Learn about Chinese, Korean, and Japanese fonts and typography Chinese Typography (Chinese Fonts) Named after Inspector Clouseau’s manservant in the Pink Panther movies. Originally conceived as two separate Japanese looking fonts, the upper and lower cases are designed for use separately, but can be mixed when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead. Read the license agreement for more details on this Japanese free font. This allows you to install the font on a computer and use it to create posters, web graphics, game graphics, t-shirts, videos, signs, logos and more. This Japanese inspired font includes a license that allows free commercial use: sometimes referred to as a desktop license. The ellipsis is made of dots instead of rings: that’s done on purpose. The question mark now looks like a plain question mark because, in Japanese, they often use the same question mark we do. The asterisk is based on the kanji symbol for rice. The long dashes have been replaced by double dashes – they resemble a long equal sign. There are now 3 types of brackets.ĭouble smart-quotes have been replaced with Japanese angle quotes. I’ve given Electroharmonix better kerning, punctuation, math symbols, fractions and numeric ordinals. Of course, I still had to bend, flip and twist it to try to make it look like an alphabet. This time there’s no hiragana mixed in strictly katakana, and a few kanji. I’ve redrawn everything a little bolder with an attempt to at least sort-of follow the drawing rules of katakana and kanji. Now that I can read this stuff, I can see how badly I mangled those Japanese style fonts. When I created Electroharmonix 13 years ago, I never dreamed that I’d eventually move to Japan and have to learn to read and write Japanese. The best thing? The bundle also contains two animated versions! Choose between a straight and rounded or a wiggle style animation. Okidoki is a happy font that you can use without switching keyboard language! Simply write in hiragana or katakana and create cool and kawaii graphics. With rounded shape and cut-out on the intersection, emphasize the cuteness but action feel on it.

OKASHI Japanese font or Jap font took katakana shape, and take it to the cute cartoon children world.

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