Kaisei Decol
Designed By
Font-Kai
3 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Kaisei Decol · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
3 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Kaisei Decol ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Tea and cake on Sunday
A Page In Kaisei Decol
Kaisei Decol · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
3 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Tea and cake on Sunday
Medium500
Preview Medium · 2.4 MB
Tea and cake on Sunday
Bold700
Preview Bold · 2.5 MB
Tea and cake on Sunday
Look at the end of a stroke in Kaisei and you find a small dot. The project’s name, 解星, has a star in it, and the dot is that star, set at the sweeps and hooks of the letters. Kazuo Kanai of Font-Kai started the Kaisei project in 2016, and its strokes follow the motion of a pen scratching across paper. The kanji horizontals are also heavier than in a typical Mincho, for reading on screens.
Kaisei is a set of 4 sibling families, Opti, Decol, HaruNoUmi and Tokumin. The kanji, the Latin and the symbols are common to all 4; only the kana change. In Decol the kana take on the dot too, so a line of text ends up dotted all over. Font-Kai says this makes it gentler on the eyes and gives it a cute, playful feel, and recommends it for short sentences and titles, paired with Kaisei Opti.
We agree. A shop name or a heading on a café menu suits it, and a full page of running text would get busy.
Each font holds about 7,000 kanji to the Adobe-Japan1-3 standard, plus Latin and Cyrillic, in Regular, Medium and Bold.
Before type, Kanai worked in graphic design, lettering and logos; a prize in the Morisawa Type Competition moved him to type design full time in 1984.
Characters & Figures
7,930 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Kaisei Decol
3 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 7.6 MB ↓- Version
- 5.003
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/kaisei-decol-2/kaisei-decol-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Kaisei Decol', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Kaisei Decol Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.