Kaisei Tokumin
Kaisei Tokumin (解星 特ミン) is an extra bold mincho (serif) typeface designed specifically for strong headline and display use. Its name is a contracted form of Tokudai Mincho Kana, roughly translating to “Extra Bold Serif Kana.” The design of Kaisei Tokumin addresses a common challenge with heavy-weight Japanese typefaces: as stroke density increases, the internal spacing within characters can become unbalanced and the text loses its natural rhythm and readability. Kaisei Tokumin is engineered to preserve smooth legibility even at heavy weights, maintaining a sense of spatial breathing within each character while still delivering the visual impact expected of a bold display face. It carries the authoritative presence needed for headlines without sacrificing the delicacy in its construction.
Kaisei Tokumin comes with four font weights: Regular, Medium, Bold and ExtraBold. For character coverage, outside of the kana characters, it supports up to JIS Level 2, or Adobe-Japan1-3 glyph equivalent, A consistent standard across all Kaisei Project fonts. 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 > tokumin” folder. Once installed, you can select this font in your writing or design tools under the family name “Kaisei Tokumin”.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (JIS Level 1 and 2)
- Alphanumerics
- Latin and Cyrillic script
- Symbols and Punctuations