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Anime-like, traditional calligraphy, national language-based — an abundant choice of Japanese fonts for any project or occasion! Consider that you’ve found yourself at an online fonts fair, browsing for some high-quality goods you’re just destined to discover.
When you’ve sucked out all the inspiration from Japanese packaging design feasted your eyes on Japanese branding and none of the other languages bring you joy, you’re mentally ready to immerse yourself into the diversity of Japanese fonts. You’ll find free and premium pieces, coming with their exclusive story and national language perks, hidden in each character, weight, alternate and glyph. Be sure to fall in love with the typographic manifestation of this culture through the fonts, ‘cause we already did!
Our Team’s Top Pick
Tokio Noir Font
Nothing’s going to hold back this Japanese typeface with a passionate Asian temper! If you’re crazy about calligraphic art, check out this reinvented Western writing using the Oriental styles. Asian pictorial emotionality meets European pragmatism. This distinguishing typeface is specially designed for vivid headers, logo/emblem designs, packaging, and more!
The Last Shuriken — Japanese Style Font
Konichiwa! The next item in this collection of fonts is The Last Shuriken, inspired by modern Japanese food branding and anime titles. This font is an all-caps typeface with bold strokes. It’s perfect for logos, posters, quotes, and games. The package is complete with stylistic alternates and multilingual support!
UNGAI — Faux Japanese Font
Ungai inherited the katakana style and took it to the fast-moving modern world we face today. Full of this philosophy, the typeface perfectly suits online games, posters, movie titles, menus, magazines, YouTube covers and thumbnails, social media page covers.
Tokyo Knights Font
Can samurais be referred to as Japanese knights? It’s a philosophical thought to process while working with Tokyo Knights typeface. This free asset doesn’t lack in variation: simple and italic versions included, as well as accented letters. Nobody forbids you from combining the Asian language with, let’s say, a Nordic one!
Hiro Misake Brush Japanese Font
Hiro Misake is one of the other Japanese fonts made with a brush in a traditional Japanese style made using a real brush pen. Just look at the size of strokes that are so natural in their little imperfections. It’s great for anything, that needs the Japanese brush style involved.
Osake — Japanese Font
Osake is a Japanese brush style font that was made with excellent taste. Each glyph is created as a copy of ethnic and cultural elements. This Japanese style font is suitable for those of you who like the country culture or need help with Asian theme project. It can be a restaurant, clothing brand, and any sort of business. The Osake is perfect for your brand’s style!
Kamikaze Font Family
Despite the incredibly sad meaning of the word “kamikaze”, it’s still in the public eye and used quite a lot in songs, movies and Japanese style fonts. These fonts are based on awesome Darrell Flood’s “Japanese 3017” typeface and elaborated to represent its new form and style. Can you spot the peculiarities? Don’t even bother, just accept the font as magnificent as it is.
Kyoto — Japanese Display Typeface
The beauty of Japanese fonts is in their essence and spiritual character. If you’ve never been to Kyoto, this display font will take you a little bit closer to the feeling of your own Japanese adventure. Use it to decorate posters, notebooks, merch and just add it to your social media posts if you’ll eventually have a chance to visit this gorgeous country.
MOJITA Font
Mojita is a geometric display typeface, with a beautifully-balanced intricate design, not seen in other fonts. Inspired by Japanese Art Deco style, and Mayan pattern design. Completely uppercase, it houses 300 glyphs, and contains extended language support (120 Latin based languages).
Kimono — Japanese Display Typeface
The Kimono typeface looks incredibly neat in your themed text logos! Are you looking for bold and solid typefaces that have a Japanese traditional feeling? Try to download the Kimono font and you’ll get what you need and even more. The item is suitable for many occasions such as travel guides, movie titles, book covers, brand identity pieces, and personal projects!
Harukaze Font
Based on traditional Japanese calligraphy fonts, Harukaze is a brush display typeface with a bold and powerful theme. Just one look at it triggers so many cultural associations, which means that the text would work as a great visual aid. Decide on the project style and let the inspiration flow!
Yahiko Playful Handwritten Font
Minimalism is one more characteristic trait of Asian fonts and Yahiko, despite its playful modern mood, is not an exception. This handwritten type is perfect for branding projects, logotypes, book cover designs, social media posts, advertisements, and any sort of text.
Makuton Japanese Vintage Typeface
The traditional Asian culture is not a thing people can fully understand, as it’s so independent and conservative. Despite this, fonts like Makuton will be welcomed by anyone who loves aesthetics! This vintage style Japanese typeface inherited an air of traditional hieroglyphs and fits retro designs like logos, labels, badges, or posters.
Night in Tokyo Font Family
Even if these fonts didn’t have a name, people would grasp the meaning easily by looking at the sharpness of each stroke. Japanese style fonts like this one inspire for the adventures under cover of the night, running across the rooftops like in your favorite anime.
Niagato — Japanese Display Font
What are top associations popping up in mind when speaking of Japan? Anime, ramen, and samurais? It’s time to create new ones, starting with delightful Japanese fonts. This one comprises a little bit of everything: kawaii styles, traditional strokes, and reserved, mysterious nature.
Yamatoshi Font
Yamatoshi is a handwritten script font built on Japanese calligraphy. Suitable to energize your design with free spirit theme. Seems like it was written effortlessly that makes Yamatoshi stand out for its natural charm and astounding inky strokes.
Almost Japanese
You can’t think of anything else but Japan when looking at every character! A little bit quirky but totally fun, having one of these cool Japanese fonts around would cause you a myriad of curious, memorable and unique design projects added to your portfolio. It’s risky and frisky!
Hakubo — Japan Inspired Font
Hakubo is an awesome Japanese display font. It has excellent readability and will add a striking touch to any sort of design! Adorable characters carry multilingual letters, weight styles, ligatures, and alternates with them, promising that no design will be left unfinished.
KENJO FONTS | PT. II
Kenjo II typeface is delivered with Japanese and Art Deco influences. Completely uppercase, Kenjo II was made to become a focal point of your branding design, logotype, packaging, or social media. Such a terse and sharp typeface enables powerful feelings hidden in each letter!
Japanese Style
Here you can observe a fun copy of a traditional Japanese tattoo lettering styles, turned into a funky Japanese typeface. There are no restrictions, you can make design with it, and it’ll look fantastic! Each wavy line has just come from the calligraphy brush, so gentle and cute. Implement this typeface into your product design, packaging, logo, or branding.
Onamura | Serif Experimental Font
Paying homage to predecessors, The Onamura font in a Japanese Ukiyo-e styles copy that influenced the fine arts movement in Europe. Rounded serif seems conventional combined with historically relevant letterform to create a harmonious blend.
Arigatou Gozaimasu Font
Square robotic weight shapes reflect that part of Japanese culture, praised by numerous technological breakthroughs but preserving a sort of traditional lettering. This is a free downloadable item, including styled numerals, punctuation marks, and an immense amount of aesthetics!
CITYPOP — Japanese 90s Retro Fonts
A popular trend of musical culture, fashion, and lifestyle came from Japan back in the late 70s to 90s. Also known as Vaporwave, Future Funk, and Synthwave in the American music industry. This pack of 5 cool Japanese fonts was tailored to mimic the era mentioned above.
Japanese Brush
The turn has come for something conventional to step out to this selection of Japanese fonts. The brush-made handcrafted typeface looks like it has just been inscribed on a paper scroll. Use it for reserved and terse designs, logotypes, branding, and clothing designs. Maybe you can develop your own creative signature?
OKAMI | Display Font
OKAMI is a modern font inspired by contemporary Japanese style, jaunty commercials and is most suited as a decorative display font. It has an uppercase display featuring a regular & outlined font with over 100 different glyph styles, isn’t it great? Adjust its size, play around with the additional elements, and you’ve got yourself one radiant font!
Osaka Sans Serif Font
Think of a vintage arcade game machine: unreasonably loud and dramatic but so fun to play with! We also remember their crazy bright designs, so much action packed into twisted plots. Osaka Sans Serif font is a little island of nostalgia about these arcades, presenting similar lettering styles.
