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Koiyuki
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:53 am


NakaTake
Koiyuki
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http://www.flopdesign.com/e_font/index.html
This is a good site I think, and they recently added English!
They have maybe half and half freeware and shareware (which actually means you have to pay for use) selection of fonts.

Most the fonts you'll find online though that are extremely different than 'mincho,' 'gothic,' et al. are Hiragana Katakana and Alphabetic only. So - you can't really use the IME for all of the fonts.
There's a few, but they're all similar variations of what Aiko had posted already. But the Hiragana / Katakana ones are great ; you have to learn a different keyboard layout to use them though :/

Here are some other good sites for truetype fonts,
http://www.digitaldreamdesign.net/ - Japanese only
http://www.geocities.co.jp/two_2dogs/ - Japanese only
http://www.orange.ne.jp/~den7/ - Japanese only.

Some of them have usage policies [I don't know about these sites in particular]. If you can't read Japanese, the usage policies are usually something along the lines of, 'do not distribute, do not use for commercial purposes (freeware only), do not modify'


OMG, so~ many good fonts. If only I could afford to buy them all. D:
I really like that momokan one.
But they never make any of their fonts free use after a while crying


$132 for all those doesn't seem too bad, though. Especially considering that some fonts cost $200+ for, like, two, or three sets.

I wish they didn't make something as simple as fonts so expensive. D:
PostPosted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:42 pm


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60+ free Japanese fonts
EDIT - sorry, just realized this one has already been posted.. sweatdrop

a few cute (free) Japanese pixel fonts
* these are all pixel fonts, but not all japanese.. the ones with names in english may not do japanese characters, i haven't checked.. but the ones with names in japanese are, uh, japanese.. XP
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:20 am


How do I get them into my computer? LOL ^^
PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:29 am


Natsumi11
How do I get them into my computer? LOL ^^


I know it's kinda late, but...

Grab the .ttf file you get, and go to Control Panel, then put it in the Fonts folder.

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