Tekitou Poem

Tekitou Poem font preview

Tekitou Poem (適当ポエム) is a free Japanese handwriting font that comes with four font weights and extensive kanji character count. It was handwritten with a sign pen, the handwriting style is towards the casual,scribbling feel. You can see some characters are leaning towards the left while some are leaning towards the right with uneven letter spacing in between. It is raw and unfiltered handwriting style, therefore the name of the font “Tekitou” which means appropriately, or just good enough effort. All in all, it is still a very much readable font.

Tekitou Poem comes with the standard hiragana and kanji characters, and also comes with an enormous amount of kanji characters with the latest version supported up to JIS Level 4, a rare feed and more than enough for daily use. Not only that, it can be typed horizontally and vertically. Besides that, it also supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters too. In total the font has more than 16,000 characters. Plus, it comes with four font weights from Regular to ExtraBold. The best news is this font is downloadable for free and be used commercially as it is released under SIL Open Font License.

Usage Permission

  • Free for personal and commercial projects
  • Released under SIL Open Font License, V1.1

Link

Font Homepage and Download

To download, visit the page above and look for the button highlighted in the screenshot below. Click on the pink button that says “Free Download” to start the download. Bear in mind that you will need to have a Pixiv account in order to download, which is rather easy to create. Once installed, in Photoshop you will be able to select this font under the name “TekitouPoem”.

Tekitou Poem download instruction

Supported characters

  • Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kanji (JIS Level 1 – 4)
  • Alphanumerics
  • Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters
  • Symbols and Punctuations


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