Yuji Syuku
Yuji Syuku (佑字 肅) is an elegant and timeless calligraphy style free Japanese font you can download. It’s hand written by calligrapher Yuji Kataoka, and it’s one of the five typefaces under the Yuji series where it has three kana fonts and two hentai kana (former style of kana). The three kana fonts: Syuku, Mai and Boku, shared the same kanji character designs with different kana designs. For Syuku, it gives both tradition and dignity feeling, but more approachable compared to the other two. From the comparison table below, you can see the characters are more tidy and easier to read where it can be more widely accepted by the general public.
Yuji Syuku works great for designs that wanted to express vintage Asian/Japanese look, for greeting cards, brand assets, signages and even logo. It packs with the usual Japanese common letters including supporting kanji up to JIS Level 2 (or Adobe-Japan 1-3). You can download this font for free on Github or from Google Fonts (link below). It can be used on commercial projects, as it’s released under SIL Open Font License.
Usage Permission
- Free for both personal and commercial use.
- Released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Usage, modification and redistribution rules applied under the OFL license.
- The font files cannot be sold on their own.
Link
To download, visit the link above and you’ll see big Free Download button as highlighted in the image below. Choose which version you would like to have as labeled in the image. You’ll need to register an account in order to download the font, but it’s pretty simple to do so. Once installed, you can select this font in your writing or design tools under the family name “Yuji Syuku”.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (JIS Level 1 + 2)
- Alphanumerics
- Cyrillic, Latin script
- Symbols and Punctuations