About Death Note

Death Note is a manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2003 to 2006 and adapted into a 37-episode anime in 2006. Its premise — a student finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it — drives a psychological duel between Light Yagami and the detective L that has kept the series in print for two decades.

The logo matches the material at the centre of the story. The lettering is thin and spidery, drawn with visible hand-inked irregularity, tall condensed proportions and sharply pointed apexes — it reads as something scratched into a notebook rather than typeset. A distinctive quirk carries through the set: small ink dots sitting inside the closed counters of letters like D, O and R, a detail that survives across every regional edition.

What font does Death Note use?

Death Note uses The Death Note logo is custom hand-drawn lettering created for the manga, not a licensed typeface. Recreations circulate under the name Death Note, all approximating the original spidery ink drawing.

On this page, Lipi offers a generated lookalike of the font used in Death Note — ready to download instantly with a commercial license, no third-party purchase required.

Where this style works

Thin hand-inked display lettering suits anything gothic, occult or unsettling: horror and thriller titles, dark-fantasy book covers, metal and darkwave album art, tattoo and occult-adjacent branding, Halloween graphics, and editorial work that wants an unsteady, handwritten menace. The irregularity is the point — regularise the strokes and it stops being frightening.

What you get

Instant download as OTF, TTF and WOFF, with a commercial-use license for $7.99.

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Not affiliated with or endorsed by the rights holders of Death Note. The font on this page is an original Lipi-generated lookalike of the font used in Death Note, not a redistribution of the original commercial typeface.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Death Note font free?

The manga's logo is custom artwork owned by its creators and Shueisha and isn't distributed as a font. This page offers our own generated lookalike of the hand-inked style, licensed separately.

What fonts are similar to the Death Note logo?

For a similar spidery hand-drawn quality, look at Nosifer, Creepster and Butcherman among free options, or Feast of Flesh and Deutsche Zierschrift for a more gothic register.

Can I use this font commercially?

Yes, in your own commercial projects. It carries no rights to Death Note trademarks, characters or artwork, so don't use it to imply an official or licensed release.