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Akai Bara

Akai Bara

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Akai Bara Font Family was designed by Michael Kovacevich and published by MKGD. Akai Bara contains 1 styles.

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About Akai Bara Font Family


I’ve always found the focal point of attraction in Japanese packaging to be the interplay between bold, brushed, calligraphic, kanji characters juxtaposed against present day Latin typography.

It occurred to me that if Japanese packaging can accommodate this visual dichotomy, then why not make these two elements available in a single font.

The typeface, Akai Bara (Japanese for “Red Rose”), is a Latin font comprised of two distinct parts. The uppercase letters are influenced by the bold, intense, flourishes of traditional Sumi-e brush in full flower; while the thorny lowercase characters are structured in a more familiar fashion.

Together, they provide the perfect solution for Asiatic design projects by displaying a modern beauty alongside a splash of oriental artistry.

Akai Bara has a glyph count of 388 and supports the following languages:

Afrikaans • Albanian • Asu • Basque • Bemba • Bena • Bosnian • Catalan • Cebuano • Chiga • Colognian • Cornish • Corsican • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Embu • English • Esperanto • Estonian • Faroese • Filipino • Finnish • French • Friulian • Galician • German • Gusii • Hungarian • Icelandic • Ido • Indonesian • Interlingua • Irish • Italian • Javanese • Jju • Kabuverdianu • Kalaallisut • Kalenjin • Kamba • Kikuyu • Kinyarwanda • Kurdish • Latvian • Lithuanian • Lojban • Low German • Lower Sorbian • Luo • Luxembourgish • Luyia • Machame • Makhuwa-Meetto • Makonde • Malagasy • Malay • Maltese • Manx • Māori • Mauritian Creole • Meru • North Ndebele • Northern Sotho • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Nyanja • Nyankole • Occitan • Oromo • Polish • Portuguese • Rejang • Romanian • Romansh • Rombo • Rundi • Rwa • Samburu • Sango • Sangu • Sardinian • Scottish Gaelic • Sena • Shambala • Shona • Slovak • Slovenian • Soga • Somali • South Ndebele • Southern Sotho • Spanish • Sundanese • Swahili • Swati • Swedish • Swiss German • Taita • Taroko • Teso • Tsonga • Tswana • Turkmen • Upper Sorbian • Vunjo • Walloon • Walser • Wolastoqey • Xhosa • Zulu

Designers: Michael Kovacevich

Publisher: MKGD

Foundry: MKGD

Design Owner: MKGD

MyFonts debut: Jul 1, 2024

Akai Bara

About MKGD

My name is Michael Kovacevich and I run MKGD Font Foundry. I’ve been a professional graphic designer for the better part of three decades. I’ve freelanced, worked in various studios, and in the art departments of garment industries. During that time I, like most designers, have dealt with type on a daily basis. I’ve set, kerned, tracked, bastardized and hand lettered type of all kinds over those many years. These days however, I’ve decided to bring my experience to bear on the designing of typefaces. I like to think of it as distilling my years of experience into something that anyone with a creative interest could utilize. During the course of my efforts, I hope people will find my work as interesting for them to use, as it is for me to produce.

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