Adobe Adds Japanese Calligraphy Font Used in Demon Slayer Anime

It is no secret that the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba anime was beautiful in seemingly every aspect. This is only achievable thanks to meticulous attention to detail to things seemingly as inane as the font.

Ufotable went the extra mile and used a specially designed font for the anime, which is now available to everyone.

Adobe Fonts has added two Japanese calligraphy fonts used in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba anime: Kokuryu-sоu and Shinryu-sоu.

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-sou is Adobe’s interpretation of the style.

This font was used in episode 22 of season 1, during the introduction of Hashira. 

Shinryu is a brush-script typeface designed with the image of a gentle male dragon speaking to us. Its thin strokes make it possible to give a tender image while it looks dignified when used for texts. Shinyu-sou is Adobe’s interpretation of the style.

This appears to be a cleaner and thinner version of Kokuryu-sou and is often used in anime’s credit sequences and promotional art.

These fonts were produced by Kagoshima-based font production company Showashotai with renowned calligrapher Eisen Tsunanori at the helm. The company began as an advertising company back in the 1950s and eventually transitioned into a font manufacturing company specializing in brush-script typefaces in 2006.

These fonts are used extensively in the menu and during the ultimate attack sequences in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles game.

You can use these fonts through Adobe Creative Cloud next time you want to give your content that extra Demon Slayer flavor.

About Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotoge. Its publication in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump began in February 2016 with 19 collected tankōbon volumes released as of present.

In a world filled with demons and demon slayers, Kimetsu no Yaiba follows the lives of two siblings Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado after— the murder of their family at the hands of a demon. Their hardship does not end there, as Nezuko’s life is spared only for her to live as a demon.

As the oldest sibling, Tanjiro vows to protect and cure his sister. The story traces the bond of this brother-sister or better yet, demon slayer and demon combo against the odds of an arch antagonist and the society.

Source: IT Media News

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