Makinas 4
もじワク研究 · A Japanese OpenType font family with Flat and Square styles, designed to evoke carefully handwritten lettering.
Makinas 4 is a font you can install on a Mac.
About
Makinas 4 is a Japanese font family that gives digital lettering a carefully drawn, analog feel. The official description presents Flat as the standard style and Square as a complementary style. The two OpenType files are installed separately, so you can select the style you want in an application that supports user-installed fonts.
- Flat: the standard style in the family.
- Square: a complementary style with a different shape.
- Both styles are OpenType fonts, listed with Adobe Japan 1-3 coverage (9,354 characters).
- The publisher describes the fonts as free fonts that may be used commercially; consult the publisher’s license details for terms.
Install with brew install --cask font-makinas4. After installation, choose Makinas 4 Flat or Makinas 4 Square from the font menu in a compatible application. This installs font files, not a standalone application. The two included files are Makinas-4-Flat. and Makinas-4-Square..
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Install and uninstall
Homebrew installs the font in ~/Library/Fonts, where Font Book can use it.
Install without Homebrew
Download the same file Homebrew uses: moji-waku.com/download/makinas4.zip
$ brew uninstall --cask \font-makinas4A regular uninstall removes the app and keeps its settings and caches.
Questions
Is Makinas 4 safe?
Makinas 4 is in Homebrew’s official catalog and has not been disabled. Since September 2026, Homebrew disables apps that fail macOS Gatekeeper checks. The download comes from moji-waku.com; Homebrew does not verify a checksum for it.
How do I completely uninstall Makinas 4 on a Mac?
Run brew uninstall --cask font-makinas4.