Fonts are almost always a work in progress. I've got this one to the point where it now has all standard english upper and lower case characters, numerals and many items of punctuation, so it's time to release it more publicly.
If you like the font but there are particular characters you want added, please e-mail me and I can probably add them fairly easily. I'm also very open to constructive criticism. I want to make things more consistent and I think the numerals are fairly ugly at present. There are definitely elements where my sources (the letters A H K L O R and U) result in a clash of forms where they meet in a derivative character - after all those aren't normally the characters one would start with!
This is not expected to be used for general text: it's for headings and decorations. A font for general text is enormously more work and needs much greater consistency than this.
The font has been built by drawing each letter as an SVG drawing (using Inkscape) and importing that into FontForge which has been used to manage the metrics, and for producing the final TrueType file.
The current version of the Oakura font is available on Gitorious GitLab. More specifically you can download Oakura.ttf if you're not interested in the source images for each glyph.
The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License version 1.1 (or, at your option, any later version). You may also use it under the terms of the CC-BY license although that is less permissive. These license things are all very complicated, but essentially they mean that you may use and modify the font and it is not necessary to visibly credit me, and your use of the font in no way restricts anything about any document you create with it. The full license details are here if you're curious.
I'm happiest with the uppercase, apart from X, V & Z. The letters t & f should match at the crossbars and the ascenders for h, b & d should probably match the ones for i, j, k, l & t, but how that should affect n, m, p & r? ... and q?
Lightly edited in 2026 to acknowledge the fragility of the internet in the intervening 15 years