A Japanese typeface calendar

Japanese typefaces meet the traditional calendar.

和文書体と、伝統の暦が出会う。

A different typeface each day, with Japanese holidays, moon phases, and seasonal details. Save your favorites. For iPhone and iPad.

Download on the App Store

解星オプティFont-Kai

Fri 23 Oct 2026
1一日の暦

Day

A whole almanac on every page.

The date leads, the moon sits faintly behind it, and three almanac lines follow: the moon, the season and the fortune, every one set in the day’s typeface. This is Friday 23 October 2026, 十三夜, set in 解星オプティ.

令和8年10月

年月Era and month

The year of Reiwa and the month, in figures: 令和8年10月.令和8年10月, Reiwa and the month.

23

日付Date and moon

The day of the month fills the page. Behind it, faintly, the day’s moon: a waxing gibbous moon, 12.5 days old.The date, with a waxing gibbous moon faintly behind it.

金曜日

曜日Weekday

A Friday, so the whole page is in sumi ink. Saturdays turn indigo, Sundays and national holidays vermilion.A Friday.

十三夜

今日の名The day’s names

Today 十三夜. A holiday, a 節句, a moon viewing or a seasonal day; most days have none.十三夜, the day’s name.

長月十三日

旧暦Lunar date

The date by the old lunar calendar, 長月十三日. Tonight the day’s name, a moon viewing, names the moon.長月十三日, by the old calendar.

霜降初候霜始降

節気・候Season

The solar term of the 24 and its season of the 72, which turns about every five days: 霜降初候 and 霜始降.霜降初候 and 霜始降.

先負一粒万倍日

暦注Fortune

The rokuyō of the day, 先負, and the lucky day 一粒万倍日.The rokuyō 先負, and the lucky day 一粒万倍日.

2一週間

Week

Every day has its own typeface.

Your next favorite could be just a page away. And as a tear-off calendar prints them, Saturdays come in indigo, and Sundays and national holidays in vermilion.

  • 平日Weekdays, sumi ink
  • 土曜日Saturdays, indigo
  • 日曜日・祝日Sundays and holidays, vermilion
  1. Mon 12
    デラゴシック極太ゴシック体artakana
  2. Tue 13
    ランパート Oneデザイン書体Fontworks Inc.
  3. Wed 14
    Kosugi Maru丸ゴシック体MOTOYA
  4. Thu 15
    佑字 舞毛筆体Kinuta Font Factory
  5. Fri 16
    BIZ UDゴシックゴシック体Type Bank Co., Morisawa Inc.
  6. Sat 17
    ステッキデザイン書体Fontworks Inc.
  7. Sun 18
    LINE Seed JPゴシック体LY Corporation, RixFont, Fontworks
3用紙

Paper

Printed on the paper you choose.

Three papers, each with its own texture, in light and dark. Pick one in Settings and the widgets follow. Every tone keeps a contrast of 4.5 to 1 on every paper.

Gold Dust. Decorated writing paper, with gold flakes sifted on in drifts. The paper every page starts on.

Light
Dark

佑字 朴 · Kinuta Font Factory · Sat 24 Oct 2026

4書体

Typefaces

Japanese typefaces in eight kinds of hand.

From 明朝体 Mincho to ドット dot type, a new one sets every day, and no class comes twice in a row. Tap あ on any page to read about the day’s typeface: who drew it, its class and its license.

  • 明朝体Mincho

    しっぽり明朝B1 · FONTDASU

  • ゴシック体Gothic

    Zen角ゴシックNew · Yoshimichi Ohira

  • 丸ゴシック体Rounded Gothic

    Zen丸ゴシック · Yoshimichi Ohira

  • 極太ゴシック体Heavy Gothic

    デラゴシック · artakana

  • 毛筆体Brush

    佑字 肅 · Kinuta Font Factory

  • 硬筆体Pen

    クレー One · Fontworks Inc.

  • デザイン書体Display

    解星デコール · Font-Kai

  • ドットDot

    ドットゴシック16 · Fontworks Inc.

毎日

A new Japanese typeface every day, fetched from Google Fonts as just the characters a page needs.

八

8 typefaces ship inside the app, one of each class above, so a day is always set, even offline.

OFL

Every font is open source, under the SIL Open Font License or Apache 2.0, and every designer is credited.

5ウィジェット

Widgets

Keep the day on your Home Screen.

Japanese typefaces and today’s calendar, on your Home Screen. Widgets change typeface at midnight, like the app, and print on the paper you chose. Small, Medium and Large for the Home Screen, and on the Lock Screen the day beside the night’s moon. Widgets come with Type Koyomi Pro.

Large
Small and Medium
Lock Screen · the day and the Moon
6アプリ

App

Made for people who love type.

A quiet calendar with just enough to explore.

  • About This Typeface

    Explore each typeface in detail: its name set in itself, its class, designer and license, and a specimen of figures, kanji and いろは.

  • Random Day

    Discover typefaces with a random flip, or swipe back through the days one page at a time.

  • Bookmarks

    Bookmark the typefaces you love. Tap the bookmark on any day you want to keep.

  • Daily Reminder

    A notification at the time you choose names the typeface that sets the new day.

  • Share and Save

    Send a day’s page as an image, or save it to Photos.

  • iPhone and iPad

    The same page, set larger on iPad and at home in every orientation.

Type Koyomi app icon Type Koyomi app icon

Keep turning the pages.

もっと、ページをめくろう。

A different typeface each day, with Japanese holidays, moon phases, and seasonal details. Save your favorites.

Download on the App Store