Free Japanese Educational Fonts on PC and Mac

Japanese educational fonts are suitable for Japanese language learning such as hiragana hand-tracing  and hiragana matching quiz.

If you have MS Office on Japanese OS,  you can use bundled educational fonts. Please read a page of kanji font.
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You can download free Japanese educational fonts on PC and Mac for personal from a site of trial use since June, 2013. But you must buy in a case of group use in your class room from the site. The cost of the font is about 18,900 yen.

(A) Examples of use Japanese educational fonts.

(a) An example of free educational fonts  無料教科書体フォントの使用例	(b) An example of hiragana hand-tracing practice ひらがななぞり書き練習の例
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(c) An example of educational hiragana table 教科書体ひらがな表の例	(d) An example of hiragana matching quizz ひらがなマッチングクイズの例
	Drag right items to left items for PC or Mac.

(B) How to install free Japanese educational fonts.

1. Register your e-mail address for download
2. Submit your e-mail address for registration
3. Download from the font site 
4. Check kanji list such as 1365 letters (小学校教育漢字)
   


5. Install fonts for Windows
6. Check fonts for Windows
   
7. Install fonts for Mac OS
   
8. Check font book for Mac OS

(1) Register your e-mail address for download	(2) Set your e-mail address for registration
https://www.motoyafont.jp/ 無料教科書体フォントのダウンロード
(3) Download of fonts after registration フォントのダウンロード	(4) Check fonts 文字種一覧.txt
	お試しフォント（1,365字）文字種一覧 欧文（65字） ,-. 両仮名・英字・記号類（294字） 、。，．・：；？！゛゜´｀¨＾￣＿ヽヾゝゞ〃仝々〆〇ー—‐／＼〜‖｜…‥''""（）〔〕［］｛｝ 〈〉《》「」『』【】＋−×÷＝ 教育漢字（1,006字）
(5) Install fonts for Windows	(6) Check fonts for Windows after installation
	C:/windows/fonts/
(7) Install fonts for Mac	(8) Check fonts for Mac after installation
	/Users/myhome/Library/fonts NtMotoyaKyotaiStd-W2.otf  NtMotoyaKyotaiStd-W3.otf NtMotoyaKyotaiStd-W4.otf

Educational Kanji Font on IE10 for Windows 7

IE 10 for Windows 7 is downloadable on Feb. 26, 2013.
If you already installed MS Office, you can easily setup educational font for your web browsing using Windows.
You can use the Educational Kanji Font for Kanji, Hiragana or Katakana Tracing Practice.

(1) Download IE10 for Win 7	(2) Setup for Kanji Educational Font
(3) Hiragana Tracing Practice	(4) Hiragana Tracing き

For Mac, please access this link.

How to Setup Japanese Educational Font for Safari?

Educational font is suitable for Japanese learning than Ming font such as Hiragana and Kanji examples of "き,さ,な,ふ,ら,八,人,入".  If you already installed MS Office on your Mac OS,  you can easily setup educational font for your web browsing using Safari.

Please setup the following procedures for educational font (教科書体ひらがなフォント).

1. Finder
2. Applications
3. Font Book
4. All Fonts
5. DFPKyoKaSho-W3

An example of hiragana hand-tracing using educational font are as follow.

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How to Setup Japanese Educational Font for IE9?

Educational font is suitable for Japanese learning than Ming font  such as Hiragana and Kanji examples of "き,さ,な,ふ,ら,八,人,入".  If you already installed MS Office, you can easily setup educational font  for your web browsing using PC.

Please setup the following procedures for IE9 educational font.

1. Tools (ツール)
2. Internet Options (インターネットオプション)
3. General (全般)
4. Fonts (フォント)
5. Language Script : Japanese (日本語)
6. Webpage Font : HG Educational Text Font (HG教科書体)
7. OK

An example of the details are as follow. 

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Try to access for Hiragana educational fonts (教科書体ひらがなフォント).