Koyomiyuru
Koyomiyuru (こよみゆる) is a scribbly, loosely handwritten style Japanese font you can download for free. According to the creator of the font, this font was created with an online tool called “FontDrawer”. The handwriting style was quite scribbly as mentioned, but it’s still pretty readable and most importantly carries the natural, easy-going characteristics of handwriting. The creator also added that, the font was released without thorough checks, so it might have some errors in some of the characters. I guess that contributed to the looseness style of this font. But the creator promised they will fix it once spotted the error.
Koyomiyuru is a suitable candidate for creating designs that carry very personalized messages. The good news is it supports JIS Level 1 kanji characters, and Level 2 character support is planned as well. You can download this font for free and be used on commercial projects. It was released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial and commercial use.
- Released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1.
- Using as web font or be embedded in apps and games are permitted.
- Modification and redistribution of the font is permitted.
- Using this font as logo or trademark registration is permitted, although it is recommended to modify the font before doing so.
- Selling this as standalone font is prohibited.
Link
To download, visit the page above and look for the button highlighted in the screenshot below. Click on the pink button that says “Free Download” to start the download. Bear in mind that you will need to have a Pixiv account in order to download, which is rather easy to create. Once installed, you will be able to select this font under the Family Name “koyomiyuru” or PostScript name “koyomiyuru” in your writing or design tools.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (JIS Level 1)
- Alphanumerics
- Latin, Cyrillic scripts
- Symbols and Punctuations