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Shippori Mincho

Designed By

FONTDASU

5 Styles Serif

The pleasure
of a well-set
page.

Shippori Mincho · Regular

Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.

5 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

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TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

The last train left without us

A Page In Shippori Mincho

Shippori Mincho · 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.

5 Styles,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Regular400

The last train left without us

Medium500

Preview Medium · 4.4 MB

The last train left without us

Semi Bold600

Preview Semi Bold · 4.4 MB

The last train left without us

Bold700

Preview Bold · 4.4 MB

The last train left without us

Extra Bold800

Preview Extra Bold · 4.4 MB

The last train left without us

FONTDASU had a particular reader in mind, or rather a particular writer: the Japanese novelist who wants a good Mincho without paying for it. Shippori Mincho was made to give those writers an old-style Mincho for free.

Where it comes from

Its model is the No. 5 Mincho of the Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry, a typeface with a large hand in shaping the Mincho style most Japanese text is set in today. The kanji were built on Genryu Mincho, an existing free font, and FONTDASU added alternate characters for readers and editors who care about particular forms.

The family grew from 2 ends. The Regular was drawn first for long-form novel text, and the Extra Bold was drawn for titles and headlines; the 3 weights in between came later to make 5 in all. FONTDASU also wanted it to hold up when enlarged, so the same face could serve an amateur writer printing a short story and an editorial designer setting a magazine spread.

There is a sister family, Shippori Mincho B1, which adds rounded corners and ink pooling. This one is the standard version, 15,363 characters per style.

For a novel we would set the body in Regular and save the Extra Bold for chapter titles, with Semi Bold as a middle step for running heads.

Shippori Mincho type specimen with letters and figures
Shippori Mincho · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

15,363 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
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The Font Files

Download
Shippori Mincho

5 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 22.0 MB ↓
Version
3.110
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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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/shippori-mincho-3/shippori-mincho-3.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Shippori Mincho', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

Shippori Mincho 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.