Kaitou Yokoku Gothic
Kaitou Yokoku Gothic (怪盗予告ゴシック) is an expressive, eye-catchy ransom effect free Japanese font that is available for download. The author created this font by mixing Source Han Sans or Noto Sans with their Serif counterpart, then added the rectangle frame behind each letters and randomize the angle and sizes to create the typical ransom style text effect. The kanji characters are using the Sans serif version, while the kana and Latin script are mixed between Sans and Serif.
Kaitou Yokoku Gothic a very interesting font to use and probably has very little use case, and it is one of those font that will be useful only when needed. I can imagine when using this font, we probably will be spending a lot of time arranging it with different colors and textures to make it even more realistic.
Since this font uses Noto Sans and Serif as base, it supports massive Japanese kanji characters including up to JIS Level 4 and supplementary JIS X 0212 characters. With the massive character library and ransom style, the file size of this font is large too. All in all, this font is free and can be used in personal, non-commercial and commercial use, and it carries the same SIL Open Font License as Noto Sans/Serif.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial and commercial use.
- Released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1
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Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (Full support of JIS Level 4)
- Alphanumerics
- Latin, Cyrillic and Korean script
- Symbols and Punctuations