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 until to the point of being barely readable by human eye. However with this effect, it can expresses sense of epic-ness and drama.

Since the font is derived from the open source font, Genkai Mincho also released under SIL Open Font License, which means you can use it on any project. Please bear in mind that, because of this font has huge collections of glyphs with high level of grungy details, the font size is large and it might slows your machine down when you are using it.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial projects

Link

Font homepage and download

To download, visit the link above to find the light blue download link on the right sidebar. You will need to have a Pixiv account to download the font, and it’s pretty easy to register for one. Also if the website is in Japanese and you have hard time navigating, you can change the language to your preferred language with the language selector on the top right of the website.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji
  • Numbers
  • Symbols and Punctuation


One Comment

  1. Jennifer Mc namara wrote:

    (Leilani) is what i want,written in this font Genkai Mincho