Google has 9 national web fonts available free of charge

You can display the specified font even if the font is not installed on the viewer's PCWeb fontIs very convenient because the design of the website is not influenced by the use environment of the viewer, but it is also a fact that there are few web fonts that correspond to Japanese because there are many kinds of characters unlike the alphabet. Meanwhile, Google has released nine Japanese fonts as web fonts on a trial basis.

Google Fonts + Japanese Early Access • Google Fonts + Japanese Early Access
https://googlefonts.github.io/japanese/


The following nine kinds are available as web fonts. Originally Google released the original font "Noto Sans Japanese" as a Japanese font, but in addition to this, Japanese fonts such as "M + FONTS" and "Hannariko Mincho" are made into web fonts I will.


So, the Japanese web fonts that Google is publishing are as follows.

"I do not get tired of using it everyday, yet it's a bit of a matter of concern"M + 1 p"Can change the thickness of the font in seven steps.


The corner of M + 1 p is rounded "Rounded M + 1 p"Is a bright and stretchy design. It is also possible to change the thickness of the font in seven steps.


It is said that it was made conscious of ink dropletsHanpei Mincho"Is a feminine Mincho type.


A slightly slim, horn round Mincho "Kokoro Mincho"The space between letters and letters is wide and hand-drawn atmosphere.


Made for ease of use as a font for the textSamawajichi Mincho". The font is still under development, and 2250 words are registered for kanji.


"Sasabi" is a gothic body of "Samiji Gothic". It is designed to be sharp and easy to read even in small letters. There are 4469 words registered for kanji.


Katakana font that imagined cat's paws "Nikkyu". Besides text, it is good to use it with big letters in the place where you want to make an impression.


Fonts that are suitable for playful hiragana and katakana are "Nikomoji"


A font family under development under the initiative of Google "Noto"Japanese font is"Noto Sans Japanese". Furthermore, Noto Sans Japanese is planning to correspond to all Unicode soon.


The above nine kinds of Web fonts are not fully supported yet, and are provided in a trial way. About the launch of Google this time, "To the development of Japanese typeface designs and fonts, such as the time required to design a large number of letters and the technical infrastructure necessary to provide large font files as web fonts" We are struggling with a variety of challenges, so as we advance the development of standards and technologies, we have also made it possible for designers and developers to experiment with web fonts in Japanese through Google Fonts' early access. " .