Pixel Mplus12
Pixel Mplus12 is a pixel style free Japanese font you can download. It was created by outlining the M+ Bitmap Font (which was now a deprecated project), hence the font retained the bitmap look and design characteristics, just that it’s not truly constructed with square pixels. It comes with two sizes (10pt and 12pt), each with two weights (Regular and Bold). The 12pt version constructed with 12×12 square blocks so it is more refined with more details included. While the 10pt version worked with 10×10 blocks, therefore it looks a lot more constrained, but works better if the space available is extremely limited. Both version are the same fixed width or monospaced.
Pixel Mplus12 comes with the common Japanese letters you would expect, and it supports up to JIS Level 2 kanji support. This font works great for retro gaming interfaces, or for cool indie graphics explorations into digital and retro tech. It’s free to use for personal and commercial projects, as it’s license under the same M+ license.
Usage Permission
- Free for both personal and commercial use.
Link
To download, visit the “Font Download” link above, and you’ll be brought to the latest font release. Just click on the zip link as highlighted in the image below to download the package, and you’ll find all the variants inside it. Once installed, you can select this font in your writing or design tools under the family name “PixelMplus12” or “PixelMplus10”.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (Complete JIS Level 1, 2)
- Alphanumerics
- Cyrillic, Latin script
- Symbols and Punctuations