This is a list of notable CJK fonts (

computer font A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. A computer font is designed and created using a font editor. A computer font specifically designed for the computer screen, and not for pri ...

s which contain a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters). These fonts are primarily sorted by their

typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are thousands ...

, the main classes being "with serif", "without serif" and "script". In this article, the two first classes are named

Ming The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peop ...

and sans-serif (gothic) while the "script" is further divided into several

Chinese script styles In Chinese calligraphy, Chinese characters can be written according to five major styles. These styles are intrinsically linked to the history of Chinese script. Styles When used in decorative ornamentation, such as book covers, movie pos ...

. The fonts are then sorted by their target

writing system A writing system is a method of visually representing verbal communication, based on a script and a set of rules regulating its use. While both writing and speech are useful in conveying messages, writing differs in also being a reliable for ...

:A font targeted to a writing system usually still contains

glyph A glyph () is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A g ...

s in the other writing systems. * Chinese:

Chinese character Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as '' kan ...

.
This can be subdivided into the following classification: **

Simplified Chinese Simplification, Simplify, or Simplified may refer to: Mathematics Simplification is the process of replacing a mathematical expression by an equivalent one, that is simpler (usually shorter), for example * Simplification of algebraic expressions ...

Traditional Chinese A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays ...

(General, using printing standard or jiu zixing, ) **

(Taiwan, using education standard:

Standard Form of National Characters The ''Standard Form of National Characters'' or the ''Standard Typefaces for Chinese Characters'' () is the standardized form of Chinese characters Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, ...

, ) **

(Hong Kong, using education standard:

List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters The List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters () is a list of 4762 commonly used Chinese characters and their standardized forms prescribed by the Hong Kong Education Bureau. The list is meant to be taught in primary and middle scho ...

, ) : Simplified Chinese will be shortened to SC and Traditional Chinese will be shortened to TC in the following localization table. *

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subse ...

hiragana is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" ori ...

and

katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived f ...

Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The ...

hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, ...

, etc. * Vietnamese: for the Nom script formerly used * Zhuang: for

Sawndip Zhuang characters or ''Sawndip'' (Sawndip: ; ) are logograms derived from Chinese characters and used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi and Yunnan provinces in China to write the Zhuang languages for more than one thousand years. The script is ...

* Pan-Unicode: intended to globally support the majority of

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's characters, and not specifically designed for one or a few writing systems (note that Pan-Unicode font ≠

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If a

(font containing a wide range of

'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)) * Pan-CJK: intended to support the majority of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and not specifically designed for any one of these writing systems

Legends

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(FOSS).
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controversy.

Ming (Song)

Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK
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, ttf , HanaMinA (Japanese ) for BMP and HanaMinB (Japanese ) for SIP – covers all CJK,
CJK Compatibility CJK Compatibility is a Unicode block containing square symbols (both CJK and Latin alphanumeric) encoded for compatibility with East Asian character sets. In Unicode 1.0, it was divided into two blocks, named CJK Squared Words (U+3300–U+337F) ...
, CJK-Ext.A, CJK-Ext.B, CJK-Ext.C, CJK-Ext.D, CJK-Ext.E, and CJK-Ext.F. This font has issues in
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if rotated with \setCJKmainfont ertical=RotatedGlyphsHANAMINA.TTF, as required for traditional writing: some characters aren't displayed after rotating, while they work without rotation. , - , Sazanami-Hanazono Mincho , , Pan-CJK , , /span> , ttf , Full CJK and
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truetype font resulting from merge of Sazanami Mincho and Hanazono fonts. , - , Source Han Serif / Noto Serif CJK , 思源宋体 , Pan-CJK ,
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and
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, ,
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v.1.1 in April 2017. , - , ''TH-Tshyn'' , , Pan-Unicode , , , , ''TH-Tshyn-P0, TH-Tshyn-P1'' and ''TH-Tshyn-P2.'' Version 3.0.0 offers complete coverage of all Unicode CJK characters up to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G introduced in 2020 with Unicode version 13.0.

Chinese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" , + !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , BabelStone Han , , SC , , /span> 1999 Arphic Public License , , Based on ''Arphic PL Fonts'', extended partly to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G. , - , DLCMingMedium DLCMingBold , ， , TC ,
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, , , Font family from which Windows 3.0's default Traditional Chinese font 'Ming Light' is derived. , - , MingLiU , , TC (Taiwan) ,
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, , rowspan="2", , Default interface typeface for Windows 3.0 to
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, 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
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. Starting from version 2.00, it was internally sorted in
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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
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to
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, all regional versions of
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to Windows 8.1, Traditional Chinese version of
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, PMingLiU Update Pack (), Traditional Chinese Font Pack for Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft Global IME 5.02 (Traditional Chinese), Office XP Tool: Traditional Chinese Language Pack, Traditional Chinese supplemental fonts for Windows 10. , - , PMingLiU , 新細明體 , TC (Taiwan) ,
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+ , , Distributed with Traditional Chinese version of
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, all regional versions of
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to Windows 8.1, and the Traditional Chinese version of
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. The Latin characters in this font is
proportional Proportionality, proportion or proportional may refer to: Mathematics * Proportionality (mathematics), the property of two variables being in a multiplicative relation to a constant * Ratio, of one quantity to another, especially of a part compare ...
. , - , MingLiU_HKSCS, MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB , , TC (Hong Kong) ,
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, , , MingLiU-ExtB (,-ExtB), PMingLiU-ExtB (-ExtB) – distributed with PMingLiU Update Pack (), Windows Vista. , - , LiSong Pro Light , Pro , TC (Hong Kong) ,
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and
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10.3–10.4. , , , , - , Apple LiSung Light , , TC (Hong Kong) , Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.2–10.4. , , , , - , I.Ming , , TC (General) , , /span>IPA font licence , ttf , Derived from IPAex Minchō font, availably at Keshilu blog (刻石錄) and
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. , - , MS Song , MS , SC , Microsoft , , , Distributed with Simplified Chinese Font Pack for Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft Global IME 5.02 (Simplified Chinese), Office XP Tool: Simplified Chinese Language Pack. , - , SimSun , , , SC , Microsoft , , rowspan="2", , Default interface typeface for Windows 95 to Windows XP, distributed with the Chinese versions of
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to
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, all regions of
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, Microsoft Office 2000. The Latin characters in this font is
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. The difference between this font and NSimSun (below) is that NSimSun is labelled
monospaced A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spaci ...
in the and table while SimSun did not. , - , NSimSun , , SC , Microsoft , , Distributed with all regions of
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,
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2000. The Latin characters in this font is monospaced. , - , SimSun-18030, NSimSun-18030 , -18030, -18030 , SC , Microsoft , , , Distributed with the Simplified Chinese version of
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, or as
GB 18030 GB 18030 is a Chinese government standard, described as ''Information Technology — Chinese coded character set'' and defines the required language and character support necessary for software in China. GB18030 is the registered Internet n ...
Support Package to Windows 2000 or higher. , - , SimSun (Founder Extended) , , SC , Microsoft , , , Ddistributed with the Simplified Chinese version of Microsoft Office XP, Simplified Chinese version of Windows, or Microsoft Office Proofing Tools (XP and 2003). , - , SimSun-ExtB or Sun-ExtB , -ExtB , SC , Microsoft , , , Distributed with Windows Vista. , - , Song , , SC , OS X 10.2–10.4. , , , , - , STSong , , 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
Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its c ...
-based foundry,
Changzhou Changzhou ( Changzhounese: ''Zaon Tsei'', ) is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling and Jinling. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provin ...
SinoType Technology (常州华文印刷新技术), made a series of 30,000+-character fonts for Microsoft and Macintosh between 1998 and 2004 that all begin with "ST" (华文). , - , STZhongsong , , SC , Microsoft , , , Distributed with MS Office 2000 and XP. A medium-
bold In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech. Methods and use The most common methods in ...
ness version of STSong made in 1991 and updated in 1998. , - , TW-Sung, TW-Sung-Ext-B, TW-Sung-Plus , , TC (Taiwan) , Ministry of Education of Taiwan () , /span> Open Government Data License v1.0, equivalent to CC-BY 4.0 International license , , 100,000+ traditional and simplified characters (including Japanese
shinjitai are the simplified forms of kanji used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946. Some of the new forms found in ''shinjitai'' are also found in Simplified Chinese characters, but ''shinjitai'' is generally not as extensi ...
characters) in Taiwanese style, covering
CNS 11643 The CNS 11643 character set (Chinese National Standard 11643), also officially known as the Chinese Standard Interchange Code or CSIC ( zh, tr=, t=中文標準交換碼), is officially the standard character set of Taiwan (Republic of China). In ...
(TW-Sung covers the characters mapped to the
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, TW-Sung-Ext-B covers the characters mapped to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B, TW-Sung-Plus covers
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mapped CNS characters。 , - ,
WenQuanYi WenQuanYi (; aka: ''Spring of Letters'') is an open-source project of Chinese computer fonts licensed under GNU General Public License. General WenQuanYi project was started by Qianqian Fang (Screen name: FangQ; ), a Chinese biomedical imaging r ...
Bitmap Song , , SC , , /span> GNU GPL , , Raster typeface.

Japanese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" , + !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , IPAex Minchō , , , /span> IPA font licence , , Part of IPA font series developed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. Released from here. , - , IPAmj Minchō , , , /span> IPA font licence , , Part of IPA font series developed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. Released from here. , - , MS Mincho , , 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 , , Microsoft , , , Distributed in the Japanese version of Windows 95 or later, all regions in Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2004. , - , Kochi Mincho , , , /span>
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, , Free typeface included with a number of
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s. Originally based on the Watanabe () typeface, then reissued based on the Wadalab outlines for legal reasons. , - , Hiragino Minchō Pro W3, Hiragino Minchō Pro W6 , Pro W3, Pro W6 ,
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, , , Included in
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. It covers almost all of the Adobe Japan 1–5
glyph A glyph () is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A g ...
collection. , - , Heisei Minchō , , , , , Developed by the
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(JSA) 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 In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing is an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable (or ''aliases'' of one another) when sampled. It also often refers to the distortion or artifact that results when ...
. It is distributed by various typeface vendors licensed by the JSA. , - , Ryūbundō Minchō or RyūMin , , Morisawa foundry , , , , - , Kozuka Minchō , , Adobe , , , Designed by Kozuka Masahiko (also the creator of the sans-serif typeface Shin Gothic or Shingo). , - , Sazanami Mincho , , , /span> , , The last version dates from 2004.

Korean
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" , + !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , Batang , , , , , Distributed by
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with its
Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...
operating system. , - , BatangChe , , , , , Distributed by
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with its
Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...
operating system. Monospace font. , - , Gungsuh , , , , , Distributed by
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with its
Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...
operating system. , - , GungsuhChe , , , , , Distributed by
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with its
Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...
operating system. Monospace font. , - , AppleMyungjo , , , , , Default Korean font on Apple
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,
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, and
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. Fully supports Unicode from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. , - , UnBatang, UnGungsuh , , , , /span> , , 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 , , Kim Jeong-hwan () , /span> , , Distributed on most Linux distributions. License: open content. , - , Seoul Hangang , , , , , Distributed by
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as its official Ming typeface. Special font for
vertical writing Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese Hán- Nôm and Korean scripts can be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each oc ...
included. , - , Nanum Myeongjo , , Naver , /span> Open Font License , , One of Nanum-series fonts, distributed by
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. , - , Hamchorom Batang , ,
Hancom Hancom (KOSDAQ: HAANSOFT) is an office suite software developer in South Korea. Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language. In May 2017 Hancom lost a lawsuit in US Federal Court for ...
, /span> , , Developed by
Hancom Hancom (KOSDAQ: HAANSOFT) is an office suite software developer in South Korea. Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language. In May 2017 Hancom lost a lawsuit in US Federal Court for ...
, supporting Unicode from 1.0 to 5.0 and Hangul Jamo Extended A/B. , - , Jieubsida Batang , , , /span> , , Korean-language, Ming style offshoot of the Tsukurimashou meta-family, built using METAFONT. License: GPL.

Vietnamese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" , + !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , Nôm Na Tống Light , , , , , Created by the
Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation The Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation ( vi, Hội Bảo tồn di sản Nôm; Hán Nôm: ), shortened as the Nôm Foundation and abbreviated as VNPF, was an American nonprofit agency for language preservation headquartered in Cary, North ...
. It is based on characters found in ''Thiền Tông Bản Hạnh'' (The Origin of Buddhist Meditation, 1933) by Thanh Tu Thich. , - , Han Nom Font Set , , , /span> GPL , , Covers Radicals Supplements, CJK, CJK Ext. A, CJK Ext. B; , - , Han-Nom Minh 1.30 , , UBPSHNVN , , , Contains 34,736 characters with 34,737 glyphs. , - , Han-Nom Ming 1.10 , , UBPSHNVN , , , Contains 34,079 characters with 34,082 glyphs.

Zhuang
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" , + !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , Sawndip , , , /span> 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
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - ,
Arial Unicode MS In digital typography, the TrueType font Arial Unicode MS is an extended version of the font Arial. Compared to Arial, it includes higher line height, omits kerning pairs and adds enough glyphs to cover a large subset of Unicode 2.1—thus sup ...
, , Pan-Unicode , Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2004. , – , , , - ,
Droid Sans Fallback Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile hands ...
, , Pan-Unicode (SC style) ,
Ascender Corporation Ascender Corporation was a digital typeface foundry and software development company located in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village, Illinois in the United States. It was founded in 2004 by a team of software developers, typographers, and font ...
for
Google's Android Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of de ...
, /span> Apache License 2 , , Was the default system font for Android below version 4.4.2. Replaced by
Source Han Sans Source Han Sans is a sans-serif gothic typeface family created by Adobe and Google. It is also released by Google under the Noto fonts project as Noto Sans CJK. The family includes seven weights, and supports Traditional Chinese, Simplified Ch ...
. , - ,
Source Han Sans Source Han Sans is a sans-serif gothic typeface family created by Adobe and Google. It is also released by Google under the Noto fonts project as Noto Sans CJK. The family includes seven weights, and supports Traditional Chinese, Simplified Ch ...
/ Noto Sans CJK , 思源黑体 , Pan-CJK ,
Adobe Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for '' mudbrick''. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of ...
,
Google Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...
, Changzhou SinoType Technology, Iwata Corporation, Sandoll Communication. , /span>
SIL Open Font License The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is one of the major open font licenses, which allows embedding, or "bundling", of the font in commercially sold products. OFL is a free and open source license. It was created by SIL Internationa ...
, , License: Apache License 2 on July 15, 2014. Since September 29, 2015, all Noto fonts are licensed under the
SIL Open Font License The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is one of the major open font licenses, which allows embedding, or "bundling", of the font in commercially sold products. OFL is a free and open source license. It was created by SIL Internationa ...
rather than the Apache licence.

Chinese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - ,
WenQuanYi WenQuanYi (; aka: ''Spring of Letters'') is an open-source project of Chinese computer fonts licensed under GNU General Public License. General WenQuanYi project was started by Qianqian Fang (Screen name: FangQ; ), a Chinese biomedical imaging r ...
Zen Hei , , SC , , /span> GPL v2.0 font exception , , Over 36,000 glyphs in total, among which 20,300 are Chinese characters. , - , WenQuanYi Micro Hei , , SC , , /span> GPL v3 or Apache License v2 , , Based on
Droid Sans Fallback Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile hands ...
. , - , PingFang SC, PingFang TC, PingFang HK , ，， , SC, TC (Taiwan), TC (Hong Kong) , OS X 10.11 El Capitan , , , System font for Apple MacOS system. , - , Heiti SC, Heiti TC , ， , SC, TC (Taiwan) , OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard , , , Was system font for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. , - , Hiragino Sans GB , / , SC , OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard , , , , - , STHeiti , , SC , OS X 10.2 Jaguar & later. By Changzhou SinoType Technology (2002). , , , Was system font for OS X 10.2 Jaguar to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. , - , STHeiti Light/ TXihei, , SC , OS X 10.2 Jaguar and later, Microsoft Office 2000 and XP. , , , A thinner version of STHeiti Regular. , - , LiHei Pro Medium , Pro , TC (Taiwan) , Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and later , , , , - , Apple LiGothic Medium , , TC (Taiwan) , Mac OS 9 and OS X 10.2 Jaguar and later , , , , - ,
Microsoft JhengHei Microsoft JhengHei (微軟正黑體) is a sans-serif typeface included in Windows Vista and later and Microsoft Office 2007. It follows the Standard Form of National Characters prescribed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Taiw ...
, , TC (Taiwan) , China Type Design Limited , , , , , Default
Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...
system font since
Windows Vista Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released five years before, at the time being the longest time span between successive releases of ...
. , - , Microsoft YaHei , , SC , Founder Type , , , , , Default
Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...
system font since
Windows Vista Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released five years before, at the time being the longest time span between successive releases of ...
. , - , MS Hei , , SC , Microsoft Global IME 5.02 (Simplified Chinese), Office XP Tool: Simplified Chinese Language Pack. , , , , - , MHei , , TC (Hong Kong) , , , , Owned by Monotype , - , SimHei , or , SC ,
Windows 2000 Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It was the direct successor to Windows NT 4.0, and was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999, and was official ...
, all regions of
Windows XP Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was release to manufacturing, released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Wind ...
, , , , - , DengXian , , SC , Simplified Chinese version of Microsoft Office 2016 and
Windows 10 Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and later to retail on ...
. , , ,

Japanese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , IPA Gothic , , Designed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan , /span> IPA font licence , , Part of IPA font series. , - , Meiryo , , , , , Default
Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...
system font since
Windows Vista Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released five years before, at the time being the longest time span between successive releases of ...
. , - , Mona Font , ,
Linux distribution A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading on ...
s , /span>
Public domain The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because those rights have expired, ...
, , , - , M⁺ OUTLINE FONTS , , , /span> Free license , , , - , VL Gothic , , Derived from M+ FONTS and Sazanami Gothic font. Distributed on
Vine Linux is a Japanese Linux distribution A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain thei ...
. , /span>? ~~/s>~~ , , License: same as parent fonts. , - , Sazanami Gothic , , Distributed on Linux. , ~~/s>~~ , , License: formerly considered free and included with a number of
Linux distribution A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading on ...
s. , - , MS Gothic , , Distributed on Microsoft Windows 3.1 and later. , , , , - , MS PGothic , , Distributed on Microsoft
Windows 95 Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems. The first operating system in the 9x family, it is the successor to Windows 3.1x, and was released to manufactu ...
and later. , , , , - , MS UI Gothic , , Distributed on Microsoft
Windows 98 Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. The second operating system in the 9x line, it is the successor to Windows 95, and was released ...
and later. , , , , - , Yu Gothic , 游ゴシック , Distributed by Microsoft Windows 10. , , , , - , Osaka , , Distributed on Classic
Mac OS Two major famlies of Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known as the "Classic" Mac OS with its release of the original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded " ...
. , , , , - , Hiragino Kaku Gothic , , Distributed on
Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...
. , , , , - , Hiragino Maru Gothic , , Distributed on
Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...
. , , , , - , Kozuka Gothic , , Typeface family provided by new versions of
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor and design program developed and marketed by Adobe Inc. Originally designed for the Apple Macintosh, development of Adobe Illustrator began in 1985. Along with Creative Cloud (Adobe's shift to month ...
. , , , , - , GothicBBB-Medium , ,
Adobe Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for '' mudbrick''. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of ...
, , , , - , Kochi Gothic , , Distributed on Linux, formerly. , ~~/s>~~ , , Originally named Watanabe font (). Formerly considered free that is included with a number of
Linux distribution A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading on ...
s. 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.

Korean
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , AppleGothic , , Apple
Mac OS 9 Mac OS 9 is the ninth major release of Apple's classic Mac OS operating system which was succeeded by Mac OS X (renamed to OS X in 2011 and macOS in 2016) in 2001. Introduced on October 23, 1999, it was promoted by Apple as "The Best Internet ...
to
Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...
10.7 Lion and
iOS iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also include ...
1 to 5.0 , , , Fully supports Unicode from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard , - , Dotum , , Microsoft Windows, all regions of
Windows XP Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was release to manufacturing, released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Wind ...
to Windows 8.1, and the Korean version of
Windows 10 Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and later to retail on ...
. , , , , - , DotumChe , , Microsoft Windows, all regions of
Windows XP Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was release to manufacturing, released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Wind ...
to Windows 8.1, and the Korean version of
Windows 10 Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and later to retail on ...
. , , , Monospace font. , - , Gulim , , Microsoft Windows, all regions of
Windows XP Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was release to manufacturing, released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Wind ...
to Windows 8.1, and the Korean version of
Windows 10 Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and later to retail on ...
. , , , , - , GulimChe , ,
Windows 2000 Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It was the direct successor to Windows NT 4.0, and was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999, and was official ...
to Windows 8.1, Korean version of
Windows 10 Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and later to retail on ...
, Office XP Tool: Korean Language Pack, Korean supplemental fonts for Windows 10. , , , Monospace font. , - , Malgun Gothic , ,
Windows Vista Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released five years before, at the time being the longest time span between successive releases of ...
, , , , - ,
New Gulim New Gulim (새굴림/SaeGulRim) is a sans-serif type Unicode font designed especially for the Korean-language script, designed by HanYang System Co., Limited (now Hanyang Information & Communications Co., Ltd). It is an expanded version of Hanyan ...
, 새굴림 , Old Korean support tools for Microsoft Word 2000, Office XP Tool: Korean Language Pack, Microsoft Office 2003 , , , , - , Gulim Old Hangul Jamo , , Old Korean support tools for Microsoft Word 2000, Office XP Tool: Korean Language Pack, Microsoft Office 2003 , , , , - , Apple SD Gothic Neo , , Apple
Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...
10.8 Mountain Lion and iOS 5.1. , , , , - , UnDotum , , , /span> GPL , , Un-series fonts initially derived from Korean LaTeX fonts with the same name. , - , UnShinmun , , , /span> GPL , , Un-series fonts initially derived from Korean LaTeX fonts with the same name. , - , Baekmuk Gulim , , Linux distributions. , /span> , , , - , Seoul Namsan , ,
Seoul Metropolitan Government The Seoul Metropolitan Government is a local government of Seoul, South Korea. The mayor is elected to a four-year term by the citizens of Seoul and is responsible for the administration of the city government. The Seoul Metropolitan Government d ...
. , , , , - , Nanum Gothic , , Distributed by
Naver Naver (Hangul: 네이버) is a South Korean online platform operated by the Naver Corporation. It was launched in 1999 as the first web portal in South Korea to develop and use its own search engine. It was also the world's first operator to i ...
. , /span> Open Font License , , Nanum-series fonts. , - , Hamchorom Dotum , , Designed by
Hancom Hancom (KOSDAQ: HAANSOFT) is an office suite software developer in South Korea. Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language. In May 2017 Hancom lost a lawsuit in US Federal Court for ...
. , /span> , , Supporting Unicode from 1.0 to 5.0 and Hangul Jamo Extended A/B. , - , Jieubsida Dodum , , Offshoot of the Tsukurimashou meta-family, built using METAFONT. , /span> GPL , ,

Vietnamese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , Han-Nom Gothic 1.30 , , UBPSHNVN , , , 35,733 characters with 36,306 glyphs

Regular script

Chinese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , KaiU, DFKai-SB , 標楷體 , TC (Taiwan) , DynaComware (distributed within
Windows 95 Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems. The first operating system in the 9x family, it is the successor to Windows 3.1x, and was released to manufactu ...
& higher, OS X up to
Yosemite Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ar ...
) , , kaiu.ttf , , - , SimKai, KaiTi , 中易楷体楷体_GB2312 , SC , , , simkai.ttf , Distributed on Windows Chinese versions. , - , STKaiti , 华文楷体 , SC , Changzhou SinoType (2002) , , , Distributed on Windows Chinese versions. , - , Kai , , SC , Shanghai Ikarus (1993–95) , , , Distributed by MacOS, Simplified Chinese versions. , - , BiauKai , , TC (Taiwan) , , , , Distributed by MacOS, Traditional Chinese versions. , - , FZNewKai *FZKaiS-Extended, FZKaiS-Extended(SIP) *FZKaiT-Extended, FZKaiT-Extended(SIP) , , SC, TC (SC style) , Founder of Beijing University , 2012 , , , Initial set released in 2006. 28,928
glyph A glyph () is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A g ...
s in the basic BMP fonts plus another 54,328 in the SIP fonts for both traditional and simplified Chinese. , - , I.Ngaan , , TC , Keshilu (刻石錄) , ~~/s>~~ /span> GPL 2.0+ , , Derived from a '' Yan'' styled typeface by Wang Hanzong (). As Wang Hanzong fonts are suspected to be copyright infringement, this derived font is considered copyright infringement too. , - , TW-Kai, TW-Kai-Ext-B, TW-Kai-Plus , , TC (Taiwan) , Ministry of Education of Taiwan () , /span> Open Government Data License v1.0, equivalent to CC-BY 4.0 International license , , 100,000+ traditional and simplified characters (including Japanese
shinjitai are the simplified forms of kanji used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946. Some of the new forms found in ''shinjitai'' are also found in Simplified Chinese characters, but ''shinjitai'' is generally not as extensi ...
characters) in Taiwanese style, covering
CNS 11643 The CNS 11643 character set (Chinese National Standard 11643), also officially known as the Chinese Standard Interchange Code or CSIC ( zh, tr=, t=中文標準交換碼), is officially the standard character set of Taiwan (Republic of China). In ...
(TW-Kai covers the characters mapped to the
Basic Multilingual Plane In the Unicode standard, a plane is a continuous group of 65,536 (216) code points. There are 17 planes, identified by the numbers 0 to 16, which corresponds with the possible values 00–1016 of the first two positions in six position hexadecim ...
, TW-Kai-Ext-B covers the characters mapped to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B, TW-Kai-Plus covers
Private Use Area In Unicode, a Private Use Area (PUA) is a range of code points that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the Unicode Consortium. Three private use areas are defined: one in the Basic Multilingual Plane (), and one each in, and nearl ...
mapped CNS characters。 , - , Free HK Kai , , TC (Hong Kong) , Free Hong Kong Font () project , /span> CC-BY 4.0 International license , , Based on TW-Kai, following ''List of Glyphs of Commonly Used Characters'' () by Education Bureau of Hong Kong SAR.

Vietnamese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , Han-Nom Kai 1.00 , , UBPSHNVN , , , 28,147 characters with 28,145 glyphs

Clerical script
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , SimLi , 中易隶书 or 隶书 , SC , , , , Distributed with the Chinese version of
Microsoft Office Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is the former name of a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a ma ...
. , - , UnYetgul , , Korean , , /span> , , One o
Un-series fonts
initially derived from the Korean LaTeX fonts.

Imitation Song
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Editor/Creator !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , FangSong , 中易仿宋, 仿宋 , SC , Microsoft , , simfang.ttf , Distributed with the Chinese version of Microsoft Windows. , - , STFangsong , 华文仿宋 , SC , Changzhou SinoType, 2002 , , , Formerly distributed with Mac 10.4.

Other fonts or projects

Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Editor/Creator !Style !Licensing !Format !Comments , - ,
GNU Unifont GNU Unifont is a free Unicode bitmap font using an intermediate bitmapped font format created by Roman Czyborra. The main Unifont covers all of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). The "upper" companion covers significant parts of the Supplement ...
, , Pan-Unicode , , , /span> , , A GPLed bitmap font that covers the Unicode
Basic Multilingual Plane In the Unicode standard, a plane is a continuous group of 65,536 (216) code points. There are 17 planes, identified by the numbers 0 to 16, which corresponds with the possible values 00–1016 of the first two positions in six position hexadecim ...
. , - ,
Code2000 Code2000 is a serif and pan- Unicode digital font, which includes characters and symbols from a very large range of writing systems. As of the current final version 1.171 released in 2008, Code2000 is designed and implemented by James Kass t ...
, , Pan-Unicode , , , , ,

Chinese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Editor/Creator !Style !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , SimYou , 幼圆 , SC , Microsoft , Rounded , , , Distributed with Chinese version of
Microsoft Office Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is the former name of a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a ma ...
. , - ,
WenQuanYi WenQuanYi (; aka: ''Spring of Letters'') is an open-source project of Chinese computer fonts licensed under GNU General Public License. General WenQuanYi project was started by Qianqian Fang (Screen name: FangQ; ), a Chinese biomedical imaging r ...
Unibit. , , SC , WenQuanYi font project , Bitmap , /span> GPL , , A bitmap monospaced font. , - , Shuowen Jiezi True Type Font , , Chinese , , , , , Most/all of the characters are
small seal script The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty. Name ...
. It is based on annotated
Shuowen Jiezi ''Shuowen Jiezi'' () is an ancient Chinese dictionary from the Han dynasty. Although not the first comprehensive Chinese character dictionary (the '' Erya'' predates it), it was the first to analyze the structure of the characters and to give ...
and other sources. , - , I.PenCrane , , TC (General) , Keshilu (刻石錄) , Script , ~~/s>~~ /span> GPL 2.0+ , , Derived from a handwriting styled typeface by Wang Hanzong (). As Wang Hanzong fonts are suspected to be copyright infringement, this derived font is considered copyright infringement too. , - , Open Huninn , , TC (General) , Justfont , Rounded , /span>
SIL Open Font License The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is one of the major open font licenses, which allows embedding, or "bundling", of the font in commercially sold products. OFL is a free and open source license. It was created by SIL Internationa ...
, , Derived from MOTOYA Kosugi Maru font.

Japanese
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Style !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , Mojikyō , 文字鏡 , , , , , , - , Y.OzFontN , , , Handwriting , , , , - , Kanji Stroke Order Font , 漢字の筆順のフォント , , Handwriting , /span> , , , - , Choumei , , , Handwriting , /span> , , Kanji Stroke Order Font with the stroke numbers omitted

Korean
{, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Editor/Creator !Style !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , UnGungseo , , , Calligraphy , /span> , , Part of Un-series. , - , Jieubsida Sun-Moon , , , "Felt marker style" , /span> GPL , , 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. {, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Editor/Creator !Style !Licensing !Format !Comments , - , HanWang Series , 王漢宗字体系列 , TC , Wang Hanzong (),
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. , , ~~/s>~~ 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 * AR PL KaitiM Big5 * AR PL SungtiL GB * AR PL KaitiM GB , 文鼎自由字型系列： * 文鼎 PL 細上海宋 * 文鼎 PL 中楷 * 文鼎 PL 簡報宋 * 文鼎 PL 簡中楷 , TC (General), SC , Arphic foundry , Ming/Song, Regular script , /span> 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 , CJK Unifonts 系列： * AR PL UMing * AR PL UKai , SC , CJKUnifonts , Ming/Song, Regular script , /span> 1999 Arphic Public License , , 2 fonts. AR PL UMing is formerly known as AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, . AR PL UKai is formerly known as AR PL ZenKai, . This is a project under CJK Unifonts, which is included with a number of
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s.Archived copies also available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
ttf-arphic-uming_0.2.20080216.1.orig.tar.gzttf-arphic-ukai_0.2.20080216.1.orig.tar.gz
/ref> Merger of typefaces in ''Arphic PL Fonts''. , - , AR PL MingU20-L, AR PL BaoSong2GBK , 文鼎 PL 明體, 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".Archived copies also available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
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/ref> , - , Fandol series: * Fandol Song * Fandol Hei * Fandol Kai * Fandol Fang , Fandol 系列： * Fandol 宋体 * Fandol 黑体 * Fandol 楷体 * Fandol 仿宋 , SC , , From top to bottom: * Ming/Song * Sans-serif * Regular script * Imitation Song , ~~/s>~~ /span> 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. , - , 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) , cwTeX 系列： * cwTeX 仿宋體 * cwTeX 圓體 * cwTeX 明體 * cwTeX 楷書 * cwTeX 粗黑體 , TC , , From top to bottom: * Imitation Song * Rounded * Ming/Song * Regular script * Sans-serif , ~~/s>~~ /span> 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. , - , Nanum Series: Nanum Pen / Nanum Brush , , Korea , Distributed by
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. , , /span> Open Font License , , , - , Un-series , , Korea , , , , , Series of Korean fonts derived from LaTeX fonts.

Font Foundries
This section lists major font foundries that produce CJK fonts. {, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.8em;" !English name !CJK name !Localisation !Company !Comments , - , SinoType Series. , 华文 , Chinese , SinoType (; full name: 中国常州华文印刷新技术有限公司) , Series of the fonts by SinoType. Distributed with Microsoft Office. , - , FangZheng Series. , 方正 , SC , Founder Group (方正; ''Fāng Zhèng'') , Series of the fonts by Founder Type. Distributed with Microsoft Office. , - , Hàn Yí , 汉仪 , SC , 北京汉仪科印信息技术有限公司 , Series of the fonts by Hanyi. , - , DynaLab , 華康 , Mostly TC (Taiwan) , DynaComware , Series of the fonts by Dynalab. , - , Arphic , 文鼎科技 , Mostly TC (Taiwan) , Arphic Technology , Series of the fonts by Arphic Technology. , - , Justfont , 就是字 , TC (Taiwan) , Justfont , Series of the fonts by Justfont, also a CJK webfont service provider.

See also
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