Japanese Unicode Fonts (original) (raw)

AoyagiKouzanFont2OTF [ show all samples ] (AoyagiKouzanFont2OTF.otf from aoyagikouzan2otfv11.lzh)
Note: Also available in TTF format.
Source: Free download from http://musashi.or.tv/.
Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .lzh download.
Stats: Version 1.1 has 9,354 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Han Ideographic, Kana, Latin

aquafont [ show all samples ] (aquafont.ttf from self-extracting archive aqua2_7.exe)
Note: Also available with proportional letter spacing: aqua_pfont.
Source: Free download from Vector Inc's aquafont page. Click the download link (ダウンロード) to the right of the archive file name.
Stats: Version 2.7 has 15,572 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

Arial Unicode MS [ show all samples ] (arialuni.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office XP and Publisher 2002.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil

Bitstream Cyberbit [ show all samples ] (Cyberbit.ttf from Cyberbit.zip)
Source: Free download available from this FTP site.
Stats: Version beta 2.0 has 29,934 glyphs and 935 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic only), Chinese (Bopomofo only), Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Arabic)

Bitstream CyberCJK [ show all samples ] (CyberCJK.ttf from CyberCJK.zip)
Note: This is a subset of Cyberbit. It supports just the Latin, Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters.
Note: The Japanese range of this font is visually identical to "Bitstream Cyberbit".
Source: Free download available from this FTP site.
Stats: Version beta 2.0 has 28,686 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Chinese (Bopomofo only), Cyrillic (Russian), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Korean (Hangul only), Latin

cinecaption [ show all samples ] (cinecaption2.24.TTF)
Source: Free download from CHIPHEAD. Click on "Win版：DL" under the Cincaption heading.
Stats: Version 2.24 has 15,572 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian, expanded spacing), Greek (expanded spacing), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

Code2000 [ show all samples ] (code2000.ttf)
Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage.
Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai

EPSON 行書体Ｍ [ show all samples ] (epgyosho.ttf)
Source: Free download of ttf30.exe (a self-extracting archive) from the I Love EPSON website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 7,284 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

EPSON 太行書体Ｂ [ show all samples ] (epgyobld.ttf)
Source: Free download of ttf30.exe (a self-extracting archive) from the I Love EPSON website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 7,284 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

EPSON 太角ゴシック体Ｂ [ show all samples ] (epkgobld.ttf)
Source: Free download of ttf30.exe (a self-extracting archive) from the I Love EPSON website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 7,284 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

EPSON 太明朝体Ｂ [ show all samples ] (epminbld.ttf)
Source: Free download of ttf30.exe (a self-extracting archive) from the I Love EPSON website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 7,284 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

EPSON 太丸ゴシック体Ｂ [ show all samples ] (epmgobld.ttf)
Source: Free download of ttf30.exe (a self-extracting archive) from the I Love EPSON website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 7,284 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

EPSON 教科書体Ｍ [ show all samples ] (epkyouka.ttf)
Source: Free download of ttf30.exe (a self-extracting archive) from the I Love EPSON website.
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

EPSON 正楷書体Ｍ [ show all samples ] (epkaisho.ttf)
Source: Free download of ttf30.exe (a self-extracting archive) from the I Love EPSON website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 7,284 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

EPSON 丸ゴシック体Ｍ [ show all samples ] (epmarugo.ttf)
Source: Free download of ttf30.exe (a self-extracting archive) from the I Love EPSON website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 7,284 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

GT 2000-01 [ show all samples ] (gt2000-01.ttf)
Source: Free download from the University of Tokyo's website. This font was developed by Atsuhito Kohda in 2001 for use with Debian Linux.
Warning: Only gt200001.ttf is usable with Unicode. The other fonts seem to have codepoint mapping issues.
Stats: Version 1.10 has 15,572 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian, expanded spacing), Greek (expanded spacing), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

heart font by syoko [ show all samples ] (h-syoko.ttf from h-syoko.lzh)
Source: Free download from heart font.
Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .lzh download.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 15,574 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

Heart Font by zEn [ show all samples ] (h-zen.ttf from h-zen.lzh)
Source: Free download from heart font.
Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .lzh download.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 15,574 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

IPAGothic, IPAPGothic, and IPAUIGothic [ show all samples ] (ipag.ttf, ipagp.ttf, and ipagui from openprinting-jp-version.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from the Open Printing Project.
Stats: Version 001.000 has 9,217 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

IPAMincho and IPAPMincho [ show all samples ] (ipam.ttf and ipamp.ttf from openprinting-jp-version.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from the Open Printing Project.
Stats: Version 001.000 has 8,628 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

Kochi Gothic [ja.ttf] [ show all samples ] (ja.ttf from tuxpaint-ttf-japanese-2003.01.24.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from TuxPaint's font page.
Note: The ".tar.gz" archives for Linux can be extracted by WinZip on Windows. Inside the archive is the normal ".ttf" font file.
Stats: Version 0.00 has 15,572 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

Kochi Gothic [kochi-gothic-subst.ttf] [ show all samples ] (kochi-gothic-subst.ttf from kochi-substitute-yyyymmdd.tar.bz2)
Source: Free download from the SourceForge.jp efont project. Be sure to keep the .tar.bz2 extension when you download the file.
Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download.
Stats: Version 0.00 has 15,365 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian, expanded spacing), Greek (expanded spacing), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

Kochi Mincho [ show all samples ] (kochi-mincho-subst.ttf from kochi-substitute-yyyymmdd.tar.bz2)
Source: Free download from the SourceForge.jp efont project. Be sure to keep the .tar.bz2 extension when you download the file.
Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download.
Stats: Version 0.01 has 15,365 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian, expanded spacing), Greek (expanded spacing), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

Kozuka Gothic Pro M [ show all samples ] (KozGoPro-Medium.otf from running alf_jpn.exe)
Source: Free download from Adobe Reader 7.0 font packs. The fonts aren't automatically installed in Windows' "Fonts" folder but can probably be found in the "Resource\CIDFont" subdirectory of whichever directory Adobe Reader 7.0 was installed in (for example C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0).
Stats: Version 1.006 ... has 15,444 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian, expanded spacing), Greek (expanded spacing), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic, Greek, Han Ideographic, Kana, Latin

Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro [ show all samples ] (KozMinPro-Regular-Acro.otf)
Source: Free download from Adobe Reader 6.0 font packs.
Stats: Version OTF 1.011 has 15,444 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian, expanded spacing), Greek (expanded spacing), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin

Kozuka Mincho Pro-VI R [ show all samples ] (KozMinProVI-Regular.otf from running alf_jpn.exe)
Source: Free download from Adobe Reader 7.0 font packs. The fonts aren't automatically installed in Windows' "Fonts" folder but can probably be found in the "Resource\CIDFont" subdirectory of whichever directory Adobe Reader 7.0 was installed in (for example C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0).
Stats: Version 6.005 ... has 23,058 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages except Ukrainian, expanded spacing), Greek (expanded spacing), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin (including most of Latin Extended-A)
OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic, Greek, Han Ideographic, Kana, Latin

mikachan, mikachan-P, mikachan-PB, and mikachan-PS [ show all samples ] (mikachanALL.ttc)
Note: Styles vary slightly between the various mikachan fonts.
Source: Free download from SourceForge Japan. Click the download button for the self-extracting mikachanALL.exe archive or the "LZH" line for mikachanALL.lzh archive.
Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .lzh download.
Stats: Version 9.1 has 14,963 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)

Mojikyo M101, Mojikyo M102, ... [ show all samples ] (Mojikm01.ttf, Mojikm02.ttf, ...)
Source: Free download from Mojikyo Institute.
Note: Konjaku-Mojikyo is a font and input system for scholars with support for over 80,000 different characters. Its many fonts are Unicode TrueType fonts but the CJK-related characters are not mapped to the matching Unicode codepoints, making them unusable outside the Mojikyo software. Although the "Mojikyo M112" font (mojikm0c.ttf) contains interesting tile patterns and some Emoji symbols.
Support: n/a

Mona [ show all samples ] (mona.ttf from monafont-ttf-version.zip)
Source: Free download from the Mona Font Project.
Stats: Version 2.90 has 7,226 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian, expanded spacing), Greek (expanded spacing), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin

moon [ show all samples ] (moon.ttf from moon.zip)
Note: Also available with proportional letter spacing: moonp (moonp.zip).
Source: Free download from Vector Inc's moon.zip page. Click the download link (ダウンロード) to the right of the archive file name.
Stats: Version 1.60 has 15,572 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese)