List of CJK fonts

The first four characters of Thousand Character Classic in different typeface styles, script styles and type styles. From left to right: sans-serif (gothic), Ming, regular script, clerical script and seal script

This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts with a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters). These fonts are primarily sorted by their typeface, the main classes being "with serif", "without serif" and "script". This article name the two first classes Ming and sans-serif (gothic) while further divide the "script" into several Chinese script styles.

The fonts are then sorted by their target writing system:[Note 1]

  • Chinese: Chinese character. (May also support bopomofo.)
    This can be subdivided into the following classification:
    • Simplified Chinese
    • Traditional Chinese (General, using printing standard or jiu zixing, 舊字形)
    • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, using Standard Form of National Characters by the Ministry of Education, 國字標準字體)
    • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong, using the List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters by the Ministry of Education, 常用字字形表)
The following localization table shortens Simplified Chinese to SC and Traditional Chinese to TC.
  • Japanese: kanji, hiragana and katakana
  • Korean: Hangul, hanja, etc.
  • Vietnamese: for the Nôm script formerly used
  • Zhuang: for Sawndip
  • Pan-Unicode: intended to globally support the majority of Unicode's characters, and not specifically designed for one or a few writing systems (note that Pan-Unicode font ≠ Unicode font[Note 2])
  • Pan-CJK: intended to support the majority of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and not specifically designed for any one of these writing systems

Legends

Ming (Song)

  • Sample of Ming typeface. Shown here are its forms in (from top to bottom): Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese.
    Sample of Ming typeface. Shown here are its forms in (from top to bottom): Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese.
  • Sample of Source Han Serif
    Sample of Source Han Serif

Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK

Name Localisation Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
Bitstream Cyberbit Pan-Unicode
TPTQ Serif CJK Pan-CJK Typotheque
Hanazono Mincho[1]
花園明朝 		Pan-CJK [F] Hanazono Font License or SIL Open Font License HanaMinA (Japanese: 花園明朝A) for BMP and HanaMinB (花園明朝B) for SIP – covers all CJK, CJK Compatibility, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A, B, C, D, E, and F. This font has issues in LaTeX.[Note 3]
Sazanami-Hanazono Mincho[2] Pan-CJK [F] Full CJK and Latin-1 truetype font resulting from merge of Sazanami Mincho and Hanazono fonts.
  • Source Han Serif
  • Noto Serif CJK
 Pan-CJK Adobe and Google [F] SIL Open Font License SIL Open Font License v.1.1 in April 2017.[3]
TH-Tshyn
天珩全字库 		Pan-Unicode 天珩 TH-Tshyn-P0, TH-Tshyn-P1, TH-Tshyn-P2 and TH-Tshyn-P16. Version 4.1.0 offers complete coverage of all Unicode CJK characters up to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I introduced in 2023 with Unicode version 15.1.[4]
Jigmo
字雲 		Pan-CJK [F] CC0 1.0 Universal Jigmo, Jigmo2, and Jigmo3. Version 20230816 offers complete coverage of all Unicode CJK characters up to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I introduced in 2023 with Unicode version 15.1.[5]

Chinese

  • Sample of MingLiU (細明體), monospaced Latin characters.
    Sample of MingLiU (細明體), monospaced Latin characters.
  • Sample of PMingLiU (新細明體), proportional Latin characters.
    Sample of PMingLiU (新細明體), proportional Latin characters.
  • Sample of SimSun (中易宋体), monospaced Latin characters.
    Sample of SimSun (中易宋体), monospaced Latin characters.
  • Sample of I.Ming (一點明體)
    Sample of I.Ming (一點明體)
  • Sample of KingHwa OldSong (京華老宋体)
    Sample of KingHwa OldSong (京華老宋体)
A comparative display of seven commercial Chinese serif (Ming) fonts from leading foundries: FounderType, Hanyi, Adobe, and Monotype. The fonts are: FZ ShuSong (方正书宋), FZ XinShuSong (方正新书宋), FZ GuiFanShuSong (方正规范书宋), HY ShuSongEr (汉仪书宋二), HY XuanSong (汉仪玄宋), Adobe Song (Adobe 宋体), and M Sung PRC (蒙纳宋体).
Name Localisation Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
BabelStone Han[6] SC Andrew West [F] 1999 Arphic Public License Based on Arphic PL Fonts, extended partly to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I.
DLCMingMedium
華康中明體

DLCMingBold
華康粗明體

TC Microsoft Derivatives include Windows 3.0's default TC font 'Ming Light'.
MingLiU
細明體 		TC (Taiwan) Microsoft Default interface typeface for Windows 3.0 to Windows XP, derived from DynaLab's DLCMing typeface. Distributed as a raster typeface and then in TrueType format as 'MingLi43' in Windows 3.0. Monospaced Latin characters.
PMingLiU
新細明體 		TC (Taiwan) Microsoft Distributed starting from Windows 95. proportional Latin characters.
MingLiU_HKSCS
細明體_HKSCS

MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB
細明體_HKSCS-ExtB

TC (Hong Kong)
LiSong Pro Light
儷宋 Pro 		TC (Hong Kong)
Apple LiSung Light
蘋果儷細宋 		TC (Hong Kong)
I.Ming
I.明體 		TC (General) [F] IPA font licence Derived from IPAex Minchō font, available at Keshilu blog (刻石錄) and GitHub.[7][8]
MS Song
MS宋体 		SC Microsoft
SimSun
中易宋体, 宋体 		SC Default interface typeface for Windows 3.1x to Windows XP, distributed starting from Windows 3.1x. Monospaced Latin characters. Unlike NSimSun (below), this is not labelled monospaced in the post and OS/2 table.[9]
NSimSun
新宋体 		SC Distributed starting from Windows 95. Monospaced Latin characters.
SimSun-18030
宋体-18030

NSimSun-18030
新宋体-18030

SC Distributed starting from Windows XP, or as GB 18030 Support Package to Windows 2000 or higher.
Simsun (Founder Extended)
宋体-方正超大字符集 		SC Distributed starting from Microsoft Office XP.
SimSun-ExtB or Sun-ExtB
宋体-ExtB 		SC Distributed with Windows Vista.
SimSun-ExtG
宋体-ExtG 		SC Distributed with Windows 11 2023 Update and 2024 Update.
Song SC OS X 10.2–10.4.
STSong
华文宋体 		SC SinoType Technology (常州华文印刷新技术) Distributed with MS Office 2000 and XP, OS X 10.2–10.4. The foundry made a series of fonts for Microsoft and Macintosh between 1998 and 2004 that all begin with "ST" (华文).
STZhongsong
华文中宋 		SC Microsoft Distributed with MS Office 2000 and XP. A medium-boldness version of STSong made in 1991 and updated in 1998.
TW-Sung,
TW-Sung-Ext-B,
TW-Sung-Plus
全字庫正宋體 		TC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education, Taiwan (教育部)[10] [F] Open Government Data License v1.0,[11] equivalent to CC-BY 4.0 International license[12] 100,000+ traditional and simplified characters (including Japanese shinjitai characters) in Taiwanese orthography, covering CNS 11643 (TW-Sung covers the characters mapped to the Basic Multilingual Plane, TW-Sung-Ext-B covers the characters mapped to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B, TW-Sung-Plus covers Private Use Area mapped CNS characters).
WenQuanYi Bitmap Song
文泉驿点阵宋体 		SC [F] GNU GPL Raster typeface.
KingHwa OldSong
京華老宋体 		SC, TC Terri Wong (特里王) Covers CJK Unified Ideographs, Extension A; partially covers Extension B, and covers all encoded simplified Chinese characters. Also covers all commonly used characters in UBPSHNVN's Nôm standard.
FangZheng ShuSong
方正书宋 		SC, TC FounderType Released 1996. Based on Shanghai Printing Technology Research Institute's "Song Er" for letterpress. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2.
FangZheng PingXian YaSong
方正屏显雅宋 		SC Commercial Released 2017. Screen-optimized version of BiaoYaSong. Supports GB2312-80, GBK.
FangZheng BoYaSong
方正博雅宋 		SC, TC Released 2004. Designed for newspaper body text, focusing on readability. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5.
FangZheng LanTingSong
方正兰亭宋 		SC Released 2004. Designed for new generation newspaper body text. Supports GB2312-80, GBK.
FangZheng YaSong family
方正雅宋 		SC, TC Released 2007. Family with various weights (XianYaSong, XiYaSong, BiaoYaSong, etc.), initially for titles. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5.
FangZheng YouSong family
方正悠宋 		SC Released 2017. Screen display Song font family. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2.
FangZheng XiaoBiaoSong
方正小标宋 		SC, TC Released 1996. Common title typeface, often used for official documents. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2.
FangZheng DaBiaoSong
方正大标宋 		SC, TC Released 1996. Based on 1970 "Hangtou Song", for large titles. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5.
FangZheng GuiFan ShuSong
方正规范书宋 		SC Released 2013. Supports GBK.
FangZheng LanTing KanSong
方正兰亭刊宋 		SC Released 2005. Supports GBK, GB2312-80.
FangZheng BaoSong
方正报宋 		SC Released 1996. Digital version of "641 Ti" (BaoSong Ti) from 1964 for People's Daily. Supports GB2312-80, GBK.
FangZheng BoYa FangKanSong
方正博雅方刊宋 		SC Released 2009. Optimized version of FangZheng BoYaSong for newspaper printing (e.g. 9pt, 10.5pt). Supports GBK, GB2312-80.
FangZheng BoYa KanSong
方正博雅刊宋 		SC Released 2005. Supports GBK, GB2312-80.
FangZheng XinShuSong
方正新书宋 		SC, TC Released 2012. Optimized version of FangZheng ShuSong for books and magazines. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2.
FangZheng SongYi
方正宋一 		SC, TC Released 1996. Also "Dictionary Song" (字典宋), designed 1960s for "Ci Hai" dictionary. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2 & L3.
FangZheng XinBaoSong
方正新报宋 		SC Released 2000. "Second generation BaoSong" designed by Xie Peiyuan for Founder. Supports GB2312-80, GBK.
FangZheng SongSan
方正宋三 		SC Released 1996. Early digital Song typeface using straight line segments for curves. Supports GB2312-80, GBK.
Hanyi ShuSongEr
汉仪书宋二 		SC Released 1996. Conforms to GB18030-2022 Level 2.
Hanyi ZhongSong
汉仪中宋 		SC Released 1996. Neutral body text Song font. Conforms to GB18030-2022 Level 2.
Hanyi XuanSong
汉仪玄宋 		SC Released 2021. Song typeface designed for "slow reading". Conforms to GB18030-2022 Level 2.
WenJinMincho
文津宋体 		SC takushun-wu [F] SIL Open Font License Based on Source Han Serif. Large character set Song-style font with mainland China (G-source) glyph standard. Supports full Unicode Hanzi & IVD (over 120,000 glyphs), various phonetic systems (Pinyin, Zhuyin, IPA), and extensive OpenType features.

Japanese

Sample of IPAMinchō typeface.
Name Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
IPAex Minchō
IPAex明朝 		Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan [F] IPA font licence Part of IPA font series.[13]
IPAmj Minchō
IPAmj明朝 		Part of IPA font series, includes many characters for names. Released from here.[14]
MS Mincho
ＭＳ 明朝 		Microsoft Distributed with the Japanese version of Windows 3.1 or later, some versions of Internet Explorer 3 Japanese Font Pack, all regions in Windows XP, Microsoft Office v.X to 2004.
MS PMincho
ＭＳ Ｐ明朝 		Distributed in the Japanese version of Windows 95 or later, all regions in Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2004. Proportional Latin characters.
Kochi Mincho
東風明朝 		[F] public domain Free typeface included with a number of Linux distributions. Originally based on the Watanabe (渡邊フォント) typeface, then reissued based on the Wadalab outlines for legal reasons.
Hiragino Minchō Pro W3,
Hiragino Minchō Pro W6
ヒラギノ明朝Pro W3,
ヒラギノ明朝Pro W6 		SCREEN Graphic Solutions Commercial Included in Mac OS X/macOS. Covers almost all of the Adobe Japan 1–5 glyph collection.
Heisei Minchō
平成明朝 		Adobe (distributor, original by JSA) Developed by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA) as a standard typeface for information devices in 1989. Straight edges for low-resolution printers.
RyūMin (Ryūbundō Minchō)
リュウミン 		Morisawa Inc. A popular and classic Mincho typeface by Morisawa.
Kozuka Minchō
小塚明朝 		Adobe Designed by Kozuka Masahiko. Bundled with Adobe Creative Suite.
Sazanami Mincho[15]
さざなみ明朝 		Electronic Font Open Laboratory (efont) [F] Modified BSD License Based on Kochi Mincho. Last version dates from 2004.
YuMincho
游明朝体 		Jiyu-Kobo (字游工房) Commercial Mincho family with 6 weights (B & E specialized for headlines with narrower design). Designed with the theme "a Mincho typeface that can set historical novels". Bundled with Windows 8.1 and later, and macOS.
BunyuMin
文游明朝体 		Mincho typeface designed for "universal modeling beauty and readability that transcends eras." Features traditional letterforms for Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana, suitable for literary works.

Korean

English name Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
Batang
바탕 		Distributed by Microsoft with its Windows operating system.
BatangChe
바탕체 		Distributed by Microsoft with its Windows operating system. Monospace font.
Gungsuh
궁서 		Distributed by Microsoft with its Windows operating system.
GungsuhChe
궁서체 		Distributed by Microsoft with its Windows operating system. Monospace font.
AppleMyungjo
애플명조 		Default Korean font on Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X, and iOS. Fully supports Unicode from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
UnBatang, UnGungsuh
은바탕, 은궁서 		[F] Included in most Linux distributions. Initially made by Un Koanghui (은광희) as a set of type 1 typefaces to use with Korean LaTeX. Later they were converted to opentype typefaces by Park Won-gyu (박원규). UnBatang also has a version with opentype GSUB/GPOS tables to support archaic Hangul with Hangul Conjoining Jamos.
Baekmuk Batang
백묵 바탕 		Kim Jeong-hwan (김정환) [F] Distributed on most Linux distributions. License: open content.
Seoul Hangang
서울한강체 		Distributed by Seoul Metropolitan Government as its official Ming typeface. Special font for vertical writing included.
Nanum Myeongjo

나눔명조

Naver [F] Open Font License One of Nanum-series fonts, distributed by Naver.
Hamchorom Batang
함초롬바탕 		Hancom [F] Developed by Hancom, supporting Unicode from 1.0 to 5.0 and Hangul Jamo Extended A/B.[16]
Jieubsida Batang
지읍시다바탕 		[F] Korean-language, Ming style offshoot of the Tsukurimashou meta-family, built using METAFONT. License: GPL.[17]

Vietnamese

  • Sample of Nôm Na Tống
    Sample of Nôm Na Tống
  • Sample of Minh Nguyên
    Sample of Minh Nguyên
Name Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
Nôm Na Tống 5.040
喃哪宋 5.040 		Created by the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation. It is based on characters found in Thiền Tông Bản Hạnh (The Origin of Buddhist Meditation, 1933) by Thích Thanh Từ.[18]
Han Nom Font Set [F] GPL Covers Radicals Supplements, CJK, CJK Ext. A, CJK Ext. B;
Han-Nom Minh 1.43
漢喃明 1.43 		UBPSHNVN Contains 34,736 characters with 34,737 glyphs.
Han-Nom Ming 1.10
漢喃明 1.10 		Contains 34,079 characters with 34,082 glyphs.
Minh Nguyen 1.10
明源 1.10

Zhuang

Name Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
Sawndip [F] 1999 Arphic Public License Based upon AR PL UMing on which 20k CJK characters were added. It also has over 8 thousand CJK characters used to write Sawndip not in Unicode in PUA plane 16.

Sans-serif

Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK

Sample of Source Han Sans
Name Localisation Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
Arial Unicode MS Pan-Unicode Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2004. –
TPTQ Sans CJK Pan-CJK Typotheque commercial TDC winner 2023.[19] Used in Ford vehicles in HMI consoles.[20] –
Droid Sans Fallback Pan-Unicode (SC style) Ascender Corporation for Google's Android [F] Apache License 2 Was the default system font for Android below version 4.4.2. Replaced by Source Han Sans.
  • Source Han Sans
  • Noto Sans CJK
 Pan-CJK Adobe, Google, SinoType, Iwata Corporation, Sandoll Communication. [F] SIL Open Font License License: Apache License 2 on July 15, 2014.[21][22] Since September 29, 2015, all Noto fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License rather than the Apache licence.[23]


Chinese

  • Sample of WenQuanYi Micro Hei (文泉驿微米黑)
    Sample of WenQuanYi Micro Hei (文泉驿微米黑)
  • Sample of Microsoft JhengHei (微軟正黑體)
    Sample of Microsoft JhengHei (微軟正黑體)
  • Sample of SimHei (中易雅黑), monospaced Latin characters.
    Sample of SimHei (中易雅黑), monospaced Latin characters.
A comparative display of default system fonts from major smartphone brands prominent in the Chinese market: PingFang (苹方, used by Apple), vivo Sans (vivo), MiSans (Xiaomi), OPPO Sans (OPPO), and HarmonyOS Sans (鸿蒙黑体, Huawei).
A side-by-side comparison of five system fonts prominent in the Chinese smartphone market
A comparative display of six mainstream commercial Chinese sans-serif (Hei-style) fonts from leading foundries: Monotype, Hanyi, and FounderType. The fonts featured are: M XiangHe Hei SC Pro (翔鹤黑体), Hanyi Qihei (汉仪旗黑), Hanyi Zhonghei (汉仪中黑), FounderType Yuejia Hei (方正悦驾黑), FounderType You Hei (方正悠黑), and FounderType Lanting Hei Pro Global (方正兰亭黑Pro).
Name Localisation Editor/Creator Licensing Format Comments
WenQuanYi Zen Hei
文泉驿正黑 		SC [F] GPL v2.0 font exception Over 36,000 glyphs in total, among which 20,300 are Chinese characters.
WenQuanYi Micro Hei
文泉驿微米黑 		SC [F] GPL v3 or Apache License v2 Based on Droid Sans Fallback.
PingFang SC,
PingFang TC,
PingFang HK
苹方-简
蘋方-繁
蘋方-港 		SC, TC (Taiwan), TC (Hong Kong) System font for Apple MacOS system.
Heiti SC,
Heiti TC
黑体-简
黑體-繁 		SC, TC (Taiwan) Was system font for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Hiragino Sans GB
冬青黑体简体中文
ヒラギノ角ゴ 簡体中文 		SC
STHeiti
华文黑体 		SC SinoType Was system font for OS X 10.2 Jaguar to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
STHeiti Light/[STXihei]
华文细黑 		SC A thinner version of STHeiti Regular.
LiHei Pro Medium
儷黑 Pro 		TC (Taiwan)
Apple LiGothic Medium
蘋果儷中黑 		TC (Taiwan)
Microsoft JhengHei
微軟正黑體 		TC (Taiwan) China Type Design Limited Default Windows system font since Windows Vista.
Microsoft YaHei
微软雅黑 		SC Founder Type Default Windows system font since Windows Vista. (Based on FangZheng LanTing Hei)
MS Hei
MS黑体 		SC
MHei
蒙纳黑體 		TC (Hong Kong) Owned by Monotype
SimHei
中易黑体 or 黑体 		SC
DengXian
等线 		SC
HarmonyOS Sans SC,
HarmonyOS Sans TC
鸿蒙黑体,
鴻蒙黑體 		SC, TC Huawei & Hanyi Fonts Variable font SC supports 27,930 characters (GB18030-2022 L1+L2), TC supports 13,078 characters. Download: official site
MiSans VF,
Misans TC VF 		SC, TC Xiaomi & Hanyi Fonts Variable font SC supports 27,780 characters (GB18030-2022 L1+L2), TC supports 13,078 characters. Download: official site
MiSans L3 SC Single weight (Regular) Supports 60,338 characters (GB18030-2022 L3). Download: official site
OPPO Sans 4.0 SC,
OPPO Sans 4.0 TC 		SC, TC Oppo & Hanyi Fonts Variable font Version 4.0. SC supports 27,772 characters (GB18030-2022 L1+L2), TC supports 13,078 characters. Associated "Hanyi ZhongHei L3" for L3 support. Download: official site
vivo Sans SC VF,
vivo Sans TW VF(vivo Sans TC VF) 		SC, TC FounderType Variable font SC supports 27,831 characters (GB18030-2022 L1+L2), TC supports 13,070 characters. Download: official site
vivo Sans SC L3 SC Single weight (Regular) Supports 60,338 characters (GB18030-2022 L3).
HONOR Sans Design (HONOR Sans VF CN),
HONOR Sans VF TC 		SC, TC Variable font SC supports 27,781 characters (GB18030-2022 L1+L2), TC supports 13,078 characters.Download: official site
FangZheng LanTing Hei (FZLTH)
方正兰亭黑 		SC, TC Commercial Released 2006. Early screen-focused family. Basis for Microsoft YaHei. Supports GB2312, GBK, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2 & L3.
FangZheng YouHei (FZYouH)
方正悠黑 		SC Released 2014. FounderType's 2nd gen screen font. Supports GB2312, GBK, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2.
FangZheng LanTing Hei Pro (FZLTHPro)
方正兰亭黑Pro 		SC Released 2017. Optimized LanTing Hei for portable HD screens. Supports GB2312, GBK, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2.
FangZheng YueJia Hei (FZYJH)
方正悦驾黑 		SC Released 2024. New generation screen font. Supports GB2312, GBK, GB18030-2022 L2.
Hanyi QiHei (HYQiHei)
汉仪旗黑 		SC Hanyi Fonts (汉仪字库) Commercial Released 2013. Modern reading efficiency with traditional calligraphic charm. Conforms to GB18030-2022 L1+L2.
M XiangHe Hei
翔鹤黑体 		SC, TC Monotype Commercial Released 2020. Merges traditional brush strokes (Kaishu style) with modern letterforms. Conforms to GB18030-2022 L1+L2.
Plangothic
遍黑体 		SC Fitzgerald-Porthmouth-Koenigsegg [F] SIL Open Font License Based on Source Han Sans. Fills CJK Extension B to J characters. Contains ~77,000 Hanzi glyphs. Download: project page

Japanese

Sample of M+ OUTLINE FONTS typeface.
Sample of IPA Gothic (IPAゴシック)
Name Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
IPA Gothic Designed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan [F] IPA licence Part of the IPA font series.[13]
Meiryo
メイリオ 		Default Windows system font since Windows Vista.
Mona Font [F] Public domain
M+ OUTLINE FONTS [F] Free license
VL Gothic
VLゴシック
Sazanami Gothic[24]さざなみゴシック [F] Formerly considered free and included with a number of Linux distributions.[25]
MS Gothic
ＭＳ ゴシック 		Distributed on Microsoft Windows 3.1 and later.
MS PGothic
ＭＳ Ｐゴシック 		Distributed on Microsoft Windows 95 and later.
MS UI Gothic Distributed on Microsoft Windows 98 and later.
Yu Gothic
游ゴシック 		Distributed by Microsoft Windows 8.1.
Yu Gothic UI
Osaka Distributed on Classic Mac OS.
Hiragino Kaku Gothic
ヒラギノ角ゴ 		Distributed on Mac OS X.
Hiragino Maru Gothic
ヒラギノ丸ゴ 		Distributed on Mac OS X.
Kozuka Gothic
小塚ゴシック 		Typeface family provided by new versions of Adobe Illustrator.
GothicBBB-Medium Adobe
Kochi Gothic
東風ゴシック 		[F] Originally named Watanabe font (渡邊フォント).

Formerly considered free that is included with a number of Linux distributions. The development of the font stopped when it was discovered that Watanabe font – which Kochi Gothic based on – was copied from the TypeBank Mincho-M font, developed by TypeBank and Design Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.[26][27][28]


Korean

Sample of Malgun Gothic typeface.
English name CJK name Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
AppleGothic 애플고딕 Fully supports Unicode from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Dotum 돋움
DotumChe 돋움체 Monospace font.
Gulim 굴림
GulimChe 굴림체 Monospace font.
Malgun Gothic 맑은 고딕
New Gulim 새굴림
Gulim Old Hangul Jamo
Apple SD Gothic Neo 애플 SD 산돌고딕 Neo
UnDotum 은돋움 [F] GPL Un-series fonts initially derived from Korean LaTeX fonts with the same name.
UnShinmun 은신문 [F] GPL Un-series fonts initially derived from Korean LaTeX fonts with the same name.
Baekmuk Gulim 백묵굴림 [F]
Seoul Namsan 서울남산체 Seoul Metropolitan Government.
Nanum Gothic 나눔고딕 Distributed by Naver. [F] Open Font License Nanum-series fonts.
Hamchorom Dotum 함초롬돋움 Designed by Hancom. [F] Supporting Unicode from 1.0 to 5.0 and Hangul Jamo Extended A/B.[16]
Jieubsida Dodum 지읍시다돋움 [F] GPL [17]

Vietnamese

Sample of Gothic Nguyên
Name Editor/Creator Licensing Format Comments
Han-Nom Gothic 1.40 UBPSHNVN 35,733 characters with 36,306 glyphs
Gothic Nguyen 1.21 UBPSHNVN

Regular script

Sample of Regular script typeface. Shown above are the characters 漢字 (Pinyin: Hànzì), meaning "Chinese characters".

Chinese

  • Specimens of various Chinese Kai (regular script) typefaces
  • Hanyi Kaiti (汉仪楷体)
    Hanyi Kaiti (汉仪楷体)
  • SinoType Kaiti (华文楷体)
    SinoType Kaiti (华文楷体)
  • Zhongyi Kaiti / SimKai (中易楷体)
    Zhongyi Kaiti / SimKai (中易楷体)
  • Founder Jiaocai Guifan Kaiti (方正教材规范楷体)
    Founder Jiaocai Guifan Kaiti (方正教材规范楷体)
  • Founder Kaiti (方正楷体)
    Founder Kaiti (方正楷体)
  • Founder XinKaiti (方正新楷体)
    Founder XinKaiti (方正新楷体)
  • TW-Kai (全字庫楷體)
    TW-Kai (全字庫楷體)
  • Adobe Kaiti (Adobe楷体)
    Adobe Kaiti (Adobe楷体)
  • DynaFont Kaishuti (華康楷書體)
    DynaFont Kaishuti (華康楷書體)
  • DynaFont LiKaishu (華康儷楷書)
    DynaFont LiKaishu (華康儷楷書)
  • DynaFont BiaoKaiti / KaiU (華康標楷體)
    DynaFont BiaoKaiti / KaiU (華康標楷體)
Name Localisation Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
Adobe Kaiti Std
Adobe楷体 		SC/TC Adobe, Sandoll Communications Commercial Bundled with Adobe products. Supports both SC and TC glyphs.
BiaoKai, KaiU, DFKai-SB
標楷體 		TC (Taiwan) DynaComware Distributed with Microsoft Windows 95 & higher, and Apple OS X up to Yosemite. Known as BiauKai on macOS.
DFK LiKai
華康儷楷書 		TC A popular typeface from DynaFont (華康字型) series.
DFK KaiShu
華康楷書體 		TC A standard Kai script typeface from DynaFont (華康字型) series.
FZ Jiaocai Guifan Kaiti
方正教材规范楷体 		SC FounderType A Kaiti typeface designed to meet the standards for educational materials in mainland China.
FZ KaiTi
方正楷体 		SC A classic Kaiti typeface from Founder. Often used in publishing and printing.
FZNewKai
方正新楷体
  • FZKaiS-Extended, FZKaiS-Extended(SIP)
  • FZKaiT-Extended, FZKaiT-Extended(SIP)
 SC, TC (SC style) FounderType[29] Initial set released in 2006. 28,928 glyphs in the basic BMP fonts plus another 54,328 in the SIP fonts.
Hanyi Kaiti
汉仪楷体 		SC Hanyi (汉仪字库) A popular Kaiti typeface from Hanyi Fonts.
SimKai, KaiTi
中易楷体
楷体_GB2312 		SC Beijing Zhongyi Electronics Co. (中易电子) Distributed on Chinese versions of Microsoft Windows.
STKaiti
华文楷体 		SC SinoType Distributed with Microsoft Windows and macOS.
TW-Kai,

TW-Kai-Ext-B, TW-Kai-Plus
全字庫正楷體

TC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education, Taiwan[10] [F] Open Government Data License v1.0,[30] equivalent to CC-BY 4.0 International license[12] 100,000+ characters covering CNS 11643. TW-Kai covers the characters mapped to the Basic Multilingual Plane, TW-Kai-Ext-B covers CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B, and TW-Kai-Plus covers Private Use Area mapped characters.
I.Ngaan
I.顏體 		TC Keshilu (刻石錄)[31] [F][F] GPL 2.0+ Derived from a Yan styled typeface by Wang Hanzong (王漢宗).[31] As Wang Hanzong fonts are suspected to be copyright infringement, this derived font is considered copyright infringement too.
Free HK Kai
自由香港楷書 		TC (Hong Kong) Free Hong Kong Font (自由香港字型) project [F] CC-BY 4.0 International license[12] Based on TW-Kai, following List of Glyphs of Commonly Used Characters (常用字字形表) by Education Bureau of Hong Kong SAR.[12]

Japanese

Name Localisation Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
Klee One
クレーOne 		JP FONTWORKS [F]SIL OFL 1.1 A transitional handwritten style between Kai (regular script) and Fangsong.[32] Has been developed into simplified Chinese font LxgwWenKai (霞鹜文楷)[33] and Taiwanese Traditional Chinese font iansui (芫荽).[34]

Vietnamese

Sample of Han-Nom Khai
English name CJK name Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
Han-Nom Khai 1.20 漢喃楷 1.20 UBPSHNVN 28,147 characters with 28,145 glyphs

Clerical script

English name Localisation Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
SimLi
中易隶书 or 隶书 		SC Distributed with the Chinese version of Microsoft Office.
UnYetgul
은옛글 		Korean [F] One of Un-series fonts initially derived from the Korean LaTeX fonts.

Imitation Song

Traditional Chinese character "Hàn" (漢) in an Imitation Song typeface.
  • Specimens of various Chinese Fangsong (Imitation Song) typefaces
  • Founder Fangsong (方正仿宋)
    Founder Fangsong (方正仿宋)
  • Adobe Fangsong (Adobe仿宋)
    Adobe Fangsong (Adobe仿宋)
  • Hanyi Fangsong (汉仪仿宋)
    Hanyi Fangsong (汉仪仿宋)
  • Zhongyi Fangsong / SimFang (中易仿宋)
    Zhongyi Fangsong / SimFang (中易仿宋)
Name Localisation Editor/Creator Licensing Comments
FangSong
中易仿宋, 仿宋 (display name) 		SC Microsoft Distributed with the Chinese version of Microsoft Windows.
STFangsong
华文仿宋 		SC SinoType Formerly distributed with Mac 10.4.
Zhuque Fangsong
朱雀仿宋 		SC (and TC?) TrionesType [F]SIL OFL 1.1. Reportedly the first open-source Fangsong font.[35]

Other fonts or projects

Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK

English name Localisation Editor/Creator Style Licensing Comments
GNU Unifont Pan-Unicode [F] A GPLed bitmap font that covers the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane.
Code2000 Pan-Unicode

Chinese

Name Localisation Editor/Creator Style Licensing Comments
SimYou
幼圆 		SC Microsoft Rounded Distributed with Chinese version of Microsoft Office.
WenQuanYi Unibit SC WenQuanYi font project Bitmap [F] GPL A bitmap monospaced font.
Shuowen Jiezi True Type Font
說文解字True Type字型 		Chinese Most/all of the characters are small seal script. It is based on annotated Shuowen Jiezi and other sources.
I.PenCrane
I.鋼筆鶴體 		TC (General) Keshilu (刻石錄)[36] Script [F][F] GPL 2.0+ Derived from a handwriting styled typeface by Wang Hanzong (王漢宗).[36] As Wang Hanzong fonts are suspected to be copyright infringement, this derived font is considered copyright infringement too.
Open Huninn
Open 粉圓 		TC (General) Justfont Rounded [F] SIL Open Font License Derived from MOTOYA Kosugi Maru font.
Sample of Open Huninn (Open 粉圓)

Japanese

English name Editor/Creator Style Licensing Comments
Mojikyō

文字鏡

Y.OzFontN Handwriting
Kanji Stroke Order Font
漢字の筆順のフォント 		[F]
Choumei [F] Kanji Stroke Order Font with the stroke numbers omitted

Korean

English name CJK name Editor/Creator Style Licensing Comments
UnGungseo 은궁서 Calligraphy [F] Part of Un-series.
Jieubsida Sun-Moon 지읍시다선문 "Felt marker style" [F] GPL[17] Offshoot of the Tsukurimashou meta-family, built using METAFONT.

Font series

This section lists fonts that are designed to be used together, or created by the same person/organization such that it forms a series of fonts.

English name Localisation Editor/Creator Style Licensing Comments
HanWang Series
王漢宗字体系列 		TC Wang Hanzong (王漢宗), NTU. [F] GPL 42 fonts. Wang is involved in copyright infringement with Arphic Technology for the fonts in 2005.
Arphic PL Fonts series:
  • AR PL Mingti2L Big5
    文鼎 PL 細上海宋
  • AR PL KaitiM Big5
    文鼎 PL 中楷
  • AR PL SungtiL GB
    文鼎 PL 簡報宋
  • AR PL KaitiM GB
    文鼎 PL 簡中楷
 TC (General), SC Arphic foundry Ming/Song, Regular script [F] 1999 Arphic Public License 4 fonts. The CJK Unifonts project was derived from Arphic PL Fonts.
CJK Unifonts series:
  • AR PL UMing
  • AR PL UKai
 SC CJKUnifonts Ming/Song, Regular script [F] 1999 Arphic Public License 2 fonts. AR PL UMing is formerly known as AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, AR PL 上海宋. AR PL UKai is formerly known as AR PL ZenKai, AR PL 中楷. This is a project under CJK Unifonts, which is included with a number of Linux distributions.[Note 4]

Merger of typefaces in Arphic PL Fonts.

AR PL MingU20-L
文鼎 PL 明體

AR PL BaoSong2GBK
文鼎 PL 報宋

TC (Taiwan), SC Arphic foundry Ming/Song 2010 Arphic Public License (Restricted NC-ND) 2 fonts. License: explicitly restrict distribution of the original or modified font to "only for non-profit purpose".[Note 5]
Fandol series:
  • Fandol Song
  • Fandol Hei
  • Fandol Kai
  • Fandol Fang
 SC From top to bottom:
  • Ming/Song
  • Sans-serif
  • Regular script
  • Imitation Song
 [F][F] GPL with font exception 4 fonts, both Fandol Song and Fandol Hei has two weights (regular/bold). Originally for CTeX, there is debate on whether the font is FOSS as the author may have revoked the license.[37][38]
cwTeX series:
  • cwTeX 仿宋體 (Imitation Song)
  • cwTeX 圓體 (Rounded)
  • cwTeX 明體 (Ming)
  • cwTeX 楷書 (Regular script)
  • cwTeX 粗黑體 (Sans-serif)
 TC From top to bottom:
  • Imitation Song
  • Rounded
  • Ming/Song
  • Regular script
  • Sans-serif
 [F][F] GPL, later SIL OFL 5 fonts. Originally for LaTeX CJK. The Bold Sans-serif has been involved in copyright infringement with Arphic Technology, while the Ming font is found out to be similar to pre-existing font.[39][40]
Nanum Series:

Nanum Pen / Nanum Brush
나눔 손글씨

Korean Distributed by Naver. [F] Open Font License
Un-series Korean Series of Korean fonts derived from LaTeX fonts.

Font foundries

This section lists major font foundries that produce CJK fonts.

  1. SinoType Technology (Chinese: 中国常州华文印刷新技术有限公司)
  2. Founder Group (Chinese: 方正)
  3. Hanyi Fonts (Chinese: 汉仪科印)
  4. DynaLab by DynaComware (Chinese: 華康)
  5. Arphic (Chinese: 文鼎科技)
  6. Justfont (Chinese: 就是字)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ A font targeted to a writing system usually still contains glyphs in the other writing systems.
  2. ^ If a Unicode font (font containing a wide range of Unicode's characters) is targeted to one or a few writing systems, it will not be listed as a "pan-Unicode font" (font intended to globally support a wide range of Unicode's characters)
  3. ^ If rotated with \setCJKmainfont[Vertical=RotatedGlyphs]{HANAMINA.TTF, as required for traditional writing: some characters aren't displayed after rotating, while they work without rotation.
  4. ^ Archived copies also available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine: ttf-arphic-uming_0.2.20080216.1.orig.tar.gz, ttf-arphic-ukai_0.2.20080216.1.orig.tar.gz
  5. ^ Archived copies also available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine: 文鼎科技發佈新的公眾授權字型

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