Kokuryu is a brush-script display typeface designed to evoke the image of a male dragon wildly flying in a sky filled with dark clouds. Heavy and light strokes formed with the contrast of fast and slow stroke motions bring to mind the dynamics of the dragon’s raging emotion. Kokuryu’s letter shapes are not constrained by the square type body and its dynamically drawn letter shapes may look imbalanced, but when composed into words, they produce a strong and well-harmonized image.
The Kokuryu-sou in Adobe Fonts is a version of Kokuryu with fewer blurred strokes, which reduces the data size. It will be useful for letter cutting and animation or video clips.
Showashotai is a brand of high-quality brush-script typefaces designed to meet many needs. Each letter form is carefully designed by a skilled master of calligraphy.
Originally an advertising production company in the 1950s, Kouei Sign Works transformed into a font manufacturing company specializing in brush-script typefaces in 2006.
In 2013, it was officially renamed to Showashotai Co., Ltd. Showashotai creates digital brush-script typefaces that look like real handwritten calligraphic letters. With all production work done in-house, Showashotai aims to preserve the culture of Japanese calligraphy for the future.
Supported languages: German, Spanish, Dutch, English, Polish, Russian, French, Czech, Swedish, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Slovenian, Maltese, Arabic, Devanagari, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Chinese (hk), Japanese, Korean, Tamil, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Turkish, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Bengali, Kannada, Cherokee, Thai, Armenian, Belarusian, Danish, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Serbian, Telugu, Malayalam, IPA, Latvian, Chinese Pinyin, Finnish, Filipino, Malay, Croatian, Kazakh, Romanian, Persian, Indonesian, Slovak, Hindi
File Size: 3.53 MB
Release date: October 21, 2021
You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)
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