Neko Spoon

Neko Spoon (ねこスプーン) is a free Japanese display font designed with in-game text in mind that strikes a balance between cute and cool. It avoids going too far in either direction, making it versatile enough for game UIs, presentation slides, video subtitles, and more. The font was originally created for the bullet-hell game DANMAKAI which is available on Steam, where the font design is clean and readable, making it suitable for fast-paced visual environments. Neko Spoon was created based on another free font Logotype Gothic (ロゴたいぷゴシック), which itself is also derived from the ever so popular M+ font family. The designer adjusted the weight of every character across the board, then refined the kana characters into a fixed-width or monospaced format. Full-width kana, kanji, and alphanumerics are monospaced, while half-width alphanumerics are proportional. In my opinion, the added weight works well with the kana characters, but the complex kanji characters might become a little bit hard to read with the thicker strokes.

Neko Spoon comes with one weight and it covers the common Japanese characters, it supports the complete JIS Level 1 and a portion of JIS Level 2 kanji. Besides that, it supports Latin, Cyrillic and Greek characters too. Neko Spoon is released under the SIL Open Font License version 1.1 (OFL), therefore it is free for both non-commercial and commercial use and all the clauses under the OFL license.

Usage Permission

• Free for personal and commercial projects
• Released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1

Link

Font Homepage and Download

Supported characters

• Hiragana and Katakana
• Kanji (Full support up to JIS Level 1 and partial support for JIS Level 2)
• Alphanumerics
• Latin, Cyrillic and Greek characters
• Symbols and Punctuations