponpan, Gachaponka__akana (the latter five fonts by Masayuki Sato at Maniackers Design), Jim_s_Kanji_A__PS, Kiloton_v1_0, ManiacKt, Olasfontirregular, Onakanormal, PKNB, PropellerFuel, Sevenet7, Thyristor, Ticker, VTMeiOrnaments (Susan Townsend's nice Chinese ornaments), VTMeiOrnamentsOnBlack, VTMeiOrnamentsOnCircle, WA50, Hirosh, InavelMutant, InavelStorebror, Jetplus, KEWKEN, Koshgarian_Light, Neuropol_Medium, Ollon, Reningsverk, Shamen_Remix. Alternate URL. Direct downloads. [Google]

Systema 81
[Mitiya Masuda]

Systema 21 is a free Unicode sans font for European languages, Japanese, Armenian and Cyrillic, made on the basis of Konatu by Mitiya Musuda for the M+ Project. [Google]

T. Fujiwara

This site has free full-Unicode (including Chinese/Japanese) fonts by T. Fujiwara: Mincho2000, Mincho2000P. It also has BitstreamCyberbit-Roman, a full unicode font. Later additions: Mincho2004, Mincho2004P. [Google]

T. Waka

Japanese designer with Masayuki Sato of Chihuahua-AL, KT, HR (2009, Maniackers). [Google]

T1
[Gothi]

Gothi (or: T1) is the Japanese designer of T_No1, a kana/kanji/Latin handwriting typeface. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Yet another URL. Latest URL. [Google]

tactographic

Discussion of Japanese postscript font technology. [Google]

TAG Publication

A full Unicode font: gunsuhche. [Google]

Taikou Font
[Chinki Tamushi]

Free pixel fonts by Chinki Tamushi (Taikou Font): Hyrule (2002, kana and Latin), Loto_kan (2002, hiragana), Loto_kat (2002, katakana), Ninnin (2003, Latin, caps only), Zebeth (2003, katakana). [Google]

Taka Design Production Inc

Commercial Japanese foundry. Their fonts include these families: Takarain, Takaboy (21 weights), Takachan, Takaroman. [Google]

Takahiko Higuchi

Takahiko Higuchi's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion. Check the original katakana fonts Diet-After, Diet-Before. [Google]

Takase Studios (or: Eri Takase Artworks)

Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase. Examples: Danjo, Miru, Sakana, Ai. Intro to Japanese calligraphy. [Google]

Takayuki Okawa

Takayuki Okawa's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Syrup is a billboard katakana font. [Google]

ta-ke

Original roman and kana fonts for the Mac: Country Road, Satellite, Heavy, 24h. [Google]

Take-d

Free Japanese fonts: Koenji, Hetaji, Hetadasa. [Google]

Takehiro Fukuda

Takehiro Fukuda's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Funk (romaji, katakana). [Google]

Taketsugu Kurihara

Taketsugu Kurihara's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Digitalian is a roman-katakana font. [Google]

Takuya Sato

Takuya Sato's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Stanley, Escape, Babi (1999), Blondie, Cubic1.5.2. Most fonts have katakana, hiragana and romaji versions. The Twinkle family was published in Font Pavilion 12 (2000). In Digitalogue's DPI72 package, he published BrokeBack series (1999), Pastel (1999), both screen pixel fonts. This site had these free Mac bitmap and type 1 fonts by Takuya Sato: Escape, Blondie, Babi, BrokeBack, Stanley, Pastel, Twinkle. Some have kana characters. [Google]

Takuya Sudo

Takuya Sudo's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion. Salon is an extremely original hiragana/katakana font set. [Google]

Tam Chin Online

Free Japanese fonts here. [Google]

Tama Factory

Japanese foundry whose web page crashes my browser. Alternate URL. Designers of 01tama (handwriting), 02Tama (sans) and the pixel faces tama-mini01, tama-mini02, tama-ss01, tama-ss01b. Also, alphadings such as Hamu, Nyanko, KumaFont2, Cube, CubeVol2, T-Clip, T-Wan, T-Piyo, T-Kuma, T-Kuma2, Moon, Star, USA-USA, PiyoPiyo. Furthermore, several hiragana faces such as Hira2Tama, HiraTama, TamaHira, TamaHiraKaku, TamaHiraM, TamaHiraFlower, HamuHira, HiraCube, HiraTClip. [Google]

TamaFactory

Designers of the alphading font Usa Usa Font (2001) and of nyanko-font. Made by "Nat", or "Inbal". Other fonts, sometimes in Japanese: 01Tama, 02Tama, HiraTama, Hira2Tama, TamaHira, TamaMini01 (pixel), TamaLini02, TamaSS01, TamaSS01B (still pixelized fonts), TamaHiraKaku, TamaHiraM, TamaHiraFlower, and the alphadings HiraKima, HamuHira, Hamu, Kuma, HiraKuma, KumaFont2, Nyanko, Cube, HiraCube, CubeVol2, HiraTClip, TClip, Moon, Star USAUSA, PiyoPiyo, T-Kuma, T-Kuma2, T-Wan, T-Piyo. [Google]

Tanpopo Lion
[Ayumi Takeshima]

Ayumi Takeshima (Tanpopo Lion) is the designer of the artsy ultra black kanji font Kakuji1 (2000) [only about 40 glyphs though]. Alternate URL. [Google]

Tar Yan World

Free truetype fonts that represent ordinary kana and ancient and experimental kana. About fifteen fonts in all. [Google]

Tara Jiro

Tara Jiiro's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: TTF, Hinodector (roman, kata, hira), Hinodestar, Hinode Seven (roman, kata), Hinodeticana (no roman), Hinodex (no roman), Hinodenamin (roman, kata), Hinodeps (roman, kata), Flappy, Hairstyle (alphadings), Hinode 45, HoNoWo-Kat, Drug, Ginza, TTFX (all three with roman and katakana, 1999). In Font Pavilion 12 (2000), he published Silver-A (kata and Latin), Silver-B (kata and Latin), MooDash (kata and Latin), UltraRox (kata and Latin), Rocket. [Google]

Taro Yamamoto

Taro Yamamoto received a BFA from Musashino Art University in 1983, where he studied the history and art of typography. After a brief period doing type development with Morisawa, he joined Adobe in 1992 as Manager of Japanese Typography. In addition to management and engineering tasks, he led the design team that produced Adobe's original Japanese typefaces, including Kozuka Mincho and Kozuka Gothic, under the artistic direction of Masahiko Kozuka. He has also written a book on design (Representation or Expression: a Dialogue on Design) and an article on P.S. Fournier that appeared in "An Encyclopaedic Collection of Typefaces." At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about Japanese with InDesign and OpenType. [Google]

TAR's Art Gallery

A free Roman and kana handwriting font, Shiroyagi freehand (Mac only). Home page. [Google]

Tatsuya Higuchi

Designer of the hand sign font Yubimoji (2000). [Google]

Tavasco

Japanese foundry, est. 2001. [Google]

TDC Tokyo 2008

Award results for TDC Tokyo 2008 include a TDC Prize for the typeface Frida (Fernando de Mello Vargas (Brazil), and a Type Design Prize for Yu Mincho - R / Yutsuki Shogo Gothic Kana / Yutsuki Midashi Mincho / Yutsuki Shogo Kana / Yutsuki Kyokasho - M (Osamu Torinoumi, Jiyukobo). [Google]

Team Hana & Hana
[Kikuwo]

Flowerflower (or Team Hana & Hana) offers these Latin and Japanese pixel and barcode typefaces for free: nest_KKANA (2003), kikuichimonji (2003), Chameleon_AL (2002), JANbar (2003), bar39 (2003), bit-part_AL (2002), fff_HKANA (2002), fff_KKANA (2002), iichico (2003), virgin_AL (2002). The designer is "Kikuwo". [Google]

Teardrops in Aquablue

Aquafont is a free full kanji font, handwritten (2002). [Google]

Teawat (or: This is typography)
[Tomoyuki Watanabe]

Free fonts by Tomoyuki Watanabe (aka Tea-wat): Graffiare (2006, slightly grunge), Bambina (2004), Bambino (2004), Bilancio and Bilancio Alternate (2004, artsy), Bolantan (2004), Boltan (2004), Bifur (2002, a take on the old Bifur), the stars-themed Divo (2003), Ecco (thin-lined rectangular glyphs, 2003), Fraish (2003, art nouveau handwriting), FraishBoldOblique, FraishOblique, Graffiare (2006), Grappa (2004), Margherita (2003, roman numerals), Minerva (2003), Moderno (2003), Orange (2003, pixels), Orangejuice (2003, pixels), Peignot Neo (2004, an interpretation of Cassandre's Peignot from 1937), Quarto (2003, liquid font), Razzo (2003), ReSipleBoldOutline (2003), ReSipleRounded (2003), Retra (2003, handwritten kana), Schedel (2002, skulls alphading font), SchedelBold, SipleDemiBold (2001, sana), SipleDemiBoldOblique, SipleLight, SipleLightOblique, Stency (2003, stencil font), Valentine (2002, Valentine alphadings), ValentineOblique, Valentinecaps, Veneto (2004, artsy stencil face), Versu (2003, artsy stencil face), Vendetta (2004), Vigente (2005). Direct access to the fonts. Handwriting font service. [Google]

Ted House Bomber (or: THB)

Original fonts made by Shuichi Ono from Denenchofu Design: SacchiAlphabet (2001), SacchiKatakana (2000). Old URL. [Google]

tegakifont design

Seiichi Watanabe's page with the free font Maya (by himself) and some commercial fonts. In Japanese. [Google]

Tetsuo Niwa

Tetsuo Niwa's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Renkon-kana. [Google]

Tharuka

Free Japanese/Chinese truetype fonts: MS Gothic, MS Song, MingLiu (Chinese), MSHei. [Google]

Think-action

Original Mac and PC pixel fonts made in 2002: Diggysregalp, Draftfont, Easyfalfa03, Easyfbea03, Easyfgamma03, GAIREGALP, Nano, Pointcircleregurar. [Google]

Third Entertainment
[Tsuyoshi Nagae]

Third Entertainment (Tsuyoshi Nagae) designed Picolon (2003, a futuristic face), HoneyAlphabet (handwriting face done with Masayuki Sato at Maniackers Design), Afternoon (avant-garde, not free), Water Fresh (liquid letters: Latin and kana), Pony (handprinting), Dacks, Third Extended (2004), Pony Katakana (2005), Pony Hiragana, Pony Bold, Mitsubato (2005), Funny katakana and regular (2005), Home Party (2004, clean handprinting), Dachs (2004), Third Extended Bold & Light (2004). Most fonts are free. With Masayuki Sato at Maniackers Design, he created the MinnanoUta family (AL, HR, KT) in 2008. [Google]

Thomas Ridgeway

Thomas Ridgeway (d. 2005) held a Ph.D. in Asian linguistics. He was Director of the Humanities and Arts Computing Center, University of Washington, Seattle WA, where he worked until around 2002. He is the author of

• Poorman: Free fonts (metafont/bitmap/pk) for Chinese and Japanese, developed in 1990. As Ridgeway explained: "pmC and pmJ are less than ideal implementations of Chinese and Japanese for TeX. Less than ideal because they use fonts based on 24x24 dot-matrix fonts, and don't do vertical format typesetting and so forth."
• IPBS (Indo-Persian BitStream Charter) is a free font family in truetype with these fonts: IPbschtrBoldItalic, IPbschtrBold, IPbschtrItalic, IPbschtrNormal. The fonts were modified by Richard J. Cohen, from "HACC Indic" by Thomas Ridgeway (1993), which is based on "BitStreamCharter," a font in the public domain. Richard Cohen is with the South Asia Regional Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania.
• WNTamil is a Tamil metafont created by Ridgeway in 1990.
• A phonetic alphabet has been developed by Thomas Ridgeway for a large subrange of American Indian languages. The first active projects using this are in Salish and Navajo.

Three Studio

Entertaining interactive typography site run by Takayuki Mitsugi. [Google]

Tiny Factory
[Yosiro]

Latin experimental fonts made by Yosiro (b. 1974): BigupBold, Bigup, DotsHard, DotsSoft, Eltic, FunamoriKatakana, Gentle, Hearts, Shout, Berion, ChilliBold, Chilli, ChiwawaHard, DeliaBlack, Delia, Marjo, RoughBold. Designer of dotsJ, adgeles, readles, sold at Font Pavilion. At Digitalogue, he made the screen pixel fonts Vibes10, Echo8, Riddim7. At Shoeisha, he designed BDMango (Reg and katakana), Qual, Punch and Ancefan (Reg and katakana). On Dex's Fontrom#2, he has Jerk, King, and Massive. At Fontmania, he has Babylon. Several dot fonts and pixel fonts. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google]

to_be

Original Latin and kana fonts: Maze White and Black are free, and so are CrossworAlp and CrosswordKat. The others, like the great 2BKnife, are commercial. Mac and PC. [Google]

To-Be-Font

Free samples of commercial Japanese and Latin fonts, typically pixelized letters: Ant, Cream, Digi, Kaco, Knife, Masu, Maze, Notch, Pochi, Soda, Speed, Straw, Sugar, Virus. Alternate URL. [Google]

Togoshi

A Japanese open source font project. Free Japanese fonts include Togoshi-Gothic, Togoshi-Mincho, Togoshi-Mono and Togoshi-MonaGothic (2007-2008). All are copyright of Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo. [Google]

Tokushima Daigaku

Japanese font links. [Google]

Tokyo Desert (or: smegANDsynaps Inc)
[Youki Nemoto]

Youki Nemoto's free Mac fonts: Motif, Requid, Silk 27, CoffeeGenome: techno and elegant. Around 2006, he started smegANDsynaps Inc, where we can download coffeeGENOME (1998, organic), MoonbeamsHiragana (2006), MoonbeamsKatakana (2006), motifRegular (1999), reQUIDMedium (1999), reQUIDThin (1999), SILK27Thin (1999). The last four of these are geometric in nature. Alternate URL. [Google]

Tom Tor

Tom Tor Studios has offices in Los Angeles and Tokyo. Designer of the themed display faces Tom Tor (2008, geometric sans), Pavadee (2008, free upright script), Khmer (2008, Khmer simulation face), Fugue (2008), Kampuchea (2008). He also made the pixel face Silom (2008). Tom Tor (b. 1975) lives in Angles. He writes: Formally trained in Communication Design and type designer, Tom Tor is visual rather the verbal. This is especially evident in Tor's Landmine Awareness poster design. Stark but symbolic images are used as the sole means of conveying the malicious cruelty brought on by leftover landmines. His work is strongly inspired by the Avant Garde art movements of Europe. Dafont link. Behance link. He was commissioned in 2009 to design S-21, a modernist face (in his own words). Behance link. [Google]

Tomiji Hirano

Japanese shipbuilder and typefounder, b. Nagasaki (1846), d. Tokyo (1892). In 1871, he took over Motogi's Typefoundry. In 1872, he started a new typefounding factory in Kanda, Tokyo. In 1879, he asked Shigeru Magata to cut a new version of Mincho for his foundry. In 1885, he reorganized his typefounding factories and set up the Tokyo Tsukiji Typefoundry. Hirano's biography (this PDF file) was written by Taro Yamamoto in 2002. [Google]

tommy's
[Eriko Tomita]

Eriko Tomita offers a great brushed katakana font, Darari-kana. Japanese site (in Japanese). Pixel fonts: JISBIT11, 10Girls, specially designed for 72dpi screens (and published at a place called DPI72). Other fonts: Kakikata, Round, C9. Bubble, Boxcell. [Google]

Tomoko Yonezawa

Designer of the handwritten Latin/Greek/kana/kanji font Tomouse (2003). [Google]

Tonan's blog

Japanese page with a discussion of handprinted kanji glyphs and their digitization. [Google]

Toru Arima

Toru Arima's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: KanaRS is a katakana font family. ATBeta-A (2000) is part of Font Pavilion 12. [Google]

Toru Teranishi

Codesigner of Junkissa (Latin/katakana/hiragana font family), sold at Font Pavilion. [Google]

Transparent Language

pjfonts: 224K Japanese font (self-extracting file). TLAsian, TLCentralEurope, and TLCyrillic2 are made by URW in 1994. [Google]

TrueKeys

A truetype tool by UniDoc System. TrueKeys is the only font conversion utility that handles Chinese/Japanese/Korean TrueType font conversion between Windows and Mac OS platforms. Can also be used to add Unicode support (required for OS X) to older fonts that don't have it. US$50, and crippled free demo. An OS X version is available. The manufacturer reports: "TrueKeys is a Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) 2-byte truetype font conversion utilities. What makes it different from other truetype utilities such as TTConvert 1.5 and TrueConvert 0.3b is that it generates its own cmap table for specified language encoding, and assemble the original font data into a new truetype. This strategy corrects some common PC font problems such as no Mac cmap table support, etc. When TTConvert or TrueConvert does not work for your font, you should seriously try TrueKeys. TrueKeys v3.5 is guarenteed to work with any Mac format CJK truetypes and Windows format truetypes (including TTC format). TrueKeys v3.6 is currently in beta, supporting both pre-MacOS 9 and MacOS X platform." [Google]

TrueKeys v3.4

Commercial (50 USD) Mac utility for Korean/Chinese/Japanese truetype: Convert Chinese/Japanese/Korean truetype fonts between Windows/Macintosh format. Add Apple Unicode encoding table to existing font to support's Apple's Unicode imaging technology. Convert Chinese/Japanese/Korean truetype fonts between popular encodings. [Google]

TSA

Japanese techno fonts (katakana, hiragana): Formula 29X, Latitude Zero (2000). [Google]

ttc2ttf

ttc2ttf converts a TrueType Collection font file (TTC) into one or more truetype font files. This site offers Japanese instructions and free C source code for the conversion. Alternate site. [Google]

TTEdit

TTEdit is a free truetype font editor for Windows. Page in Japanese. From the same people, Handfont (for handwriting generation), OTEdit (OpenType font editor for Windows), and font utilities. Alternate URL. [Google]

TTW Libraly (sic)

Japanese language page at Ricoh with many Ricoh-owned Japanese truetpe fonts for Mac and PC. [Google]

tut.ac.jp

Archive with the NEXT fonts, type 1. Has KaiSu kanji font (type 1) plus the Russian NEXT fonts. The KaiSu font from Jackson Technologies is free but flawed (some characters have their tops chopped off by a bounding box that is too small). [Google]

TwinBridge Software Corporation

Unicode Chinese, Japanese and Korean true type fonts. Commercial outfit. One of its fonts, TSC-FMing-S-TT (1998) is here. [Google]

Type Bank

Commercial Japanese foundry. Alternate URL. [Google]

Type Labo
[Yutaka Satoh]

Designer of Paper Clip (1982, VGC) (or I think it is Yutaka, at least). Information-rich web page of Yutaka Satoh, one of the leading independent type designers in Japan. Includes samples of his original fonts. Currently, Japanese only. Page makes my browser crash because of a Javascript error. The hiragana fonts Bokutoh99 and Bokutoh Kuzure may be bought through Font Pavilion. He started Type Labo. Free font link page. Links to his pay fonts (Japanese and Latin). Old link. [Google]

Type Labo

Vendor of Japanese Mac and PC fonts. [Google]

Type Project
[Akira Kobayashi]

Akira Kobayashi designed the Latin/Japanese Axis (sans) font family in 7 weights in 2001 for the Japanese magazine Axis. Sample. Link to Axis Font. All seven weights can now be bought for about 2,000 dollars. In 2009, Axis Compressed was added to Axis Condensed (2006-2007) and Axis Basic (2002). [Google]

Type Solutions

Founded in 1989 by Sampo Kaasila. Based in Plaisted, New Hampshire, the contacts of this typography outfit are Ed Edman and Amy Hensiek. They offer font engines and type software. It markets type software, and has fantastic web presentations, such as this page showing Gothic Kanji output in small type. On December 2, 1998 Bitstream bought Type Solutions, Inc. for $600,000 US. There are some occasional fonts by them out in cyberspace, but they stopped making fonts. [Google]

TypeBank

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

Typebox

San Francisco-based foundry started in 2001 by Mike Kohnke and Joachim Müller-Lancé. Faces: 9volt, Blotch, Manifesto, Cortina, Gitter, Lithium, Reflux, TinyTim, Reflux, ToolBox, Wirish. Other designers: Cynthia Jacquette, Akira Kobayashi, Dennis Poon. Free fonts: Katakoto (by Akira Kobayashi), TX Toolshop. TxSignal Signifier (2002) has trafic signals made by eight designers, Akira Kobayashi, Cynthia Jacquette, Mike Kohnke, Joachim Muller-Lancé, Jean Benoit-Levy, Kevin Roberson, Diana Stoen and M.A.D. [Google]

Type-Labo

Japanese page full of Javascript errors. I think it is Yutaka Satoh's foundry, located in Tokyo. The kana/kanji fonts include Osirase, Kekkon, Hikkosi, Akachan, Dohmo, Tanjohbi, Akemasi, Otohsan, Okahsan, Spring, Summer, Bonus, CVhrist, Bargain, Crear, Birthday, Open, Discount, BokutohKuzure-UH, Bokutoh99-UH, Bokutoh99-UK, BokutohKuzure-UK (1998), Hanpu, Hanpuanito. [Google]

Ueda

The free fonts Ueda and Uedaji Second are handwriting fonts with Latin and kana. Home page. [Google]

Ueda

Designer of the handwriting kana font Ueda. Alternate URL. [Google]

UHOON

Download the Dasaji font at this Mac site. [Google]

Ume

Alternate URL. Yet another URL. The Ume fonts are free full kanji fonts, and include Ume Gothic, Ume P Gothic, Ume UI Gothic, HC Sazanami Mincho, HCP Sazanami Mincho, and WTT UI Gothic. The last font is part of the OpenPrintingProject and is copyrighted by the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan, in 2003. At the OpenPrintingProject, we can also download the free IPA fonts IPAGothic, IPAPGothic, IPAUIGothic, IPAMincho, IPAPMincho. [Google]

UnBatang Odal
[Koaunghi Un]

At this Korean font site, we find free Windows truetype assemblers and disassemblers, and several free truetype fonts called UnBatang (2003, Koaunghi Un), a full Latin/Cyrillic/kana/kanji/hangul text face, made by Koaunghi Un from 1998-2003.. [Google]

Ungaiwave

Designer of the scratchy handwritten kanji font Ajiwai (2003). [Google]

UniDoc

Vendor of Elegance Unicode Chinese, Japanese, and Korean truetype fonts for Mac and PC. [Google]

UnionWay AsianSuite 97

Download UnionWay AsianSuite 97 for a 60-day free trial: it includes fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The registration procedure and mode of providing the files (exe) make this site not worth visiting for the free downloads at least. [Google]

Unionway Japanese TrueType Font

2.9MB Japanese TrueType font MS Gothic. Self-extracting archive. [Google]

Universität Köln

Free Japanese fonts: Kochi-Gothic, Kochi-Mincho. [Google]

Unno Misato

Unno Misato's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Kaburimono has a little cartoon character within katakana letters. [Google]

Unoh Labs

Japanese font links. [Google]

uraorange
[Akiko Naito]

Original fonts by Akiko Naiito (uraorange), made in 1999-2000: ChuckleNormal, ChuckleOuline, Oravetica-Normal, Oravetica-Outline, towelInDarkness, towel, all charming handprinted typefaces. [Google]

Uromania

Broken Japanese page that seems to offer a dingbat font. [Google]

ururu/ururun

Also called Uryurin Fonts, this outfit published the free oriental simulation truetype font, uryu-asian (2003), as well as uryu-biscuits (2003), uryu-cats (2003), UryuPOP_O_ANK, POTERIN-hoso(Trial), POTERIN-futo(Trial), uryu-dotface, uryu-happiness, uryu-pentomino, uryu-ramen, uryu-shaggy, uryu-square-shadow, URYURIN-face1sP(Trial), URYURIN-face2sP(Trial), URYURIN-face3sP(Trial), uryu-sandbox. Alternate URL. Half of the fonts above are handwriting fonts with Latin, kana and a minimal kanji set! (Maybe the full fonts have a full kanji set.) There are two OpenType fonts, uryu-dots7x7-90-ot and uryu-dots7x7-77-ot. [Google]

urw++

Hamburg-based foundry established in 1995 by Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau, Peter Rosenfeld, and Jürgen Willrodt. URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, named after Gerhard Rubow and Rudolf Weber, cofounders of the original URW company from which urw++ evolved. It offers a whole range of font services and has an extensive (7000+) font library. At the basis of the early development of many classy PostScript fonts. For example, in 1999, URW++ donated the 35 core PostScript fonts (renamed) under the GNU GPL license to the Ghostscript project. The great 3000-font CD costs about 2000DM. Other CDs are more expensive: on the ITF CD, each font is about 100DM! URW sells fonts and font families with complete rights (you can change, resell, embed, anything, except use the original name), with examples ranging from 2k for a complete family of 12 to 5k for a collection of 250 fonts. This practice continues until today: URW++ thus provides a great service to software developers who want to include high-quality typefaces in their software applications. URW has offices in many countries. Font list. Designers. Presently, the design staff has many people, of which Ralph M. Unger is perhaps the most prolific. OpenType collection guide (in PDF). Latest releases: Anzeigen Grotesk (2009), Clarendon No 1 URW, Nimbus Sans (300 Euros), Nimbus Sans Novus (400 Euros), Nimbus Sans Europa (covering Latin, Greek, Baltic, Cyrillic, Central European, Turkish, Romanian, and so forth), Nimbus Roman No 9 (2001), Nimbus Sans Global and Nimbus Roman Global, each at about 2000 Euros, and each containing 35,000 glyphs, from kanji/Chinese/Korean to all European languages. House faces done for corporations: DaimlerChrysler Corporate ASE (after the Corporate ASE series for Daimler-Benz by Kurt Weidemann), Siemens Schriftfamilie, Deutsche Telekom Schriftfamilie, ZF Friedrichshafen, Körber Argo, URW++ SelecType Raldo (2001, for Igepa). Odd pricing: Kolibri and Colombine cost 49 Euros separately, but together they cost 159 Euros. Some font families have unidentified designers associated with them, e.,g., I would really like to know who "made" Profonts Palisade Pro (2008, an almost connected script). [Google]

Ushi Go Yeah

Original fonts: MATRIX, ShamenJr., block (highly original techno font), chem, Digital (LED font), maru, nextblock, pramo, U-know. [Google]

Ushigoya font

Japanese site with these free truetype creations: MATRIX, ShamenJr. (kana), block (great techno face), chem, Digital (LED font), maru, Morning, nextblock, pramo, U-know (kana). [Google]

Uyo's Closet Fonts

Xiaolin font. [Google]

Vacca Mode

Designer of Kerodot Deux, Kerodot, Keroway2000Oblique, Keroway2000. Alternate URL. [Google]

VADA Software Talen I-L

Free fonts for Ibo, Inuit, Japanese, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Kanuri, Khmer, Kikongo, Kikuyu, Kinya Rwardan, Hangul, Kpelle, Krio, Kru, Laotian, Latvian, Luba, Luo, Maltese, Oriya, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Pali, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, African languages such as Mandinka, Mende, More, Ngala. Plus Navajo, Oromo, Ogham, Phoenician. [Google]

Vasava Artworks
[Bruno Selles]

Catalan designer Bruno Selles at Vasava Artworks in Barcelona created fonts like VSV-Alergia-Bold, VSV-Alergia-Regular, VSV-ByPass-StencilBold, VSV-Epidermis-Black, VSV-Leila-Bold, VSV-Leila-Medium, VSV-Melon (Light and Regular), VSV-DingDong (I and II), VSV-Lengua-RoundedRegular, VSV-Pachuca-Regular, VSV-Pachuca-Suau, VSV-Romina-Bold, VSV-Romina-Light, VSV-Romina-Regular, VSV-RominaRounded-Light, VSV-RominaRounded-Regular, VSV-Rotula-Regular (2001, by Toni Selles, used to be a free stencil font), VSV-Tirania-Caps, VSV-Tirania-RoundedCaps, ADN, ADN-katakana (pixel fonts, 1998), Neurona, Neurona-katakana (pixel fonts, 1999) and Retina. Some fonts used to be free (but they have gone totally commercial now, it seems). [Google]

VBQQ

Huge Japanese/Chinese font archive site. [Google]

VDL Type Library

Vendor of Japanese Mac and PC fonts. [Google]

Vector Inc.

Japanese site that offers free downloads of fonts by many designers, in many formats, both Latin and Japanese. New additions arrive regularly. Direct downloads. FTP access. Commercial Windows fonts. [Google]

VEK
[Kenji Uebayashi]

VEK, a Japanese outfit, sells its fonts through Font Pavilion. Hinano VEK and Yuki VEK represent Japanese lettering for sales ads. Hinano UEK was made by Kenji Uebayashi for Font Pavillion. [Google]

Venus Chamber Archives

One huge zip file with Japanese kana and kanji fonts in Truetype. [Google]

Vic Fieger

American graphic designer (b. 1982) located in Medway, MA, who has created many free fonts, and some low cost commercial fonts. He is also known for his web comic, Dubmarine. Until 2006, all his fonts were free, but starting in 2006, he started selling them via MyFonts. In 2004, he created Airstrip Four, AlphaEcho, BostonTraffic (stencil), Breakaway, CarbonType (old typewriter), Corporate HQ, DataControl (nice octagonal face), DataControlUnifon, Delta Echo, Eurocentric, FormerAirline, GangofThree (oriental simulation), Helsinki, IonicCharge (LCD simulation), JamPact, KarmaticArcade, KnowYourProduct (stencil), LandSpeedRecord, MajorSnafu (stencil), NervousRex, Osaka-SansSerif (techno), PillboxOpaque (dripping blood face), QuickEndJerk, Refrigeration, SiameseKatsong, Tetroserbogia, Umbrage, Virgo01, Whitehall1212, Xenophone, Yukarimobile, ZonaArmada. In 2005, he designed FrauleinUnifon, Fraulein, Fraulain II, Fraulein Hex, KarmaticArcade, NukuNuku, OffshoreBankingBusiness, PlannedObsolescence, TerryScript, Wunderbar, Xerography, YachtingType, Zero&Zero-Is, Xerography, FrauleinHex, ICBMSS20, ICBMSS25 (stencil faces), Hydrogen Type, Gumbercules, Kremlin (Cyrillic letter simulation), Johnny Homicide, Lilac Malaria, Motorway, Offshore Banking Business, Planned Obsolescence, Nuku Nuku Paradiso (Asian simulation), Quadrophonic, Ruth Script, Shoplifter (ransom note font), Under Influence (scratchy face), Viva Allende, KarmaticRevolution (with Mike "Karma" Alkire), RanmorianStd-B (artificial language script) and Ex (kana). His 2006 additions, still free: Big in America, Maxine Script, Gisele Script, Siamese Katsong (oriental simulation), Pokopen, Grecian Formula (Greek simulation), Edo (brush), Armalite Rifle (stencil), Ruth Script, Terry Script, Oil Age Heiroglyphs (grunge), Nyamomobile (gorgeous futuristic stencil face), Q-Bert's Funeral, Xtreme Chrome, Fawn Script, Ukiah Caps (a hip all caps face), Banzai (fake Japanese), 106 Beats That, Azudings1, Fawn Script, Freelance Kamchatka, and Daisy Script. Commercial fonts: Sixpak (2008, pixel face), Jaipur (2007, Indic script simulation), Santa Mensch (2006), Celonius Mark XIX (2006 geometric design), Argon Type (2006, futuristic), India Echo (2007, futuristic), How to Consume Oxygen (2007, grunge), Statue Of Liberty's Underwear (2007, Russian constructivist style), Moon Corps (2007, katakana), Underwood Champion (2008, distressed typewriter), Heavy Data (2008, computer simulation face). Perlmutter (2008) is a Hebrew and Yiddish font designed for the purpose of legibility at great distance (included are niqqud, letters with dagesh, punctuation, sheqel sign, and aleph-lamed ligature). In 2009, he created Edifice wrecks (graffiti), Damon Script (comic book face) and Maritime Flags and Curses (dingbat face). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Fonts at FontStruct in 2009: Newhome (LED simulation). Alternate URL. [Google]

View Logic
[Kazunori Yamazaki]

Kazunori Yamazaki (View Logic) designed these techno faces: Bread KT, Bread AL, Junction KT, Junction AL (a techno wild west face), Diagonal, Block. [Google]

Vignette

Japanese typography journal. [Google]

Vistawide

Archive of free foreign language fonts covering Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Celtic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Old English, Farsi, Georgian, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Myanmar, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh. [Google]

Visual Design Laboratory

Japanese commercial foundry. [Google]

VL Gothic
[Daisuke Suzuki]

The free sans faces VL Gothic (2006) and VL PGothic (2006) can be found here. They cover Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese. These fonts originated from Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo (1990-2003). Then they were manged in 2003-2004 by /efont/. In 2005-2007, M+ Font Project continued. From 2006-2007, the copyright rests with Project Vine and Daisuke Suzuki. [Google]

WAAP Designs
[Shinichiro Oshima]

Fonts by Shinichiro Oshima, part of Shift Factory. The PlainFontSeries (Japanese fonts) is free. There are some Roman fonts like Beltway, Accela, and Jetplus. There is also Yukidon (hiragana) and Futalic, Thyristor and DotplainLCD (katakana fonts). Old web page. The fonts at Shift Factory include LCD, Jetliner, D-tron, Futalic PRO, Thyristor A, and Beltway 2.0. [Google]

Wabun Font

Fourteen hundred commercial kanji fonts are linked to here. This is the starting point for a Japanese kanji library. [Google]

Wabun Font

Fourteen hundred commercial kanji fonts are linked to here. This is the starting point for a Japanese kanji library. [Google]

Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo
[Tetsurou Tanaka]

From the Information Processing Lab at the University of Tokyo. The Wadalab family is a collection of free type 1 Kanji fonts originally developed by Tetsurou Tanaka of the Department of Engineering, University of Tokyo in the early 80s. They eventually developed two fantastic Unicode truetype fonts for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Kana and Kanji, Sazanami-Mincho and Sazanami-Gothic. Download them for free here and here. These fonts have copyright Electronic Font Open Laboratory (/efont/) 2003-2004 jointly with Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo 1990-2003. [Google]

WadaLab / Rare Earth

Free Japanese kanji fonts by WadaLab / Rare Earth: WadaLabMaruGo2000, WadaLabMaruGo20004, WadaLabMaruGo2000P, WadaLabMaruGo2000P4, WadaLabMaruGo2004, WadaLabMaruGo20044, WadaLabMaruGo2004P, WadaLabMaruGo2004P4. [Google]

Wadalab kanji fonts (Stream Technologies)

"This product consists of a set of Kanji fonts originally developed by the Wadalab Kanji committee in Tokio, Japan. We have converted the original Wadalab kanji-skeletons into PostScript Type 1 format, added the necessary root font definitions to make the fonts usable by a standard PostScript interpreter and packaged everything in to a clean installation kit. " You can't download this. It is free, yes, to those people who have their package 1 or package 2. Stream Technologies states for package 1: "This product is available through an OEM redistribution agreement only. Please contact us for more information." I have not contacted them, but there are no downloads on any pages, as far as I can tell. Fonts: Sai-Mincho, Chu-Mincho, Cho-Kaku, Saimaru. [Google]

Waki

Designer of LED FONT (roman and kana) and Crystal-Display Font. [Google]

Watashi to Tokyo
[Aki Mari]

Japanese type blog (in English) mainly concerned with free Japanese fonts. A diary of Aki Mari. [Google]

Wazu Japan's Gallery of Unicode Fonts

David McCreedy's list of Japanese Unicode fonts. [Google]

Wazu Japan's Gallery of Unicode Fonts

Great page documenting Unicode fonts with hundreds of downloads. From 2004-2006, it was called David McCreedy's Gallery of Unicode Fonts. [Google]

Weborn.org

Showcasing 24 free Japanese fonts. [Google]

Wednesday Love

Free fonts at this Japanese site are mostly of the VAG Rounded and techno nature. They include G-x-LOVE, Round-x-LOVE-Bold, Round-x-LOVE, Sandal-x-LOVE (dingbats), Brush-x-LOVE-bold- (kana only), G-x-LOVE, Keyboard-x-LOVE. Dated 2001-2006. [Google]

Weight Lessness Graphics
[Tadaharu Ohtsuki]

Japanese site with a few free creations by Tadaharu Ohtsuki: WLGJEModuleALP10Reg, WLGJEModuleALP20Reg, WLGJEModuleKAT10Reg, WLGJEModuleKAT20Reg, WLGStructureOblique, WLGStructureRegular, all made in 2004. [Google]

Wemo

Japanese font site run by Oka (b. 1987). There are some free fonts here: eri's-font (handwritten Latin/kana/kanji font), MG8PX (pixel), h.dia, moyashimon (dingbats), daiji moyashimon, OKAO (kana), erizi_V (handwritten Latin and kana), Apika (artsy, latin), Daiji Mojashimon (kana). [Google]

Wen

Japanese site with original free fonts: Alphabet 1 through 5 (pixel fonts mostly), a Hangul font and two Katakana fonts. Not free: SQAR, Points_ab, Points_kana (letters made from graphs), TMR font (2002, FRONTLINE 01: a pixel kana font). [Google]

Wen Quan Yi
[Qianqian Fang]

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a huge unicode-compatible Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Latin (CJK) truetype font, available for free under the GNU license. From the web page: The WenQuanYi Zen Hei font is a Chinese (or CJK) outline font with Hei Ti style (a sans-serif style) Hanzi glyphs. This font is developed for general purpose use of Chinese for formating, printing and on-screen display. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Latin, extended Latin, kana etc were merged from cmunss.ttf from the CM-Unicode project, and mplus-1p-medium.ttf from the M+ project. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi contributors and Qianqian Fang based on the bitmap fonts by firefly.
WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographics. This font provides full coverage to the required code points for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk and zh_mo locales. The total vector glyphs in this font is over 35000 including Latin characters, Japanese kanas, hanguls and symbols from many other languages. Developers:

• Qianqian Fang: Developer for online and off-line stroke decomposition software, server-side scripts and database, software for vector glyph generation, font creation and version control, all the spline Hanzi glyphs, document and tutorial contributors and release manager. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
• Ailantian: key developer for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
• Haitao Han, "twang467", and Qing Lei: key developers for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.

Wen's Room (FM 802)

Latin fonts Alphabet 1 through 4 (mostly pixel or dot fonts), katakana fonts 1 and 2, and Hangul font Hangwl_01, made by Wen in Japan. All are free. [Google]

West

This archive has about 20 full Japanese/Chinese character truetype fonts. Dead link? [Google]

Westfishcraft

Font links, specializing in Japanese sites. [Google]

whereframemain

Great page on Japanese fonts. Some downloads. [Google]

Wiki freefont

Very useful link site for good quality free fonts for Unicode, and in particular for CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) fonts. [Google]

w/M

Twenty free pixelized fonts for the Mac by Masaki. Some pixelized kana fonts as well. He says that there are 48 weights now in the "Bit" family, but I can't get past his opening page. [Google]

Wordshape
[Ian Lynam]

Commercial fonts at this boutique type foundry and publisher operating in Tokyo: Cooper Swash Italic Traditional & Cooper Swash Italic Custom, Hanger, Rubber Vloeren (a geometric display face adapted from an alphabet used by Piet Zwart in the Netherlands for a series of advertisements for rubber flooring). Ensenada is a typeface designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico. The main people are Ian Lynam, Simon Gane and Selena Hoy. MyFonts link. [Google]

WUM Supporting

Commercial Japanese fonts include GLotus (gothic sans), RLotus (roman serif), Seiren Hongo, Seiren Hongyo, Seiren Gothic, Seiren Manyo, and Seiren Mincho. See also here. Alternate URL. [Google]

X with Japanese Fonts

Lots of links to Japanese fonts and information on truetype in X-Windows. [Google]

X with Japanese scalable fonts

Info (in Japanese) on using scalable fonts with X Windows. With lots of links to GIMP and Japanese GIMP. [Google]

Xelloss
[André Germain]

Several huge TrueType collection (TTC) fonts by André Germain. Without having inspected them, I guess that the fonts are kanji fonts with various kanas and romajis attached to them. [Google]

xfonts

Go to xfonts at this Debian site, and get fonts and font software for use under X Windows, including fonts for Japanese, Greek, Chinese, Korean, and Cyrillic. [Google]

Xpazeman

Madrid-based designer (b. 1981) of Widefont, Hiragana (2000) [incomplete] and Graffiti Hiragana (2003). Alternate URL. [Google]

Yakushizi

Original Mac and PC fonts made in 1999 and 2000: Balljoin, Capruru, Coupondo (dot matrix font), Gashigashi, Offire, Wairess (sic: one dingbat of a waitress). [Google]

Yanagisawa

Hetaji is a Japanese kanji font by Yanagisawa. Free download, truetype. See also here. [Google]

Yarimizo.Com
[Shintaro Yarimizo]

Tokyo-based