Bonsai

What is the Bonsai Font?

Years ago, I developed an interest in the Japanese art of dwarfed potted trees, bonsai. I bought some books on the subject from Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In one—Handbook on Bonsai: Special Techniques (seventh printing, February 1976)—the type was bad. Old worn lead type, I suspect, spread wide in the tops of characters and disappearing on the bottoms. Two decades later, I came across my Brooklyn Botanic Garden collection and was struck again by this interesting type. Inspired, I made a typeface. Didn’t take me long to decide on a name for it either: a name with a double-meaning, based both on its look and its inspiration. Bonsai has two styles, a roman and a true italic; OpenType features include true small capitals, old-style and lining figures, numerous ligatures, and support for Central/Eastern European alphabets.

Bonsai Font Families

When you download Bonsai, the family will include the following font styles:

• Bonsai Regular
• Bonsai Italic

Preview of the Bonsai Font

If you want to see more previews for the Bonsai font, click here to use your own preview text.

Who Designed the Bonsai Font?

This font has 2 style(s) and was published by Three Islands Press.

Is Bonsai a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Bonsai is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Bonsai. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Bonsai for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Bonsai if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Bonsai to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Bonsai for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Bonsai, it was available for as little as $29.00.