Kaisei Decol
Kaisei Decol (解星デコール) is a decorative Japanese mincho (serif) typeface and a companion face to Kaisei Opti within the Kaisei Project family. Like Opti, it shares the same kanji, Latin, and symbol glyphs across the family, but distinguishes itself through its kana design: the hiragana and katakana characters are unified with the same dot element found in the kanji strokes, resulting in a typeset page where the dot motif appears consistently throughout the text. This resulted the visual effect is one of gentleness and playfulness, reducing visual sharpness while lending the composition a cute and lively character.
Kaisei Decol is best suited for short text settings such as headings and display titles, and the designer recommends using it alongside Kaisei Opti for a well-balanced layout. It comes with three font weights from Regular to Bold, and supports the regular Japanese cahracters plus up to JIS Level 2 kanji characters. It is free to download and use in both personal and commercial projects, as it is released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial use.
- Released under SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1.
Link
To download, visit the link above and you will be brought to the font’s Github repository. By clicking on the “Code” button, you will a popover appears. Click on the “Download ZIP” in the popover the download the repository that has the font files in it. You can find the font files inside the “fonts > ttf > decol” folder. Once installed, you can select this font in your writing or design tools under the family name “Kaisei Decol”.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (JIS Level 1 and 2)
- Alphanumerics
- Latin and Cyrillic script
- Symbols and Punctuations