Jayhan Loves Design & Japan
36 cool katakana design fonts free download
Posted: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:45:10 +0000
There are many cool and creative Japanese Katakana design fonts out there designed by various font designers. Here I compiled a list of 36 cool Katakana font resources which is free for download to add to your Japanese fonts list!
Most of them you can directly type it while some of them you need Japanese IME standard keyboard. Although all of them are free for download, but be sure to read the terms of usage if the font is used for commercial. Scroll down to check out the 36 Katakana design fonts! Original font address and download links also provided too.
Direct input Katakana fonts
Lovely Capsules — Link Win Mac
LVDC Sweet Days — Link Win Mac
Ultra Comic Fonts — Link Win Mac
Frigate Katakana — Link
Sushitaro — Link
Daidoh Remix JKA — Link
Stupid bug font Series Vol. 2 — Link Win Mac
Jackal_08_K02_KANAF — Link Download
Japanese IME input Katakana fonts
Ever fancying of having some cool Japanese fonts instead of using the boring default system Japanese fonts? Well, you are in the right place. Here I found another 5 unique Japanese fonts that is free for download. Why another? This is because I wrote a similar post before which is “Cute Japanese font for download” and successfully helped people to find a more unique Japanese fonts.
It is quite hard to find free Japanese fonts and all the sites are written in Japanese, so if you don’t know Japanese but wish to view and download the fonts, please check out my previous post about “3 smart tools to translate Japanese sites & words” to translate to English.
To be honest, Asian language fonts that is free are really hard to find, especially Japanese fonts. There are many Japanese fonts that can be type with English input but not the real actual Japanese input fonts. Plus, the system installed Japanese typefaces are so damn boring and too formal. But today I found a cute Japanese font free for download 
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The font name is call “KFHimaji”. This font is multi-talented, because you can type alphabets, punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana and even Kanji and many more. The font example is shown below. The font was roundish, cute and happy. This is really one rare free font. So what are you waiting for? Just go to this page and download the cute font!
Instruction:
In order to use this font, assuming you are using Windows XP, you need to have Asian text languages and input text installed into your machine. Then you can go to Control Panel and double click Regional and Language Options. Then click the Languages tab and click the Details button. In the Settings panel, click Add, then find and select the Japanese Input Languages and click “Ok”. Now, Japanese input is in your input panel. Now, you can type Japanese characters in MS Words, Photoshop etc by selecting the “JP” at the Language Toolbar.
More Japanese fonts goodies
Hunger for more custom Japanese fonts? Just go to 4galaxy.net where the webmaster had compiled a list of whopping 46 free Japanese fonts that able to display Kanji characters for download! One setback is some fonts listed there required you to register thou.
From here I want to introduce you other sites that provide English alphabet input fancy Japanese fonts. First up the Maniackers Design Font. Talented Japanese designers had joined their effort to design and produce some nice and usable fonts for download.
GAU+ also have a nice collection of nice Japanese font for both cute and techno style.
You can download some nice and creative fonts at here too! Hosted by Kotaroh Hataro from Gray Graphics. Just click on those small squares!
5 unique free Japanese fonts for download Where to get Quality Free Fonts? Free font: Relato Sans 36 cool katakana design fonts free download How to turn Hiragana word to cute Kaomoji
hi there, try looking for this text:
“ダウンロード: ＫＦひま字 ／ ＫＦひま字等幅”
if cant, just follow the link below:
http://www.kfstudio.net/font/KFhimajidotzip
http://www.kfstudio.net/font/KFhimajiMdotzip
just change the [dot] to “.” 
About dingbats, perhaps this site could help.
That’s quite a lot there. But not sure is what you want thou:
http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=703
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