Kapakana
Designed By
Kousuke Nagai
2 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Kapakana · Regular
Try a short note, a name or a line of your own to compare the strokes and spacing.
2 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Kapakana ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Tea and letters by the window
A Note On The Page
Kapakana · Regular
A short letter, set in the family.
Thursday afternoon
Dear Alex,
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.
See you there.
2 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Light300
Tea and letters by the window
Regular400
Tea and letters by the window
Copperplate is a Western pen script, and Kousuke Nagai built Kapakana around the idea of writing Japanese kana in that manner. Both syllabaries are here, hiragana and katakana, with a set of Latin letters alongside.
There are 2 weights, Light and Regular. The Latin is very narrow, its small letters short against the capitals, and the whole thing reads like handwriting on a card. Give it a heading size, a wedding card or the label on a tea tin, and keep it away from long passages.
Characters & Figures
421 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Kapakana
2 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 110 KB ↓- Version
- 1.002
- 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/kapakana/kapakana.css">
body {
font-family: 'Kapakana', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Kapakana Heading · Inter Body
Thursday, Half Past Four
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.