Zekkyou Bolero
Zekkyou Bolero (絶叫ボレロ) is a free-to-download “Typos style” Japanese font that was created based on two open-sourced font, by combining the kanji characters from Swei Spring JP in Bold weight, and the hiragana and katakana from GenEi LateGo V2. Typos style font (タイポス風フォント) is a style of font that carries the design characteristics of mincho (serif) strokes – the thin horizontal strokes and thicker vertical strokes, giving that stylish, classy contrasty look and combining with the cleanness and simplicity of gothic (sans serif) font. It’s akin to combining the best of both world I guess?
With its stylish and clean look, Zekkyou Bolero is suitable as typeface for ads and as brand font. It supports your common daily Japanese letters including hiragana, katakana and kanji characters. No official statement of the level of support, but with its large kanji library, I assume it at least fully compliant to JIS Level 2, which pretty much covers most use cases. You can download this font for free and be used in commercial projects, as this font is released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal, non-commercial and commercial use.
- Released under SIL Open Font License, v1.1.
Link
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, you will be able to select this font under the Family Name “絶叫ボレロ” or PostScript name “zekkyou-bolero” in your writing or design tools.
Supported characters
- Hiragana and Katakana
- Kanji (Should be at least JIS Level 2)
- Alphanumerics
- Latin, Korean, Cyrillic script
- Symbols and Punctuations