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NPG Ena Kn1

Nipponia · Kazuhiro Yamada

sans-serifJapanese gothic kana
NPG Ena Kn1 specimen from Nipponia

A gothic kana font with the wriggly strokes of old metal type, made for headlines.

About

Ena borrows its odd, looping hiragana and rounded katakana turns from early metal gothics, then tidies the structure so it reads cleanly today. It has a distinct mood that works best in headings and lead paragraphs. Nine weights, kana only, so pair it with a kanji face.

Classification

A kana-only gothic drawing on old metal type: the hiragana have insistent, wavy strokes and the katakana round off diagonal turns, while the skeletons are updated for modern text. Latin and figures are proportional only.

Weights

W100W200W300W400W500W600W700W800W900

Languages

Japanese (kana)Latin

Tags

japanesekanagothicmetal typequirkyheadlineeditorialvintage

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