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Zen Kaku Gothic New Font

Designed by Yoshimichi Ohira

Free Sans Serif Fonts #bold#cyrillic#latin#light#regular#sans serif#variable typography

Preview

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character set

Zen Kaku Gothic New character set: letters, numbers and symbols, drawn in the font itself

Styles and files

  • Light

    Weight 300 TTF2.08 MB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

  • Light

    Weight 300 WOFF2870 KB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

  • Regular

    Weight 400 TTF2.25 MB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

  • Regular

    Weight 400 WOFF21 MB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

  • Medium

    Weight 500 TTF2.22 MB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

  • Medium

    Weight 500 WOFF21.02 MB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

  • Bold

    Weight 700 TTF2.21 MB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

  • Bold

    Weight 700 WOFF21.03 MB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

  • Black

    Weight 900 TTF2.19 MB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

  • Black

    Weight 900 WOFF21022.5 KB

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

About Zen Kaku Gothic New

Zen Kaku Gothic New is a sans-serif typeface designed by Yoshimichi Ohira. Sans-serif fonts use letterforms without decorative strokes at their ends, making them a practical choice for a wide range of digital and printed text. This family offers five weights to help create visual hierarchy and adapt typography to different layouts.

The available styles are Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), Bold (700), and Black (900). These weights provide options for body text, headings, labels, and other interface elements, depending on the needs of your design. The family supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts, making it suitable for text in languages that use these writing systems.

Fonts1 provides this typeface in TTF and WOFF2 formats for different font workflows. The release is distributed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits commercial use subject to the license terms. Preview the available weights to compare their appearance before choosing a version for your project.

License

Commercial use allowed under SIL Open Font License 1.1

SIL Open Font License 1.1 · Official license text

Free to use, including commercially, study, modify and redistribute. The fonts may not be sold on their own and reserved font names must not be reused for modified versions.

Zen Kaku Gothic New is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits commercial use subject to its terms. Review the license before using or redistributing the font.

Read the original license file (OFL.txt)

Copyright notice

Copyright 2022 The Zen Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/zen-kakugothic)

This is a summary, not legal advice. Always read the full license before using a font commercially. See the font licensing guide.

Use Zen Kaku Gothic New on your website

Copy the CSS below. Option B needs the font files uploaded to a fonts/ folder on your own server first.

Option A: use the font directly from Fonts1 (no upload needed)

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('https://files.fonts1.com/fonts1/fonts/3105/e8dd229f50-zenkakugothicnew-light.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('https://files.fonts1.com/fonts1/fonts/3105/9d3deb92fe-zenkakugothicnew-regular.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('https://files.fonts1.com/fonts1/fonts/3105/42b78ba937-zenkakugothicnew-medium.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('https://files.fonts1.com/fonts1/fonts/3105/f7d03cb99b-zenkakugothicnew-bold.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('https://files.fonts1.com/fonts1/fonts/3105/032a2c2674-zenkakugothicnew-black.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

Quickest way to try it. For a busy production site, Option B (your own server) is more reliable.

Option B: self-host (download, then upload to your server)

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('fonts/ZenKakuGothicNew-Light.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('fonts/ZenKakuGothicNew-Regular.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('fonts/ZenKakuGothicNew-Medium.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('fonts/ZenKakuGothicNew-Bold.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New';
  src: url('fonts/ZenKakuGothicNew-Black.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

2. Apply it

body {
  font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic New', sans-serif;
}

How to install Zen Kaku Gothic New

  1. Download the font family (ZIP) and extract it.
  2. Windows: right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install. macOS: double-click the file and choose Install Font.
  3. Restart your design or office program, then pick Zen Kaku Gothic New from the font list.

Need more detail? Read the full installation guide.

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