Author's note

Tecnojap, John Cosgriff's free Japanese-tech display font from 1998, turns a futuristic sans into something that feels borrowed from arcade marquees and late-90s cyber graphics. The letters are broad, rounded, and heavy, with squared cuts and sweeping horizontal strokes that give the whole font a sleek, mechanical rhythm.

It fits naturally in game logos, poster titles, club flyers, packaging, and title cards where that retro-tech Japanese flavor helps set the mood fast. As a free font, it also works well for short headlines and branding fragments, because those long crossbars and curved corners make even a few letters feel like part of a larger system.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
©1998 - Isis Fonts - John Cosgriff
Font family
Tecnojap
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Tecnojap
Full font name
Tecnojap
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 21/09/98
Postscript font name
Tecnojap
Trademark notice
Isis Font Foundry

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1998-09-21
Revision1
Glyph count56
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classNo classification
WeightBold
WidthExpanded
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI