Kaisei HarunoUmi
Kaisei HarunoUmi (解星 春の海), meaning “Spring Sea” in Japanese, is a mincho (serif) typeface from the Kaisei Project family that takes a warmer, more organic approach to kana design. The hiragana characters feature gentle, undulating curves that give the letters a sense of natural movement and everyday warmth, evoking a lived-in, human quality. The katakana, by contrast, are drawn slightly smaller than usual, an intentional callback to the typographic conventions of old-style mincho typesetting. This interplay between the flowing hiragana and the restrained katakana creates a distinctive page texture particularly well-suited to body text settings at smaller point sizes.
Kaisei HarunoUmi is one of the four fonts from the Kaisei family that shares the same kanji, Latin, and symbol glyph set, plus supporting up to JIS Level 2 (equivalent to Adobe-Japan1-3) kanji characters. Besides that, it comes with three font weights ranging from Regular to Bold. 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 > haruno” folder. Once installed, you can select this font in your writing or design tools under the family name “Kaisei HarunoUmi”.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (JIS Level 1 and 2)
- Alphanumerics
- Latin and Cyrillic script
- Symbols and Punctuations