Naganoshi

Naganoshi (ながのし) is a free Japanese font that resembles handwriting with a flat tip calligraphy pen. The effect of the pen is strong with strong contrast of the stroke thickness and the slanted start and end of the strokes. The characters are quite spontaneous and free, therefore giving a casual and nonchalant feel to it.

Naganoshi has 1,301 glyphs, mostly in hiragana, katakana, kanji, numbers and punctuations. Unfortunately it does not come with latin characters, and the included kanji characters are pretty random too. So I would say this is not a good choice if u needed multiple languages support or large kanji glyphs. You may consider this font if you are mostly using it for the hiragana and katakana and little bit of kanji. This font is free to download and it’s released under SIL Open Font License.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • Released under SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1

Link

Font Homepage and Download

To download, visit the page above and look for the button highlighted in the screenshot below. Click on the red button will open up an overlay. You may choose to donate any amount as a token of appreciation or click on the “No thanks, just take me to the downloads” link to proceed to download the font for free. Once installed, the font should be selectable as the name “Naganoshi”.

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (roughly close to 900 characters)
  • Numbers
  • Symbols and Punctuations
Category: Handwriting
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