Typecase

Open licence · Serif

Shippori Mincho

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Shippori Mincho webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Shippori Mincho.

Shippori Minchothe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

low x-heightwidehigh contrast

Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.

Fonts similar to Shippori Mincho, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Shippori Mincho, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Shippori Mincho B1 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Shippori Mincho B1.

Shippori Mincho B1slightly higher contrast

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Andada Pro webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Andada Pro.

Andada Proslightly larger x-height

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Brygada 1918 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Brygada 1918.

Brygada 1918slightly rounder bowls · slightly larger x-height · slightly lighter serifs

These are the first 3 of 746 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

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Shippori Mincho as a free alternative to

Shippori Mincho is suggested on one licensed family’s profile. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.

In the app

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