SanafonMaru (さなフォン丸) is a cute and good looking handwriting style Japanese font from the Sanafon family that you can download. It has all the common characters including thousands of kanji characters.

Usage Permission

Free for personal and non-commercial
Commercial use is ok, but with exceptions. Please refer to this page (in Japanese) to know more.

Link

Download Page

*To download, visit the “Download page” above and look for the download section shown below.

sanafonmaru download guide

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (JIS Level 1 + Level 2 + IBM Extended Characters)
Alphanumeric
Symbols and punctuations
Emoji

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Mokomori Kuro Beta

April 30, 2014, 10:15 pm

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Mokomori Kuro Beta (みきゆフォント　もこもり黒β) is the latest font brought to you by designer that created Mikiyu Pen Font. The font is fat, roundish and cute, suitable for kiddy, casual and cheerful designs.

Usage Permission

Free for personal, non-commercial use
Accreditation is required when using this font
This font is donationware for commercial use

Link

Homepage (素材屋405番地) | Download

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (Currently in Beta with less kanji, will gradually add up until JIS Level 1 standard)
Alphanumeric
Symbols and Punctuation

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Rounded Mgen+

September 15, 2014, 7:45 am

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Rounded Mgen+ download

Rounded Mgen+ is a free gothic font that you can download. According to the site Jikasei, the font is actually combination of characters from Source Han Sans and M+ Outline, then made it rounded. It comes with 7 weights from thin to black.

Usage Permission

Free for personal, non-commercial and commercial use
License: Apache License 2.0

Link

Homepage | Download (49.7MB)

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji
Alphanumeric
Symbols and Punctuation

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Honoka Maru Gothic

October 4, 2014, 12:30 am

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Honoka Rounded Gothic

Honoka Maru(Rounded) Gothic (ほのか丸ゴシック) is a beautiful free Japanese font that was set in rounded style. As you can see the hiragana and katakana characters are slightly smaller in size compared to the kanji that strikes a nice balance and enhanced the readability of the font.

Usage Permission

Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works

Link

Homepage | Download

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji
Alphanumeric
Symbols and punctuations

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Nikumaru Free Font

November 12, 2014, 6:12 am

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Nikumaru Free Font

Nikumaru Font is a cute, rounded and chubby free Japanese font that you can download. You can use this for commercial works and it supports many characters, including kanji characters up to JIS Level 2 standard. This font is great for cute and cheerful designs.

Usage Permission

Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
Using this font as registered logomark is prohibited

Link

Homepage and Download

*When landing on the font page, scroll down and look for the grey download button as shown below.

Nikumaru font download

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (JIS Level 2)
Alphanumeric
Symbols and punctuations

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NicoMoji+

December 9, 2014, 8:00 am

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NicoMoji+

NicoMoji+ (NicoMoji Plus) is a font that derived from the official logo mark of the popular Japanese video channel “NiCoNiCo”. The hiragana, katakana and alphanumeric characters are originally designed, while others including kanji characters are borrowed from the open source font “Genjyuu Gothic (源柔ゴシック)”.

Usage Permission

Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works

Link

Homepage and Download

*When landing on the font page, scroll down to the bottom of the page and look for the gradient blue download button. The button is just below the social share buttons.

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji
Alphanumeric
Symbols and punctuations

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Sanafon Yu

May 17, 2015, 6:30 am

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SanafonYu (さなフォン悠) is a handwriting free font from Sanafon series. According to the creator Sana, after creating other design fonts, she wanted to have a more relaxing and casual version of a font, thus the creation of this. The design of the font is quite similar to sibling font Sanafonmaru, however the latter has better readability.

Usage Permission

Free for personal and non-commercial
Commercial use is ok, but with exceptions. Please refer to this page (in Japanese) to know more.

Link

Download Page

*To download, visit the “Download page” above and look for the download section shown below.

sanafon-yu-download

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (JIS Level 2)
Alphanumeric
Symbols and punctuations
Emoji

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Amber Color Font

November 13, 2015, 8:36 pm

≫ Next: Mamelon

≪ Previous: Sanafon Yu

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Amber Color Font (飴色フォント Ameiro font) is roundish, playful font that is free to download. You can only use this font for personal use and it’s a good font for casual, cheerful designs.

Usage Permission

Free for personal use only
Please read the “read me” file provided in the zip

Link

Font download page

Instruction
To download, visit the Font download page above, and download the font by clicking on the blue “font DL” button at the bottom of the article.

Supported characters

Alphanumeric
Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (Less Kanji)
Symbols and punctuations

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Mamelon

April 1, 2016, 9:20 am

≫ Next: Uzumasa Honmaru Gothic

≪ Previous: Amber Color Font

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Mamelon (マメロン) is a free Japanese font with rounded edge design, created by the designer who brought you “Makinas“. The kanji characters were modified based on Makinas kanji, by making it rounded and then pair up with self-made kana characters. It has a total of 6600 glyphs including large collection of kanji characters, making this font a useful font to apply on many different design needs.

Usage Permission

Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Mamelon Font download page

*To download, visit the page above, and scroll down to locate the big grey download button as highlighted below.

mamelon-download

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (JIS Level 2 + 15 kanji from IBM Extended)
Numbers
Symbols and Punctuation

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Uzumasa Honmaru Gothic

May 16, 2016, 7:52 am

≫ Next: Iroha Maru Mikami

≪ Previous: Mamelon

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Uzumasa Honmaru Gothic (うずまさ本丸ゴシック) is a vintage rounded gothic font that is free to download. The font was inspired by the handwritten subtitles of Kansai’s silent films aired in the 1920s. The strokes of the letters were soften with the main usage of rounded curves and corners, projecting the warm and nostalgic feeling to the viewer. The free mini version comes with only 1006 kanji characters and other essential Japanese and Romaji characters.

Usage Permission

Free for personal-use only
Please purchase the full license here for commercial use

Link

Uzumasa Honmaru Gothic download page

*To download, visit the page above, and scroll down to locate the big blue download button as below. Click it to start the download

uzumasa-honmaru-download

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (1006 kanji)
Numbers
Symbols and Punctuation

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Iroha Maru Mikami

September 24, 2016, 7:40 pm

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Iroha Maru Mikami (いろはマルみかみ) is a free Japanese rounded gothic font that is open sourced for everyone to download. This font was based on the Iroha Maru font, but the kanji characters were replaced by the Rounded M+ by Jikasei. It comes with 3 handy font weights: Thin, Regular and Medium.

Usage Permission

Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Font download page

*To download, visit the download page above, scroll down and just click on the button as highlighted below that looks like a gear. Download should start after the click.

irohamaru-mikami-download

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (JIS Level 1 + partial level 2 characters)
Numbers
Symbols and Punctuation

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Pop Rum Cute

November 11, 2017, 10:06 pm

≫ Next: Pomeranian Font

≪ Previous: Iroha Maru Mikami

Pop Rum Cute (ポプらむキュート) is a rounded, cute but slightly hard to read free Japanese font that you can download. The design point of this font is each letters are trying to fill up the square box as much as possible, creating the fat, bloated and congested sense, while at the same time sacrificing the readability.

This font comes with the standard Japanese characters and including more than 3000 kanji characters where 2900 plus of them are from JIS Kanji Level 1, and the rest from Level 2.

Usage Permission

Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the link above, then scroll down to find the download link shown below.

Supported characters

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

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Pomeranian Font

March 30, 2018, 10:36 pm

≫ Next: Corporate Logo Maru

≪ Previous: Pop Rum Cute

Pomeranian Font (ぽめらにあんフォント) is a cute display free font for download. It features slightly thick strokes with a tad rounded finish. Overall it gives a casual, hearty feel exactly the kind of characteristics of a Pomeranian dog would give!

It comes with the standard hiragana and katakana, however it contains only a limited selections of kanji. You can use this font for commercial use.

Usage Permission

Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the link above, then scroll down to find the download link highlighted below. Please use Google Translate tool if needed.

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Less Kanji
Numbers
Symbols and Punctuation

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Corporate Logo Maru

May 26, 2018, 4:14 am

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Corporate Logo Maru (コーポレート・ロゴ丸) is a bold rounded font that you can download for free. The font was created with the base from Jikasei’s Genyuu Gothic, and replace it with the original hiragana and katakana character designs. Genyuu Gothic was designed based on open source font Source Han Sans.

Corporate Logo Maru comes with the standard hiragana and katakana, also most of the kanji characters. The font is license under SIL Open Font License, means you can use it for commercial works.

Usage Permission

Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the link above, then scroll down to find the download link highlighted below. Please use Google Translate tool if needed.

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji
Numbers
Symbols and Punctuation

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Ronde-B Square

June 8, 2018, 10:16 pm

≫ Next: Motoya Kosugi Maru

≪ Previous: Corporate Logo Maru

Ronde-B Square (ロンド B) is a rounded squarish Japanese font free to download. The letter designs are rigid featuring high amount of straight lines, however soften by using rounded corners. This font might not be a good choice for smaller size displays.

Ronde-B Square comes with the standard Japanese characters, including Chinese kanji characters up to Shift-JIS Level 2 standard. You can use this font for personal and commercial projects.

Usage Permission

Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

*To download, click on the link above and find the big dark grey button as highlighted below. Just click and the download process will begin.

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (Shift JIS Level 2)
Numbers
Symbols and Punctuation

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Motoya Kosugi Maru

September 15, 2018, 9:20 pm

≫ Next: Hime Mincho Shirayuki

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Motoya’s Kosugi Maru is a free Japanese font set in rounded sans-serif style, with low stroke contrast and monospaced metrics. It was initially developed by MOTOYA for the Android platform, now it’s available as one of the first batch of Japanese fonts released under Google Fonts, where you can use it straightaway on your website.

It comes with the standard Japanese characters together with punctuations and kanji characters. You can download this font and look for it under the name “MotoyLMaru W3 mono”. You can use this font for personal and commercial projects, since it’s an open source font.

Usage Permission

Free for personal and non-commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji
Alphanumerics
Symbols and Punctuation

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Hime Mincho Shirayuki

January 12, 2019, 9:30 pm

≪ Previous: Motoya Kosugi Maru

Hime Mincho Shirayuki (姫明朝しらゆき) is a soft, feministic font free for download. This font was designed based on the story of the “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs”: the hiragana is the Snow White, Katakana is the 7 dwarfs and the kanji is the Prince.

Overall the font gives a soft, pampered feel to it, so it’s suitable for designs targeting children and females. However, the free mini version comes with limited characters of kanji and also latin characters, but you can try this for personal use. And the full commercial version are available to purchase with more goodies inside.

Usage Permission

Free for personal projects only

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above the look for the download link as highlighted below.

Supported characters

Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji (1006 characters)
Limited alphabets and punctuations

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