IPA Fonts are JIS X 0213:2004 compliant OpenType fonts based on TrueType outlines provided by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) from 2003. These are suitable for both display and printing.

This metapackage depends on fonts-ipafont-{mincho,gothic} packages to provide IPA Mincho, IPA P Mincho, IPA Gothic, and IPA P Gothic Fonts.