Ume Font Mincho (梅フォント)

July 19, 2013, 10:51 pm

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Ume Font Mincho (梅フォント) is also another mincho font free for download. This font also has Gothic version and you can use both of them on any kind of projects!

Usage Permission

• Personal and non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Homepage | Download (TTF)

Note:
When extracting the 7zip file, you will notice there are a lot of font files with unique characters behind, here is the guideline:

1. ume: The font family ume
2. 1st character: T (Fixed width), P (Proportional), UI (User Interface)
3. 2nd character: M (Mincho), G (Gothic)
4. 3rd character: O (Original), C (Classic), S (Studybook – for education I guess)
5. 4th character: 3,4,5 (font thickness)

I’m using ume-pmo3.ttf for the image above.

Supported characters

• Hiragana
• Katakana
• Alphanumeric
• Kanji
• Punctuations and symbols

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Togoshi Mincho (戸越明朝)

August 1, 2013, 8:09 am

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Togoshi Mincho (戸越明朝) is a formal looking Mincho (serif) font that you can download for free. It was released under and Togoshi Family, where the previous font Togoshi Gothic is also one of it.

Usage Permission

• Personal, non-commercial and commercial use

Link

Homepage | Download (TTF)

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Alphanumeric
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Utsukushi Mincho

September 5, 2013, 7:57 am

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Here is the beautiful Mincho font brought to you by Flop Design, the group that created the stunningly beautiful Flop Design Font. The Hiragana and Katakana are original while kanji characters are borrowed from IPA font.

Usage Permission

• Personal, non commercial and commercial projects

Link

Homepage | Download (Open Type)

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 1 + Level 2)
• Alphanumeric
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Aozora Mincho

December 24, 2013, 8:48 pm

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Consists of 7 weights, Aozora Mincho is a very complete mincho fonts that you can download for free. It is suitable typeface for documents and also newspapers. Because of the huge family, please bear in mind that the download size for this font is close to 200mb.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Homepage | Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Alphanumeric
• Symbols and punctuations

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Xano Mincho Font

March 6, 2014, 5:39 am

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Xano Mincho Font (XANO明朝フォント) is a formal looking mincho font that you can download and use it for free including commercial works.

Usage Permission

• Personal and non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Homepage | Font download (TTF and OTF)

Instruction: To download from Vector.co.jp website, please find the button shown below. Just click and the download process will begin.

Supported characters

• Hiragana
• Katakana
• Alphanumeric
• Kanji
• Punctuations and symbols

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Koku Mincho Regular

March 24, 2014, 6:00 am

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Koku Mincho Regular is a free to download Japanese font created by modifying the IPAex Mincho and Gothic font.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial and commercial projects
• Font embed to apps and programs is allowed

Link

Homepage | Download

*Note: Remember to read the license agreement attached inside the zip file.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 2 Standard)
• Alphanumeric
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Really Scary Minchotai

June 6, 2014, 10:54 pm

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Really Scary Minchotai (ふぉんとうは怖い明朝体) is a scary version of the Mincho font. The font characters were distorted to look wavy and shaky which create the horror feel like the traditional Japanese horror movie. However, by changing the color mood, it might turn out to be not horror at all.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial and commercial projects
• Font is under IPA Font License Agreement. Please read the IPA_Font_License_Agreement_v1.0.txt included in the download file.

Link

Homepage and Download

*To download, please visit the page above and scroll down the page to look for the grey colored download button below. Click the button to download the font.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (JIS Level 2)
• Alphanumeric
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Kokoro Minchoutai

September 26, 2014, 8:22 am

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Kokoro Minchoutai (こころ明朝体) is a lightweight, slightly condensed free Japanese font that you can download. The kana characters are originally designed, while the other characters were borrowed from IPA Mincho type.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and non-commercial, commercial works
• License: IPA Font License Agreement

Link

Homepage | Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Alphanumeric
• Symbols and punctuations

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Honoka Mincho

October 4, 2014, 12:35 am

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Honoka Mincho (ほのか明朝) is a beautiful free mincho Japanese font that you can download. Similar to Honoka Maru Gothic, the hiragana and katakana characters were slightly smaller and have more white space around them which makes this font an easy-to-read one. The kana were originally designed, while other characters were borrowed from IPA Mincho open source 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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Harenosora Mincho

April 30, 2015, 9:50 pm

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Harenosora Mincho (はれのそら明朝) perfectly combines the elegant hiragana and katakana characters with the traditional mincho characters, that resulted in this refreshing, readable free font. This font was created based on IPAex Mincho open source font.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial works

Link

Harenosora Mincho download page

*To download, visit the page above and look for the “download” link, sandwiched between ad banner and social sharing buttons. That’s the font download button.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Alphanumeric
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Source Han Serif

April 14, 2017, 5:52 am

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Source Han Serif (源ノ明朝) is the new open source Mincho (serif) font family released by both Adobe and Google, it comes with 7 font weights from Extra Light to Bold. This is the second font from both tech giant after Source Han Sans, and it has complete font sets for East Asian languages including also Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. This Serif version of the Source Han is acted as the companion font for the Sans Serif version.

You can download the font family for free and use it on any project as this font is licensed under Open Font License. And Typekit is also hosting it as web font and you can use it directly on your website.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Font homepage Download font on Github

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Genkai Mincho

May 26, 2017, 11:13 pm

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Designed based on the open source Source Han Serif, Genkai Mincho (源界明朝) is a eroded version that you can download for free. According to the designer, he “distorted” the font until to the point of being barely readable by human eye. However with this effect, it can expresses sense of epic-ness and drama.

Since the font is derived from the open source font, Genkai Mincho also released under SIL Open Font License, which means you can use it on any project. Please bear in mind that, because of this font has huge collections of glyphs with high level of grungy details, the font size is large and it might slows your machine down when you are using it.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

*To download, visit the link above to find the download link in underline. The page is in Japanese, be sure to translate it to your language to make it easier for you.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Soukou Mincho

August 25, 2017, 9:07 pm

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Soukou Mincho is a free Mincho style Japanese font that you can download. It features strong contrast between vertical stems and horizontal arm strokes, resulting in this readable font with high impact on visual appearance. This font is designed based on the open source font Source Han Serif and was released under Flop Design.

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
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Maboroshi no Nijimi Mincho

November 25, 2017, 6:54 am

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Maboroshi no Nijimi Mincho (幻ノにじみ明朝) is a free mincho font modified based on the open source font Source Han Serif. The outlines of the characters are textured and rugged, giving a sense of retro-ness, which is great for designs especially for greeting cards, posters and so on.

It comes with complete Japanese character sets and it’s licensed under SIL Open Font License, so it’s completely free to use on any projects.

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 grey download link highlighted below.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Numbers
• Symbols and Punctuation

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Appli Mincho

February 3, 2018, 1:01 am

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Appli Mincho (アプリ明朝) is another free mincho font that was created based on the popular open source font Source Han Serif. There are a couple of enhancements done on this font:

• The horizontal strokes are thickened, while making the vertical strokes thinner.
• The edges and the serifs are soften and rounder

Below is the comparison of the two fonts: the top one being the original Source Han Serif, while bottom is the Appli Mincho. You can clearly see characters are softer and easier to read.

There are three fonts in total in the download package, where the other two has some subtle difference from the original Appli Mincho. Sadly it only comes with regular font weight. It would be great if there are more weights included. Well, that will definitely costing more efforts to do it.

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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Hime Mincho Shirayuki

January 12, 2019, 9:30 pm

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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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Noto Serif JP

November 19, 2020, 11:06 pm

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Noto Serif JP is the serif version of the Noto Sans. Noto is a font family that aims to support all languages in the world. The Japanese version of the Noto Serif comes with 7 font weights ranging from Extra-Light to Black, making it a versatile font family.

Noto Serif JP is licensed under Open Font License, hence you can use it for commercial projects. For more information on this project, please head to Google Noto Fonts homepage.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

* To download, visit the link above and look for the blue “Download Family” button on the top right corner.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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Craft Mincho

January 2, 2022, 1:14 am

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Craft Mincho is a unique hand crafted Mincho typeface that is free to download. The font is hand drawn, hence it retains the hand drawing textures on each of the letters. These effects made the font to have this very warmth and welcoming feeling it.

Craft Mincho comes with the standard Japanese characters, including Shift JIS Level of kanji characters (2,965 in total). You can download and use it for both personal and commercial use.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects

Link

Font Homepage and Download

To download, visit the page above and look for the download button as highlighted below. Please be noted that a Pixiv account is required to download the font.

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Shift JIS Level 1)
• Alphanumerics
• Symbols and Punctuations

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