Mincho (serif) Fonts

Appli Mincho

Appli Mincho (アプリ明朝) is another free mincho font that was created based on the popular open source font Source Han Serif. There are a couple of enhancements done on this…

Maboroshi no Nijimi Mincho

Maboroshi no Nijimi Mincho (幻ノにじみ明朝) is a free mincho font modified based on the open source font Source Han Serif. The outlines of the characters are textured and rugged, giving…

Soukou Mincho

Soukou Mincho is a free Mincho style Japanese font that you can download. It features strong contrast between vertical stems and horizontal arm strokes, resulting in this readable font with…

Genkai Mincho

Designed based on the open source Source Han Serif, Genkai Mincho (源界明朝) is a eroded version that you can download for free. According to the designer, he “distorted” the font…

Source Han Serif

Source Han Serif (源ノ明朝) is the new open source Mincho (serif) font family released by both Adobe and Google, it comes with 7 font weights from Extra Light to Bold.…

Harenosora Mincho

Harenosora Mincho (はれのそら明朝) perfectly combines the elegant hiragana and katakana characters with the traditional mincho characters, that resulted in this refreshing, readable free font. This font was created based on…

Honoka Mincho

Honoka Mincho (ほのか明朝) is a beautiful free mincho Japanese font that you can download. Similar to Honoka Maru Gothic, the hiragana and katakana characters were slightly smaller and have more…

Kokoro Minchoutai

Kokoro Minchoutai (こころ明朝体) is a lightweight, slightly condensed free Japanese font that you can download. The kana characters are originally designed, while the other characters were borrowed from IPA Mincho…

Really Scary Minchotai

Really Scary Minchotai (ふぉんとうは怖い明朝体) is a scary version of the Mincho font. The font characters were distorted to look wavy and shaky which create the horror feel like the traditional…

Koku Mincho Regular

Koku Mincho Regular is a free to download Japanese font created by modifying the IPAex Mincho and Gothic font. Usage Permission Free for personal, non-commercial and commercial projects Font embed…

Xano Mincho Font

Xano Mincho Font (XANO明朝フォント) is a formal looking mincho font that you can download and use it for free including commercial works. Usage Permission Personal and non-commercial, and commercial projects…