List of CJK fonts
This is a list of notable CJK fonts. These fonts are primarily sorted by their typeface, the main classes being "with serif", "without serif" and "script". In this article, the two first classes are named Ming and sans-serif while the "script" is further divided into several Chinese script styles.
The fonts are then sorted by their target writing system:
- Chinese: Chinese character
- Japanese: kanji, hiragana and katakana
- Korean: Hangul, hanja, etc.
- Vietnamese: for the Nom 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
- Pan-CJK: intended to support the majority of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and not specifically designed for any one of these writing systems
Ming (Song)
Pan-Unicode
- Bitstream Cyberbit
Pan-CJK
- Hanazono Mincho Two ttf fonts HanaMinA for BMP and HanaMinB for SIP – covers all CJK, CJK Compatibility, CJK-Ext.A, CJK-Ext.B, CJK-Ext.C, CJK-Ext.D, CJK-Ext.E, and CJK-Ext.F. Dual licensed under its own Hanazono Font License or SIL Open Font License. This font has issues in LaTeX if rotated with
\setCJKmainfont
, as required for traditional writing: some characters aren't displayed after rotating, while they work without rotation. - Sazanami-Hanazono Mincho – a full CJK and Latin-1 truetype font resulting from merge of Sazanami Mincho and Hanazono fonts.
- Source Han Serif / Noto Serif CJK – created by Adobe and Google, released under SIL Open Font License v.1.1 in April 2017.
- The font package TH-Tshyn consists of three fonts, TH-Tshyn-P0, TH-Tshyn-P1 and TH-Tshyn-P2. Version 2.1.0 offers complete coverage of all Unicode CJK characters up to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F introduced in June 2017 with Unicode version 10.0.
Pan-Chinese
- AR PL UMing – Arphic Public Licensed free font, one of CJKUnifonts project font, included with a number of Linux distributions. It is a merged version of two typefaces in Arphic PL Fonts released to free software by Arphic foundry.
Traditional Chinese
- DLCMingMedium, DLCMingBold – the font family from which Windows 3.0's default Traditional Chinese font 'Ming Light' is derived.
- MingLiU – default interface typeface for Windows 3.0 to Windows XP, derived from DynaLab's DLCMing typeface. Originally distributed as a raster typeface in the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 3.0, then it was available in TrueType format as 'MingLi43' in the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 3.1. The Latin characters in this font is monospaced. Starting from version 2.00, it was internally sorted in Unicode sequence with Big-5 codepage, and carried the English name 'MingLiU'. In version 2.10, the typeface file also contained PMingLiU, which is a proportional font. MingLiU was distributed with the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 95 to Windows 98, all regional versions of Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1, Traditional Chinese version of Windows 10, PMingLiU Update Pack, Traditional Chinese Font Pack for Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft Global IME 5.02, Office XP Tool: Traditional Chinese Language Pack, Traditional Chinese supplemental fonts for Windows 10.
- PMingLiU – distributed by Microsoft with the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 98 operating system, all regional versions of Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1, and the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 10. The Latin characters in this font is proportional.
- MingLiU-ExtB, PMingLiU-ExtB – distributed with PMingLiU Update Pack, Windows Vista.
- MingLiU_HKSCS, MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB – distributed with Windows Vista.
- LiSong Pro Light – distributed with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.3–10.4.
- Apple LiSung Light – distributed with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.2–10.4.
- I.Ming – Derived from IPAex Minchō font, availably at Keshilu and GitHub. Licensed under IPA font licence.
Simplified Chinese
- MS Song – distributed with Simplified Chinese Font Pack for Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft Global IME 5.02, Office XP Tool: Simplified Chinese Language Pack.
- SimSun – default interface typeface for Windows 95 to Windows XP, distributed with the Chinese versions of Windows 95 to Windows 98, all regions of Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2000. The Latin characters in this font is monospaced. The difference between this font ans NSimSun is that NSimSun is labelled monospaced in the and table while SimSun did not.
- NSimSun – distributed with all regions of Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2000. The Latin characters in this font is monospaced.
- SimSun-18030, NSimSun-18030 – distributed with the Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP, or as GB18030 Support Package to Windows 2000 or higher.
- SimSun – distributed with the Simplified Chinese version of Microsoft Office XP, Simplified Chinese version of Windows, or Microsoft Office Proofing Tools.
- SimSun-ExtA
- SimSun-ExtB – distributed with Windows Vista.
- Song – distributed with OS X 10.2–10.4.
- STSong – distributed with MS Office 2000 and XP, OS X 10.2–10.4. The Jiangsu-based foundry, Changzhou SinoType Technology, made a series of 30,000+-character fonts for Microsoft and Macintosh between 1998 and 2004 that all begin with "ST".
- STZhongsong – distributed with MS Office 2000 and XP. A medium-boldness version of STSong made in 1991 and updated in 1998.
- WenQuanYi Bitmap Song – a raster typeface under GNU GPL.
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Fandol Song. In two weights. Licensed under GPL with the font exception. There is debate on whether the font is FOSS as the author may have revoked the license.Japanese
- IPAex Minchō – Part of IPA font series developed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. Released from here. Licensed under IPA font licence.
- IPAmj Minchō – Part of IPA font series developed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. Released from here. Licensed under IPA font licence.
- MS Mincho – 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 – distributed in the Japanese version of Windows 95 or later, all regions in Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2004.
- Kochi Mincho – free typeface included with a number of Linux distributions. Released in the public domain. Originally based on the Watanabe typeface, then reissued based on the Wadalab outlines for legal reasons.
- Hiragino Minchō Pro W3, Hiragino Minchō Pro W6 – included in Mac OS X. It covers almost all of the Adobe Japan 1–5 glyph collection.
- Heisei Minchō – developed by the Japanese Standards Association as a standard typeface for information devices in 1989. It has rather straight edges so that low-resolution printers can output characters with less aliasing. It is distributed by various typeface vendors licensed by the JSA.
- Ryūbundō Minchō of the Morisawa foundry.
- Kozuka Minchō, designed by Kozuka Masahiko.
- Sazanami Mincho. The last version dates from 2004.
Korean
- Batang, BatangChe, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe – distributed by Microsoft with its Windows operating system. -Che suffix means monospace font.
- AppleMyungjo – default Korean font on Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X, and iOS. Fully supports Unicode from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- UnBatang, UnGungsuh – included in most Linux distributions. Initially made by Un Koanghui as a set of type 1 typefaces to use with Korean LaTeX. Later they were converted to opentype typefaces by Park Won-gyu. UnBatang also has a version with opentype GSUB/GPOS tables to support archaic Hangul with Hangul Conjoining Jamos.
- Baekmuk Batang – included in most Linux distributions, made by Kim Jeong-hwan and released under a liberal license.
- Seoul Hangang – distributed by Seoul Metropolitan Government as its official Ming typeface. Special font for vertical writing included.
- Nanum Myeongjo – one of Nanum-series fonts, distributed by Naver, under Open Font License.
- Hamchorom Batang – developed by Hancom, supporting Unicode from 1.0 to 5.0 and Hangul Jamo Extended A/B.
- Jieubsida Batang – Korean-language, Ming style offshoot of the Tsukurimashou meta-family, built using METAFONT and distributed under GPL.
Vietnamese
- Nôm Na Tống Light – created by the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation. It is based on characters found in Thiền Tông Bản Hạnh by Thanh Tu Thich.
- Han Nom Font Set – covers Radicals Supplements, CJK, CJK Ext. A, CJK Ext. B; GPL licensed
- Han-Nom Minh 1.30 by UBPSHNVN contains 34,736 characters with 34,737 glyphs.
- Han-Nom Ming 1.10 by UBPSHNVN contains 34,079 characters with 34,082 glyphs.
Zhuang
- Sawndip – in addition to 20k CJK characters in AR PL UMing on which it is based upon it also has over 8 thousand CJK characters used to write Sawndip not in Unicode in PUA plane 16. Distributed under 1999 Arphic Public License.
Sans-serif
Pan-Unicode
- Arial Unicode MS – distributed with Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2004.
- Droid Sans Fallback – created by Ascender Corporation for use by Google's mobile operating system Android, licensed under Apache License 2.
Pan-CJK
- Source Han Sans / Noto Sans CJK – created by Adobe and Google, released under Apache License 2 on July 15, 2014. Since September 29, 2015, all Noto fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License rather than the Apache licence.
Chinese
- WenQuanYi Zen Hei – freely available and licensed under GPL v2.0 with font embedding exceptions, including over 36,000 glyphs in total, among which 20,300 are Chinese characters.
- WenQuanYi Micro Hei – freely available and dual licensed under GPL v3 or Apache License v2, based on Droid Sans Fallback.
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Fandol Hei. In two weights. Licensed under GPL with the font exception. There is debate on whether the font is FOSS as the author may have revoked the license. - PingFang SC & PingFang TC & PingFang HK – available in OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
- Heiti SC & Heiti TC – available in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
- Hiragino Sans GB – available in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
- STHeiti – available in OS X 10.2 Jaguar and later. Another font by Changzhou SinoType Technology made in 2002.
- STHeiti Light – available in OS X 10.2 Jaguar and later, Microsoft Office 2000 and XP. A thinner version of STHeiti Regular.
- LiHei Pro Medium – available in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and later.
- Apple LiGothic Medium – available in Mac OS 9 and OS X 10.2 Jaguar and later.
- Microsoft JhengHei – distributed with Windows Vista as default interface font. Designed by China Type Design Limited.
- Microsoft YaHei – distributed with Windows Vista as default interface font. Designed by Founder Type.
- MS Hei – distributed with Microsoft Global IME 5.02, Office XP Tool: Simplified Chinese Language Pack.
- MHei – Owned by Monotype.
- SimHei – distributed with Windows 2000, all regions of Windows XP.
- DengXian – distributed with Simplified Chinese version of Microsoft Office 2016 and Windows 10.
Japanese
- IPA Gothic – Part of IPA font series developed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. Released from here. Licensed under IPA font licence.
- Meiryo – distributed with Windows Vista as default interface font.
- Mona Font – a free font that is included with a number of Linux distributions. Released in the public domain.
- M+ OUTLINE FONTS – Japanese font families. Released under an open-source licence.
- ? VL Gothic – a font originating from Vine Linux. It includes glyphs derived from M+ FONTS and Sazanami Gothic font, thus the licenses of these two fonts are both regarded.
- MS Gothic – default system font distributed with the Japanese version of Windows 3.1 or later, all regions of Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1, Japanese version of Windows 10, Microsoft Office v.X to 2004, Japanese font pack for Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft Global IME 5.02, Office XP Tool: Japanese Language Pack, Japanese supplemental fonts for Windows 10.
- MS PGothic – distributed with the Japanese version of Windows 95 and later, all regions of Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2004.
- MS UI Gothic – Default interface font from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Distributed with the Japanese version of Windows 98 and later, all regions in Windows XP.
- Yu Gothic – In non-Japanese versions of Windows 10, MS Gothic is no longer included by default, so this is the default font for Japanese text.
- Osaka – default system font on Classic Mac OS.
- Hiragino Kaku Gothic and Hiragino Maru Gothic – default Japanese system font on Mac OS X.
- Kozuka Gothic – typeface family provided by new versions of Adobe Illustrator.
- GothicBBB-Medium – used by Adobe as one of the two CJK fonts in many examples in its documentation.
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Kochi Gothic – Originally named Watanabe font, is a font 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. -
Sazanami Gothic – Also a font formerly considered free and included with a number of Linux distributions.Korean
- AppleGothic – default Korean font on Apple Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and iOS 1 to 5.0. Fully supports Unicode from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- Dotum, DotumChe, Gulim – included with the Korean version of Microsoft Windows, all regions of Windows XP to Windows 8.1, and the Korean version of Windows 10.
- GulimChe – Distributed with all regions of Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1, Korean version of Windows 10, Office XP Tool: Korean Language Pack, Korean supplemental fonts for Windows 10.
- Malgun Gothic – distributed with Windows Vista as default interface font.
- New Gulim, Gulim Old Hangul Jamo – distributed with Old Korean support tools for Microsoft Word 2000, Office XP Tool: Korean Language Pack, Microsoft Office 2003.
- Apple SD Gothic Neo – default Korean font on Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and iOS 5.1.
- UnDotum – one of Un-series fonts initially derived from Korean LaTeX fonts with the same name. freely available and licensed under GPL. included in a number of Linux distributions.
- UnShinmun – one of Un-series fonts initially derived from the Korean LaTeX fonts.
- Baekmuk Gulim – freely available and included in a number of Linux distributions.
- Seoul Namsan – distributed by Seoul Metropolitan Government as its official sans-serif typeface.
- Nanum Gothic – one of Nanum-series fonts, distributed by Naver, under Open Font License.
- Hamchorom Dotum – developed by Hancom, supporting Unicode from 1.0 to 5.0 and Hangul Jamo Extended A/B.
- Jieubsida Dodum – Korean-language, sans serif offshoot of the Tsukurimashou meta-family, built using METAFONT and distributed under GPL.
Vietnamese
- Han-Nom Gothic 1.30 by UBPSHNVN contains 35,733 characters with 36,306 glyphs.
Regular script
Chinese
- KaiU or DFKai-SB – designed by DynaComware, distributed by Microsoft with Chinese version of Windows 95 or higher. Shipped with OS X until Yosemite.
- SimKai – distributed with Chinese version of Windows.
- STKaiti – distributed with Simplified Chinese version of Microsoft Office. Created in 2002 by Changzhou SinoType.
- AR PL UKai – Arphic Public Licensed free font, one of CJKUnifonts project font, included in some Linux distributions, derived from Arphic PL Fonts.
- Kai – included in Simplified Chinese version of macOS. Made by the foundry Shanghai Ikarus between 1993–95.
- BiauKai – included in Traditional Chinese version of Mac OS.
- FZKaiS-Extended and FZKaiS-Extended for simplified Chinese as well as FZKaiT-Extended and FZKaiT-Extended for traditional Chinese. Huge fonts with 28,928 glyphs in the basic BMP fonts plus another 54,328 in the SIP fonts for both traditional and simplified Chinese. Created in 2006 by Founder of Beijing University. In 2012 Founder released an updated version FZNewKai
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Fandol Kai. Simplified Chinese font released under GPL with the font exception. There is debate on whether the font is FOSS as the author may have revoked the license. - I.Ngaan, derived from a Yan styled typeface by Wang Hanzong, availably at Keshilu. Licensed under GPL 2.0 and later.
- TW-Kai, TW-Kai-Ext-B and TW-Kai-Plus – from the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. Includes more than 100,000 traditional and simplified characters in Taiwanese style, covering CNS 11643.
- Free HK Kai – designed by Free Hong Kong Font project, based on TW-Kai, and List of Glyphs of Commonly Used Characters by Education Bureau of Hong Kong SAR, licensed under CC-BY 4.0 International license.
Vietnamese
- Han-Nom Kai 1.00 by UBPSHNVN contains 28,147 characters with 28,145 glyphs.
Clerical script
Chinese
- SimLi – distributed with the Chinese version of Microsoft Office.
Korean
- UnYetgul – one of Un-series fonts initially derived from the Korean LaTeX fonts.
Imitation Song
Chinese
- FangSong – distributed with the Chinese version of Microsoft Windows.
- STFangsong – formerly distributed with Mac 10.4. Created in 2002 by Changzhou SinoType.
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Fandol Fang. Simplified Chinese font released under GPL with the font exception. There is debate on whether the font is FOSS as the author may have revoked the license.Other fonts or projects
Pan-Unicode
- GNU Unifont – a GPLed bitmap font that covers the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane.
- Code2000
Chinese
- SimYou – round font style, distributed with Chinese version of Microsoft Office.
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HanWang Series – released by Wang Hanzong, a professor at National Taiwan University, and licensed under GPL. Wang involved in copyright infringement with Arphic Technology for the fonts in 2005. Justfont, a CJK webfont service provider, provides 10 fonts from HanWang Series which appear safe from infringement claims. -
cwTeX Chinese fonts – GPLed, includes: cwTeX 仿宋體, cwTeX 圓體, cwTeX 明體, cwTeX 楷書 and cwTeX 粗黑體, the Bold Sans-serif has been involved in copyright infringement with Arphic Technology. - Arphic PL Fonts – includes AR PL KaitiM Big5, AR PL Mingti2L Big5, AR PL SungtiL GB and AR PL KaitiM GB, released by Arphic Technology and licensed under the company's Arphic Public License. The CJKUnifonts project was derived from Arphic PL Fonts.
- AR PL MingU20-L and AR PL BaoSong2GBK, also released by Arphic Technology, but licensed under a new license which explicitly restrict distribution of the original or modified font to "only for non-profit purpose".
- WenQuanYi Unibit – another bitmap monospaced font in the GPLed WenQuanYi font project.
- Series of the fonts by SinoType. e.g. HuaWen Xingkai, HuaWen CaiYun. Distributed with Microsoft Office.
- Series of the fonts by Founder Group. e.g. FangZheng ShuTi, FangZheng QiTi. Distributed with Microsoft Office.
- Series of the fonts by Han Yi. e.g. HanYi XueJun
- Series of the fonts by DynaLab. e.g. HuaKang ShaoNu, HuaKang WuaWua.
- Series of the fonts by Arphic Technology.
- Shuowen Jiezi True Type Font – most/all of the characters are small seal script. It is based on annotated Shuowen Jiezi and other sources.
- I.PenCrane, derived from a handwriting styled typeface by Wang Hanzong, available at Keshilu. Licensed under GPL 2.0 and later.
- Open Huninn, rounded font style, derived from MOTOYA Kosugi Maru font. This is a free open-sourced Traditional Chinese font made by Justfont, a Taiwan font foundry.
Japanese
- Mojikyō
- Y.OzFontN
- Kanji Stroke Order Font
- Choumei
Korean
- UnGungseo – one of Un-series fonts initially derived from Korean LaTeX fonts, calligraphy styles.
- Nanum Pen / Nanum Brush – one of Nanum-series fonts, distributed by Naver, under Open Font License.
- Jieubsida Sun-Moon – Korean-language, "felt marker style" offshoot of the Tsukurimashou meta-family, built using METAFONT and distributed under GPL.