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Chinese font archive. The fonts are simply called tt1, tt13, tt2, tt201f, tt202f, tt203a, tt205a, tt205f, tt207f, tt208c, tt208d, tt208f, tt30, tt39, tt40, tt43, tt44, tt45, tt9, ttc5, ttmb001, ttmb002, ttmb009, ttmb013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

3lian

Chinese font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

3type

Shanghai, China-based type foundry, est. 2017, with a foreign office in Berlin. They specialize in multilingual and multiscriptual typography and type matching, in particular for Chinese, Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Their font catalog in 2020:

• Astronomer (2018). An attractive Latin / Hanzi text typeface that refers to the Ming Dynasty astronomer / mathematician / scholar Xu Guangqi (aka Paul Siu, 1562-1633).
• Dinkie Bitmap (2018-2020). A pixel typeface for Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Chinese by Willie Liu.
• Ellenda (2018). An art deco typeface by Zheng Chuyang.
• Faustina (2010-2018). A poster typeface by Zheng Chuyang, after an idea by Luise Schenker. It covers Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic, including the Persian, Urdu, Uyghur, Kazakh and Kirgiz versions. It also has a rich set of Emojis.
• Freundschafts-Antiqua Neue (2017), by Roman Wilhelm. Covering Latin, Vietnamese, and Hanyu Pinyin, this 6-style typeface family revives the award-winning text typeface Freundschafts-Antiqua made in 1959 by Yu Bingnan.
• Hong Kong Street Face (2015). A Hanzi font by Roman Wilhelm that reflects the character of Hong Kong.
• Xingkai Next (2017). A modern polygonal typeface for Hanzi, by Li Zhiqian. It was derived from cursive handwriting and Chinese calligraphy.
• Ryan Serif (2017). A Latin display typeface by Ryan Lau.
• Weaf Mono (2017-2018). A monospaced monolinear sans family by Zheng Chuyang and Li Zhiqian, covering Latin, Hanzi (Chinese), Arabic, Cyrillic and Devanagari. It also has some emoji characters.
• RVS Basic (2021). A brilliant and bold reverse-contrast typeface with an emphasis on Hanzi. Commercial letterings from the Republic of China and a calligraphic style named Qishu from the Qing Dynasty jointly inspired the typeface. Award winner at 25 TDC in 2022.

4kong

Chinese font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

51fonts.com

2000+ font archive. Graphically heavy, it shows just 5 fonts per page, so it takes a huge amount of time to get anywhere. The best way to use this place is to use the built-in search window. It contains also about 100 full Chinese truetype fonts for PC. Plus about 2000 Mac fonts as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

7wind

Chinese font archive. Has some Latin fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abby Juan Qin

Graphic designer from China, who studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy (2014-2015) and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and works in Amsterdam. She created a great document on the Chinese oracle bone script and explains: Oracle bone script refers to incised ancient Chinese characters found on oracle bones which were animal bones or turtle shells used in divination during Bronze Age in China. The vast majority of records of oracle script are the pyromantic divinations of the royal house of the late Shang dynasty at the capital of Yin. The date of the Anyang examples of oracle bone script extends from ca.14th to the 11th centuries BC to c.1200-1050 BC. The oracle bone script of the late Shang appears pictographic, as does the Shang writing on bronzes. The earliest examples of oracle bone script appear even more pictographic than examples from later in the period, thus suggestion some evolution did occur over the roughly 200-year period. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abby Qin

Designer in Beijing of a Chinese typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ACAF

ACAF stands for Ascender Compact Asian Fonts. Their blurb at the launch in 2006: ACAF uses proprietary techniques to render the complex ideographs found in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts. By using component outlines, versus entire character outlines, ACAF offers significant benefits over standard TrueType or OpenType font formats. And unlike other compact font formats, such as stroke or stick fonts, the quality of Ascender Compact Asian Fonts is such that no embedded bitmaps are necessary for typical screen sizes. This savings in space by reusing pierces of font outlines is useful for high quality (scalable) fonts on mobile devices and digital TVs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Acerchina

Chinese designer of these commercial Latin display typefaces: Gracey (2012), Anjelica (2013), Rail (2013), Maix Rounded (2014), Pio Rounded (2014), WOM Rounded (2014), Greenleaf (2014), HulaHoop Rounded (2014), Acmenter (2014), Brush Serif (2014), Maix Rounded (2017), Silkypen Script (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Addict

Chengdu, China-based designer of Zcool Addict Italic (2016), Addict Old Style Gothic One (2016, blackletter), Addict Script One (2016), Addict Handwriting (2016) and Addict Round (2016, sans). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adobe's Chinese fonts

The following Chinese fonts are usually bundled with Adobe software: AdobeMingStd-Light, AdobeFanHeitiStd-Bold. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahoi

Paul Rädle's great jump page for foreign fonts and phonetic fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AIFont

The fist Chinese font generated by artificial intelligence. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aika

Chinese designer of the free compass-and-ruler sans typeface Term (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aiki Chen

Designer, b. Shanghai, China, who is based in Los Angeles. Designer of the didone typeface Touch (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

AIZI: database of Chinese characters

The AIZI research project is spearheaded by the MA programme in Type Design at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne with the support of the HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland and the collaboration of the Computer Vision Laboratory (CVLab) at EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. AIZI is an abbreviation of Artificial Intelligence Chinese Character. Shuhui Shi (ECAL), initiator of the project, was in charge of the design part in collaboration with Kai Bernau, under the supervision of Matthieu Cortat (Head of Master Type Design, ECAL). The Machine Learning process and algorithms were developed by Wei Wang (EPFL), under the supervision of Mathieu Salzmann from the EPFL Computer Vision Laboratory.

The AIZI research project offers a unique database of over 93,000 Chinese characters in order to help type designers draw Chinese typefaces. The developers write: Despite being used by some 900 million native speakers, the Chinese writing system currently relies on a small number of digital typefaces, in print or on screen. This is partly due to the quantity of characters. There is no official figure, but some dictionaries reach up to 106,230 glyphs, with the Unicode standard featuring only 20,902 glyphs. A Chinese scholar knows over 13,000 and being able to read a mere quarter of this figure is nothing to be ashamed of in contemporary China. For a designer, creating a Chinese typeface can easily take more than a year and represents a far greater investment, both in time and money, than a Latin (or Greek, or Cyrillic) one. These practical difficulties also limit foreigners' interest in Chinese type design, as the task seems insurmountable. Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) help Chinese type design overcome its current limitations? Is it possible to teach a Machine Learning programme about the rules of Chinese composition and design in order to enable it to create the thousands of glyphs required for a typeface? The initial idea behind the AIZI research project was to define a reduced set of basic seed characters that could be used as training data for an AI system, with the ultimate goals of democratising the design of Chinese typefaces and access to script for beginners and foreigners and to expand the stylistic range for a writing system that is largely dominated by traditional brush-based calligraphic shapes. Eventually, this could lead to greater quality in the production of fonts for Chinese script, explains Shuhui Shi, who launched the project as part of her ECAL Master Type Design programme. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akenlee Type
[Lee Aken]

Chinese foundry, est. 2019. In 2019, Lee Aken published the leafy display typeface Lancet Aken. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

Great Unicode jump page. Has a page showing all fonts that support the various Unicode ranges. Check, for example, his Shavian Unicode sub-page. Unicode font utilities. Some font downloads, including the Unicode font MPH Damase (2005, Mark Williamson). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alpha Design

Chinese studio that made the Latin script typefaces Agile Script (2015), Belle Script (2015), Lovepen (2015, connected), Smooth handwriting (2015), Caligraphy (2015), Golf (2015), Fancy Signature (2015), Vina (2015, fashion mag headline sans) and Candy Sticks (2014). In 2015, they made Sickle Blade, Bigoo, Bubble (display type), Pipe (art deco), Shuimu (hand-printed typeface), Begade (display type), Guilloches (a textured wavy op-art decorative typeface), Pio, Graffito (a painted graffiti font), Dome (a thin techno sans), and Hemiyong (a script typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Dorae Script, Agile Script, Happly Script (connected), Quick Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Notetail Script, BrushWork, Alisa Serif (swashy), Wedding Script, Jasmine Script, Signature. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro Arregui

London-based graphic designer. He created a custom Taiwanese display face. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

American Presbyterian Mission Press

The American Presbyterian Mission was opened in Allahabad in 1836. Two missionaries were transferred to China, but it was not until 1861 that they were able to baptise the first convert. At Shanghai the extensive printing operations of the Society were carried on. These comprised not only several presses which were constantly at work, but a foundry where seven sizes of Chinese type, besides English, Korean, Manchu, Japanese, Hebrew, Greek and others were cast.

A type specimen book was published in Shanghai in 1872. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew West
[BabelStone]

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Angel Kwong

Angel's Chinese name is Tsz Yan Kwong. Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2019, who lives in Hong Kong.

Winner of an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019 for Chek Lap Sans, which won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019. Chek Lap sans was developed at the School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Angel wrote: Chek Lap Sans is a Traditional Chinese typeface designed specifically for signage of the Hong Kong International Airport in Chek Lap Kok, aiming for both functionality and personality. The typeface is designed with considerations of legibility under negative polarity display, to suit the need of the current blue light-box signs with white text. It has generous negative spaces within character, optical adjustments to compensate the glowing effect, and subtle features that contribute to its visual identity. It also includes relevant icons with references to the local context. Several design decisions were informed by the findings from user tests.

Her graduation typeface at the University of Reading was Tabloid (2019), which was designed for reading online material on screens. There are five styles covering three scripts (Latin, Traditional Chinese, Arabic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anran Zhou

Beijing, China-based designer of the decorative caps Latin typeface Pipa (2016) during his studies at OCADU. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apple: Chinese fonts

Chinese fonts distributed by Apple:

• Unicode character set: Arial Unicode MS.
• GB18030 character set: STHeiti Light [STXihei], STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong, STFangsong.
• GB2312 character set: Hei, Kai, Song, Fang Song, Beijing (the latter three not supported after OS X 10.3).
• Big-5 character set: Taipei (discontinued after OS X 10.2), Apple LiSung Light, Apple LiGothic (1992-1998), BiauKai (1995, Dynalab), LiSong Pro Light (2003, Dynalab), LiHei Pro Medium (2003, Dynalab).

Apropos

Explanations of Japanese/Chinese typesetting. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arabia Ware Benelux

Vendor of Mac and PC fonts for several languages and from a variety of companies, active ca. 1999. The fonts covered Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Tamazight, Turkish, Greek, Indic, Thai, Eastern European, and Korean. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Archer Zuo
[Zuo Zuotype (or: Zuo Zuo Studio)]

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Architaraz Type (or: Kassymkulov Design)
[Zhalgas Kassymkulov]

Architaraz Type (Kassymkulov Design) is located in Shanghai, China, and Taraz, Kazakhstan. Its type designer, Zhalgas Kassymkulov, was born in 1986 in Kazakhstan. His initial type designs were all done with the help of FontStruct. In 2013, he went commercial as Architaraz Type.

He made a gridded modular typeface called Targeted (2011). Sliced (2011) is a counterless stencil face. Discostructed (sic) (2011) is a texture face. Mono Dot (2011) is a thin dot matrix face. Mono Hor (2011) is a horizontally striped version of it, Mono Ver (2011) a vertically striped version, and Mono Bold (2011) a bold version. Promo (2011) is purely geometric. Semiz (2011) and Semiz Light (experimental) are partly art deco. Audio (2011) is based on the logo of audiojelly. Arro (2011) has letters with arrowed terminals. Hexa (2011) is hexagonal. Happi (2011) is a fat finger face. Semiz Black (2011) is a free fat pixel face.

Creations from 2012: Pearls of Margar, Korgan, Phunni, Carbo, Carbo ii, Lenta, Phunni, Jambul, Extraterrestrial (sci-fi), Rap My Hip-Hop, Armada 1991 (monospaced), Venus (white on black), Garage Garbage (bold avant-garde design), WHAQ, Extra Fontestrial, Algae, A Tasbaqa, Salem (rounded bold typeface), Thaiana Jones, Salem (fat rounded face), Audio 2012, Balapan, Dalmat, Bonn (an art nouveau army stencil face), Mgla, Teris (white on black), Degoratix (curly), Barney Stencil (a fantastic brushy stencil), Lentalicious, Blackway Str, Schengbers (a great piano key stencil family), Tramcar Typo, Mgia, Brushure (a fat curvy display face), Extralien, Serrific Terif, Missinger, Tolkyn, Murt, Twisture, Soliture, Threedure, Antillic, Garage Garbage, Arro, Happi, Schengbergs Hi.

Typefaces from 2013: AT Dombra (psychedelic typeface after Motter Ombra), AT Hoppy (fat letters), AT Liniya (blackboard bold), AT Karagai, Hed Kandi (techno face), AT Traffa Stencil, AT Schema, Naation, AT Nayman, AT Roughin, AT Rooktura Stencil, AT Duba, AT Archistency, AT Liena, AT Bombarda (fat stencil face), AT Sulfur ii, AT Mad Pilot, AT Tasbaqa, Vaia Con Dios, Betaport, Mooltyashka, AT Stincel (a lively stencil font), Millio, Tamshy, Offelia, Jalgas (retro script: a winner in the FontStruct Connected Script Competition), Laffa (connected stencil script), Dlinalys, Diagona, Kitara (psychedelic), Archtitalic, Bonn (bony stencil), Teka 1, Teka 2, Unknownim, Khara (ultra-heavy slab face), Shlab (slab serif), Unknownim (slab serif), Archtalic, Argyn, Linea Runde, Mechatraps (+Plain), Eliksir, Drilliant, Katamaran (art deco), Lagman, Neurojet (experimental), Jazzure (bullet hole display face), Diagon, Aroth, Pharaoh's Delight (piano key / art deco typeface), Cocomi, AT Burshak, AT Sulfur, AT Taspa, AT Affina.

Commercial typefaces done in 2013: KD William, William Shakespears, AT Archistency (piano key stencil face) AT Bombarda (piano key stencil face), AT Audio, AT Argyn.

Typefaces from 2014: AT Sudoku (each letter is actually a sudoku puzzle!), AT Tactica (tic tac toe voard), AT Sudoku+, AT Pixtensans, AT Ayna, AT Kerey, AT Giveaway, AT Lagman, AT Asotika, AT Tugan, AT Yertegi, AT Nudgera, AT Diagona, AT Golovkin (stencil typeface named after middleweight boxer Gennady GGG Golovkin), AT Arachis (stencil), AT Tugan (fat rounded sans), AT Baktera, AT Jumpa Jumpa (stencil), AT Nudgera, AT Digitta, AT Archaus, AT Ladya (ball terminal stencil), AT Yin Yang, At Keste, AT Yazyk (rounded stencil), AT Sulfurian (techno stencil), AT Fasten Your Seatbelts (diagonally cut stencil), AT Buckle Up (like AT Fasten Your Seatbelts), AT Droppix, AT Knitka (knitting font), AT Sagat, AT Wild Archid (african theme font), AT Steglo.

Typefaces from 2015: ATAday, ATArchistruct, ATAttache, ATBogomol, ATCastleryRock, ATChaperon, ATKitay (oriental simulation), ATQuba, ATRaushan, ATRoyal, ATShlanga, ATSkos, ATTrassa, AT Giveaway 4, AT Sherit, AT Ribborn.

Typefaces from 2016: ATArchaus2, ATArchistructOutline, ATDornach, ATDrogo, ATEnschede, ATExtrema, ATGiveawayNo5, ATGiveawayNo6, ATHadamard, ATTwelve, Windows Icon Font.

Typefaces from 2017: ATBals, ATBevelour, ATEsrever, ATHitchook, ATImagiro, ATLauda, ATMigdalia, ATRozalla, ATUniversiade, ATYangster, ATZabor, ATThinnetry.

Typefaces from 2018: KD Eight, KD Tramcar, KD Algae Brush, Forza Juve (inspired by Juventus FC's logo), KD Hachure (a multiline typeface family), KD Half Arc, KD Space Band, KD Hachure (+Inline, +Outline), KDAnniversary, Armiya (army stencil), KD Baba Yaga (multiline).

Typefaces from 2019: KD Para, KD Pempo (a multiline art deco font).

Typefaces from 2021: KD Ziberia (based on Antonio J. Morata's Ziberia typeface from 2011), KD Dekorat (a modular labyrinthine or Maya genre set of capital letters).

FontM link. Behance link. FontStruct link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arne Götje
[CJK Unifonts]

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Arphic Fonts

The free Arphic fonts in PostScript format. Truetype format. The families include bkai00mp (ZenKai-Medium), bsmi00lp (ShanHeiSun-Light), gbsn00lp, gkai00mp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arphic Technology Co

Taiwanese font company in Taipei. In 1999, they donated four TrueType fonts to the Open Source community under the Arphic public license. These four fonts consist of two Sung type typefaces and two Kai type typefaces, each for traditional and simplified Chinese: bkai00mp.ttf (AR PL KaitiM Big5), # # P L # # Big5 (14148) bsmi00lp.ttf (AR PL Mingti2L Big5), gkai00mp.ttf (AR PL KaitiM GB), gbsn00lp.ttf (AR PL SungtiL GB).

It sells the UniFonts 2000 package, as well as an XPDF font pack. Many of the free Chinese fonts on the web originate from Arphic. For example, here, one could download these fonts from 1998: Arphic-Mingti2-Light-BIG5, HerSin-Medium, InnMing-Bold, InnMing-Extra, InnMing-Heavy, InnMing-Medium, InnMing-Ultra, MaokaiEG-Bold-Big5, MaokaiEG-Extra-Big5, MaokaiEG-Heavy-Big5, NewGothic-Bold, NewGothic-Extra, NewGothic-Heavy, NewGothic-Light, NewGothic-Medium, OvlapRound_Outline-Ultra, PensinkaiEG-Light-Big5, PensinkaiEG-Medium-Big5, Pop1-Bold, Pop2EG-Bold-Big5, Pop3EG-Extra-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big565329, ShanHeiSun-Light, ShanheisunEG-Bold-Big5, ShanheisunEG-Medium-Big5, SingkaiEG-Bold-Big5, SingkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdKai-Medium, StdMing-Medium, StdkaiEG-Bold-Big5, StdkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdsungEG-Bold-Big5, StdsungEG-Heavy-Big5, StdsungEG-Light-Big5, TankuinEG-Bold-Big5, YankaiEG-Heavy-Big5, YankaiEG-Ultra-Big5, YenRound-Bold, YenRound-Extra, YenRound-Heavy, YenRound-Light, YenRound-Medium, YenRound-Ultra, ZuinnEG-Medium-Big5. Their Japanese fonts are sold by Dex Web. FireFly, a Taiwanese company, maintains the free font AR PL New Sung (2004), which was originally an Arphic font. Monotype sells many fonts, such as the sake barrel font Arphic PKanteiryu JIS. Alternate URL.

In 2018, they published the multilingual (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and many other languages) font Jing Xi Hei (+Hair, +Thin, very nice weights), AR DC Qing Yuan, AR DC HY Jian Wei, AR Fang Xin Shu.

Typefaces from 2019: AR Shu Yuan Song.

People presently involved with Arphic include Teresa Mou (senior font designer), Jeff Wu (Genral manager), Grace Yang, Judy Lee (senior font designer), Edwina Lee (strategic cooperation manager), August Lan (head of Font Wizard), and Kaku Kuo (team leader and font designer). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arphic Technology: Free fonts

Four high-quality Chinese TrueType fonts generously provided by Arphic Technology (Taipei, Taiwan) to the Free Software community under the "Arphic Public License". The four free Chinese truetype fonts are about 10MB each: ZenKai-Medium, BousungEG-Light-GB, GBZenKai-Medium, ShanHeiSun-Light. Alternate URL. One more site. Yet another URL. This site has a file called fireflysung, which has the full Chinese font AR PL New Sung (1994-1999). CTAN download site. The license states: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is forbidden. So I am hosting the fonts on my site: Download these fonts: AR-PL-KaitiM-Big5, AR-PL-KaitiM-GB, AR-PL-Mingti2L-Big5, AR-PL-SungtiL-GB. A large zip file with these fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arporn Seemaroj

Artist in Bangkok, who designed a decorative Latin caps alphabet in 2016 with textures that emulates traditional Chinese porcelain lettering. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Art and Fonts by Sean (aka The BlackBox)
[Sean Moldenhauer]

Free fonts by Sean Moldenhauer of Michigan City, Indiana, a graduate of the Art institute of Chicago who apprenticed with Donna Karen. Sean has beautiful Japanese calligraphic prints (shodo style) as well as fonts based on carefully researched historical typefaces. Examples: JapaneseZenSampler1 (2001), TheTombwinterandspring1 (1997, "heavily inspired by the incised letters from the tomb of Henry III, Westminster Abbey, about 1272"), Thorns (1997), VampyresGarden (1997, initial caps inspired by a copy of the Romant de la Rose from the beginning of the 16th century), HoursintheRain (1997), SevenWavessighsSalome (1997, caps). Very nice gothic and medieval style creations. He showcases great Arab, Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AsiaFont Studio

Font editor by Pyrus/FontLab for Asian type design. Mac and Windows. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asiasoft

Vendor of Korean, Japanese and Chinese software, including font packs for Mac and PC. AsiaSoft Inc./AsiaTech Inc. is located in Vero Beach, FL. Their font Urdu Naskh Asiatype (2001) for Urdu can be found here and here. Pashto Kror Asiatype (1994-2002) is here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AVSYV

Heavy blockletter Chinese font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Babel Font
[Brahim Boucheikha]

Babelfont is a design studio located in Paris and Casablanca that was co-founded by Gia Tran and Brahim Boucheikha. They were later joined by Salaheddine Bellizi. Their typefaces, mostly bespoke, include:

• Luset (2012). A font commissioned by Dragon Rouge for an actor.Their typeface family is called PSG.
• PSG (2013). A font commissioned by Dragon Rouge to create a typeface family for the soccer club Paris Saint-Germain.
• The Latin/ Arabic sans typeface Gibraltar (2014).
• The Latin / Arabic sans typeface Ines (2013).
• The Latin and Maghrebi Arabic typeface Alegia (2015).
• Mao (2013). A decorative simplified Chinese font.

Gia Tran is a self-taught calligrapher and type designer. He has worked for Dragon Rouge, 4uatre and A&Mcreative in Paris, as well as Saffron Brand Consultants in Madrid. Gia was the Type Director at the French foundry Fontyou. He also teaches calligraphy and type design at various graphic design and visual communication schools such as Strate College Designer, Intuitlab and ESAV Marrakech.

Brahim Boucheikha (b. Morocco) studied graphic design at the ECV in Paris and was an apprentice of Arabic calligraphy expert Abdallah Akar. He joined the branding agencies Landor (Dubai) and Dragon Rouge (Paris). He has worked at the ESAV (School of Visual Arts) in Marrakech since 2009 as head of the Arabic typography laboratory.

Salaheddine Bellizi is a typographer and 3D designer at Babelfont Studio. He studied at the ESAV (School of Visual Arts) in Marrakech, Morocco, and specializes in Arabic calligraphy and typography. He also works intermittently as an assistant at ESAV Marrakech. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BabelStone
[Andrew West]

UK-based Andrew West's great intro page to the 'Phags-pa script, a Brahmic script based on Tibetan that was used for writing Mongolian, Chinese and other languages during the Mongolian Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Although it is no longer used for Mongolian and Chinese, it is still used to a limited extent as a decorative script for writing Tibetan. Unlike other Brahmic scripts, 'Phags-pa was written vertically from left to right after the manner of the Uighur-derived Mongolian script. The script is named after its creator, the Tibetan lama known by the title 'Phags-pa Lama "Reverend Lama" (1239-1280). Font subpage with samples of BabelStone Phags-pa Book, BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan A, BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan B, BabelStone Phags-pa Seal. These fonts were made in 2006 by Andrew West. In 2007, he added the free Zhang Zhung Opentype fonts for Zhang Zhung scripts: sPungs-chen, sPung-chung and Bru-sha, sMar-chen and sMar-chung. The Zhang Zhung culture was an ancient culture that flourished in the western and northern parts of Tibet before the introduction of Buddhism into the country during the 7th century. The extinct Zhang Zhung language is a distinct language related to but separate from Old Tibetan.

Andrew West's free font BabelStone Modern was designed between 2008 and 2013. This font has almost 2000 glyphs and covers, e.g., Latin, Cyrillic, Ogham, and Braille, and has hundreds of symbols, including a large set of arrows, mathematical symbls, domino tiles, and dingbats.

BabelStone Han (2017) is a Unicode Han font in Song/Ming style with G-source glyphs used in Mainland China. The font is derived from Arphic's AR PL Mingti2L Big5 and AR PL SungtiL GB fonts, converted to Unicode mappings, and expanded to cover a wide range of traditional and simplified characters in the CJK, CJK-A, CJK-B, CJK-C, CJK-D, CJK-E, and CJK-F blocks, as well as a large number of currently unencoded characters in the Private Use Area. A few glyphs for non-CJK symbol characters are derived from images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Christopher J. Fynn. The number of glyphs is closeto 40,000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baekmuk (was: Hwan Design)
[Jeong Hwan Kim]

Korean company that developed the freeware Hangul fonts Baekmuk Dotum (sans), Baekmuk Batang (serif), Baekmuk Gulim (warm rounded sans) and Baekmuk Headline (heavy). All fonts were made by JeongHwan Kim between 1986 and 2002, and cover Korean, Japanese and Chinese. CTAN download site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Banana Chan

Graphic designer who created a television-antenna-themed Chinese font in 2012 called Rooftop Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baron Chau

Graphic designer in Sydney, Australia, who created Network Typeface (2014). This modular chromatic typeface lends itself easily to glyph compositions in Latin, Chines and devanagari, and is also usefl for creating icons. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beijing Founder Electronic Co
[Zhi-wei Zhu]

Chinese font foundry, offering many full Chinese/Western font sets in truetype format. The list: FZ Bao Song Z04, FZ Cai Yun M09, FZ Chao Cu Hei M10, FZ Cu Hei B03, FZ Cu Qian M17, FZ Cu Song B09, FZ Cu Yuan M03, FZ Da Biao Song B06, FZ Da Hei B02, FZ Fang Song Z02, FZ Gu Li S12, FZ Hei B01, FZ Hu Po M04, FZ Hua Li M14, FZ Huang Cao S09, FZ Ka Tong M19, FZ Kai Z03, FZ Kang Ti S07, FZ Li Bian S02, FZ Li Shu II-S06, FZ Mei Hei M07, FZ New Bao Song Z12, FZ New Shu Song Z10, FZ New Shu Ti S08, FZ New Xiu Li Z11, FZ Pang Wa M18, FZ Ping He S11, FZ Ping Hei B04, FZ Qi Ti S14, FZ Shao Er M11, FZ Shou Jin Shu S10, FZ Shu Song Z01, FZ Shu Ti S05, FZ Shui Hei M21, FZ Shui Zhu M08, FZ Song Hei B07, FZ Song III-Z05, FZ Song Yi Z13, FZ Wei Bei S03, FZ Xi Deng Xian Z06, FZ Xi Hei I-Z08, FZ Xi Qian M15, FZ Xi Shan Hu M13, FZ Xi Yuan M01, FZ Xiao Biao Song B05, FZ Xiao Zhuan Ti S13, FZ Xing Kai S04, FZ Yao Ti M06, FZ Yi Hei M20, FZ Ying Bi Kai Shu S15, FZ Ying Bi Xing Shu S16, FZ You Xian Z09, FZ Zhan Bi Hei M22, FZ Zhi Yi M12, FZ Zhong Deng Xian Z07, FZ Zhong Kai B08, FZ Zhong Qian M16, FZ Zhun Yuan M02, FZ Zong Yi M05.

Located in Beijing, its type director and type designer in 2012 is Zhi-wei Zhu. The deputy general manager in 2012 is Xue-jun Huang. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beijing Founder Electronic Co., Ltd.

Founder is the earliest TrueType developer as well as the biggest TrueType products vendor for Chinese characters in China. It has developed hundreds of Chinese, Western languages and multi-national fonts. Fonts now also sold by MyFonts. Fonts include: FZ Bao Song Z04, FZ Cai Yun M09, FZ Chao Cu Hei M10, FZ Cu Hei B03, FZ Cu Qian M17, FZ Cu Song B09, FZ Cu Yuan M03, FZ Da Biao Song B06, FZ Da Hei B02, FZ Fang Song Z02, FZ Gu Li S12, FZ Hei B01, FZ Hu Po M04, FZ Hua Li M14, FZ Huang Cao S09, FZ Ka Tong M19, FZ Kai Z03, FZ Kang Ti S07, FZ Li Bian S02, FZ Li Shu II-S06, FZ Mei Hei M07, FZ New Bao Song Z12, FZ New Shu Song Z10, FZ New Shu Ti S08, FZ New Xiu Li Z11, FZ Pang Wa M18, FZ Ping He S11, FZ Ping Hei B04, FZ Qi Ti S14, FZ Shao Er M11, FZ Shou Jin Shu S10, FZ Shu Song Z01, FZ Shu Ti S05, FZ Shui Hei M21, FZ Shui Zhu M08, FZ Song Hei B07, FZ Song III-Z05, FZ Song Yi Z13, FZ Wei Bei S03, FZ Xi Deng Xian Z06, FZ Xi Hei I-Z08, FZ Xi Qian M15, FZ Xi Shan Hu M13, FZ Xi Yuan M01, FZ Xiao Biao Song B05, FZ Xiao Zhuan Ti S13, FZ Xing Kai S04, FZ Yao Ti M06, FZ Yi Hei M20, FZ Ying Bi Kai Shu S15, FZ Ying Bi Xing Shu S16, FZ You Xian Z09, FZ Zhan Bi Hei M22, FZ Zhi Yi M12, FZ Zhong Deng Xian Z07, FZ Zhong Kai B08, FZ Zhong Qian M16, FZ Zhun Yuan M02, FZ Zong Yi M05. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beijing Hanyi Keyin Information Technology Co Ltd

The Beijing Hanyi Keyin Information Technology Co is a joint venture between CAPT (the Chinese Academy of Printing Technology) and TAICEM, based in Singapore, and was established in 1993 in Beijing. The company developed many (principally Chinese and Japanese) fonts using the Ikarus system, and partners on many projects with URW++, which sells these Hanyi fonts: Fang Song, Hei, Song, Song Medium, Yuan, Hupo, Kai, Lishu, Wei Bei, Zong.

The Beijing Hanyi collection of Simplified Chinese fonts: HY Bai Qing, HY Bao Song, HY Cai Yun, HY Chang Mei Hei, HY Chang Song, HY Chang Yi, HY Chao Cu Hei, HY Chao Cu Song, HY Chao Cu Yuan, HY Chen Pin, HY Cu Hei, HY Cu Song, HY Cu Yuan, HY Cuang Song, HY Da Hei, HY Da Li Shu, HY Da Song, HY Fang Die, HY Fang Li, HY Fang Song, HY Hei Mei, HY Hu Po, HY Hua Die, HY Jia Shu, HY Kai Ti, HY Ling Xin, HY Mi Mi, HY Nan Gong, HY Qing Yun, HY Shen Gong, HY Shou Jin Shu, HY Shu Hun, HY Shu Song Er, HY Shu Song Yi, HY Shu Tong, HY Shuang Xian, HY Te Xi Deng Xian, HY Wa Wa Zhuan, HY Wei Bei, HY Xi Deng Xian, HY Xi Xing Kai, HY Xi Yuan, HY Xi Zhong Yuan, HY Xiao Li Shu, HY Xing Kai, HY Xing Shi, HY Xueun, HY Ya Ya, HY Yan Ling, HY Yuan Die, HY Zhen Zhu Li, HY Zhong Deng Xian, HY Zhong Hei, HY Zhong Kai, HY Zhong Li Shu, HY Zhong Yuan, HY Zi Dian Song, HY Zong Yi.

The Beijing Hanyi collection of Traditional Chinese fonts: HY Bai Qing HY Bao Song, HY Cai Yun, HY Chang Mei Hei, HY Chang Song, HY Chang Yi, HY Chao Cu Hei, HY Chao Cu Song, HY Cu Hei, HY Cu Song, HY Cu Yuan, HY Cu Zhuan, HY Da Hei, HY Da Li Shu, HY Da Song, HY Fang Die, HY Fang Song, HY Hei Mei, HY Hu Po, HY Jia Shu, HY Kai Ti, HY Ling Xin, HY Mi Mi, HY Shou Jin Shu, HY Shu Song Er, HY Shu Song Yi, HY Shu Tong, HY Shuang Xian, HY Wei Bei, HY Xi Deng Xian, HY Xi Yuan, HY Xi Zhong Yuan, HY Xiao Li Shu, HY Xing Kai, HY Xing Shi, HY Xueun, HY Ya Ya, HY Yuan Die, HY Zhen Zhu Li, HY Zhong Deng Xian, HY Zhong Hei, HY Zhong Li Shu, HY Zhong Yuan, HY Zhuan Shu, HY Zi Dian Song, HY Zong Yi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beijing Hanyi Keyin IT Co Ltd

Chinese type foundry located in Beijing. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Belleve Invis
[Renzhi Li]

Programmer and font technologist in Hefei, China. He wrote a parametric program that can create fonts. His first adventure is the gorgeous (monoline monospaced) programming font Iosevka (2015), which is completely free: for the source code, see Github. It has 7 weights and 6 styles and is entirely programmed. Belleve says that he was inspired by Pragmata Pro, M+ and PF DIN Mono. Github link to the releases. The font covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, and is narrower than many fonts in order to be compatible with CJK characters. A tour de force that deserves an award. The 27-style Iosevka Extended was released in 2020. Jozsika (2015-2017) is a customized version of Iosevka Curly. Github link. Aardvark Sans (2020) by a mystery author is also based on Iosevka.

In 2019, he released the free semi-monospaced font Zapus Sans. It is based on his earlier typeface Iosevka Aile.

Sarasa Gothic (2020) is a CJK programming font based on Iosevka and Source Han Sans.

Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benwei Guo

Beijing, China-based designer, who created two unnamed modular typefaces for Latin in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bi Sheng

Chinese inventor of the first (clay type) movable type system for printing in 1040 during https://www.behance.net/JoshPriceDesign. He lived from 990-1051. Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien (1985) writes: During the reign of Chingli, [1041-1048] Bi Sheng, a man of unofficial position, made movable type. His method was as follows: he took sticky clay and cut in it characters as thin as the edge of a coin. Each character formed, as it were, a single type. He baked them in the fire to make them hard. He had previously prepared an iron plate and he had covered his plate with a mixture of pine resin, wax, and paper ashes. When he wished to print, he took an iron frame and set it on the iron plate. In this he placed the types, set close together. When the frame was full, the whole made one solid block of type. He then placed it near the fire to warm it. When the paste [at the back] was slightly melted, he took a smooth board and pressed it over the surface, so that the block of type became as even as a whetstone.

The technology spread to Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty in 1234, when the metal movable-type system for printing was introduced. This led to the printing of the Jikji in 1377, the oldest movable metal print book. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Billy Cheung

Hong Kong-based graphic designer who created a Chinese typeface in 2012 that is based on the Latin typeface Krungthep.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bingyi Jiang

Designer in Shanghai of the Escher style 3d Latin font simply called Font Of Contradictory Space (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Birdy Liu

Xian, China-based designer of Line Typeface (2014), a typeface based on lines found in the map of Xian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bitstream Cyberbit

From Bitstream's web page: "Bitstream Cyberbit is our award-winning international font. Based on one of our most popular and readable type designs (Dutch 801 BT [note: Bitstream's version of Times and Times New Roman]), it includes all the typographic characters for most of the world's major languages. Cyberbit is now available! The product release includes the roman weight of Dutch 801 BT, a "serif" font. (A serif font has small finishing strokes at the end of the main stems, arms, and tails of characters, while a sanserif font does not.) The font is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Future releases will provide support for "sanserif" typefaces, other platforms, other font formats, and even more languages. Bitstream Cyberbit is a work in progress. Bitstream is now distributing the roman weight of Cyberbit, free of charge, over the Internet! Remember, this release is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT". --- Well, Bitstream no longer offers the font. It is still out there however. Try here, here, here, or here. Has these unicode ranges: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Spacing Modifier Letters, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew Extended (A and B blocks combined), Thai, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Dingbats, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Combining Diacritical Marks, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A and -B, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul Compatibility Jamo, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, CJK Compatibility, Hangul, CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Forms, Small Form Variants, and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boston Chinese home page

Links and help for Chinese typography on all platforms, from PC to Mac to DOS and UNIX and X-Windows. Includes free text processing software with embedded fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brahim Boucheikha
[Babel Font]

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Brian Stell

Brian Stell works in the Font and Text team within Google's Internationalization Engineering group. He has been focused on engineering to make web fonts fast for all languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Roboto: faster than a speeding bullet. The abstract sounds interesting: This talk looks at the current status of Google's work to deliver fonts 'instantly' to Chrome users. With 'instant' fonts, website designers no longer have to choose between web fonts (that slow the site down) or 'web safe' fonts (that are only available in limited styles). Imagine being free to use your branding fonts in extra-light, book, normal, medium, bold, or ultra-bold - with italic, condensed, and slab variants. A brief overview of how the technology works is presented along with references to more information. Also discussed are efforts to make this work on other major browsers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bright Woo

Beijing, China-based designer of the compass-and-ruler font Delighted (2016) and the experimental Latin typefaces Bound (2019) and Binding (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruce H. Liu

Bruce works at Dynalab, which offers Japanese and Chinese fonts. Examples: DynaLab Premium 17 Japanese Truetype fonts for JWindows3.1 US $30. DynaLab Premium 30 Japanese Truetype fonts for JWindows3.1/95 or Mac. US $50. Lots of Chinese fonts on sale at 8$ per font. DynaLab 15 artistic Truetype fonts for Windows95 or Mac for US $50. Sample fonts: DFBiaoKaiShu1B, DFBiaoSong1B, DFFangSong1B, DFGirl1B, DFGuYinMedium1B, DFHeiBold1B, DFHeiMedium1B, DFHeiUBold1B, DFKaiShuMedium1B, DFKanTingLiu1B, DFLiFancySong1B, DFLiHeiBold1B, DFLiHeiLight1B, DFLiHeiMedium1B, DFLiKingHei1B, DFLiKaiShu1B, DFLiSongBold1B, DFLiSongLight1B, DFLiSongMedium1B, DFLiYuanBold1B, DFLiYuanXBold1B, DFLiShu1B, DFMingBold1B, DFMingLight1B, DFMingMedium1B, DFMingUBold1B, DFPOP1B, DFXingShuMedium1B, DFYuanBold1B, DFYuanLight1B, DFZongYiBold1B, DFLiSongLight1B-GB, DFFangSong1B-GB, DFHei1B-GB, DFKaiShu1B-GB, DFSong1B-GB, DFSongXBold1B-GB, DFWeiBei1B-GB, DFZongYiBold1B-GB. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruce Kwon

In 2011, with Nicolas Noh and Sung-woo Choi, Bruce Kwon co-designed the Apple system font Nanum Gothic (a sans for Latin, Chinese, Japanese and Hangul, NHN Corporation).

URL for NHN.

Google Fonts link: Nanum Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bryan Wagner
[Hanyu Pinyin font]

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CAFA (or: China Central Academy of Fine Arts)

Design school in Beijing where one can study type design. It is the main type design school in China today. Its staff contains several foreigners. The elder teacher is Min Wang. Other lecturers include Xueqin Hu, Jiang Hua, Zhao Liu, Qin Du and Christoph Stahl. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cai Peng

Graduate of the Beijing Industry University, class of 2006. Beijing-based creator of a teardrop stencil typeface in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CAI's Software Page

Yidao Cai's free software. Most interesting is CNPRINT: "CNPRINT is a utility to print Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) text (or convert to PostScript) under DOS, VMS and UNIX systems. It works just as a print command on your system. Currently GB, Hz, zW, BIG5, CNS, JIS, EUC, Shift-JIS, KSC, UTF8, UTF7 and UTF16 formats are supported. With its full Unicode support, it should be able to print other language (e.g. Thai, Vietnames, Arabic as well)." Also, MSHei and MSSong truetype fonts for Chinese, Korean and Japanese, developed by Stone Corporation, Zhuhai, China. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Calvin Kwok

Type designer from Hong Kong who graduated from the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2016. His graduation typeface is Havil, a multiscript (Latin, Arabic and Chinese) typeface family for branding and business documents. This beautifully balanced typeface was inspired by 19th century British and French letterpress poster typefaces.

In 2016, Kwok worked with the Apple Inc. Type Team where he contributed to the design and development of Latin and East Asian scripts. In 2019, he joined Sharp Type specializing in multilingual type design, lettering, and typography.

In 2018, he published the slab serif Urushi at Future Fonts and wrote: Urushi is the first Future Fonts release aiming to support Japanese Kana and Kanji, and Chinese Hanzi. This charming and slabby, reverse contrast is inspired by old Hong Kong movie magazines.

His all caps titling typeface Mosses Serif (2018) was designed for the bookstore Mosses. Still in 2018, he was working on the Japanese typeface Tottori. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camile Weihsin Lin

Camile Weihsin Lin is a designer in New York City. She graduated from National Taipei Education University. Taipei and the Pratt Institute, New York. Behance link.

In 2012, she created the purely geometric outline typeface called Cube Typography.

Another Behance link. Cargo Collective link. Mysite link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Canwei Lai

Graduate of Art Design College of Guangdong Industry Technical College in 2016. Art director and graphic designer in Guangzhou, China. As type designer he took commissions from Zcool. In 2017, he released Yishan Yuzhuan, which draws inspiration from Qin Lisi's Shushan Carved Stones. Also, in 2017, he had a hand in Zcool-YingShuTi (Zhongqi Electronic: free download). His graduation typeface was the experimental labyrinthine Chinese typeface Suo (2016). Also in 2016, he designed the molecular Chinese font Collective. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CERG

"CERG_Chinese_Font" (2003, DynaComware Corp) is a free font downloadable at CERG, part of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. It has over 36,000 glyphs (!) and covers nearly every language, including, most importantly, Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CFMIN

A few simplified Chinese fonts in the CFMIN family, in truetype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ch Ng

Chinese designer of some experimental Latin typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chang Su
[Scov Type]

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Changchun Ye

Type designer. Finder is a multiscript typeface developed in 2020 at Black Foundry by Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye and Zhang Miao. This neutral sans is intended for interface design, and covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Traditional Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Changzhou SinoType Technology Co

Chinese foundry in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. As one of the major foundries there, it made fonts such as Heiti (2002), which can be downloaded here. Its fonts start with the letters ST. No retail font sales, but the fonts are worked into many packages such as on Apple systems. STXingkai (1998) is here. STCaiyun, STXihei, STXingkai, STXinwei, STZhongsong, all made in 1998, are here. This site carries their free fonts STFangSong, STeiTi, STKaiTi and STXiHei with a date of 2003. Songti is on most Apple systems. Ping Hei is another popular Chinese font by them.

People involved in SinoType in 2012 include Howie Lan (in San Francisco), Juanyan Sun and Deyi Wei. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CHANT: Chinese Ancient Texts

At the Chinese University of Hong Kong: ICS1 (2003), ICS2 (2003), ICS3 (2003), ICS4 (2003), ICS5 (2003), ICS6 (2003), and ICS7 (2003), all copyright of CHANT, ICS, CUHK. These fonts have ancient symbols that are at the origin of various Chinese writing systems.

We also find information about the ancient Chinese scripts covering Jiaguwen, Jianbo, Jinwen, Pre-Han, Han, the six dynasties, and Leishu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chanyu Font
[Wang Jiangang]

Chinese foundry. One of its designers is Wang Jiangang. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Ying

CEO of Bitstream, and creator of MyFonts.com in 1999. Born in 1946 in China, he died in 2010. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Chen Wu

During his studies in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen Wu created the decorative caps typeface Big Time (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

China Dragon Beauty Font's Free Download

Free Chinese fonts Dragon POP, Dragon KAI, Dragon Ming, each over 1MB zipped. TrueType and PostScript, PC and Mac. Also a Chinese ATM version for free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

China Guide Company

Sells 30 Chinese truetype fonts and Chinese software. [Google] [More]  ⦿

China Type Designs Ltd.
[Ricky Chun]

Foundry based in Hong Kong, est. 1986. In September 2006, Monotype Imaging acquired China Type Design Limited. At that time, Ricky Chun was China Type's managing director. Monotype writes: China Type has been a long-time partner of Monotype Imaging, which previously held 20 percent ownership of the firm. Over a 20-year period, the companies have collaborated on a wide range of Asian font projects, with recent work involving typefaces for Hewlett-Packard XHTML-based inkjet printers shipping in Japan and China, and East Asian fonts for the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. [...] A recent collaboration involved the design and development of the Microsoft JhengHei typeface, a Traditional Chinese, OpenType-based typeface family, optimized with Microsoft's ClearType subpixel rendering technology for use in the Vista operating system. [...] China Type and Monotype Imaging have also recently completed work on a patent-pending technology involved in the ability to display scalable Simplified Chinese characters at small sizes (down to 14 pixels per em) with exceptional clarity on cell phones. The technology is available with the iType 3.0 font engine, the newest version of Monotype Imagings font rasterizer that enables the rapid display of scalable characters on memory-constrained devices. [...] As part of the China Type acquisition, Monotype Imaging has secured an exclusive relationship with Creative Calligraphy Center (CCC), a font production company in Zhuhai, China, with 30 production specialists. Ricky Chun began his career at China Type in 1992 as a developer of PostScript-compatible font programs and in-house production tools. Since then, Chun has held positions in sales, marketing, technical support and product development. Chun has worked with Monotype Imaging on various type production and development projects. Chun earned a masters degree in Australia. Linotype link where these fonts are sold: M Bei HK, M Bitmap Round HK, M Bitmap Square HK, M Comic HK, M Comic HKS, M Cute HK, M Cute HKS, M Dynasty HKS, M Dynasty HK, M Ellan HKS, M Ellan HK, M Elle HK, M Elle HKS, C Fang Song HKS, C Fang Song HK, M Gentle HK, M Gentle HKS, C Gu Li HK, C Gu Li HKS, C Gu Yin HK, C Gu Yin HKS, MHG Hagoromo T HK, C Hei HK, C Hei 2 HK, C Hei 3 HK, C Hei 3 HKS, M Hei HK, M Hei HKS, C Hei HKS, C Hei 2 HKS, M Hei Sung HKS, M Hei Sung HK, M Kai HK, M Kai HKS, C Kan HK, C Kan HKS, MHG Kyokashotai T HK, M Lady HK, M Lady HKS, CX Li HK, CX Li HKS, M Li HK, M Li HKS, M Ling Wai FHK, M Ling Wai P HK, M Marker HK, M Marker HKS, M Metallic Hei HKS, M Metallic Hei HK, CJ Ngai HK, CJ Ngai HKS, M Ngai HKS, M Ngai HK, C Ngan Kai HKS, C Ngan Kai HK, C Po 3 HK, C Po 3 HKS, C Po HK, C Po HKS, M Qing Hua HKS, M Qing Hua HK, M Razor HKS, M Razor HK, MHG Reithic T HK, C Song 3 HK, C Song 3 HKS, M Stiff Hei HKS, M Stiff Hei HK, M Stream HK, M Stream HKS, C Su HK, C Su HKS, M Sung Gold HKS, M Sung Gold HK, M Sung HK, M Sung HKS, C Wei Bei HKS, M Windy HK, M Windy HKS, C Xing HK, C Xing HKS, C Xing Kai HKS, C Xing Kai HK, CX Yao HKS, M Young HK, M Young HKS, M Yuen HKS, M Yuen HK, M Yuen, CO Yuen HKS, C Yuen HK, C Yuen, CO Yuen HK, CO Yuen, C Yuen 2 HKS, CO2 Yuen HKS, CO2 Yuen HK, C Yuen GB, C Yuen T GB, CO Yuen T GB, C Yuen GB5, CO Yuen GB5, M Yuppy HK, M Yuppy HKS. Here the S in HKS stands for simplified.

The list of fonts now sold by Monotype: C Fang Song GB, C Fang Song HK, C Fang Song PRC, C Gu Li GB, C Gu Li PRC, C Gu Yin PRC, C Hei 2 GB, C Hei 2 HK, C Hei 2 PRC, C Hei 3 GB, C Hei 3 HK, C Hei 3 PRC, C Hei HK, C Hei PRC, C J Ngai GB, C J Ngai HK, C J Ngai PRC, C Kan PRC, C Ngan Kai PRC, C O 2 Yuen HK, C O 2 Yuen PRC, C O Hei GB, C O Hei PRC, C O Yuen GB, C O Yuen HK, C O Yuen PRC, C Po 3 HK, C Po 3 PRC, C Po HK, C Po PRC, C Song 3 PRC, C Su GB, C Su PRC, C Wei Bei PRC, C X Li HK, C X Li PRC, C X Yao PRC, C Xing Kai GB, C Xing Kai PRC, C Xing PRC, C Yuen 2 PRC, C Yuen GB, C Yuen HK, M Banquet P HK, M Banquet P PRC, M Bei HK, M Bitmap Square HK, M Circus HK, M Circus PRC, M Comic HK, M Comic PRC, M Computer PRC, M Curvy HK, M Curvy PRC, M Cute HK, M Cute PRC, M Dynasty HK, M Dynasty PRC, M Ellan HK, M Ellan PRC, M Elle HK, M Elle PRC, M Felt Pen HK, M Felt Pen PRC, M Finance HK, M Finance PRC, M Gentle HK, M Gentle PRC, M Gothic Gold HK, M Gothic Gold PRC, M Hei HK, M Hei PRC, M Hei Sung HK, M Hei Sung PRC, M HG Hagoromo T HK, M HG Kyokashotai T HK, M HG Reithic T HK, M J Ngai HK, M J Ngai PRC, M Kai 2 HK, M Kai 2 PRC, M Kai HK, M Kai PRC, M Lady HK, M Lady PRC, M Lava HK, M Lava PRC, M Li PRC, M Ling Wai HK, M Ling Wai PRC, M Marker PRC, M Metallic Hei HK, M Metallic Hei PRC, M Ngai HK, M Ngai PRC, M Qing Hua HK, M Qing Hua PRC, M Razor PRC, M Smart PRC, M Stiff Hei HK, M Stiff Hei PRC, M Stream HK, M Stream PRC, M Sung GB, M Sung Gold PRC, M Sung PRC, M Windy HK, M Windy PRC, M Ying Hei HK, M Ying Hei PRC, M Young Hei HK, M Young Hei PRC, M Young PRC, M Yoyo HK, M Yoyo PRC, M Yuen PRC, M Yuppy HK, M Yuppy PRC, M Zhi Hei HK, M Zhi Hei PRC, M Zhi Ngai HK, M Zhi Ngaio PRC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinazhang

Chinese type designer from Jiangmeng, Guangdong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chin-chuan Cheng

Designer at the City University of Hong Kong of the phonetic font DOCIPA (1993) designed for the Dialects of China (DOC) database. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese characters: the numbers

Chinese font production is an enormous project. There are 6,763 Chinese characters in the table of commonly used Chinese characters. There are 20,902 Chinese characters in the GBK standard, and the newly published GB_18064 norms list more than 60,000 characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese font classification

Chinese has many scripts / handwriting styles including the oracle bone script to the Seal Script of the Eastern Zhou, but also to a lesser extent in the transition to the clerical script of the Han Dynasty. These have led to the present day traditional and simplified scripts. Chinese digital fonts can be roughly classified in these styles:

• Hei Ti: sans. The rounded corner version is Yuan Ti. Look for the word Hei in a font's name.
• Song Ti: serif. This is common text font, and is widely used in publications and the media. Also called Ming style. Look for Ming or Song in the font name.
• Kai Ti: Script (handwritten) style. Look for the keyword Kai in the name.
• Ancient styles, such as Zhuan Shu (from the Dyn dynasty, 2000 years old), Li Shu (from the Han dynasty, over 2000 years ago).
• Stone-carving emulation, such as Wei Bei.

Chinese Fonts jump site

Links for Chinese fonts (in Chinese). A few downloads of some fonts from Changzhou SinoType Technology Co (STFangSong, STeiTi, STKaiTi, STXiHei), CMEX Chinese Foundation for Digitization Technology (CMEXKai, 2002 and CMEXSong, 2004), DynaComware Corp (LiHei Pro, 2003), DynaLab (DFSTDLI-Md-HK-BF, 1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese Government

Chinese font archive: FZCuQian-M17S, MSBSF, MSBSJ, MSCHF, MSCHJ, MSCSJ, MSCYF, MSCYJ, MSDBSJ, MSDHJ, MSDSJ, MSDSSF, MSFSF, MSFSJ, MSHKJ, MSHPF, MSHTF, MSKTF, MSKTJ, MSLSJ, MSMHJ, MSSTF, MSTHJ, MSWBF, MSWBJ, MSXTF, MSXYF, MSXYJ, MSZHYJ, MSZYF, MSZYJ. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese Mac

Help page for the use of Chinese on Apple machines. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese Mac

Great page on Chinese fonts for the Mac. A must bookmark! [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese Online Reading Assistant

Chin-Chuan Cheng's Mac and Windows fonts for Pinyin. Cheng is at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Fonts: Chinese-Pinyin, Chinese-Pinyin-Cap (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese parametric typefaces

At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Xuan Zhang, Huaijing Leng and Shensheng Wen propose a parametric type design model for the Chinese script. The abstract of their talk: The Chinese script, as an ideographic writing system, is used by a large proportion of the world's population. Over the centuries, its large character set has been the biggest issue facing type makers. In this presentation, different historical methods of production of Chinese type will be covered. ATypI Antwerp is the right moment to introduce the latest progress on a parameterized design model for Chinese. Various methods of Chinese type casting have been attempted. This talk will therefore consist of three main parts: 1) Designing with Components: the Six Writing theory of Chinese classification illustrates the simple logic behind the complicated shapes of Chinese characters, which gives out the possibility of speeding up the type casting process, either in physical form or in digital type; 2) Designing with Handwriting: Research on handwriting recognition and auto-generation will be mentioned, though it is not a main workflow; 3) Designing with a Parametric Model (Prototype): Inspired by MetaFont, but developed into a practical production stage with detailed control methods for the Chinese character skeleton, strokes, and structural-adjustment algorithm. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese Parterner (sic) Truetype fonts

Commercial truetype fonts for windows developed by Twinbridge Software Corporation. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese TrueType Fonts from Datastation

NewTek Super Chinese True Type Font Package (32 Chinese TTF) for 89USD, and links to other Chinese TTF fonts by Dyna, AllTrue and UnionWay. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinese Typography

Chinese typography page by Chan Shih-Ping. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinthye Law

Chinthye Law (b. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) was an art director for Band China in Shanghai, but is now back in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In 2011, she made some typefaces, including a paperclip face.

In 2012, she added Disorder, Water (a wavy typeface), and New Typeface.

In 2013, Chinthye designed the outline typeface Onyx and the hip display typeface City. In 2015, she designed a modular typeface and the circle-themed typeface Space. In 2019, she released the geometric solid typeface Cargo and the bubblegum typeface Home. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chip Yip

Hong Kong-based designer of an experimental Chinese typeface called Overturn (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chiron Fonts

Download the free Chinese font family Chiron Sans HK (+Pro, +Companion) developed between 2014 and 2020. These are based on Source Han Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

chitex

Chinese TEX package. Includes free TrueType fonts fxntufs, fxntukai, fxntuli, and utilities such as ttf2pk and ttf2tfm. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christoph Stahl

Christoph Stahl (b. 1975, Marburg, Germany) studied at Kunsthochschule Kassel in 2002, and teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing since 2003. First in the Computer Art Studio, and later in the School of Design and City Design School, Stahl wrote a doctoral thesis on Hanzi of the West, Letters of the East (2008- 2010). He earned a P.h.D. in Visual Communication at Central Academy of Fine Arts School of Design in 2010.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Hanzi of the West, letters of the East. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chuanren Wu

Electrical engineer who tried to improve on the Computer Modern-style family Latin Modern by B. Jackowski and J. M. Nowacki (2003-2009). Simply called LM, his typeface family is thicker than the rather spindly Computer Modern family. For this, he developed a script to blacken the Computer Modern fonts. Free download at Github. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chun Lin Yeh
[Justfont]

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cice0129

A file with six Chinese fonts, including FZHuangCao-S09S (1998) and FZYingBiXingShu-S16T (2001) from Founder Corporation. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CJ Gong

Shanghai, China-based designer (b. 1985) of the free techno typefaces Loxo (2014) and Sonix (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CJK Fonts

Listing of CJK fonts, as of 2009.

• Simplified Chinese, serifed: Beijing (M), Bitstream CyberBit (W), Bitstream CyberBitCJK (W), Code2000 (M), Fang Song (M), Kai (M), MS Song (W), NSimSun (W), NSimSun-18030 (W), SimSun (M W), SimSun-18030 (W), Song (M), STFangsong (M), STKaiti (M), STSong (M), STSong Std Acro (W), TSC JSong S TT (W).
• Simplified Chinese, sans: Arial Unicode MS (W), Hei (M), MS Hei (W), SimHei (W), STHeiti (M).
• Traditional Chinese, serifed: Apple LiSung (M), BiauKai (M), Ming (W), MingLiU (W), MSung Std Acro (W), PMingLiU (M W), TSC FMing S TT (W).
• Traditional Chinese, sans: Apple LiGothic (M), Taipei (M).
• Japanese, serifed: Hiragino Mincho Pro (M), Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro (W), MS Mincho (M W), MS PMincho (W), MS UI Gothic (W).
• Japanese, sans: Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro (M), Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro (M), MS Gothic (M W), MS PGothic (M W), MS PMincho (M), Osaka (M), Osaka-Mono (M).
• Korean, serifed: AppleMyungjo (M), Baekmuk Batang (W), Batang (M W), BatangChe (W), #GungSeo (M), Gungsuh (W), GungsuhChe (W), HY Shin Myeongjo Std Acro (W), #MyungjoNeue (M), PCMyungjo (M).
• Korean, sans: AppleGothic (M), Baekmuk Dotum (W), Baekmuk Gulim (W), #GothicMedium (M), Gulim (M), Gulim Che (W), Gulim Old Hangul Jamo (W), New Gulim (W), Hangang (M), Seoul (M), #TaeGraphic (M).

CJK Macro Package
[Werner Lemberg]

Werner Lemberg maintains the free CJK macro package of Asian btmap fonts for use in Latex2e. It includes the Hangul fonts han, han1 and hanja65 and the Japanese/Chinese fonts jfs56 (GB encoded, Fangsong style), jisksp40, kanji48, ntukai48 (Big5 encoded, Kai style), and the cns40 series (Song style). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CJK Quick Start

Pages by Gyula Zsigri on reading and writing Chinese, Japanese and Korean in English Windows. Mirror. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CJK Type Blog

The CJK Type blog was started by Gu Hua in Adobe's Beijing office, with active contributions by Ken Lunde. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CJK Unifonts
[Arne Götje]

Arne Götje, a German who lives in Taiwan, works on a project to provide CJK unicode fonts. His work is based on the Arphic fonts AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni and AR PL ZenKai Uni. He added the Chinese dialect phonetic symbols. Furthermore, he merged the embedded Firefly Sung bitmap font into CJKUnifonts. In 2005, the work of the Hong Kong freefonts project (OAKA group) was also merged into CJK Unifonts. Additional URL.

Free high quality Chinese truetype Unicode fonts under the Arphic license (Arphic is based in Taiwan). They contain almost 22000 characters (!!!) and contain glyphs for Big 5 Chinese, GB2312-80 Chinese, ISO8859-1,2,3,4,7,9,10,13,14,15 and Bopomofo extended for Minnan and Hakka (Taiwan). The missing glyphs for Japanese, Korean and HKSCS are under development. The fonts are Uming (Mingti, or printed) and Ukai (Kaiti, or brush stroke). They are gorgeous and reproduce well at small screen sizes. Subprojects include modules for typing the Taiwanese styles Minnan and Hakka. Colloborators: Aaron Cheung, Akar Chen, Alex Ho, Chow Lok Yuen, CP Tung, Eric (EC-graphic), Eric Chan Chi Shing, Firefly, Ga Ming, Jack Tse, John Ma, Kevin Tse, K.M. Lau, Kong, Kwok Wun Yung, Lam Wai Tung, Munkwui Ho, Qianqian Fang, Simon Wong, Shiu Kau Wong, Willy Yuen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

cjkuni fonts

Chinese fonts UMing TW (ShanHeiSun-Uni) and UKai TW (ZenKai-Uni). These are reworked fonts from the Arphic type foundry in Taiwan. The Simplified Chinese versions are called UMingCN and UKaiCN. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CLE

Taiwanese archive with about one hundred free Chinese truetype fonts in the public domain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clear Chinese.Com

Free Chinese fonts: The HDZB series. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clerk Ma
[Fandol]

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CMap and CID Font Files Specification Version 1.0

Specs at Adobe for CMap, CID, useful for Chinese, for example. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CMEX Chinese Foundation for Digitization Technology

Chinese foundry. Its free fonts CMEXKai (2002) and CMEXSong (2004) are here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CMUH.org

Taiwanese site. The zip files have 18 full Chinese fonts, including a handwritten one. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CN Balloons

Archive with five full Chinese/Japanese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CNA

Information on viewing Chinese characters for all platforms, with appropriate font links. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CNS11643

Chinese site which has a free full Chinese font, EBAS (2004), handwritten and using old-style Chinese glyphs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Coji Morishita
[M+ Fonts]

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ComStar: Chinese Font Software

Lots of Chinese font software sold here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corel 13 CD: CJK fonts

The CJK fonts on the Corel 13CD, all by DynaLab, made in 1997: DFGothic-EB, DFGothic-SU, DFGothic-UB, DFGyoSho-Lt, DFKGothic-Bd, DFKGothic-Md, DFKMincho-Bd, DFKMincho-Md, DFKaiSho-Lt, DFKaiSho-Md, DFKaiSho-SB, DFKaiSho-UB, DFKoIn-W4, DFKyoKaSho-W4, DFLeiGaSo-W9, DFMaruGothic-Bd, DFMaruGothic-Lt, DFMaruGothic-Md, DFMaruMoji-SL, DFMaruMoji-W9, DFMincho-SU, DFMincho-UB, DFMincho-W5, DFPOP1-SB, DFPOP1-W12, DFPOP1-W3, DFPOP1-W5, DFPOP1-W9, DFPOP2-W12, DFPOP2-W9, DFRuLei-W5, DFRuLei-W7, DFSinSo-W3, DFSoGei-W7, DFSoKing-W3, DFSumo-W12, DFTFLeiSho-W5, DFTFLeiSho-W7, DFTFLeiSho-W9. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Court rules against Microsoft in China

Reported in 2009 in a case that pits Chinese foundry Zhongyi against Microsoft: A Chinese court has ruled Microsoft Corp. infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property rights by including certain fonts in its operating systems, the companies confirmed Tuesday. Beijing's No.1 Intermediate People's Court found Microsoft had exceeded the scope of a previous agreement to use and sell fonts owned by Zhongyi Electronic Ltd, Lan Fei, a spokeswoman of Beijing-based company told AFP. The decision came during US President Barack Obama's visit to China and at a sensitive time in the trade relationship between the two countries. The US has been pressing China for tougher intellectual property law enforcement. However, Microsoft said in a statement that it disagreed with the Monday-dated court ruling. "We plan to appeal the decision for the Zhongyi fonts case," Microsoft said. "Microsoft respects intellectual property rights... We believe our license agreements with the plaintiff cover our use of the fonts." Zhongyi said the court agreed Microsoft installed and used the fonts in eight of its operating systems without its express permission and had ordered the US company to stop selling those operating systems in China. The spokeswoman said the company was studying the ruling and could seek compensation from Microsoft for damages. "The case dragged on for a long time and the scale and impact of the case was very large. It involves a large figure. We are still checking and studying the form and amount (of the compensation)," Lan said. The case, which was filed in April 2007, does not appear to affect Microsoft's latest operating systems, including Windows 7, which went on sale last month. The court rejected Zhongyi's claim that Microsoft's use of Zhengma software, which enables computer users to type Chinese characters using Western keyboards, also violated its intellectual property rights. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CTEX

Archive with these Chinese fonts: STCAIYUN, STFANGSO, STHUPO, STKAITI, STLITI, STSONG, STXIHEI, STXINGKA, STXINWEI, STZHONGS. This subpage has the following page with Founder fonts for Chinese: FZCCHFW--GB1-0, FZCCHJW--GB1-0, FZCYFW--GB1-0, FZCYJW--GB1-0, FZDBSFW--GB1-0, FZDBSJW--GB1-0, FZDHTJW--GB1-0, FZFSFW--GB1-0, FZFSJW--GB1-0, FZH4FW--GB1-0, FZHCJW--GB1-0, FZHPFW--GB1-0, FZHPJW--GB1-0, FZHTFW--GB1-0, FZHTJW--GB1-0, FZHTK--GBK1-0, FZKANGFW--GB1-0, FZKANGJW--GB1-0, FZKTFW--GB1-0, FZKTJW--GB1-0, FZL2FW--GB1-0, FZL2JW--GB1-0, FZLBFW--GB1-0, FZLBJW--GB1-0, FZLSJW--GB1-0, FZMHJW--GB1-0, FZNBSJW--GB1-0, FZNSTFW--GB1-0, FZNSTJW--GB1-0, FZPHFW--GB1-0, FZSHJW--GB1-0, FZSJSFW--GB1-0, FZSSFW--GB1-0, FZSSJW--GB1-0, FZSSK--GBK1-0, FZSTFW--GB1-0, FZSTJW--GB1-0, FZSZFW--GB1-0, FZSZJW--GB1-0, FZWBFW--GB1-0, FZWBJW--GB1-0, FZXBSFW--GB1-0, FZXBSJW--GB1-0, FZXDXJW--GB1-0, FZXH1FW--GB1-0, FZXH1JW--GB1-0, FZXKFW--GB1-0, FZXKJW--GB1-0, FZXXLFW--GB1-0, FZY3FW--GB1-0, FZY3JW--GB1-0, FZY4FW--GB1-0, FZY4JW--GB1-0, FZYTFW--GB1-0, FZYTJW--GB1-0, FZYXFW--GB1-0, FZZDXJW--GB1-0, FZZKFW--GB1-0, FZZYFW--GB1-0, FZZYJW--GB1-0, FangSong, HeiTi, KaiTi, SongTi, LiSu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CTEX

Chinese font archive with these Founder Corporation fonts from 1998: FZCCHFW--GB1-0, FZCCHJW--GB1-0, FZCYFW--GB1-0, FZCYJW--GB1-0, FZDBSFW--GB1-0, FZDBSJW--GB1-0, FZDHTJW--GB1-0, FZFSFW--GB1-0, FZFSJW--GB1-0, FZH4FW--GB1-0, FZHCJW--GB1-0, FZHPFW--GB1-0, FZHPJW--GB1-0, FZHTFW--GB1-0, FZHTJW--GB1-0, FZHTK--GBK1-0, FZKANGFW--GB1-0, FZKANGJW--GB1-0, FZKTFW--GB1-0, FZKTJW--GB1-0, FZL2FW--GB1-0, FZL2JW--GB1-0, FZLBFW--GB1-0, FZLBJW--GB1-0, FZLSJW--GB1-0, FZMHJW--GB1-0, FZNBSJW--GB1-0, FZNSTFW--GB1-0, FZNSTJW--GB1-0, FZPHFW--GB1-0, FZSHJW--GB1-0, FZSJSFW--GB1-0, FZSSFW--GB1-0, FZSSJW--GB1-0, FZSSK--GBK1-0, FZSTFW--GB1-0, FZSTJW--GB1-0, FZSZFW--GB1-0, FZSZJW--GB1-0, FZWBFW--GB1-0, FZWBJW--GB1-0, FZXBSFW--GB1-0, FZXBSJW--GB1-0, FZXDXJW--GB1-0, FZXH1FW--GB1-0, FZXH1JW--GB1-0, FZXKFW--GB1-0, FZXKJW--GB1-0, FZXXLFW--GB1-0, FZY3FW--GB1-0, FZY3JW--GB1-0, FZY4FW--GB1-0, FZY4JW--GB1-0, FZYTFW--GB1-0, FZYTJW--GB1-0, FZYXFW--GB1-0, FZZDXJW--GB1-0, FZZKFW--GB1-0, FZZYFW--GB1-0, FZZYJW--GB1-0.

In addition, we have from Hunan Huatian Information Industry Co in 1999: FangSong, HeiTi, KaiTi, SongTi.

Finally, from Stone Co, LiSu (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CUHK

Chinese font archive in Hong-Kong. Alternate URL. Included are BitstreamCyberCJK-Roman (1990-1998), a nearly full Unicode font, the NTU family (which comprises NTU_FS_M, NTU_KAI, NTU_LI_M, NTU_MB, NTU_MM, NTU_MR, NTU_TW), Siddam, TSC-FMing-S-TT, TSC-JSong-S-TT (both from Twinbridge Software), CWTEX-BB, CWTEX-F, CWTEX-K, CWTEX-M, CWTEX-R (all by Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu and Wang Ming-Ter, 1999-2002), and the wcl family. In the Unicode subpage, we find the HZK series. Alternate URL. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cui Xianren

The story of Cui Xianren gives hope. I am quoting the original report: A street beggar who draws beautiful calligraphy with a chalk held precariously between the only movable fingers of his handicapped hands has finally signed a contract with a font company to produce original fonts of Chinese characters. The 49-year-old Cui Xianren is a native of Huiqi Manchu Ethnic Town, Wangkui county, of northeast China's Heilongjiang province. His hands and typeface were severely burnt when a diesel barrel exploded during an accident in October 1993, leaving him with movement in only his index and ring fingers. Burdened with a family to feed, Cui was forced to beg on the streets. He would bend on a long sheet of plastic for several hours writing neat and beautiful Chinese characters with his injured fingers. Cui practiced for about ten years to master the feat following the accident. A microblogger posted a photo online of Cui begging and writing on the street of Qingdao city, in east China's Shandong province on October 9. The photo quickly became an Internet sensation, prompting Founder Font, a company under the Peking University Founder Group which specializes in the development of Chinese Fonts, to post a notice on its official microblog to locate the author. Staff from the company finally located Cui on a street in Qingdao on October 12. The two parties signed a working contract on Friday after Founder Font made clear the terms to Cui. Founder will cover the expenditure for Cui's artistic creations and provide him with 50,000 yuan in advance for his livelihood. Cui was asked to first work on a list of 1,000 Chinese characters and send the finished works to the company, which will then incorporate them into its font library after making necessary adjustments. Cui will exclusively enjoy any profit made from commercial development of the fonts within a 50-year time frame. Founder Font said Cui's chalk calligraphy, with its classic beauty, will have huge potential for the designing and advertisement market. Cui had related to the media that during his years practicing the art, he would choose traditional Chinese characters from a dictionary and transform different parts of the characters to make them look like a picture. Cui, who has only three years of primary education, has become the first grass-roots calligrapher to sign with Founder, the company said, adding they would name the fonts after Cui's given name, Xianren.

Images: i, ii, iii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cunzhen Lin

Lin obtained an MA in 2002 from Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkust Leipzig (Academy of Visual Arts) and a PhD in 2012 from the School of Design, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). He is Associate Professor at CAFA.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Chinese typeface recognition in public space. The talk summarizes the factors that influence legibility of Hanzi characters, and deals with the proportion of black and white using statistical analysis. Using statistical analysis, the author discovers the relationship between major Hanzi typefaces, their strokes, texture and legibility. Based on statistics and calculation, this paper examines mathematical relationships between different parameters, and the threshold of black and white in terms of recognizability, ultimately ways of analyzing and testing the legibility of Hanzi typefaces. This paper tests the accuracy of this theory by experimenting with typefaces used in directional signs on highways. [Google] [More]  ⦿

cwTeX

cwTeX: TeX for Chinese. This is the jump page with links to software and sources, including many Chinese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

cwTeX Developement Group

Chinese font development group which made these Chinese typefaces in 2003: CWTEX-BB, CWTEX-F, CWTEX-K, CWTEX-M, CWTEX-R. Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CWTTF
[Tsong-Min Wu]

Some Taiwanese Free Software Foundation supporters designed a number of free Chinese truetype fonts under the guidance of Edward J. Lee between 1999 and 2005. People involved include Tsong-Min Wu and Tsong-Huey Wu. As of 2005, the fonts are cwTeXFangSong, cwTeXHeiBold, cwTeXKai, cwTeXMing, cwTeXYen. All fonts cover Chinese, Korean and Latin as well. The project is part of CLE (Chinese GNU/Linux Extensions) located in Taiwan. The fonts are especially useful with cwTeX. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CYanHeiHK

CYanHeiHK is an OpenType font based on Source Han Sans (SHS) from Adobe and Google (it is called Noto Sans CJK when distributed by Google). A number of glyphs have been modified so that it is more suitable for use in Hong Kong. Note: Source Han Sans / Noto Sans CJK were originally designed by Ryoko Nishizuka (kana & ideographs), Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang and Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters & syllables). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cykle (was: Mr. Dogo)

Parisian-Chinese graphic designer who created Celsius (2015), Megève (2013), Apollo (2012, a monoline avant-garde typeface), Comma (2012, a geometric typeface), FoldFont (2011), Croxxtypo (2011, octagonal), and CrossTypo (2011).

Old Behance link for Mr. Dogo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CYMingHK

CYMingHK is an OpenType font based on Source Han Serif from Adobe and Google (it is called Noto Serif CJK when distributed by Google). A number of glyphs have been modified so that it is more suitable for use in Hong Kong. Note: Source Han Serif / Noto Sans CJK were originally designed by Ryoko Nishizuka (kana & ideographs), Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang and Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters & syllables). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cynthia Wong

Beijing, China-based designer of a vector format display typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Gu

Designer in Shnaghai, who created the Latin typeface Melted (2015) and Vintage (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Hu

Book designer in Beijing. Creator of an experimental typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daqing Chu
[Pinyin fonts for Windows]

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David Hong

Shenzhen, China-based designer of a beautiful high-contrast Chinese typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Prager Branner

Director of the Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork. Designer of these Mac fonts, which area avialable upon request: Neouiue Mac Font (based on the New York font), Longyan Mac Font (monowidth, places any diacritic over any character) and Shyrbaw Mac Font (based on the Times font), all of which include Pinyin tone diacritics over vowels. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DEMO Company
[Mak Sui Shing]

Mak Sui Shing (Hong Kong) created these freeware dingbat fonts in 2001-2002: CNg001, CNg002, CNg003, CNg004, CNg005, CNg009, ChopStick, DEMObeard, DEMObig5, DEMOcoins, DEMOflower, DEMOhorse, DEMOlantern, DEMOmusic, DEMOrose, DEMOstamp, DEMOsword, DEMOtree, DEMOwatch, DemoBun, DemoFood-2001, DemoXmas, cn12. Most of these fonts have Chinese symbols. He is working on Hand Signs, Doll Houses, Letter Flags and AZFonts (caps with embedded flowers). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Roegel
[LaTeX Navigator]

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Dennis Pelli

Creator of the free eye chart font Sloan (1990-1994, Metropia Ltd), which is based on Louise Sloan's design, which in turn has been designated the US standard for acuity testing by the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Committee on Vision (1980, Adv Ophthalmol, 41, 103-148). The standard specifies only the letters CDHKNORSVZ, whereas the font file provides a complete uppercase alphabet A-Z. This font was developed for the Pelli-Robson Contrast Sensitivity Chart. It is made available at the Pelli Lab in the Psychology Department of New York University. He also created the free font Yung (2006): 26 Chinese characters a-z based on high-resolution scans of Yung Chih-sheng's beautiful calligraphy in a beginning Chinese primer (DeFrancis, J., 1976, Character Text for Beginning Chinese, Second Ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Derek Lee

During his studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, Derek Lee (Kwun Tong, Hong Kong) created an origami typeface for Chinese (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Design Tang
[Tang Shipeng]

Tang Shipeng (b. 1980, Zhejiang) graduated from the University of Science and Technology in Beijing. Now based in Shanghai, he is the creator of a number of decorative Chinese and Latin typefaces in 2012. These include experimental, connect-the-dots, geometric, oriental simulation, hexagonal, and tangram designs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Design210
[Doo-Yul Kwak]

Major Korean type foundry set up in 2014 by Korean type designer Doo-Yul Kwak. Design210 takes credit for about one thousand orginal fonts. Kwak developed several major corporate typefaces for clients that include Samsung and KIA Motors. Design210's typefaces published at MyFonts all cover Latin and Hangul:

• 210 Namoogothic (2021, by Doo-Yul Kwak). A clean sans style with over 20 thousand glyphs covering also Japanese and Chinese.
• 210 Kookminchejo. A sans style with a squarish Hangul part.

With Nicolas Noh, Doo-Yul Kwak codesigned the Latin/Hangul script font Nanum Brush Script (2010, NHN Corporation), which is an Apple system font. URL for NHN. Nanum Brush Script at Google Fonts.

While working for Sandoll, he won an award in the Granshan 2014 competition for Sandoll Tokyo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

deva.net

Chinese truetype fonts: in TTF format, Wei, Wov, WS2, WL3, NTU-MM, NTU-Kai. In TTC format, MingLi. In BDF and PCF formats, many other fonts. Unfortunately, I am getting "permission denied" now. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diabetes Australia Multilingual Fonts

Archive: -JS-Rapee (Thai), ER-Bukinist-1251 (Ukranian), Simsun (Chinese), NUTANU-Regular (Hindi), Times-New-Roman-Greek, VPS-Times (Vietnamese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dian Feng

Dian Feng (Chicago, IL, then New York City, and then Hong Kong) designed the delicate oriental simulation typeface Hybrid and the shadow typeface Space in 2013 during his studies at UIUC in Chicago. Before that, he worked as an architectural assistant at the Beijing Institute Of Architecture Design, 1A3 Studio, Beijing, China. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diane DiPiazza
[Dinc Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dinc Type
[Diane DiPiazza]

Commercial and free fonts designed by Diane DiPiazza, who lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, and was the original bass player for The Misfits. She is now in Lodi, NJ. Dinc closed its doors in January 2006 but returned some time later in 2006. Most of the fonts evoke the fifties.

Wikipedia states: Diane DiPiazza was the first bass player for the The Misfits, although she does not appear on any album. She left the band, vacating the spot that was quickly filled by Jerry Only. Her name is often incorrectly spelled Diane DiPiaza. Growing up in Lodi, New Jersey, she was a friend of Glenn Danzig, the founder of the Misfits. The first lineup consisted of Glenn on vocals and electric piano, Diane on bass guitar, Jimmy Battle on guitar and Manny Martínez on drums. On the Cough/Cool single, The Misfits first release, she is the Diane who Glenn thanks on the sleeve. Diane DiPiazza is an artist. She is a type designer who distributes free fonts and vintage black and white line art at dinc! She is art director at mystifyinglyGLADdesign, who designs for the web, clothing, and packaging. She designs hand screened gig posters and many other forms of rock 'n roll art, retro art, modern art. A collector of vintage design elements, her style has been called retro/modern. Diane also creates custom hand stamped silver jewelry as well as a line of tattoo inspired pieces. She is in the process of recording a demo LP with the working title Last Year's Fab Rave, on which she plays all the instruments, including bass.

Free fonts include Bobo, Dilettante, Modern-Love, Note-To-Self, Plastic-U, Post-No-Bills, Road-Crew, Saturdays-Girl, Sleeptalk, Sugaree, Mod Guitars, Woof Squared, Hatcheck, Mess Kit, Billy Dolls, Knitwits, Claim to Fame, Girlfriend, Book of Joe, Joybuzzer (2007, rough outline), Autos (2007, old typewriter), U Better, The Con, Claim to Fame, Girlfriend, Book of Joe, Ahmet.

In 2006, she created Road Crew (2006, rough stencil), DINC (2006, blackletter), Post No Bills (2006, stencil), Ashtrays&Art.

Typefaces from 2005: Neat Neat Neat, Shut Up, Hello Hey Joe, Wings For wheels, Trustmaker, Bad To Me, BellBottomBlues, DinkyToy, Funkhouse, Rodeoboy, SaturdaysGirl, SoWhat, Blue Monday, Betcha By Golly Wow, Nathaniel (2005, blackletter), Brillo Blue, Doctor My Eye, Guilt For Dreaming, Rhyming Bells, Bob's Your Uncle, Princess Jasmine, 45, Seven, 7-7000, Ahmet, Alexei, Boxer, Cinema Aisles, Divine Intervention, Synchronicity, Tangled Up In Blue, Tjinder, Untrue, Special Edition 6, 20,000 Roads, Big Diamonds, Charly Baltimore, Dream, Fever In The Funkhouse, Green&Blue, Ring Ring, Swoop Swoop.

Typefaces from 2004: Fuzzbox (2004; not to be confused with Bragagna's pre-2004 font by the same name), Ace In The Hole, Balls, The Christmas Font, Beau Geste, ByeBye, Heart, Loverboy, Sycophant, The Comedians, Fishboy, Truth, King Me, Snapper, Blue Heaven, Oceans Eleven, Fresh Fish Seven, Trason, Your Type, Da Doo Ron Ron, Big Flirt, Dicky Dee, Boxtop, Satellites, Upsmack, Starry, Silicon Chip, Howdy, Grandpa Boy, Scarlet Letter, Capsule, Doggy, Little Eden, Frank Mills, Chewtoy, Jez, OneWitU, BrineShrimp, Joe College (2004, pixel face), stj-fro, One Inch Rock (2004, pixel face), Black Hole, Ya Ya Baby, Blondie, ShaLaLa, Lower Eastside, GeeWhiz, Sixteen, Joe Strummer, Amy Johnson, JoJo, JodiGirl, Zelda, Hipster, LaDolceVita, LittleLove, Mod, MrEarl, Noveltease, QBats, Ranger, Rhymes, BarkingDog, BFBigmouth, BooHoo, Chance, CowardSquared, Cupid, DincCorona, FiftyFive, FunkyBut, Gamble, HelloHello, IdiotWind, JimmyCap, Luck, Metropolitan, MidnightKiss, Mine (2004, letters in hearts), PerfectCouple, Resolution, Spitball, StencilMeIn, TypeToyNight, YrChickens.

Typefaces designed in 2003: 11592003, 2004, BrokenPromise, DincCorona, DoublyBlessed, EchoPark, FiftyFive, Fishing, FunkyBut, HelloHello, Hoboken, InstantKarma, Integrity, KaseyMac, PeppermintLump, Resolution, StencilMeIn, ThreeCubicFeet, TypeToyNight, Crybaby, DeepDark, MajorLift, Mikes, MinorFall, Beeper, Kate, Blacktop, Def Caroline, EZ Bake, JoJo, Kima, Bait, Dreamgirl, Sugar Daddy, Friday, Birth of the True, Soul Deep, Virginia Plain, Feelin' Groovy, Sunday SF, Socks, Boy Toy and Sweet Potato, FunnyValentine, Laura, LonelyFrog, Pati, BrokenDoll, Placemats, Satori, Scout, ThousandLies, ThousandOceans, GetTheeGone, Promises, Rudeboy, YuppieFraud.

Typefaces designed in 2002: Emmanuel, Strummer, Teardrops, Busterboy, Evergreen, Blulite, Respect, Pretty Baby, Hickory Wind, Chelsea Boys, Femme Fatale, Tour de Lance, Peppermint Lump, Ce La Luna! Nous, El Goodo (2002, pixel font), Big Boy, Farfallena, Life On Mars, Saturn Return, GeeWhiz, Train in Vain, Massive Blur, Lonely Planet Boy, Littlebits, Secretarial Pool, Eight Bits, Firefly, Fluff, Startone, Cupcake, Diet Dr. Creep, Dr. Creep, messaround, Pencilbox, Crush No 47, Crush No 49, and Dialtone. Mac and PC. Plus Starry F. Hope (1997) at Chank's site.

Commercial fonts: Booboy, Ingigo (2001, script font), Rufus (2001: four pixel/bitmap fonts), Chinese Symbols: Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Boxtop Fontset, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Lovelight, Moonlight, Sunlight, YaYa, Alvin, Amplifier, BigBeatBold, BigBox, Bit-Thing, Boxboy, Chatterbox, Chinatown (oriental simulation), Chopsticks, Console, Cup O'Joe, dincBATS, dincINK, Dinette, DincINK (1998), Dixie, Dreamboat, Duojet, Esquire, Fireball, Flashlight, FourWay, Geebot, gomer, goober, Highball, Homework, jacks, Jetage, Jetage Hi-Fi, Jetage Lo-Fi, Kingbats, Light Series, Loverboy, Moondog, Mister Lee, Mr. Big Stuff, PaperTiger, Pipeline, Popstar, Pushpop, Recordhop, Rocketship, Roundup, Rubberduck, Satellite, Scripto, SquareBox, SquareCircle, Speedometer, Starlite, Sugar, Swizzle, Thinman, transistor, TwinTone, Ultramatic, Variable Videobox, W. Square, Wash&Wear, Whatnot, Winky, Yin Yang, Tight Toy Night, Funtime, OCRDINC01, 02 (OCR-like fonts), Whirlwind, Gaslight, Love, Captain, Funtime, FiFi, Fakebook, FlameJob, OCRDINC, Tight Toy Night, Swingbats, Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, YaYa, Boxtop Fontset, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Moonlight, Sunlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Hotrod, Iceberg, Gutterball, Homewrecker, Bubba, Starry Night, Lady Luck, Automobile, Hydromatic, Seventeen, Whirlwind, Gaslight, Love, Captain, Swingbats, FiFi, Flamejob, Fakebook, Madness, Apple Scruffs, Marmalade, Queen of Corona, Cupcake, Starry Eyes, Juice, Fivebits (2002, pixel font), Matchbox, Hot Burrito #3, Fishsticks, Eightbits (pixel font), FoolsGold, Drive, Sleepwalk, Icecube, Pruneface, Witness 2HB, Zerogirl (stencil font, 2002), Fairytale of New York, Levi Stubb's Tears, AllModCons, Babylon, BigBoy, ChampsElysees, ConcreteandClay, ElGoodo, Farfallena, Heroes&Villains, LifeOnMars, LittleRamona, MerseyBeat, MetalGuru, Missile, OnYourBike, Pinup, Reconnez, SaturdaysGirl, SaturnReturn, ShepherdsBush, Tatum, TiniestDancer, TumbinDice, VeraGemini, YesterMe, Rising, Treason, Monami Vrai, Robot Girl, Tattooed Sailor, Sunrise, Midnight, Kakadu, Ana, Ace, Yobbo (2002, dot matrix font), GoGo (2002, pixel font), Waltzing Matilda, Memorial Day 911, Good Riddance, Boys, One Tin Soldier, One After 909, Joey, Infidelities.

Some of her fonts can be bought at SnapFonts. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

dmtr40in

Chinese outfit which has the copyright to XLinSans (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dooo Design Studio

Design studio in Beijing that created the sword-inspired Blade Font in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Doo-Yul Kwak
[Design210]

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Dorgel Chung

Beijing-based designer of the Ming-style Chinese typeface MauMing (2012-2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Download HappyChina

A Chinese truetype font, Simkai. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang
[HtWang Graphics Laboratory]

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Dragonfly

Downloads of many truly free font packages for all languages. Besides the Ghostscript type 1 collection, the free Charter fonts, and the Utopia, Luxi and Courier series, we find these truetype fonts: 09t@, AndaleMono, Antiqu@rk, Arial-Black, Arial-BoldItalicMT, Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, ArialMT, Baekmuk-Batang, Baekmuk-Dotum, Baekmuk-Gulim, Baekmuk-Headline, Bandal, BitstreamCyberBase-Roman, BitstreamVeraSans-Bold, BitstreamVeraSans-BoldOblique, BitstreamVeraSans-Oblique, BitstreamVeraSans-Roman, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Bold, BitstreamVeraSansMono-BoldOb, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Oblique, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Roman, BitstreamVeraSerif-Bold, BitstreamVeraSerif-Roman, BousungEG-Light-GB, ComicSansMS-Bold, ComicSansMS, CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT, CourierNewPS-BoldMT, CourierNewPS-ItalicMT, CourierNewPSMT, Eunjin, GBZenKai-Medium, GeometricSlab703BT-Light, GeometricSlab703BT-LightItalic, Georgia-Bold, Georgia-BoldItalic, Georgia-Italic, Georgia, Impact, LuxiMono-Bold, LuxiMono-BoldOblique, LuxiMono-Oblique, LuxiMono, LuxiSans-Bold, LuxiSans-BoldOblique, LuxiSans-Oblique, LuxiSans, LuxiSerif-Bold, LuxiSerif-BoldOblique, LuxiSerif-Oblique, LuxiSerif, Kochi-Gothic, Kochi-Mincho, Ongdalsam, Sazanami-Gothic-Regular, Sazanami-Mincho-Regular, ShanHeiSun-Light, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPSMT, Trebuchet-BoldItalic, TrebuchetMS-Bold, TrebuchetMS-Italic, TrebuchetMS, UnBatang-Bold, UnBatang, UnBom, UnDotum-Bold, UnDotum, UnGraphic-Bold, UnGraphic, UnGungseo, UnJamoBatang, UnJamoDotum, UnJamoNovel, UnJamoSora, UnPen, UnPenheulim, UnPilgi-Bold, UnPilgi, UnShinmun, UnTaza, UnYetgul, Verdana-Bold, Verdana-BoldItalic, Verdana-Italic, Verdana, Webdings, ZenKai-Medium. They cover European, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Driv

Malaysian-born graphic designer (b. 1983), who works out of Shanghai. Behance link. In 2009, he created the experimental grungy typeface Between Skin for issue No.6 of Territory magazine, in collaboration with Chris Wong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Du Qin

DU Qin is PhD Candidate at China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. His thesis is concerned with Chinese typography. Du Qin was involved in curatorial and organisational work of ICOGRADA Congress in Beijing as a core member of the CAFA team in 2009. He graduated from Nanjing University with a BA in English and studied design in Designskolen in Denmark and Swinburne University of Technology in Australia before his current research work at CAFA.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: A study on text image and typographical texture of Chinese typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dunhuang Art

In the book Dunhuang Art: Through the Eyes of Duan Wenjie (1994, New Delhi), the special cave art of Dunhunag, on the silk road in China's Gobi Desert, is discussed. The cluster of 492 caves, the Mogao Caves, contain 45,000 square metres of frescoes and 2,415 stucco statues as shrines to Buddha. Patterns of that art and ceiling decorations were digitized into a font by Dick Pape in 2009, called DunHuang Art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DynaComware Corp

Taiwan-based foundry involved in the production of both Chinese and Japanese fonts, est. 1987 as DynaLab. It now has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei. FontShop link. It made fonts such as LiSong Pro (2003, distributed with Apple software), LiHei Pro (2003, for Chinese, which can be downloaded here), Biau Kai (1995, distributed with Apple software), DFP Kantei Ryu, DFP Kyokashotai, and DFP Reisho.

Linotype sells these (incomplete list): DF Brush Japanese Font Family, DF Bu Ding Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Bun Cho Min Japanese Font Family, DF Cai Dai Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Craft Japanese Font Family, DF Dan Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF En En Japanese Font Family, DF En Kai Japanese Font Family, DF Fang Yuan Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ga Gei Japanese Font Family, DF Gan Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gang Bi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Glide Japanese Font Family, DF Go Hitu Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gyo Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF H G Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Hai Bao Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Hei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Hibi Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Hibi Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Horror Japanese Font Family, DF Jin Wen Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF K Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Ka Gei Japanese Font Family, DF Kai Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Kaku Pop Japanese Font Family, DF Kaku Tai Hi Japanese Font Family, DF Kann Tei Ryu Japanese Font Family, DF Kann Ting Liu Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ken Ryu Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Ki Sou Kyu Japanese Font Family, DF Kin Bun Japanese Font Family, DF Ko Tai O Hi Japanese Font Family, DF Kyo Geki Japanese Font Family, DF Kyo Sui Japanese Font Family, DF Lei Ga So Japanese Font Family, DF Li Jin Hei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Long Men Simplified Chinese Font Family, DFK Mincho Korean, DF Naughty Japanese Font Family, DF Neko Maru Japanese Font Family, DF PenJi Japanese Font Family, DF POP 1 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP 2 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP 3 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP Mix Japanese Font Family, DF Ren Ren Japanese Font Family, DF Renga Japanese Font Family, DF Ribon Japanese Font Family, DF Script Li Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Miao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Er Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Hsiu Traditional Chinese Font Family, Liu Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Tsai Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Ya Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Yun Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Chu Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Mo Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Pao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Tou Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Qiao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Shao Nv Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Shi Yi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Shou Jin Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF So Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Song Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF SP Lei Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Star Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Std Kai Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Std Song Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Stick Japanese Font Family, DF Tan Li Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Taru Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Tegaki Warabe Japanese Font Family, DF Toge Pop Japanese Font Family, DF Wa Wa Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Wie Bei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ya Song Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF YaYi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Yu Ga So Japanese Font Family, DF Yuan Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Zong Yi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Zou Kei Japanese Font Family.

Wawati (2012) is an Apple system font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DynaComware downloads

This Chinese font archive carries part of the DynaComware collection. See also here and here. The latter link has these DynaComware fonts: DFBangShuStd-W8, DFBiaoKaiShuStd-W5, DFBiaoSongStd-W4, DFCaiDaiStd-W7, DFDouDouStd-W3, DFDouDouStd-W5, DFFangSongStd-W2, DFFangSongStd-W4, DFFangSongStd-W6, DFFangYuanStd-W7, DFGangBiStd-W2, DFGirlStd-W3, DFGirlStd-W5, DFGirlStd-W7, DFGuYinStd-W5, DFHaiBaoStd-W12, DFHaiBaoStd-W9, DFHeiStd-W12, DFHeiStd-W3, DFHeiStd-W5, DFHeiStd-W7, DFHeiStd-W9, DFHuaZongStd-W5, DFHuiZongStd-W5, DFJinWenStd-W3, DFKaiShuStd-W3, DFKaiShuStd-W5, DFKaiShuStd-W7, DFKaiShuStd-W9, DFKanTingLiuStd-W9, DFKangKaiStd-W5, DFKuoTaiBeiStd-W4, DFLiHeiStd-W3, DFLiHeiStd-W5, DFLiHeiStd-W7, DFLiKaiShuStd-W5, DFLiKingHeiStd-W8, DFLiShuStd-W3, DFLiShuStd-W5, DFLiShuStd-W7, DFLiSongStd-W3, DFLiSongStd-W5, DFLiSongStd-W7, DFLiYuanStd-W7, DFLiYuanStd-W8, DFLianLianStd-W2, DFLianLianStd-W4, DFLiuLiStd-W5, DFLiuLiStd-W7, DFLiuXianStd-W3, DFLiuYeStd-W3, DFLungMenStd-W9, DFMingStd-W12, DFMingStd-W3, DFMingStd-W5, DFMingStd-W7, DFMingStd-W9, DFMoStd-W9, DFNewChuanStd-W5, DFOYangXunStd-W5, DFPOP1Std-W5, DFPOP1Std-W7, DFPOP1Std-W9, DFPOP2Std-W9, DFPOP3Std-W12, DFPuDingStd-W12, DFPuDingStd-W7, DFShiYiStd-W5, DFSoZingStd-W3, DFSuMoStd-W12, DFTanKaiStd-W5, DFTanLiStd-W5, DFTanLiStd-W7, DFTieXianStd-W3, DFTongTongStd-W3, DFWZMingStd-W4, DFWaWaStd-W5, DFWaWaStd-W7, DFWeiBeiStd-W7, DFXingKaiStd-W5, DFXingShuStd-W5, DFYaYiStd-W6, DFYanKaiStd-W5, DFYanKaiStd-W7, DFYanKaiStd-W9, DFYeaSongStd-W9, DFYingHeiStd-W7, DFYuanStd-W12, DFYuanStd-W3, DFYuanStd-W5, DFYuanStd-W7, DFYuanStd-W8, DFYuanStd-W9, DFYuanYuanStd-W2, DFYuanYuanStd-W4, DFZongKaiStd-W7, DFZongYiStd-W5, DFZongYiStd-W7, DFZongYiStd-W9. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DynaFont

Major producer of Chinese and Japanese fonts. Dynafont OpenType 127 Chinese Fonts (2006) is Dynafont's latest OpenType Chinese font package with 127 fonts. It retails for 200 USD. see also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DynaFonts 98

"DynaFonts 98, is an extensive font package (7 CD's) containing 55 traditional and simplified Chinese True Type fonts (PC)." 150 USD. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DynaLab

Japanese company, selling Japanese and Chinese postscript fonts here. Example: 38 fonts for 2400 USD. Demo download page. See also here. The Corel 13 CD has these DynaLab CJK fonts, dated 1997: DFGothic-EB, DFGothic-SU, DFGothic-UB, DFGyoSho-Lt, DFKGothic-Bd, DFKGothic-Md, DFKMincho-Bd, DFKMincho-Md, DFKaiSho-Lt, DFKaiSho-Md, DFKaiSho-SB, DFKaiSho-UB, DFKoIn-W4, DFKyoKaSho-W4, DFLeiGaSo-W9, DFMaruGothic-Bd, DFMaruGothic-Lt, DFMaruGothic-Md, DFMaruMoji-SL, DFMaruMoji-W9, DFMincho-SU, DFMincho-UB, DFMincho-W5, DFPOP1-SB, DFPOP1-W12, DFPOP1-W3, DFPOP1-W5, DFPOP1-W9, DFPOP2-W12, DFPOP2-W9, DFRuLei-W5, DFRuLei-W7, DFSinSo-W3, DFSoGei-W7, DFSoKing-W3, DFSumo-W12, DFTFLeiSho-W5, DFTFLeiSho-W7, DFTFLeiSho-W9. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Easytone Fonts
[James E. Dew]

Pinyin fonts: Freeware fonts for writing romanized Mandarin Chinese using the standard four tone marks. EasyTone fonts are prepared by James E. Dew who works in Beijing's Tsinghua University. Included are 4KeyCourier and 4KeyTimesRoman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Editions Alternatives

French publisher which has a nice series of books on writing. These include "Le Verbe géomètre Numérographies et écritures mathématiques" (Valère-Marie Marchand, 2004), "Lettres Latines Rencontre avec des formes remarquables" (Laurent Pflughaupt), "Les alphabets de l'oubli Signes et savoirs perdus" (Valère-Marie Marchand), "Le Bruissement du calame Histoire de l'écriture arabe" (Sophia Tazi-Sadeq), and "Entre Ciel et Terre Sur les traces de l'écriture chinoise" (Shi Bo). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edward G.J. Lee

Developer in Taiwan of the free GNU-license font family Wang (2004), which contains a number of full Chinese fonts in all formats: HanWangWCL01, HanWangWCL02, HanWangWCL03, HanWangWCL04, HanWangWCL05, HanWangWCL06, HanWangWCL07, HanWangWCL08, HanWangWCL09, HanWangWCL10, HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangKaiMediumChuIn, HanWangMingMediumPoIn1, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn1, HanWangMingMediumPoIn2, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn2, HanWangMingMediumPoIn3, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn3, HanWangMingLight, HanWangMingMedium, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangYenLight, HanWangYenHeavy, HanWangHeiLight, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangLiSuMedium, HanWangFangSongMedium, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangZonYi, HanWangYanKai, HanWangShinSuMedium, HanWangCC02, HanWangCC15, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangGB06, HanWang-KaiBold-Gb5, HanWang-WeiBeiMedium-Gb5, HanWang-FangSongMedium-Gb5, HanWang-SinSongThin-Gb5. All these fonts were originally created by Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang of HtWang Graphics Laboratory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edward G.J. Lee
[LGJ Font Notes]

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Edwina Lee

Edwina Lee works for the Taiwanese foundry Arphic Technologies. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam How to find or develop matched Chinese typefaces for existing Latin typefaces. She also spoke at ATypI 2017 in Montreal and at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, where together with Jeff Wu of Arphic she pointed out the challenges of designing variable Chinese fonts. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Egg Lu

Chinese designer of the Chinese font Font Number (2006). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eighth Founder Type Design Competition

This is the eighth competition organized (in 2016) by the Chinese type foundry Founder Type. the first one was held in 2001. Awards are given in the Latin and Chinese categories. Information file. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elaine Wong

Aka Animagis. Guangzhou, China-based creator of the alchemic typeface Eureka (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Balakhnova

Graphic designer in Shenzhen, China. ArtMy (2010) is an ornamental art nouveau typeface that was based on letters hand-drawn by herself. [Google] [More]  ⦿

En Fontke

Chinese type site that identifies and catalogues over 500,000 fonts for all languages. It feels like this entire site is automated. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Epoch times

Links to many Chinese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Epoch Times

Chinese font links. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Amate
[Rhinophant Graphics]

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Eunice Ying

Shanghai-based designer of a set of (Latin) initial caps inspired by Chinese folk art (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fandol
[Clerk Ma]

Free Opentype Chinese fonts for Chinese typesetting available via CTAN, the Math TeX archive. The Fandol team consists of Clerk Ma and Jie Su. Created in 2013, the font family covers the basic Chinese styles, FandolSong (like didone), FandolHei (like sans), FandolKai (calligraphic) and FandolFang (like slab serif). All fonts cover Latin and Chinese, and some have Japanese coverage as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fang Zheng Fonts

A collection of free Chinese fonts. For commercial versions, go here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fangchen Dai

Beijing, China-based designer of the all caps Latin display typeface DFC (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fedora Project: ZY Song

This archive contains ZY Song (2001, ZhongYi Electronic Co.), a 30,000 plus Chinese font. It covers these languages: Asu, Bemba, Bena, Bulgarian, Chiga, Chinese, Congo Swahili, Cornish, English, Gusii, Indonesian, Japanese, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Luo, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malay, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Nyankole, Oromo, Rombo, Rundi, Russian, Rwa, Samburu, Sangu, Shambala, Shona, Sichuan Yi, Soga, Somali, Swahili, Taita, Teso, Tibetan, Vunjo, Zulu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fifth Founder Type Chinese Type Design Competition

The Center for Chinese Font Design and Research and Beijing Founder Electronics Co.,Ltd jointly organized this Chinese type design competition in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

figfonts-cjk 2.2-3

Chinese-Japanese-Korean fonts for figlet, a GNU Linux program by Francesco Tapparo. "Figlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters. It can create characters in many different styles and can kern and "smush" these characters together in various ways. Figlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the end of e-mail and Usenet messages. " Fonts included: Fang Song Ti, Song Ti, CNS, Jiskan 16, Hanglg16, Kanglm16. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Finder

Finder is a multiscript typeface developed in 2020 at Black Foundry by Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye and Zhang Miao. This neutral sans is intended for interface design, and covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Traditional Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Firefly Sung

In 2004, a Taiwanese OSS writer, Firefly, completed a new set of 12x16 bitmap fonts based on the four public domain Arphic fonts. He merged Traditional and Simplified Chinese glyphs and embedded the manually optimized bitmap fonts into a single TTF, which is known as fireflysung.ttf. It consists of 16976 glyphs. Download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fisher Virginia

Download Ming Liu (TrueType) for Chinese Traditional, MS Hei (TrueType) for Chinese Simplified, MS Song (TrueType) for Chinese Simplified, MS Gothic (TrueType) for Japanese, MS Mincho (TrueType) for Japanese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flash8.net

Chinese font archive that carries many Latin fonts as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florian Wittig

Florian spent the year 2008 in Xi'an, China, where he studied the Chinese language, letterforms and calligraphy. He has been working at Linotype since 2010 as a font engineer, mostly dealing with web fonts.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Zhou Youguang, the father of Pinyin. The abstract of that talk: Hanyu Pinyin is not just a system to romanize Chinese characters. It is a phonetic transcription of Putonghua, the so called Standard Chinese, and now serves as the most frequently used input method for Chinese characters on computers and mobile devices. Not only has it helped to increase literacy in the People's Republic of China since its introduction in 1958, it is also the reason why every child in China knows the Latin alphabet and it helps foreigners all over the world to pronounce Chinese words and learn the Chinese language. This presentation talks about the life and work of linguist Zhou Yougang, who turned 106 this year [2012], and his most famous creation, Hanyu Pinyin. How does the Pinyin system work? What are its advantages over other transcription methods? And why has it never replaced Chinese characters? [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fong Yi Ching

Hong Kong-based creator of the Chinese typeface Lol (2013), which is based on emoji. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FontChina

Chinese font archive. Seems dysfunctional. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontchu.com

Vietnamese site. It has an archive of Vietnamese, Korean, Latin, Chinese and Japanese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Font.cn

Type portal in China. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Font.com.cn

Chinese font archive. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FONT.com.cn

Chinese font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontcx

Chinese site that has an archive of both Latin and Chinese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Font.Knowsky

Chinese type information site with a 2000-strong Latin font archive. Downloads not easy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fonts and font facilities supplied with ghostscript

Information on fonts in ghostscript. Discussed are the 35 free URW type 1 fonts, Basil Malyshev's Paradissa fonts for Computer Modern, the use of the Fontmap, the prfont.ps program for printing a sample sheet, the free Hanzi font (Chinese) by Jackson Technologies, the free Kanji type 1 fonts by Tetsurou Tanaka of the Department of Engineering, University of Tokyo, N. Glonty and A. Samarin's CM Cyrillic fonts, the bdftops (BDF font to type 1 font) conversion program, and many technical details. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Founder Type (or: Founder Corporation, or: Beijing Founder Electronics)

The main Chinese foundry, also called the Beijing Founder Electronic Co., Ltd. (see elsewhere on this page), located in Beijing. In 2015, its General Manager of the Font Division was Jianguo Zhang (Beijing) and its Font Development Director was Yin Qiu (Beijing). Founder Corporation produced fonts such as FZShuTi and FZYaoTi (1998) (download these here). Formerly Zhongyi. The following typefaces from 1998-1999 are here: FZBaoSong-Z04, FZBaoSong-Z04S, FZCaiYun-M09S, FZChaoCuHei-M10S, FZDaBiaoSong-B06S, FZDaHei-B02S, FZFangSong-Z02, FZFangSong-Z02S, FZFangSong-Z02T. This site has FZWeiBei-S03S (1998). Maybe the most complete collection is here: FZBaoSong-Z04, FZCaiYun-M09, FZChaoCuHei-M10, FZCuQian-M17, FZCuSong-B09, FZCuYuan-M03, FZDaBiaoSong-B06, FZDaHei-B02, FZFangSong-Z02, FZHei-B01, FZHei-B01S, FZHuPo-M04, FZHuaLi-M14, FZHuangCao-S09, FZKai-Z03, FZKangTi-S07, FZLiBian-S02, FZLiShu-II-S06, FZLiShu-S01, FZMeiHei-M07, FZNew-BaoSong-Z12, FZNew-ShuTi-S08, FZPangWa-M18, FZPingHe-S11, FZShaoEr-M11, FZShouJinShu-S10, FZShuSong-Z01, FZShuTi-S05, FZShuiZhu-M08, FZSong-III-Z05, FZSongHei-B07, FZSongYi-Z13, FZWeiBei-S03, FZXiDengXian-Z06, FZXiHei-I-Z08, FZXiQian-M15, FZXiShanHu-M13, FZXiYuan-M01, FZXiaoBiaoSong-B05, FZXingKai-S04, FZYaoTi-M06, FZYouXian-Z09, FZZhiYi-M12, FZZhongDengXian-Z07, FZZhongQian-M16, FZZhunYuan-M02, FZZongYi-M05. EU-HX (2001) contains Latin glyphs and symbols. See here for a direct download of the EU and FZ families. Founder Lanting TrueType 200 (125 dollars) is a package of 62 fonts. Small catalog.

Founder Type won two awards in the 25 TDC competition in 2022 for FZ Guomeijindao (jointly developed by FounderType and the China Academy of Art. This font takes the old letterhead of the China Academy of Art as the style source and inspiration, to carry forward and convey the spirit in the new era. Strokes are standardized and unified, giving people a sense of pleasing to the eyes) and FZ QianLongXingShu (named after the emperor / calligrapher QianLong).

View the Latin portions of some of the Founder typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fourth Founder Type Chinese Type Design Competition

The Center for Chinese Font Design and Research and Beijing Founder Electronics Co.,Ltd jointly organized this Chinese type design competition in 2007. The jury consisted of Akira Kobayashi (Linotype), Professor Wangmin (head of the design department of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts), Zhu Zhiwei (Director of font design at Beijing Founder Electronics Co), Professor Lu Shengzhong (China Central Academy of Fine Arts), Li Shaobo (China Central Academy of Fine Arts), Professor Yu Bingnan (Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University), Jin Liqiang (a designer from Hong Kong) and Xubin (a Chinese artist in the USA). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fractal Font

Based on research by Professor Horace H.S. Ip and Dr. Helena T.F. Wong at the Department of Computer Science of the City University of Hong Kong, two approaches are followed for the generation of Chinese (and other) calligraphic fonts. In the first approach, a truetype font's features are detected using fractals, and this permits generation of characters using calligraphic pens. In a second approach, a (physical) brush model is able to capture the physical effects of the writing process due to brush geometry, brush orientations and motions, ink absorption and depositing by the brush hairs. Resulting papers:

• Horace H S Ip, Helena T F Wong, Florence Y Mong, "Representing Oriental Handwritten Scripts Using Fractals", CPCOL, Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Vol. 10, No. 1, June 1996, pp. 49-64.
• Horace H S Ip, Helena T F Wong, "Generation of Brush Written Characters with fractal Characteristics from True-type Fonts", ICCPOL, 17th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, pp. 156-161, Hong Kong, April 2-4, 1997.
• Horace H S Ip, Helena T F Wong, "Calligraphic Character Synthesis using Brush Model", CGI'97, Computer Graphics International conference, pp. 13-21, Hasselt-Diepenbeek, Belgium, June 23-27 1997.
• Helena T. F. Wong, Horace H. S. Ip, "Automatic Synthesis of Image Details based on Multiresolution Coherence", The Visual Computer Vol. 13, pp. 412-423, 1997.
• Helena T. F. Wong, Horace H. S. Ip, "Virtual Brush: A Model-Based Synthesis of Chinese Calligraphy ", Computers&Graphics, Vol.24, No.1, 2000.

Frannie Fangning Pan

Hangzhou City, China-based Frannie Fangning Pan is a visual designer from Zhejiang, China, specializing in typography, branding and graphic design. In 2017, she earned her BFA in Visual Communication Design from China Academy of Art. In 2018, she published the handcrafted Latin typeface Frannie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FREELANG Fuentes

Spanish language site for various non-Latin language fonts. A sampling: Afus Deg Wfus 2 (for Berber), AlKatib1 (2001, an Arabic typeface by Naseem Amjad), Albanian, Alice_0 (Lao typeface by by Ngakham Southichack), LAOMAY_5 CHAREUNSILP (Lao typeface by by Soupasith Bouahom), Arial AMU (1999, Armenian typeface by Ruben Tarumian), BaltFrutigerLight, BaltHelveticaMedium, BaltNewCenturySchoolbookMedium, BaltOptimaMedium, BaltTiffanyMedium, BaltUniversityMedium, CarloAtor (1997, Arabic family by Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Caligraf-W, Ciula (1996, a Romanian typeface by Paul Hodor), Cursiv (Romanian), AnlongvillKhek, GabrialAtor (another Arab family by Timm Erickson), Gin, Greek (1993, by Peter J. Gentry&Andrew M. Fountain), HandSign (1993, Sam Wang), HFMassisShantNUnicode (1990-1994, an Armenian unicode typeface by BYTEC Computers and Massis Graphics), HONGKAD (1994, a family by Dr. Hongkad Souvannavong), IsmarBold, IsmarLight, Lakshmi, X000000A (1994, a lao typeface by Sith Bouahom), LAOMAY_2-CHAREUNSILP, Alice3Medium, Alice0Medium, Langagedessignes (1998, by Philippe and François Blondel), NorKirk (1997, a great Armenian typeface by Ruben Tarumian), NovaTempo (for Esperanto), Pazmaveb (for Armenian), ILPRumanianB100 (1996, by Charles J. Coker), Saysettha-Lao, Saysettha-LaoBold, SenzorgaAnhok, Timok, Tribuno, Turn-W, TimesUnicode, ArialAMU, PoliceTypeAPI (for Armenian), Cieszyn-Regular, PoojaNormal, Shibolet (1995, Hebrew), Shree-Ass-0552 (2000, by Modular InfoTech), Tudor-Semi-Lite, Webdunia, TimesNRCzech, TNRLiboriusVII (2001, a fully accented Times typeface by Libor Sztemon), GreatMoravia (2001 Libor Sztemon, Czechia), Johaansi-ye-Peyravi (2001, a full accent blackletter typeface by Libor Sztemon, Czechia), TimesNREuskaraEuransiEsperanto (2001, Libor Sztemon). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fuwei Chen

Hangzhou, China-based creator of the Latin display typeface Halo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fxck Down
[Zhou Shaolong]

Shenzhen, China-based designer of a Chinese font in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

fzfont

About 45 full Chinese truetype fonts for Mac and PC. All fonts made by Founder in Beijing. The fonts with D.ttf in the name are incomplete. The "sea" and "zip" fonts are complete. They are GB encoded and come in two forms: Simplified (jianti, GB 2312-80, "S" in the name) and Traditional (fanti, GB/T 12345-90, "T" in the name) character sets. Some names: FZBaoSong-Z04S, FZCaiYun-M09S, FZCaiYun-M09T, FZChaoCuHei-M10S, FZChaoCuHei-M10T, FZCuHei-B03T, FZCuQian-M17S, FZCuQian-M17T, FZCuSong-B09S, FZCuSong-B09T, FZCuYuan-M03S, FZDaBiaoSong-B06S, FZDaBiaoSong-B06T, FZDaHei-B02S, FZFangSong-Z02S, FZFangSong-Z02T, FZGuLi-S12S, FZGuLi-S12T, FZHuangCao-S09S, FZKangTi-S07S, FZKangTi-S07S, FZKangTi-S07T, FZLiBian-S02S, FZLiBian-S02T, FZLiShu-II-S06S, FZLiShu-II-S06T, FZNew-BaoSong-Z12S, FZShouJinShu-S10T, FZShuiZhu-M08S, FZShuiZhu-M08T, FZYaoTi-M06S, FZYouXian-Z09T, FZZhunYuan-M02S. [Google] [More]  ⦿

GakuSoft

GakuSoft markets KingKanji, a free Japanese flashcard program for Windows.a Included are free Japanese, Chinese and Hangul fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

gangzou

Chinese truetype fonts [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gary Zhang

At the Winchester School of Art, Dalian, China, Gary Zhang created the angular typeface Triangle (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

GB 2312 and GB 18030

The GB 2312-1980 character set standard represents Simplified Chinese characters. GB is short for Guojia Biaozhun, Chinese for national standard. GB 2312-1980 contains 7,445 characters, including 6,763 Hanzi and 682 Latin, symbol and punctuation characters. As additional extensions were added and the Unicode Standard expanded, GB character sets were updated accordingly. The most recent, GB 18030-2000, was introduced in to the Unicode Standard in 2000. It contains room for 1.6 million characters, can include one, two or four byte characters, and includes support for Mongolian, Tibetan, Yi, and Uyghur, as well as all previously supported Chinese scripts. The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) government requires that all language-related products introduced into the Chinese marketplace must be able to function using all the characters in GB 18030. [Google] [More]  ⦿

GCCS supplement (to Big5)

Adds 3,049 characters to Big5's ~13,000, of which a good number are characters for words used in Cantonese, or characters used in person/place names in Hong Kong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

gch

Interesting Taiwanese archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Gu

Toronto-based George W.L. Gu worked in a publishing house in Shanghai for eight years as assistant editor and graphic designer. In 1991, he received his Masters degree from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo where he wrote a thesis on digital typography. After graduation, he worked in the design center of Sharp for four years as the head of the font team and subsequently as an adviser. Since 1988, George has been developing and designing CJK Multiple Master display typefaces. In 1998, he single-handedly completed a set of JIS X 0208-1990 MMT, which contains 25,420 Kanji and Kana symbols. He lives in Toronto since 1993.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Hanzi: The Past, Present, and Future.

In his Hong Kong talk, Gu basically summarizes the history of CJK font design. Here are the main points:

• 1807: Robert Morrison mixed Chinese wooden types with English metal letters for printing.
• 1858: William Gamble (1830-1886) was the first to electroplate Chinese type for printing. In modern printing, we call the typefaces, Hong Kong and Shanghai types, respectively.
• Gamble was invited to Japan and taught the locals how to make hot type. In 1912, Japanese type designers purchased the Linn Boyd Benton machine from the U.S., which allowed them to transition from mould-cutting by hand to large-scale production by machine.
• Ishii Shigekich and Morisawa Noboo, inspired by Monotype, invented the photo-typesetting machine. Nevertheless, due to the vast quantity of Hanzi characters in use, the high cost and time-consuming process of transforming these types from hot metal onto high precision photo-typesetting machine is an ongoing limitation.
• Gu lists the limitations of Far East font designs: Flaws resulting from sizing fonts, Uneven alignment, Disruption of normal spacing, Loss of aesthetics in the development of type families.
• Lu concludes with font production methods that are best suited for use in printed materials, electronic devices, and the internet: (1) Stroke typefaces such as Dyna Font (made in Taiwan), (2) Typefaces that are partitioned such as the Paris and Berlin types, ca. 1836-1860, (3) Use of Fontographer's EM function to alter font weights, (4) Use of MMT technology.

gnu.org

Chinese truetype fonts. And 20 MB worth of international bitmap fonts. The fonts at the latter link contain PCF and BDF sources, and some truetype and type 1 fonts. Among the bitmap (BDF) fonts: ISO8859 series 1 through 9 (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic), KOI8 (Cyrillic), Indic, Lao, Tibetan, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ethiopic, Arabic, IPA, Hebrew. Truetype: Latin-X fonts, Vietnamese (VISCII roman). Type 1: Latin-X fonts, Vietnamese (VISCII roman), Thai (TIS620), Thai National Font. The readme goes: "We greatly appreciate the contribution of Yannis Haralambous and Tereza Tranaka. They made free TrueType and Type1 fonts for Latin-X series, Thai, and Vietnamese. They will eventually make fonts for more character sets." The fonts are called OmegaSerif, and were made in 1999. Also included is the Thai National font Nf3, made by Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich in 1999. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Graphic Box (was: SalomeNJ)
[SalomeNJ]

Shanghai, China-based creator of the script typefaces Just Awesome (2015), Alegance (2015, watercolor brush) and Rushistly (2015). In 2016, he/she made the calligraphic Brigitte Script, Hustle Script (brush script) and Hustle Sans (handcrafted).

Typefaces from 2017: Heartsoul (script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

GreatWall Computer Co

Chinese foundry which produced fonts such as KaiTi_GB2312 (1994) and FangSong_GB2312 (1994). Download these here or here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

grkj

Well over 300 full Chinese truetype fonts. Great page! Has a substantial Bitstream/URW archive as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

gs-cjk

The package distributed in this site provides the patches for gs6.50 to handle CJK (Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean) TrueType fonts as CID-keyed fonts and some improvements upon CID-keyed font handler in gs6.50. We also aim to add our results to the original Aladdin/Artifex ghostscript. The developers are Toshiya Suzuki, Masatake Yamato, Taiji Yamada, Hideyuki Suzuki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guo Bingquan

Guo Bingquan, a native of Nanhai county (Guangdong province, China), is a specialist in type design. He has been working on Chinese font design since 1973. He used to serve as the chief artist at Luck Advertising Group (Australia) for years and taught Chinese font design at Design First Institute of Hong Kong for five years. He was commissioned to do the internal design for the Far East branch of Philip Morris in 1975, to design Chinese and Japanese fonts for Sha-Ken in Japan from 1980 to 2000, to design Chinese, English and Japanese fonts for Monotype in the United States from 2001 until 2014, and to design multiple Chinese fonts for Founder Type (between 2000 and 2015). Guo Bingquan has published over 80 Chinese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guo Xiao

Shanghai-based creator of a Chinese typeface in 2012. He won an award at the Sixth Founder Type Design Award competition in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

gynic.net

69 Chinese/Japanese truetype fonts. About 400MB in all. Slow page, but good quality fonts. Unfortunately, this server shut down. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ham Fonts

MSGothic and MSMincho, as well as other fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Han Jiaying

Han Jiaying (b. 1961, Tianjin, China) graduated from Xi-Yan Academy of Fine Arts. He is the founder of Han Jiaying Design Company, a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and a guest professor of the City Design School of China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is the winner of the golden award of Design for Asia Awards, was voted the most influential designer of 2015 by Forbes, and has claimed awards in International Poster Triennial in Toyama, International Biennale of the Poster in Mexico, and International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno.

He founded Han Jiaying Design Company in 1993 and has opened studios in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Han Qimeng

As a student at University of London, Han Qimeng (Beijing, China) designed an experimental Latin typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Han Zeyu

Shijiazhuang, China-based designer of the (Latin) blueprint typeface Britomart (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hanwen Zhang

Beijing, China-based designer of the Chinese font Colour Tail (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hanyi Font

Chinese type foundry. Its chief operating officer in 2017 is Yiyuan Ma. One of the artistic consultants is Chinese type designer Zhiwei Zhu.

A partial list of their fonts: HY Bai Qi Jian, HY Bai Qing Jian, HY Cai Die Jian, HY Cai Yun Jian, HY Chang Mei Hei Jian, HY Chang Yi Jian, HY Chen Pin Jian, HY Da Li Shu Jian, HY Dai Yu Jian, HY Deng Xian, HY Die Yu Jian, HY Du Du Jian, HY Fang Die Jian, HY Fang Li Jian, HY Fang Song, HY Gan Lan Jian, HY Ha Ha Jian, HY Hai Yun Jian, HY Hei, HY Hei Mi Jian, HY Hei Qi Jian, HY Hu Po Jian, HY Hua Die Jian, HY Huo Chai Jian, HY Jia Shu Jian, HY Kai Ti, HY Li Hei Jian, HY Ling Bo Jian, HY Ling Xin Jian, HY Luo Bo Jian, HY Man Bu Jian, HY Mi Mi Jian, HY Nan Gong Jian, HY Qing Yun Jian, HY Shen Gong Jian, HY Shou Jin Shu Jian, HY Shu Hun Jian, HY Shu Tong Jian, HY Shuang Xian Jian, HY Shui Bo Jian, HY Shui Di Jian, HY Song, HY Tai Ji Jian, HY Wa Wa Zhuan Jian, HY Wei Bei Jian, HY Xiao Li Shu Jian, HY Xing Kai, HY Xing Shi Jian, HY Xiu Ying Jian, HY Xue Feng Jian, HY Xue Jun Jian, HY Ya Ya Jian, HY Yan Ling Jian, HY Yuan, HY Yuan Die Jian, HY Zhong Li Shu Jian, HY Zhu Jie Jian, HY Zong Yi Jian.

Link to the German foundry jpFonts, where the fonts can also be purchased. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Han-Yi Shaw
[HYS Design]

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Hanyu Pinyin font
[Bryan Wagner]

Free high quality truetype Pinyin font by Bryan Wagner, 1999. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hanzi Smatter
[Sinosplice]

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Hao Zhang

Chinese type designer. In 2012, he won the Akashi Prize in the Latin category of the Morisawa Type Design Competition for Latin Seal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hare Gon

Japanese commercial foundry related to Jikji Soft, Hanyang Systems and Yoon Design. Fonts:

• From Jikji Soft (Korean): KRJBatang120, KRJBatang125, KRJBatang130, KRJBatang140, KRJBatang150, KRJBatang210, KRJBatang220, KRJHangSer, KRJSongMyung, KRJDotum110, KRJDotum130, KRJDotum135, KRJDotum140, KRJDotum150, KRJDotum230, KRJDokDo, KRJFreeTourM, KRJGMokPan, KRJJunEum, KRJKidM, KRJMokPan, KRJMyungMoon, KRJNonSquare2M, KRJNonSquareM, KRJORyoun, KRJRGra, KRJSatGat, KRJSeVal, KRJSunFlowerM, KRJTimeMachineM, KRJWallin.
• From Hanyang Information&Communications Co: KRHYMokPTrace-Bold, KRHYMokPTrace-ExtraBold, KRHYMokPTrace-Medium, KRHYNamu-Bold, KRHYNamu-Light, KRHYNamu-Medium, KRHYPillGi-Light, KRHYPMokGak-Bold, KRHYPMokPan-Bold, KRHYPMokPan-Light, KRHYPop-Bold, KRHYPop-Light, KRHYPop-Medium, KRHYPost-Bold, KRHYPost-Light, KRHYPost-Medium, KRHYSam-Bold, KRHYSam-Light, KRHYSam-Medium, KRHYSan-Bold, KRHYSan-Light, KRHYSan-Medium, KRHYSeNse-Bold, KRHYSeNse-Light, KRHYSinGraPhic-Medium, KRHYTaJa-Bold, KRHYTaJa-Light, KRHYTaJa-Medium, KRHYTaJaFull-Bold, KRHYTaJaFull-Light, KRHYTaJaFull-Medium, KRHYTeBack-Bold, KRHYYeaSo-Medium, KRHYYeaSol-Bold, KRHYYeatGul-Bold, KRHYYeatGul-Medium, KRHYYoyo-Bold, KRHYYoyo-Light, KRHYYoyo-Medium, KRHYBackSong-Bold, KRHYBada-Bold, KRHYBada-Light, KRHYBada-Medium, KRHYBaram-Bold, KRHYBaram-Light, KRHYBaram-Medium, KRHYBuDle-Medium, KRHYBuwhaL-Bold, KRHYBuwhaL-Light, KRHYBuwhaL-Medium, KRHYChunjyin-A, KRHYChunjyin-B, KRHYCrystal-Bold, KRHYCrystal-Light, KRHYCrystal-Medium, KRHYCSWheysang-Bold, KRHYCSWheysang-ExtraBold, KRHYCSWheysang-Medium, KRHYDongNyuk-Bold, KRHYDongNyuk-Light, KRHYDongNyuk-Medium, KRHYGraPhic-Bold, KRHYGraPhic-Medium, KRHYHaeSo-Medium, KRHYInyoen-Bold, KRHYInyoen-Light, KRHYInyoen-Medium, KRHYKang-Bold, KRHYKang-Light, KRHYKang-Medium, KRHYKumgangsan-Bold, KRHYKumgangsan-ExtraBold, KRHYKumgangsan-Light, KRHYKumgangsan-Medium, KRHYMokGak-Bold, KRHYMokPan-Bold, KRHYMokPan-Light, KRHYGungSo-Bold, KRHYMyeongJo-Bold, KRHYMyeongJo-ExtraBold, KRHYMyeongJo-Light, KRHYMyeongJo-Medium, KRHYMyeongJo-Ultra, KRHYSinMun-MyeongJo, KRHYSinMyeongJo-Bold, KRHYSinMyeongJo-Medium, KRHYSooN-MyeongJo, KRHYGoThic-Bold, KRHYGoThic-ExtraBold, KRHYGoThic-Light, KRHYGoThic-Medium, KRHYHeadLine-Bold, KRHYHeadLine-Medium, KRHYKHeadLine-Bold, KRHYKHeadLine-Medium, KRHYRGoThic-Bold, KRHYRGoThic-Medium, KRHYSuPungSun-Bold, KRHYSuPungSun-ExtraBold, KRHYSuPungSun-Light, KRHYSuPungSun-Medium, KRHYTeGoThic-Bold, KRHYWulNunDo-Bold, KRHYWulNunDo-ExtraBold, KRHYWulNunDo-Light, KRHYWulNunDo-Medium.
• From Yoon Design: KRYD-Mincho110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160; KRYD-Gothic110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 220, 230, 240, 250; KRYD-Yoon [B, M, L, UL]; KRYD-GamenB, KRYD-GamenM, KRYD-GamenL, KRYD-HawheB, KRYD-HawheM, KRYD-HawheL, KRYD-TogeB, KRYD-TogeM, KRYD-TogeL, KRYD-SapphireB, KRYD-SapphireM, KRYD-SapphireL, KRYD-KaisouB, KRYD-KaisouM, KRYD-KaisouL, KRYD-ChildB, KRYD-ChildM, KRYD-ChildL, KRYD-GyosonB, KRYD-GyosonM, KRYD-GyosonL, KRYD-TonboB, KRYD-TonboM, KRYD-TonboL, KRYD-KasasagiB, KRYD-KasasagiM, KRYD-KasasagiL, KRYD-DirtyB, KRYD-DirtyM, KRYD-DirtyL, KRYD-PanchiGo, KRYD-PanchiMin, KRYD-SaleB, KRYD-SaleM, KRYD-SaleL, KRYD-KakkouB, KRYD-KakkouM, KRYD-KakkouL, KRYD-KaiB, KRYD-KaiM, KRYD-KaiL, KRYD-YamabikoB, KRYD-YamabikoM, KRYD-YamabikoL, KRYD-ShosetsuB, KRYD-ShosetsuM, KRYD-ShosetsuL.

Harmen Mesker
[Yi Jing Page]

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Hawking

Manzhouli, China-based designer of the Chinese text font Jiu Mei (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heather Zhou

Shenzhen, China-based designer of Solar Terms Icons (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helena Ahlstrom Jole

Designer of the free fonts Helena'sHand (handwriting), and Scrapbook-Chinese (Chinese characters). Helena grew up in Ohio and graduated from Brigham Young University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heng-Ju Wen

Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the Chinese typeface Wind (2016). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hilti

A corporate URW studio sans family published in 2009. The 6-font family sells for over 5000 dollars and covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hiroshi Utumi
[Japanese Fonts 01]

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Hohi

Large Chinese font archive. FZ font subarchive. Many fonts from the Founder Corporation, for example. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hong Feng

Researcher from CTUG, China. At TUG 2005 he explains howwavelets can be used in conjunction with Metafont/Metapost to design Chinese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set-2001

The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set-2001 offers a free full Chinese font: Ming(for-ISO10646) (by Arphic Technology). The site explains: "The Government has submitted the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for inclusion in the ISO 10646 international coding standard." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hou Xinyong

Designer at Arphic of the Chinese fountain pen script typeface AR DCHXY Pen Li Kai Ti (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

HTML International

Japanese company specializing in Chinese character sets. You can download sample TrueType files (single byte). HTML International is the USA counterpart of Dynalab in Hong-Kong, Japan and Taiwan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

HTMLCOM's Chinese and Kanji fonts

Bruce H. Liu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

HtWang Graphics Laboratory
[Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang]

Free Chinese fonts made by Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang from 2002 until 2004. The CLE project run by "Seventeen" and Edward G. J. Lee (Taiwan) has resulted in a number of free Chinese truetype and type 1 fonts, listed below, with corresponding PostScript names: wt001 (HanWangMingLight), wt002 (HanWangMingMedium), wt003 (HanWangMingBold), wt004 (HanWangMingHeavy), wt005 (HanWangMingBlack), wt006 (HanWangYenLight), wt009 (HanWangYenHeavy), wt011 (HanWangHeiLight), wt014 (HanWangHeiHeavy), wt021 (HanWangLiSuMedium), wt024 (HanWangFangSongMedium), wt028 (HanWangKanDaYan), wt034 (HanWangKanTan), wt040 (HanWangZonYi), wt064 (HanWangYanKai), wt071 (HanWangShinSuMedium), wtcc02 (HanWangCC02), wtcc15 (HanWangCC15), wthc06 (HanWangGB06), wtg-06cut1 (HanWangGSolid06cut1), wp010-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn), wp110-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn1), wp210-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn2), wp310-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn3), wp010-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn), wp110-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn1), wp210-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn2), wp310-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn3), wts11 (HanWang KaiBold-Gb5), wts43 (HanWang WeiBeiMedium-Gb5), wts47 (HanWang FangSongMedium-Gb5 wts47 wts55 (HanWang SinSongThin-Gb5), WCL-01 (HanWangWCL01), WCL-02 (HanWangWCL02), WCL-03 (HanWangWCL03), WCL-04 (HanWangWCL04), WCL-05 (HanWangWCL05), WCL-06 (HanWangWCL06), WCL-07 (HanWangWCL07), WCL-08 (HanWangWCL08), WCL-09 (HanWangWCL09), WCL-10 (HanWangWCL10). This archive has HanWangCC02, HanWangCC15, HanWangFangSongMedium, HanWangGB06, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangHeiLight, HanWangKaiMediumChuIn, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangLiSuMedium, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingLight, HanWangMingMedium, HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangShinSuMedium, HanWangWCL01, HanWangWCL02, HanWangWCL03, HanWangWCL04, HanWangWCL05, HanWangWCL06, HanWangWCL07, HanWangWCL08, HanWangWCL09, HanWangWCL10, HanWangYanKai, HanWangYenHeavy, HanWangYenLight, HanWangZonYi.

Some of the WCL fonts are also here and here.

Comments. HanWangShinSuMedium is a nice brush script. HanWangFangSongMedium is a clean script. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Huaijing Leng

Huaijing Leng is Type Engineer for Hanyi Fonts. He is the manager of the Technology department of Hanyi Fonts and is also the main developer of Hanyi's in-house type editor and font management tools.

At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Xuan Zhang, Huaijing Leng and Shensheng Wen propose a parametric type design model for the Chinese script. The abstract of their talk: The Chinese script, as an ideographic writing system, is used by a large proportion of the world's population. Over the centuries, its large character set has been the biggest issue facing type makers. In this presentation, different historical methods of production of Chinese type will be covered. ATypI Antwerp is the right moment to introduce the latest progress on a parameterized design model for Chinese. Various methods of Chinese type casting have been attempted. This talk will therefore consist of three main parts: 1) Designing with Components: the Six Writing theory of Chinese classification illustrates the simple logic behind the complicated shapes of Chinese characters, which gives out the possibility of speeding up the type casting process, either in physical form or in digital type; 2) Designing with Handwriting: Research on handwriting recognition and auto-generation will be mentioned, though it is not a main workflow; 3) Designing with a Parametric Model (Prototype): Inspired by MetaFont, but developed into a practical production stage with detailed control methods for the Chinese character skeleton, strokes, and structural-adjustment algorithm. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hui Fang

Graduate of Northeastern University, class of 2016. Shanghai, China-based designer of the transitional typeface Erato (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hunan Huatian Information Industry Co

Hunan Huatian Information Industry Co is located in Chang Sha, Hunan, China. From the web page: With the help of many experts, more than 100,000 Chinese characters have been collected in Huatian fonts. Of course the collected is the most complete in China, it include Chinese-traditional, Chinese-simplified, Chinese-dialectal, characters in popular form, slangy characters, variant form of characters, characters collected Taoist scriptures and the Chinese characters that popular in Japan, Singapore and Korea. Now, these characters have been made into TTF fonts and Huatian Super Multi-steps Curvilinear Structural Fonts(this fonts is the state patent of Hunan Huatian Information Industry Co., Ltd). Freely downloadable fonts include HuaTianKaiTi (1999) and HuaTianSongTi (1999).

Download site for these 1999 fonts: FangSong, HeiTi, KaiTi, SongTi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

HyFont Studio

HyFont Studio is run by Hong Kng-based designers Jiying Lee and Chiawen Tsau who, together, realeased the 5-style sans family HF HySans in 2020. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

HYS Design
[Han-Yi Shaw]

Redmond, WA-based type designer whose Chinese typeface Qingyu Lishu won an award in the TDC Typeface Design competition in 2017. Award winner at 25 TDC in 2022 for these two Chinese / Japanese typefaces:

• Shinbakusai Reisho: A modern revival typeface that is rooted in the imperial collection of enamelled porcelain (yousai in Japanese, yangcai in Chinese) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) of China. In contrast to calligraphic clerical scripts (reisho in Japanese, lishu in Chinese) found in the imperial collection, this typeface harmoniously blends yet juxtaposes soften-curves and sharpened-tips in key designated stokes. The distinguishing aesthetic attributes have also been further applied to Japanese hiragana and katakana for usage in Japan.
• Qing Mocai Lishu: A modern revival typeface that finds its roots in the imperial collection of enamelled porcelain (yangcai) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) of China. In contrast to calligraphic clerical scripts (lishu) found in the imperial collection, this typeface harmoniously blends yet juxtaposes soften-curves and sharpened-tips in key designated stokes.

I Ching

A system of 8, and 8x8, binary-coded symbols dating back to 2800 BC in China. Example. [Google] [More]  ⦿

i-ching
[Wlodek Bzyl]

The i-ching package by Wlodek Bzyl contains I-Ching-Regular in type 1 format and various macros and TEX files. Author of The Tao of Fonts (TUGBoat, vol. 23, pp. 27-40, 2002, in which he explains about font design using Metafont and MetaPost. [Google] [More]  ⦿

IDV Taiwan

Free Chinese truetype fonts (the "Wang collection"): the WCL 1 through 10 fonts from 2003, as well as TSC FMing S TT (TwinBridge Software Corp. 1993-1998), and CCWTEX-BB, CWTEX-F, CWTEX-K, CWTEX-M and CWTEX-R, all by cwTeX Developement Group, 2003. [Google] [More]  ⦿

IDV Taiwan

Chinese font archive that includes DFTT-H6, FZCaiYun-M09T (Founder Corporation, 1997), dfft-s5, dftt-f5, dftt-k5, dftt-r7, tt1, tt10, tt11, tt12, tt14, tt16, tt17, tt18, tt19, tt21, tt22, tt31, tt36, tt42, tt43, tt45, tt47, tt50, tt9. [Google] [More]  ⦿

iFontCloud

A Chinese font vendor related to Taiwan's Arphic with support from these foundries or type designers:

• DaltonMaag: Aktiv.
• Sandoll: GothicNeo1.
• RomanWilhelm: LaoWaiSong.
• Zheng Qing-Ke: QKJingYa.
• Shih Lung-Ming: YKXingKai.

IMUG: The International Macintosh Users Group

"A new generation of Asian language software for Windows. RichWin is an add-on software that fits between Non-Chinese Windows and other Windows applications, enabling users to process the two-byte languages Chinese, Japanese and Korean on non-Chinese Windows and on other platforms. It provides 30 different Chinese fonts." For more info, email Bruce Liu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Indeed Information Computer

From Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, a company that sells Chinese (Big5) fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

INDEED Information Computer Co

Taiwanese company, where you can download four Chinese truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Internet Yellow Pages

Each of these fonts has about 50 Chinese characters: CFMINC1Normal, CFMINC2Normal, CFMINC3Normal, CFMINC4Normal, CFMINC5Normal, CFMINC6Normal, CFMINC7Normal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

IP98

Download a free Chinese truetype font, DFTT-H6. Font is gone! [Google] [More]  ⦿

IS X 0213:2004 vs Unicode mapping table
[T. Fujiwara]

Listing of glyphs with their Kuten, JIS, SJIS and Unicode numbers, as well as their Unicode names. [Google] [More]  ⦿

iTbulo

Chinese font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ITP Berkeley

A 2MB file Fonts.zip has a full Unicode font FGGYM_0 (with Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Chinese), and the font Transistor. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jackal

Two Chinese/Japanese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James E. Dew
[Easytone Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Japanese Fonts 01
[Hiroshi Utumi]

Links to free Japanese and Chinese fonts. Plus a free direct downloads, such as

• IPAGothic, IPAPGothic, IPAUIGothic, IPAMincho, IPAPMincho.
• UmePlus-Gothic, UmePlus-P-Gothic by Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo. The Ume fonts were modified by Hiroshi Utumi so that the Latin and kana part are taken from the M+ fonts.
• UmePlus-CL-Gothic, UmePlus-CLP-Gothic by Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo. The Ume fonts were modified by Hiroshi Utumi so that the Latin and kana part are taken from the M+ fonts.
• KonatuPlus fonts (KonatuPlus Light and KonatuPlus Mono Light) created by Mitiya Masuda and Hiroshi Utumi from Konatu (for kanji) and the M+ family (for Latin and kana).
• M2Ipa-Gothic, M2Ipa-P-Gothic by 1990-2003 Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo, and the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. These are modified IPA and M+ fonts for Japanese.

Jaren Law

Guangzhou, China-based designer of the fat condensed typeface Order (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Kwan
[JKWAN Design]

[More]  ⦿

Jasper Habicht

Between 2005 and 2012, Jasper Habicht (Accipiter Media, Germany) created the free typefaces Roaat Regular (for Khmer), Al Saqr (for Arabic), Maya Modern, Pixelfont, Ukussa (for Sinhala), Kayah Li (for Karen), Deutsche Kurrent (deutsche Schreibschrift), Blissymbolics, PixelFraktur, Vexillogic Symbols, Braille, Airport (a segmented font), and Karakorum (for Mongolian) in 2012.

Behance link.

Jasper was born in 1986 in Duisburg, Germany, and is affiliated with the University of Köln, where he specializes in Modern Chinese Studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jay Chan

Shenzhen, China-based designer of the Chinese brush typeface Hua (2014), which is based on the work of Ming dynasty poet Yuan Hongdao. His other typeface, Monk (2014) is based on the work of an unknown Japanese monk in China. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeanie Lin

Chengdu, China-based designer of the grid-based Latin typeface Glance (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Leez

Changchun, China-based designer of a connect-the-dots Chinese typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Wu

Jeff Wu is the General Manager of Arphic Technology. He has led Arphic R&D Division for more than 20 years. His specialties are development of font technology and products. Also, he is familiar with font design and application in versatile devices. He worked as a Software Engineer and Manager of Software department in Mitac Internationl Corp. before Arphic. He received his B.S and M.S degrees in computer science from National Chiao-Tung University of Taiwan. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on Chinese font design: There are about twenty-eight thousand Chinese characters that need to be designed. The average number of strokes in a Chinese character is 12. In Arphic JingXi Hei, for example, the average number of control points for each stroke is about 100. Therefore, there are about 33,600,000 control points to deal with when developing a Chinese typeface. When creating a Variable Font, the control points of every pole of every axis need to correspond, so it is a huge work to design, test the transfer to a Variable Font, and fix the design and control points. In this talk Jeff Wu shares the problems he met in developing Chinese Variable Fonts and how he overcame them: 1) The traps that must be avoided when designing strokes. 2) How many axes are proper for Chinese typefaces? 3) When transfering to Variable Fonts, how to set up the parameters of each table. 4) How to avoid different results when setting up the same parameter on different platforms (OS, browser, applications).. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jenny Lau Shi Ting

Designer of the handwriting typeface Jalligraphy01 (2004), created via Fontifier. She also made the handwritten Chinese typeface Jalligraphy02 this way. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeong Hwan Kim
[Baekmuk (was: Hwan Design)]

[More]  ⦿

Jerry You

Xiamen, China-based designer of the elegant Chinese typeface Khitan Small Script (2017(. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jhon Steve

Nanchang, China-based designer of the hipster sans typeface Black Panther (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jia Yang

Jia Yang is the corporate brand director of Coca-Cola China. In 2021, Jia Yang, Yichao Xu and Yin Qiu won the Tokyo Type Directors Club TDC 2021 award for type design for their Chinese font Coca-Cola Care. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jian Chun Lei

Jian Chun Lei is Font Design and Production Manager at Weifang Beida Jade Bird Huaguang Imagesetter Co., Ltd. Huaguang is an important developer of Chinese minority scripts and supplier of prepress software and equipment. Chinese minority scripts from Huaguang are being used as reference for Chinese national standards (GB).

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Development of types for Chinese minority script. Jian writes: Although Han is dominating in China, China is, in reality, a multi-cultural society. Minority scripts, such as: Uighur, Kazak, Kirghiz, Sibe, Manchu, Yi, Phags-pa,Tai, Tibetan, Korean, comprise of important parts of languages in China. This presentation is about features of Chinese minority scripts, its design and production. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jian Min Yin

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Development of types for Chinese minority script (together with Jian Chun Lei). Jian writes: Although Han is dominating in China, China is, in reality, a multi-cultural society. Minority scripts, such as: Uighur, Kazak, Kirghiz, Sibe, Manchu, Yi, Phags-pa,Tai, Tibetan, Korean, comprise of important parts of languages in China. This presentation is about features of Chinese minority scripts, its design and production. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiang Hua

Jiang Hua is a designer, researcher and curator. His research on MeiShuZi (Chinese modern typography) explores design methodology with Chinese characters. Jiang received a Ph.D. in communication design. He teaches at CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing).

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Homage to Meishuzi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiaqi Lu

Tianjin, China-based creator of a rounded Latin display typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiayu Liu
[Tensen Type]

[More]  ⦿

Jill Wong

Berkeley, CA-based Jill Wing created GAAHK Latin (2014), a Latin equivalent of Jason Kwan's Chinese techno typeface GAAHK that was created for the Graphic Arts Association of Hong Kong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jin Jin Xin

New York-based designer. In 2021, he released the sharp-edged typeface Kik, which was inspired by the violence in Quentin Tarantino's movies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jingboo Young

During her studies Jingboo Young (Beinjing, China) created an experimental Chinese caps typeface called Chair (2014), and an all-caps Latin ornamental typeface without a name. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jinghan Niu

At the Winchester School of Art, Dalian, China, Jinghan Niu created a grid-based typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

JKWAN Design
[Jason Kwan]

Graphic designer in Hong Kong who studied at Hong Kong Polytechnic. Creator of the modern Chinese typeface GAAHK (2010). For this custom almost-octagonal typeface, he was advised by Lam Kwai Ming.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jody Yeoh

Jody Yeoh (Singapore) and Hwee Chong Chan co-designed Book Typeface (2011), with 3d glyphs made up of books. Jody Yeoh now works in Beijing, China. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joe (Hsuan-Hao) Chang

Taiwanese graphic designer Joe (Hsuan-Hao) Chang (Taipei) has unveiled his typeface Wafflu in 2012. Joe, who has worked as a type designer for Dynacomware and also as a freelancer at Tenten Creative, was inspired to create the typeface by Dutch waffles and by Japanese scripts.

In 2012, he graduated from the TypeMedia program at KABK, Den Haag. Wafflu was his graduation project.

During his studies with Paul van der Laan at Type & Media in the KABK in Den Haag, Joe Chang created a revival of a 1927 typeface by Sjoerd H. de Roos called Meidoorn (2012). For this, he used printed material as well as original punches.

In 2012, for Peter Verheul's course at the KABK, he created the sturdy text typeface Mayweather. Before his studies at KABK, he created the Latin typeface Rubbery (2009).

Principal of Typetrix.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Brandon Lowe

A consultant in Berkeley, CA, who created a font in 1993 for Tangut, an extinct Tibeto-Burman language written in an ideographic script of about 6,000 characters which superficially resembles Chinese, while he was a visiting researcher at Vakgroep Verglijkende Taalwettenschappen, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands. Co-developer in 1993 of the phonetic font STEDT, based on an original bitmap designed by Stephen P. Baron in the late eighties. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Jenkins

Organizer of the font collection for the Unicode charts. He contributed the fonts for KangXi and the CJK radicals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Meng

Beijing-based designer. His experimental Latin typeface Cloud Mountain (2013) won an award at TDC 2014. He explains: The Cloud Mountain Type inspired by Zhang Jiajie, the Chinese cloud-fog mountains and ancient Chinese landscape painting. Combined the traditional Chinese clouds landscape with western character. The Chinese saying: You cannot know the shape of a mountain when you stand on it. When you stare at the details of the font, you even can't recognize the letter itself, that is because you have already stand on the cloud-fog mountains. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Yu
[Shanghaitype]

[More]  ⦿

Jonathan Perez
[Typographies.fr]

[More]  ⦿

jpFonts

German type foundry and type engineering company founded in Hamburg in 2021 by Peter Rosenfeld, Volker Schnebel and Juergen Willrodt, after their former employer, URW, was absorbed by Monotype. Their typefaces:

• Bartosh (2021, Volker Schnebel). An organic sans.
• DIN Vario (2021, Volker Schnebel). A 3-axis variable version of DIN.
• Vernacular Clarendon, Vernacular Serif, and Vernacular Sans (2021, H.-J. Hunziker and Volker Schnebel).
• Hanyi. A full collection of Chinese fonts: HY Bai Qi Jian, HY Bai Qing Jian, HY Cai Die Jian, HY Cai Yun Jian, HY Chang Mei Hei Jian, HY Chang Yi Jian, HY Chen Pin Jian, HY Da Li Shu Jian, HY Dai Yu Jian, HY Deng Xian, HY Die Yu Jian, HY Du Du Jian, HY Fang Die Jian, HY Fang Li Jian, HY Fang Song, HY Gan Lan Jian, HY Ha Ha Jian, HY Hai Yun Jian, HY Hei, HY Hei Mi Jian, HY Hei Qi Jian, HY Hu Po Jian, HY Hua Die Jian, HY Huo Chai Jian, HY Jia Shu Jian, HY Kai Ti, HY Li Hei Jian, HY Ling Bo Jian, HY Ling Xin Jian, HY Luo Bo Jian, HY Man Bu Jian, HY Mi Mi Jian, HY Nan Gong Jian, HY Qing Yun Jian, HY Shen Gong Jian, HY Shou Jin Shu Jian, HY Shu Hun Jian, HY Shu Tong Jian, HY Shuang Xian Jian, HY Shui Bo Jian, HY Shui Di Jian, HY Song, HY Tai Ji Jian, HY Wa Wa Zhuan Jian, HY Wei Bei Jian, HY Xiao Li Shu Jian, HY Xing Kai, HY Xing Shi Jian, HY Xiu Ying Jian, HY Xue Feng Jian, HY Xue Jun Jian, HY Ya Ya Jian, HY Yan Ling Jian, HY Yuan, HY Yuan Die Jian, HY Zhong Li Shu Jian, HY Zhu Jie Jian, HY Zong Yi Jian.
• Tensen Type. A full collection of Chinese fonts from the Beijing-based company, Tensen Type: TX Cao Shu, TX ChaoHei, TX ChaoYuan, TX FanKai, TX GangBi, TX Hei, TX Hei VF, TX JianDu, TX JinZhuanHei, TX KaTong, TX LingHei, TX MaiHei, TX MingKe, TX Qian, TX RuiHei, TX ShiTou, TX Shu Song, TX SongTi VF, TX TieKai, TX XianBo, TX XingKai, TX YingLi, TX YouEr, TX Yuan, TX ZhiHei, TX ZhiLi.

jscode.cn

Large Chinese font archive. Inconvenient multi-click downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Judy Lee

Senior font designer at Arphic Technology in New Taipei, Taiwan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Guan

Graphic designer in Sydney, Australia, b. China. In 2017, she designed Ffeyffolken, a display typeface that is rooted in Norse mythology. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julius Hui

Julius Hui (Chinese name Hon Man Hui) is a type designer in Hong Kong who studied at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the late 2000s. He worked for some time at the Hong Kong branch of Dalton Maag and at Monotype Hong Kong as type designer. When COVID broke out, he started his own foundry in Hong Kong. He designed these typefaces:

• The Chinese font Xin Gothic (2011, VM Type), art directed by Sammy Or.
• He entered the Sixth Founder Type Awards for Chinese Typeface Design in 2011 with a Chinese Fangsong style typeface.
• A custom typeface for the the Chinese comapny Tencent, done while he worked for Monotype.
• Ku Mincho (2021-2022). Ku Mincho indends to return to historical Chinese---Ku Mincho differentiates itself from existing Ming typefaces in design, structure, and proportion by breaking free from the square box that had been imposed on Hanzi for decades (by Japanese foundries that dominated the Chinese type business). Hui's team for Ku Mincho includes his former colleagues at Monotype Hong Kong, Kin Cheung and Sammy Fung. The full set of 15,000 characters will be available in July 2022. Ku Mincho specifically supports traditional Chinese, used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and for languages like Taiwanese and Hakka. Oryzae Foundry and Klim Type Foundry will be responsible for Japanese and Latin, respectively.

Typecache link. Buy Xin Gothic here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

JUSTDN

Chinese font archive with these truetype fonts: FZSZJW--GB1-0 (Founder Corp., 1998), GSKA00H, FZHCJW--GB1-0 (Founder Corp., 1998), GPIL00U, FZZhongQian-M16T (Founder Corp., 1999), FZZhiYi-M12S (Founder Corp., 1999), FZZhongQian-M16S (Founder Corp., 1999), SimSun, HDZB_1, HDZB_4, HDZB_5, HDZB_25, HDZB_72, HDZB_79, GYAN00E, GYKG00U, JDFHCU, JQBSJT, LISHUSF, TPOP02B, TSIN00M, TTAK00B, MJ1GFM. There is also a small Latin truetype font archive with fonts from 04b. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justfont
[Chun Lin Yeh]

Taiwanese type foundry located in Taipei. One of its personalities is Chun Lin Yeh. Fonts offered by them include

• jf openhuninn (2020), an open source/a> rounded font for Latin, Hebrew and Chinese. The han part is based on Motoya's Kosugi Maru font, and the Latin and Hebrew parts are based on Varela Round by Joe Prince and Avraham Cornfeld.

K666

Large Chinese font archive that includes a few thousand Latin fonts. We find, for example, the entire enStep collection from 1997. On the Chinese side, several hundred full Chinese fonts, including about 100 fonts from Dynacomware. Other similar download sites include K666, vv66, 6ccc, 88gg, 88uu, 88qq, 7377, 66vv, vv66. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaku Kuo

Chief font designer at Arphic Technology in New Taipei, Taiwan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kang Le Ge Kang

Chinese designer of the paperclip typeface Kang (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karate Chinese Alphabet Page

Strange page with Chinese alphabet clip art and a Hanzi-Kaishu font (by Spring Systems Inc) in truetype. Page by Shihan Mike Skinner. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katie Kwan

Communication designer who has lived and worked in Vancouver, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The free oriental simulation font Jululu (2015, Maximage) was developed during a workshop by the team of Katie Kwan, Didier Quarroz, Jacob Chen, Doris Zhou, and Tony Tang. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katsumi Asaba

Born in 1940 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, Katsumi Asaba founded the Katsumi Asaba Design Studio in 1975. He has designed many advertisements for Japanese companies. He produced the poster of the Nagano wintertime Olympics, for example.

Asaba is the chairman of the Tokyo Type Directors Club (TDC) and of the Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA). He is a committee member of the Tokyo Art Directors Club (ADC).

His principal area of expertise lies in the pictographic Dongba script used in rituals by the Naxi tribe in China.

He has been awarded the Tokyo ADC Grand Prix, and the Medal with purple ribbon. Keynote speaker at ATypI Hong Kong in 2012.

Portrait by Frank Kawamata. [Google] [More]  ⦿

KBS Japan

Archive of commercial type 1 fonts for Chinese (DLCHei, DLCSong, DLCKaishu, DLCFangSong, DLCZongYi, DLCWeiBei, GBYen, HeitiCSEG, TankuinEG, HeitiEG), Thai (DBErawan, DBFongNam, DBNarai, DBPradit), Hangul (HYGothic, HYTeGoThic, JCLIGHT, HYMyeongJo), Vietnamese (Vina family), Cyrillic (Vina, Helvetica, Newton), and Arabic (Geezah, Nadeem, LotusTT, Yakoot, DedanAB). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keflouis XIV

Aka Keflouis Vuitton and Keflouis d'Or, and born in France in 1984. Now based in Shanghai, Keflouis designed the free display typeface Flatirone (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keith Chi-Hang Tam
[Keith Tam Typography]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Keith Tam Typography
[Keith Chi-Hang Tam]

Keith Tam is a graphic designer and type designer born in Hong kong who has lived and worked in the UK and in Vancouver, Canada. He received his MA in Typeface Design at the Department of Typography&Graphic Communication at the University of Reading in 2002. Presently, he teaches art the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 2005, along with Michail Semoglou, Keith co-founded Type Initiative, a type foundry and design collective. Currently, he is Assistant Professor in the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His fonts include Arrival (2005: a font developed during his graduate studies at Reading for reading signs from afar or while driving) and DGSans. Arrival can be bought at Incubator / Village.

He started a discussion on why people pick certain typefaces:

• legibility
• prevailing trend/fashion
• personal taste client's wishes/preferences
• historical context (reflecting the time and place of the content)
• context of use (kind of paper, method of printing, etc)
• stereotypes (established conventions, e.g. script type for wedding invitation)
• uniqueness (in terms of distinguishing from others)

Main organizer of ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ken Lunde

Dr. Ken Lunde is Manager of CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA. He holds a Ph.D. (1994) in Linguistics from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wrote Understanding Japanese Information Processing (O'Reilly&Associates, 1993), and CJKV Information Processing (O'Reilly&Associates, 1999). He also wrote CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean&Vietnamese Computing (O'Reilly). In 2010, Adobe will release the first genuinely proportional Japanese font, Kazuraki (by Japanese type designer Ryoko Nishizuka), which was developed at Adobe in 2009 under his management.

Ken managed the Source Han Sans project---these are open source fonts released in 2014 by Adobe and Google for Japanese, Chinese and Korean. He also headed the development of Source Han Serif.

In 2018, Ken Lunde and Masataka Hattori co-designed Soukou Mincho (free at Fontsquirrel).

In 2019, he created the experimental variable font Width at Adobe. Github link.

Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of The History of Japan's Era Name Square Ligatures, and in particular, the two-kanji square ligatures for the five most recent eras, Reiwa (2019), Heisei (1989), Shouwa, Taishou and Meiji. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenji Chang

Kenji Wai Chang was raised In Macau. In 2006, Kenji moved to the United States to study graphic design at San Jose State University. Her Mirage typeface (2012) is based on Salvador Dali's paintings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenneth Kwok

Based in Hong Kong, Kenneth Kwok is the Chief Designer and Director of The Creative Calligraphic Centre. He has been working on type design, particularly ideographic design from ca. 1970 until now. He designed many successful typefaces for Sha-Ken and Monotype Imaging such as ZhongYi, Elle, Ellan, and StiffHei.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Ideographic type design and production. In this talk, he explained the following claim: Some of the many challenges of designing and producing a CJK ideographic font is to maintain consistency and tranquility. His talk was forceful and convincing.

His Chinese typeface M Zhi Hei (Monotype) won an award at TDC 2014. His Chinese fonts M Ellan Light (Monotype) and M Gentle (Monotype) won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kerinet

Korean site which has HYHaeSo-Medium (Korean), a broken stick Korean font called Sense, and Hanjabusu (limited character set Chinese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin Bichaud

Shanghai-based designed of the spurred typeface Bourgeon (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kicky Xu

Guangzhou, China-based designer of the paperclip or neon light typeface One Touch (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kika Fonts
[Tingnian Liu]

Chinese designer of the Latin typeface Comic Book (2017). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kiki Chan

As a student in Guangzhou, Kiki Chan designed the curly typeface Britomart (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kimassiya

Asian font archive. Carries Dynafont, CREOFont, Vodafone Opentype, Ricoh Valuefonts, Osaka.ttc, and more. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kin Lu

Kin Lu (Canton, China) created an unnamed counterless modular Latin typeface and a circle-based typeface called Starbox in 2013. In 2016, he created the experimental typeface Ink In Water. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Koaunghi Un
[UnBatang Odal]

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Kokolv Lvling

Shanghai, China-based designer of a deco set of numbers, X Number (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lana Gao

Graphic designer in San Jose, CA, who created the angular typeface Summer Color (2012) and the artsy typeface Cheesy (2012). Before California, Lana lived in Shanghai.

Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laoism Design

Chinese creator of the pixel font family Laoism (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laoism Design

Chinese creator of the pixel font family Laoism (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

LaTeX Navigator
[Denis Roegel]

General links on typography and fonts, compiled by Denis Roegel (with earlier contributions by Karl Tombre who is no longer involved). Very, very useful. This page contains, among other things:

• METAFONT for Beginners (Geoffrey Tobin)
• The METAFONT book (TeX source) (Donald E. Knuth)
• How to Create Your Own Symbols in METAFONT and for use in LaTeX Documents (Richard Lin)
• Milieu -- METAFONT and Linux: A Personal Computing Milieu (Thomas Dunbar)
• Simple drawings with METAFONT (Zdenek Wagner)
• Some METAFONT Techniques (article from TUGboat, 10 pages) (Yannis Haralambous)
• List of all available Metafont fonts
• Liam Quin's Metafont Guide (last version)
• MetaFog: Converting METAFONT Shapes to Contours (Richard J. Kinch)
• METAFONT source
• Design of a new font family (slides) (Gerd Neugebauer) (1996)
• PERL Module for reading .tfm files (Jan Pazdziora) (1997)
• fig2mf (UNIX manual) (Anthony Starks)
• bm2font (Friedhelm Sowa)
• Essay on math symbols by Paul Taylor
• drgen genealogical symbol font by Denis Roegel, 1996
• Chess fonts
• The Marvosym Font Package (Martin Vogels)
• Eurosymbol, another font for the euro symbol
• Lots of stuff on virtual fonts
• P. Damian Cugley's Malvern (Greek) font
• Yannis Haralambous's Omega project
• DC and EC fonts by Joerg Knappen
• Technical notes on Postscript fonts, and Postscript fonts in TEX
• Computer Modern type 1 fonts
• Articles on computer typography by Sebastian Rahtz, Aarno Hohti&Okko Kanerva, Richard J. Kinch, Basil K. Malyshev, Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Karl Berry, Victor Eijkhout, Vincent Zoonekynd, Tom Scavo, David Wright, Erik-Jan Vens, and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
• Articles on mathematical symbol fonts
• Links to essential pages for Cyrillic, Japanese, Berber, Khmer, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Indic, Syriac, Hebrew, Hieroglyphic, Tibetan, Mongolian, African fc

Laura Kwon

Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong-based (and before that, Suzhou, China-based) designer of the dot matrix typeface Solidslice (2014), who studied at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Aken
[Akenlee Type]

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Lee Chieh-Ting

Graduate of the National Taiwan University of Science & Technology. During his Masters studoes at Taiwan Tech, Tapiei, Taiwan-based Lee Chieh-Ting designed the great Chinese typeface Wen Xin Song (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

About four full Chinese truetype fonts, but the permissions were altered recently. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Len Lin

Shanghai-based designer of Typeface of Feminism Masturbation (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leung Pui Yi

During his studies at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2014, Leung Pui Yi created five Chinese typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leung Tsang
[Typeland]

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LGJ Font Notes
[Edward G.J. Lee]

Taiwanese type designer Edward Lee has some font information pages (in Chinese). He has useful technical discussions on Metafont, OpenType, Truetype and type 1. Downloadable full CJK fonts include cwHBMono (2008, Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu and Edward G.J. Lee).

This archive contains about 30 free full Chinese fonts in the WT, WTS, WP, and WCL series created in 2004 by Taiwanese type designer Edward G. J. Lee. The font names are: HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangKaiMediumChuIn, HanWangMingMediumPoIn1, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn1, HanWangMingMediumPoIn2, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn2, HanWangMingMediumPoIn3, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn3, HanWangMingLight, HanWangMingMedium, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangYenLight, HanWangYenHeavy, HanWangHeiLight, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangLiSuMedium, HanWangFangSongMedium, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangZonYi, HanWangYanKai, HanWangShinSuMedium, HanWangCC02, HanWangCC15, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangGB06, HanWang-KaiBold-Gb5, HanWang-WeiBeiMedium-Gb5, HanWang-FangSongMedium-Gb5, HanWang-SinSongThin-Gb5. All fonts are copyright Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang, 2002-2004. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Li Dawei

Chinese type designer. Creator of the free Google Font ZCool XiaoWei (2018), which was designed by Li Dawei and the team at Zuozi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Li Qi

Chinese type designer. His typefaces include Qihei (at Hanyi Font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Li Shaobo

Li Shaobo is a graphic and type designer, educator, art director, and academic researcher. In 2008, he obtained a doctoral degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). Presently, Li is the Dean of the Design Department of the Fine Arts Academy of Hunan Normal University. He also works as a design consultant for the largest Chinese font foundry, and is a member of the academic committee of the Center for Chinese Font Design and Research.

His awards include The Grand Prize in the 1998 First China Exhibition of Designing Art, an award in the Fourth Founder Type Chinese Type Design Competition in 2007, and the Judge's Prize in the Seventh Morisawa International Typeface Design Awards competition.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Investigation on the origination of Chinese Heiti. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Li Zhiqian

Designer at the Shanghai, China-based type foundry 3type of Weaf Mono (2017-2018), a monospaced monolinear sans family created together with Zheng Chuyang, covering Latin, Hanzi (Chinese), Arabic, Cyrillic and Devanagari. It also has some emoji characters.

In 2017, he designed Xingkai Next (2017), a modern polygonal typeface for Hanzi, derived from cursive handwriting and Chinese calligraphy.

In 2018, he released Astronomer (2018), an attractive Latin / Hanzi text typeface that refers to the Ming Dynasty astronomer / mathematician / scholar Xu Guangqi (aka Paul Siu, 1562-1633). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lin Yü-Bingnan
[Yü Bing-nan]

In 1956, as a young graduate of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, calligrapher and type designer Yu Bingnan (also Lin Yü-Bingnan or Yü Bing-nan) was sent to East Germany to work on a Latin typeface. There, he studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, thereafter HGB), one of the best and oldest art institutes in the world at that time. One of his teachers there was Albert Kapr. From early 1959, Yu Bingnan started conceiving a Latin typeface. He improvized a unique writing instrument---a bamboo pen that was chopped off from a traditional ink brush commonly used in Chinese calligraphy. Yu named his Latin typeface Freundschafts-Antiqua, a symbol of solidarity and friendship between China and Germany. Yu Bingnan graduated in 1962. That same year, Freundschafts-Antiqua was published by Typoart. These typefaces can be found in Jaspert's book and in Hildegard Korger's Handbook of Type and Lettering. It is a very readable old style serif, with many calligraphic elements, and original curvy characteristics. As the first Latin typeface ever created by a Chinese designer, Freundschafts-Antiqua has won the Gutenberg Prize (the first Asian winner), the Best Contemporary Typeface award, the German Minister of Culture Award, the Tokyo Type Director's Club Award and many other awards. Yu Bingnan became professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University.

A first digital revival was done in 2010 by AR Types, which writes about Freundschafts-Antiqua AR: Freundschafts-Antiqua AR is based on a 20th-century German type design. Freundschafts-Antiqua (which was also called Chinesische Antiqua) was designed by the Chinese calligrapher Yü Bing-nan when he was a student at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst at Leipzig in 1960. It was cast in 1964 by VEB Typoart, Dresden, in 9-pt and 28-pt (Didot). The design combines the best German traditions with the Chinese bamboo pen. It is a unique, wholly modern, yet quiet and dignified typeface which is well suited for text-setting in many sizes.

In 2017, Roman Wilhelm and 3type, a Shanghai-based type foundry, released a six-style extension called Freundschafts Antiqua Neue. 3type has also fashioned a sans-serif member of the Freundschafts-Antiqua Neue family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ling Fan

Graduate of ESAD Amiens (France), 2010-2012. At ESAD, she designed a Chinese / Latin typeface Ling Song while keeping an eye on the integration of Latin and Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linux 3JK

Free fonts, but slow downloads. We find AVLV and AVOV, two Chinese brush-style fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linuxhall

Free Chinese font: AR-PL-New-Sung (2004, Arphic Technology Co). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lisa Huang
[Polyform]

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Liu Bingke

Chinese type expert. Lead concept designer of the free Google Font ZCool Kuaile (2018), which was created by a team of font design trainees under Bingko's supervision. First, Liu created the character shape framework and design standards; then, a group of over 100 typography apprentices fleshed out the character set. Finally, Liu and other designers from his workshop, including Yang Kang and Wu Shaojie, edited and adjusted the characters to unify the design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liu Yinbin
[LYB Design (or: Liu Yinbin Design)]

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Liu Zhao

Liu Zhao (b. 1976) is a designer, teacher and researcher. She is lecturer at the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in China. She studied under Professors Wang Min and Huang Ke Jian. Her PhD thesis at CAFA was on he history of Chinese typefaces.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: The front and behind. That talk deals with the logical and scientific approach for Chinese type design, the influence of calligraphy and state propaganda on the choice of typefaces (examples include Songti Two which was used to typeset the work of Mao Zedong, and Songti One which wasused in Ci Hai, China's famous lexicon and dictionary), and the importance of aesthetics for Chinese characters (examples include Songti's contrast between horizontal and vertical stroke widths due originally to calligrapher Yan Zhen-qing).

Liu Zhao runs the Chinese branch of TypeTogether. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Livid.cn

Chinese archive: Gulim (Latin/Cyrillic/universal and Korean typeface by HanYang, 2000), Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro W4 (OTF by Dainippon, 2002), Hei (for Mac), Heiti (Chinese font by Changzhou SinoType Technology Co, 2002), Lihei Pro (Chinese font by DynaComware Corp, 2003). Also, the Luxi family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Long Gu

Beijing, China-based designer of several experimental Chinese typefaces in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Loong Type

Chinese foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucky Type

Chinese foundry. En Fontke link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke Lee

Graphic designer in Beijing. Creator of the free twisted and glitch variable font family LL Detechno (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luo Haozhen

During his graphic design studies in Beijing, China, Luo Haozhen created the Latin typefaces Insane Display (2016) and Sleigh (2015). He also created Suiyen (2013), a Chinese font that combines elements of the ancient oracle bone script with modern Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luon.net

Custom fonts made by Martin Majoor for Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in 1999. In truetype: TUELogosVLBold, TUELogosVL, TUEMeta-Book, TUEMeta-Medium, TUEMetaWide, TUEScala-BoldItalic, TUEScala-Bold, TUEScala-Italic, TUEScala. [Google] [More]  ⦿

LYB Design (or: Liu Yinbin Design)
[Liu Yinbin]

Liu Yinbin graduated from the Xian Academy if Fine Arts in 2007. Director at Meitu Design Company since 2013. Creator of these typefaces in 2014: Calliraphy (sic) (oriental brush font), Lake Font (art deco), Rough (sans caps). In 2015, he made Gorgeous (a penmanship style calligraphic script), Dense Forest, Christmas Font (handcrafted script), Arrow, Vertical Line (sans) and Imagine (handcrafted bold typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Indisinct Shine (a thin all caps typeface with interrupted strokes), Procession (bilined sans). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M Cascade

In 2019, Monotype released two graphic style traditional Chinese fonts: M Cascade HK, M Cascade PRC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M+ Fonts
[Coji Morishita]

Free font producer in Japan that started out as a bitmap font specilaist. The M+ Fonts Project is jointly run by Coji Morishita, Hiroki Kanou, Imazu Kazuyuki and Taro Muraoka.

All fonts are totally free: Unlimited permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute them, with or without modification, either commercially or noncommercially. . Download page. Free monospaced and variable width outline fonts containing kana, kanji (97% coverage of jinmeiyo), Chinese (81% coverage of traditional Chinese), Korean, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin (sans), all made between 2006 and 2016 and still being developed: mplus-1p-black, mplus-1p-bold, mplus-1p-heavy, mplus-1p-light, mplus-1p-medium, mplus-1p-regular, mplus-1p-thin, mplus-2p-black, mplus-2p-bold, mplus-2p-heavy, mplus-2p-light, mplus-2p-medium, mplus-2p-regular, mplus-2p-thin.

In 2018, they published MPlusRounded1c at Google Fonts. Additions in 2021: M Plus Code Latin, M Plus 1 Code. Mplus 1 Code is a sans serif programming font with seven weights from Thin to Bold, supporting 5,700+ kanjis for Japanese with GF Latin Plus. iM Plus Code Latin is a multi-weight programming font for Latin only. Both have variable fonts as well.

Open Font Library link. Local download of the M+ family. Google Fonts link. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M Hei3

M Hei3 PRC (2019) and M Hei3 HK (2019) are Song-style Chinese fonts developed by the Monotype team. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M XiangHe Hei

M XiangHe Hei Simplified Chinese (2018, Monotype) merges traditional brush strokes with modern letterforms to carefully balance traditional calligraphy with humanist design. Named for the smooth movements of a flying crane, the M XiangHe Hei typeface is designed to glide across the page, and features strokes that are partly derived from the Kaishu calligraphic style---an everyday script which dates back hundreds of years. The traditional Chinese counterpart is M XiangHe Hei TC.

Both M XiangHe Hei SC and M XiangHe Hei TC feature Neue Frutiger for its Latin glyphs, and works harmoniously with Neue Frutiger World and Monotype's CJK typefaces: Tazugane Gothic (Japanese) and Seol Sans (Korean). The M XiangHe Hei project by the Monotype Design Team was managed by Akira Kobayashi.

Variable fonts published in 2022: M XiangHe Hei SC Pro Variable, M XiangHe Hei SC Std Variable, M XiangHe Hei TC Variable, Seol Sans Variable, Tazugane Gothic Variable, Tazugane Info Variable. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M Ying Hei

Chinese typeface designed in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Macintosh Chinese Page

Has the AddTones font for the Mac developed by Patrick Edwin Moran. For Pinyin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mak Sui Shing
[DEMO Company]

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Mallika Type
[Tianmeng Xue]

Hangzhou, China-based award winner at 25 TDC in 2022 for the Chinese typeface Jinhua Mincho. Tianmeng writes: The Jinhua Ming Dynasty Style was inspired by the engravings of the Republic of China. The pen shape is warm, concise and full of details. The font is slightly flat, and the inner white is loose. The whole presents a classical but not outdated atmosphere, plain and distinctive. When it is horizontally arranged, the slightly flat font makes the reading rhythm slower and calmer. When it is vertically arranged, the entire column of text is compact and well-proportioned. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MAN

In their Global Type collection, URW++ has MAN (2012), a private corporate typeface family for the MAN company. There is a limited retail version for the volume at 7,500 Euros. It covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mandice Wong

Hong Kong-based creator of the decorative caps protest typeface Poacher (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mao Kan

Ningbo, China-based designer of the Latin stencil typeface Gouyugifts (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Liu

San Jose, CA-based designer of Afro (2015), a sans typeface based on SF Comapct. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariko Takagi

From her CV: Having lived and worked as a half-Japanese and half-German in Germany for a long time, the focus of my artworks was to create books about Japanese culture. The intention of writing and designing books about Japanese topics was to make German readers curious about the strange and foreign culture and to give them insights into it. In the last eleven years I have published six books talking about Japanese culture. Since 1998, I ran my own design office with a focus on corporate design, corporate publishing and catalogue design. Since 2002 I was teaching at several Universities in Germany. Moving to Hong Kong and teaching as an assistant professor at the Academy of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) since 2010 gives me new influences and inspiration for starting research projects focused on Chinese typography. My background of teaching typography as well as graphic design in Germany over eight years gives me the necessary background for starting a research project not only to learn more about my new cultural environment, but also to make the Hong Kong design culture more visible to international audiences.

At Typography Day 2012 she spoke on Typographic Culture of Hong Kong.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Typography between Chinese complex characters and Latin letters. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Hanzigraphy. In the latter talk, she deals with the problem of the joint use of Latin and Chinese on pages. The research project Hanzi-Graphy: Typographic translation between Latin letters and Chinese characters will be published late in 2013 by a publisher in Hong Kong.

In 2014, she graduated from the MATF program at the University of Reading. Her graduation typeface was Gion, a serif typeface for multi-lingual typesetting in Latin, Japanese and Chinese. She writes: As a contemporary interpretation of Modern typefaces, Gion synthesises historical stylistic features of Modern typefaces with characteristics and qualities that ­enhance comfortable and continuous reading in longer text.

Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Tanaka Ikko and the Japanese Modern Typography. A convergence of Western inspiration and Japanese aesthetics. In that presentation, she spoke about Tanaka Ikko (1930-2000), the Japanese grand master of graphic design, and emphasized his encounter with typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks2

Chinese font links. A great resource brought to you by Marjorie Chan at Ohio State. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Zhu

Mark Zhu is a remarkable type designer and photographer in Paris, France, who focuses on multi-script type design and calligraphy. Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2020. His typefaces:

• His graduation typeface at Reading was Suyab (2020), a multi-script typeface family intended for language-learning textbooks and other complex multi-script typesetting environments, covering four scripts of various writing directions: Latin, Arabic, Chinese, and Mongolian. Each script includes three styles for text (Text, Sans & Informal) each in three weights, and one display style in black. The name of the typeface comes from the ancient Silk Road city, Suyab, located in present-day Kyrgyzstan. The city had been an intersection of cultures and languages, ruled by many different civilisations at various points of history, including Sogdian (Iranian), Turkic, and Chinese. It is difficult to phathom that one person can design such a humongous typeface in just one year.
• Vernicia (2019), developed during the TypeParis19 course. Vernicia is a serif typeface family exploring a natural fusion between Latin and Chinese calligraphy. The typeface is intended for literature and books, especially those translated from the Chinese language.
• Prosodia. Prosodia is a partial-revival typeface intended for setting classical Chinese poetry and related content, supporting Chinese and basic Latin. The design of the Chinese characters draws inspiration from an 18th-century block-printed book, Imperial Collection of Tunes, which is a compilation of metrical patterns used to guide the writing of classical ci poetry. The design extracts key features from the type in this book and mix them with modern standard Songti character structures that are more friendly to the present-day readers.
• Cliff. An inscriptional typeface inspired by the Chinese Wei regular script calligraphy from around 5th century CE, especially the Northern Wei Empire. The script is characterized by robust form, heavy weight, rather wide proportions, and sharp corners and points. Most existing examples of this script are inscriptions on stelae, tombstones, statues, and cliffs. The Latin companion is reimagined to be written with a Chinese pointed brush.

Mathieu Saiko

Shanghai, China-based illustrotor who designed a wavy bilined alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Everyday
[Max Yao]

Taiwanese developer of many free and open source CJK fonts. TAs of 2020, these include Swei Bow Sans, Swei Bow Leg, Swei Bat Sans, Swei Toothpaste, Swei 3T Sans, Swei Nut Leg, Swei Nut Sans, Swei B2 Leg (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei B2 Sans (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei Gothic Leg, Swei Rainbow Leg, Swei XD Pearl (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei D Lucy (derived from Noto Sans CJK), Swei Gothic (derived from Noto Sans CJK), TaiwanPearl, Swei Gothic, Swei Sans, Swei B2 Serif, Swei Meatball (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei Spring (derived from Noto Serif CJK), B2 Hana, Hana Meatball, Naikai (derived from Seto), Bakudai, Massa (a brush script), Fake Pearl, Yu Pearl (derived from Huninn), JasonHandWriting.

Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Yao
[Max Everyday]

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Maynard Chen

Designer of a Pinyin font as part of the Mishu-Wuhan Desk Accessory demo for Macs that was available for downloading at UCSD's Multilingual FTP Site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Merck

A corporate URW typeface family published in 2009. The 17-font family sells for nearly 10,000 Euros. There are sans, serif, semi-sans and semi-serif subfamilies. This family started out as a design for the Merck company. URW writes: URW++ is authorized by Merck KGaA to deliver the Merck corporate typeface family for a license fee to external users, i.e. Merck KGaA suppliers such as ad agencies, signmakers and the like. The Merck corporate typefaces are available in four different volumes with correspondingly multi lingual character encoding. All Merck Global Fonts contain approximately over 45,000 glyphs including the complete CJK glyph set (China, Japan and Korea). Besides all Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs as well as the complete CJK glyph set also cover Japanese Katakana and Hiragana plus Korean Hangual syllables. Furthermore they are supporting Thai and Arabic (including Farsi and Urdu) plus Hebrew and Vietnamese as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Merrill Liu

Merrill Liu attends OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. She also attended the Nanjing University of Art in Nanjing, China.

Creator of the display typeface Caged Bird (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mi Chen

Mi Chen is a graphic designer, typographer, filmmaker and tattooist based in New York. She was born and raised in Mainland China, and moved to New York City in 2017. She is currently enrolled in Parsons School of Design's BFA program for Communication Design and Film Production. Mi works on branding, editorial design, typeface design and motion graphics.

In 2020, she released Aperture Display, an ink-trapped sans with a hipster lower case t. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Miao Shangshang

During her studies in Changzhou, China, Miao Shangshang created a great-looking artsy Chinese typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Gent
[Michael Sharanda]

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Michael Sharanda
[Michael Gent]

Design director at Huawei in Shenzhen, China. Creator of the free semi-condensed Latin / Cyrillic semi-condensed sans serif typeface Vladivostok (2017) and the free Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Manrope (2018; +a variable font). Cristiano Sobral altered Manrope in his free font Russisch Sans (2020).

Home page. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Zori

Beijing, China-based designer of the Latin typeface Chinglish (2016), which emulates the Chinese Song style of typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Microsoft

Chinese fonts bundled with various Microsoft products:

• Unicode: Arial Unicode MS, DFKai-SB, PMingLiU, MingLiU, PMingLiU-ExtB, MingLiU-ExtB, SimSun-ExtB.
• GBK encoding: SimHei, SimSun, NSimSun.
• GB18030 encoding: KaiTi, FangSong.
• GB2312 encoding: FangSong_GB2312, KaiTi_GB2312.

Microsoft: Chinese

Microsoft fonts for Chinese include Microsoft YaHei (2006: simplified Chinese; Microsoft Licensed the font glyph from Beijing Founder Electronics Co) and Microsoft JhengHei (a full Chinese font by China Type Design Limited). For YaHei Consolas Hybrid, see this Github page.

Microsoft link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Microsoft fonts for Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Someone posted this on alt.binaries.fonts. To obtain a free Japanese TrueType font from Microsoft: (1) run Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE); (2) go to any web page; (3) change the View menu / Encoding item to Japanese; and (4) wait for several megabytes to download. Use the same procedure for Chinese or Korean. Microsoft has a web page for these downloads. Search for the keywords "Chinese", "Japanese", or "Korean" (without the quotes) on the http://office.microsoft.com/ web site. You want the "language pack" downloads. These pages often move, but recently were: Japanese (2557 KB with the "MS Gothic" font), Korean (1985 KB with the "GulimChe" font), Simplified Chinese (2561 KB with "MS Hei" and "MS Song" fonts), Traditional Chinese (3541 KB with the "MingLiU" font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Microsoft Yi Baiti

Microsoft's font for Yi. The Yi language is a member of the Sino-Tibetan langauge family and is an official language of the PRC. The Yi people live mostly in southwestern China, but others live in Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Yi follows the writing rules for Han ideographs. Characters are generally written left to right and occasionally top to bottom. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikai Ziku
[Yu Hongliang]

Heilongjiang Mikai Digital Technology Co., Ltd. is a foundry located in China sprcializing in handcrafted typefaces. One of its designers is Yu Hongliang. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Min Wang

Min Wang is a professor at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). He is currently serving as dean of the School of Design at CAFA and director of the Art Research Centre for the Olympic Games. He also serves as Standing Expert on Image and Identity for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Committee. He received his BA in graphic art from CAFA and an MFA from Yale University School of Art where he studied under Armin Hoffman, Paul Rand, and Bradbury Thompson. He is the design director at Square Two Design, which he joined in 1998 after serving eight years as design manager, senior art director and graphic designer at Adobe Systems. He has been a visiting fellow in Germany at Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich and Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin. In 1989, he began lecturing in graphic design at Yale University School of Art, teaching graduate students until 1997.

Square Two Design clients include: Adobe, IBM, Intel, Stanford University, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

At Adobe, he designed the mythical figure caps typeface Mythos (together with Jim Wasco).

At this site, Min Wang used to have nine Chinese/Japanese/Cyrillic truetype fonts: GCdls, GCWei, GCXfang, TCHei, TCSun, GCFang, GCHei, GCKai, GCSong. Alternate (dated) URL.

Keynote speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ming Wei

Ming Wei is associate director of the Font Product Division of Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd and a member of the Chinese Artists Association. Her work is part of the collection of the Sichuan Art Museum.

Ming Wei designed the Beijing Olympic subway visual information system used on the Olympic Extension Line during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. This work was awarded first prize at the National Art Exhibition. She received an MA degree in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts in London. After returning to China, she joined FounderType and now works on font product research and project management. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MingChen: MacOSX Chinese fonts

Download the Mac OSX Chinese fonts Adobe FangSong, Adobe Heiti, Adobe Kaiti and Adobe Song, as well as the DejaVu (Sans, Serif) family of fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MingLiu

One of the many places where one can download the free Chinese TTC fonts MingLiu and MingLiuB. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MinLiu

Minliu Chinese CJK truetype font: 4MB, free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MIT Taiwan

Chinese font archive: From Arphic, we find LinGothic and STDSunEG-Heavy (Big 5). Also, U2030. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mittelpunkt Zhongdian
[Susanne Zippel]

Berlin-based author, lecturer, art director, communication designer and type designer with special expertise in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja and CJK fonts.

Susanne Zippel (b. 1967) grew up in the former German Democratic Republic. She studied design in Berlin, and lived for five years in Japan. Later she founded the design office Mittelpunkt-Zhongdian in China. For more than two decades she has been researching the history of writing and media in China, Japan, and Korea, with a special focus on sociology and linguistics. She published the first extensive foundational book on Chinese typography, Fachchinesisch Typografie, which provides a comprehensive insight into the CJK writing system and its cultural context. She is currently studying for her doctorate in Vienna, Austria. Linkedin link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

moe kai

Chinese TrueType font moe_kai.ttf (8.77MB). And software (cb2tt) for creating Chinese TrueType fonts from bitmap fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mojikyo English Page

The Mojikyo Institute is in Yokohama, Japan. Its goal is to produce free universal tools for Japanese, Chinese and Korean word processing and typesetting. Several tens of complete fonts are already finished, in all possible font formats (truetype, type 1, metafont).

Mojikyo is the newest kind of software for Chinese Character word-processing. More than 80,000 character fonts have been built in Mojikyo. So, everyone in the world can use any font of Mojikyo, free of charge. Moreover, if you want to use Chinese Character which cannot be found in Mojikyo Internet fonts, you can ask us to make new character provided that you inform us the source(s) of the character. We make them, and put them on our Home Page free of charge for public use.

Truetype fonts for Chinese and Japanese characters: The Mojikyo fonts are Japanese Shift-JIS-encoded fonts for the 48,902 Chinese characters in the Morohashi dictionary, along with tens of thousands of additional characters. Each character is assigned a six-digit Mojikyo number. The Morohashi characters are contained in fonts M101-109. Fonts M110 and above contain characters not in Morohashi. These include, for example, oracle-bone characters [M117-118], Siddham [M119-121], and Tangut [M202-203].

Mojikyo Windows truetype fonts. TEX-specific download page. University of Virginia link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monotype: All languages

Monotype sells fonts for the following languages: Amharic, Aksara Kaganga, Arabic, Armenian, Balinese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Coptic, Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi/Nepali), Farsi, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gujerathi, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hebrew, Japanese, Javanese, Jawi, Kannada, Korean, Laotian, Lontarak, Malayalam, Old Bulgarian, Oriya, Pushto, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Surat Pustaha, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monotype: Chinese

Chinese fonts at Monotype Imaging:

Chinese - (Simplified - Mainland)
Font Name	Character Set	Encoding
MHeiMedium (1991-2005)	Simplified Hanzi	GB
MKaiMedium	Simplified Hanzi	GB
MSungLight	Simplified Hanzi	GB
MSungS-Medium-U	Simplified Hanzi	Unicode
MHeiS-Bold-U	Simplified Hanzi	Unicode
MSungS-Light-U	Simplified Hanzi	Unicode
MHeiS-Medium-U	Simplified Hanzi	Unicode
Chinese - (Traditional)
Font Name	Character Set	Encoding
MHei-Medium	Traditional Hanzi	Big Five
Mkai-Medium	Traditional Hanzi	Big Five
Msung-Light	Traditional Hanzi	Big Five
MSungUGL-Light	Both Radicals	Unicode
MSungT-Light-U	Traditional Hanzi	Unicode
MSungT-Medium-U	Traditional Hanzi	Unicode
MHeiT-Medium-U	Traditional Hanzi	Unicode
MHeiT-Bold-U	Traditional Hanzi	Unicode

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Monotype HK

Monotype Hong Kong Ltd.is a subsidiary of Monotype responsible for the design and development of Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese typefaces, and also other Asian languages/scripts. It grew out of the acquisition in 2006 by Monotype of China Type Design Ltd. They write: The Monotype HK typeface collection includes a wide range of high quality designs in popular type styles for text and display setting, in print and screen environments. Today the Monotype team continues to create new Chinese typefaces for the library, as well as custom and bespoke typefaces for global brands and enterprises. The typefaces as of 2018: M Comic HK, M Computer HK, M Finance HK, M Sung Gold HK, M Sung PRC, M Razor HK, M Stiff Hei PRC, M Kai PRC, M Ling Wai P HK, M Razor PRC, M Finance PRC, M Zhi Ngai HK, M Zhi Ngai PRC, M Gentle HK, M Gentle PRC, M Banquet P HK, M Banquet P PRC, M Bitmap Square HK, M Circus PRC, M Bei HK, M Bitmap Round HK, M Circus HK, M Hei PRC (in the heiti style), M Yuppy HK, M Yuppy PRC, M Lady HK, M Lady PRC, M Young Hei PRC, M Young HK, M Young PRC, M Yoyo HK, M Yoyo PRC, M Sung Gold PRC, M Elite Hei HK, M Elite Hei PRC, M J Ngai HK, M J Ngai PRC, M Yuen PRC, M Elle PRC.

Additions in 2020: M Comic 2 HK, M Comic 2 PRC.

Showcase of their fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Monotype's East Asian Stroke Font Set

Monotype states: Traditional Asian TrueType fonts require megabytes of storage too much for most memory-restricted or low-resolution devices. Yet, storage requirements can be reduced 90 percent or more using our stroke-based fonts. For example, a standard GB 2312 Simplified Chinese TrueType font with 7,663 characters is about 2.7 MB. Our stroke font equivalent is under 250 KB. Cell phones, set-top boxes, PDAs, most other wireless devices and even operating systems benefit from stroke-based fonts. Our fully scalable stroke-based fonts consist of composite strokes or graphemes. These simple shapes appear as pen strokes or lines and are used repeatedly to build complex East Asian characters. Graphemes offer huge storage savings. The same graphemes are used to construct various characters that can add up to thousands in a single font. Another major advantage lies in the technologys simplicity: less than half the number of points are needed to render characters much less than building characters using traditional outlines where points are located on the edges of shapes rather than at the centerlines. Our stroke-based fonts support both native and Unicode encodings and are available for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Morty Lake djz

Zhengzhou, China-based designer of a vintage alphabet in 2014. He/she also drew a cuneiform alphabet in 2014. In 2015 he published the oriental simulation font ABR, the all caps typeface OHBI (Ox Hide Bronze Ingot), the experimental Honeycomb font, the cuneiform numeral typeface MQ (2015), and the flared all caps typeface EAG for Latin--the name EAG for elegant ancient Greek, though, is misleading. Home page. Another link. At Behance, we find the name Carpenter Baker. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moy Lee

Weifang, China-based designer of the Latin's children's book illustrative Doodles Alphabet (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

MSGothic, MSMincho

Microsoft fonts for Chinese and Japanese. Some sites where you can find them: Kodyzone, TZoNE, Deepmind, MSIME98, Technote2002, Wintness Peacenet, Lantern Festival. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Multi Font

Free truetype versions of MSGothic (Japanese), GulimChe (Korean), MingLiu (Chinese), MSSong (Chinese), MSHei (Chinese). Page seems down. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nankai University

Download two Chinese fonts: gbsn00lp and gkai00mp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalia Mirapeix Bedia

Located in Beijing, this designer and illustrator created the wavy Orquidea font in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Naxidongba

Naxidongba sells a huge dingbat font, E-dongba, that is related to Chinese characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NBTVU

Chinese font archive. It has, for example, DFKaiShu-SB-Estd-BF, FangSong, HT_CJK+, KaiTi, LiHeiPro, MS-Song, MicrosoftJhengHeiBold, MicrosoftYaHei (+ Bold), MingLiU, New-Gulim, QuiMi-mincho, SimHei, SimSun-ExtB. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NCIT.EDU

Taiwanese site with a few Chinese font collections, including the Arphic fonts, several truetype fonts, and a number of PCF (X-Windows) fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NCKU Taiwan

Two Chinese TrueType fonts: DFFT-S5.TTF, DFTT-L5.TTF. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NCTU

Grab the files starting with NTU: these contain Chinese TrueType fonts for the Mac encoded in BIG5: Black-Medium, FunSung, Kai, Lei, Ming-Medium, Round-HRound-Medium, and Thin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nelly Garneau

Graphic designer in Shanghai. Creator of a few display display typefaces in 2013, such as Ranek Dobry, Organique and Abricot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nelly Garreau

French graphic designer based in Shanghai. In 2016, she created a circle and line-based typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

New Breed Software

Free truetype fonts for Greek (Thryomanes by Herman Miller, 2002), Chinese (AR PL SungtiL GB by Arphic Design, 1999), Japanese (Kochi Gothic by Wadalab), Tamil (TSCu_Comic by Thukaram Gopalrao, 1999), Hebrew (Nachlieli Light by Maxim Iorsh, 2002) and Korean (Baekmuk Gulim by Hwan Design, 2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

NewTek Super True Type Fonts CD-ROM

"32 Chinese TTF for Chinese Windows 3.1 or Windows 95." [Google] [More]  ⦿

NHINF

Archivce with some Corel and Microsoft fonts, mixed in with Chinese truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NHN Corporation

Korean type foundry which provided several typefaces to Apple as Latin / Hangul system fonts in 2010. These include Nanum Brush Script, Nanum Myeongjo (free), and Nanum Gothic.

The Nanum fonts (Nanum Myeongjo, Nanum Pen Script, Nanum Gothic, Nanum Gothic Coding, Nanum Brush Script) are Unicode fonts designed especially for the Korean-language script, designed by Sandoll Communications and Fontrix. The publisher is Naver. Nanum Pen Script is a contemporary pen script with a warm touch and is expertly hinted for screen use.

Namum Gothic Coding (2009) is by Nicolas Noh, Bruce Kwon, Sungwoo Choi, Goun Cha and Soohyun Park. Nanum Gothic (2011) is by Nicolas Noh, Bruce Kwon, and Sungwoo Choi. Nanum Myeongjo (2010) is by Yong-rak Park and Ji-hee Yoon. Nanum BrushScript (2010) is by Doo-yul Kwak and Nicolas Noh. Nanum Pen Script (2010) is by Hyunghwan Choi, Doo-yul Kwak and Nicolas Noh.

Google Fonts links: Nanum Myeongjo, Nanum Pen Script, Nanum Gothic, Nanum Gothic Coding, Nanum Brush Script. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ni Chuwan

Ni Chuwan is an award-winning font designer. A graduate of Central Academy of Fine Arts, he is art director at CAUPLE. His fonts at Founder Type include FZShuiZhu font, the FZShaoEr, FZZBHJW, FZSSBJW and FZXSHJW. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nice Taipei

A free Mac font for Chinese with roman letters as in Geneva. It was designed as a replacement for Apple's Taipei system font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nico Yang

Type designer based in Switzerland. In 2020, Nico Yang and Chang Su created the sharp=edged headline sans typeface Glancias. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nicolas Noh

Nicolas Noh is the Korean codesigner, with Doo-yul Kwak, of the Latin/Hangul script font Nanum Brush Script (2010, NHN Corporation), which is an Apple system font. In 2011, with Bruce Kwon and Sung-woo Choi, he co-designed the Apple system font Nanum Gothic (a sans for Latin, Chinese, Japanese and Hangul, NHN Corporation).

URL for NHN.

Google Fonts links: Nanum Brush Script, Nanum Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nimbus

In their Global Type collection, URW++ has its Helvetica clone, Nimbus Sans (2005, 5 fonts, 2000 Euros) and Nimbus Roman (2005, 2 fonts, 2000 Euros). The former is based on Helvetica, the latter on Times New Roman. Meant as workhorses, these fonts cover Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Hebrew. Of course, Nimbus Sans can be had for free at Open Font Library.

The first versions of Nimbus Sans were digitized in the 1980s for the URW Signus sign-making system. The highest precision of all characters (1/100 mm accuracy) were required because the fonts were to be cut in any size in vinyl or other material used for sign-making. During this period three size ranges were created for text (T), display (D) and poster (P). In addition, URW produced the L-version that was compatible with Adobe's PostScript version of Helvetica. Nimbus was also the product name of a URW-proprietary renderer for high quality and fast rasterization of outline fonts. Also in the 1980s, a new improved and expanded version of the Nimbus Sans, Nimbus Sans Novus, was developed with URW's Ikarus system. Nimbus Sans Novus was modified for Nimbus Sans Round in 2015. Nimbus Sans Devanagari was redesigned in 2016. Nimbus Roman Japanese was refurbished in 2014 by URW.

Two releases in 2021: Nimbus Roman No. 9 L, Nimbus Sans L. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ninth Founder Type Design Competition

This is the ninth competition organized (in 2017) by the Chinese type foundry Founder Type. the first one was held in 2001. Awards are given in the Latin and Chinese categories. Information file. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NJMU

Chinese site with about ten Chinese fonts. Included is FZWeiBei-S03S (1998, Founder Corporation). [Google] [More]  ⦿

NJStar Company

Commercial Chinese and Japanese fonts and word processors. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noto

A large free font family released under the Apache license at Google Web Fonts, and developed by Monotype's Steve Matteson and a team of type designers. Designed between 2012 and 2016, this typeface covers over 800 languages and 100 writing scripts. URL with details. Noto stands for no tofu, i.e., no white boxes that represent unknown characters. The fonts are property of Monotype, with the exception of Noto Khmer and Noto Lao, which belong to Danh Hong.

Noto Sans and Noto Serif cover Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Asturian, Avaric, Aymara, Azerbaijani-AZERBAIJAN, Bashkir, Bambara, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bislama, Bini, Breton, Bosnian, Buriat, Catalan, Chechen, Chamorro, Mari (Russia), Corsican, Czech, Church Slavic, Chuvash, Welsh, Danish, German, Modern Greek (1453-), English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, Fijian, Faroese, French, Fulah, Friulian, Western Frisian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Manx, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hiri Motu, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association), Igbo, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiaq, Ido, Icelandic, Italian, Kara-Kalpak, Kikuyu, Kazakh, Kalaallisut, Kurdish-ARMENIA, Kumyk, Komi, Cornish, Kirghiz, Latin, Luxembourgish, Lezghian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malagasy, Marshallese, Maori, Macedonian, mo, Maltese, Norwegian Bokmål, Low German, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian, South Ndebele, Pedi, Nyanja, Occitan (post 1500), Oromo, Ossetian, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Romanian, Russian, Yakut, Scots, Northern Sami, Selkup, sh, Shuswap, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Southern Sami, Lule Sami, Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Swati, Southern Sotho, Swedish, Swahili (macrolanguage), Tajik, Turkmen, Tagalog, Tswana, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Tuvinian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Venda, Vietnamese, Volapük, Votic, Walloon, wen, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Yoruba, Zulu, Akan, Aragonese, ber-dz, Crimean Tatar, Kashubian, Ewe, Fanti, Filipino, Upper Sorbian, Haitian, Herero, Javanese, Kabyle, Kuanyama, Kanuri, Kurdish-TURKEY, Kwambi, Ganda, Limburgan, Mongolian-MONGOLIA, Malay (macrolanguage), Nauru, Ndonga, Navajo, pap-an, Papiamento-ARUBA, Quechua, Rundi, Kinyarwanda, Sardinian, Sango, Shona, Sundanese, Tahitian, Zhuang.

Non-Latin scrips include Noto Armenian, Noto Georgian, Noto Carian, Noto Greek, Noto Devanagari, Noto Ethiopic, Noto Glagolitic, Noto Hebrew, Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic, Noto Sans Lisu, Noto Sans Lycian, Noto Sans Lydian, Noto Sans Old South Arabian, Noto Sans Osmanya, Noto Sans Phoenician, Noto Sans Shavian, Noto Sans Tamil, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Serif Thai, Noto Sans Kannada, Noto Sana Telugu, Noto Sans Malayalam, Noto Sans Cherokee, Noto Sans Orya (for Odia), Noto Sans Bengali.

Other typefaces in the package include Arima, , and Tinos.

At CTAN, one can find Noto with full TeX support.

At Open Font Library, one can download Noto Nastaliq Urdu (2014), which covers Arabic, Farsi, Pashto and Urdu.

The fonts, as of October 2016: Noto Sans, Noto Serif, Noto Color Emoji, Noto Emoji, Noto Kufi Arabic, Noto Mono, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Nastaliq Urdu, Noto Sans Armenian, Noto Sans Avestan, Noto Sans Balinese, Noto Sans Bamum, Noto Sans Batak, Noto Sans Bengali, Noto Sans Brahmi, Noto Sans Buginese, Noto Sans Buhid, Noto Sans CJK JP, Noto Sans CJK KR, Noto Sans CJK SC, Noto Sans CJK TC, Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal, Noto Sans Carian, Noto Sans Cham, Noto Sans Cherokee, Noto Sans Coptic, Noto Sans Cuneiform, Noto Sans Cypriot, Noto Sans Deseret, Noto Sans Devanagari, Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Noto Sans Ethiopic, Noto Sans Georgian, Noto Sans Glagolitic, Noto Sans Gothic, Noto Sans Gujarati, Noto Sans Gurmukhi, Noto Sans Hanunoo, Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Sans HK, Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic, Noto Sans Inscriptional Pahlavi, Noto Sans Inscriptional Parthian, Noto Sans Javanese, Noto Sans Kaithi, Noto Sans Kannada, Noto Sans Kayah Li, Noto Sans Kharoshthi, Noto Sans Khmer, Noto Sans Lao, Noto Sans Lepcha, Noto Sans Limbu, Noto Sans Linear B, Noto Sans Lisu, Noto Sans Lycian, Noto Sans Lydian, Noto Sans Malayalam, Noto Sans Mandaic, Noto Sans Meetei Mayek, Noto Sans Mongolian, Noto Sans Myanmar, Noto Sans NKo, Noto Sans New Tai Lue, Noto Sans Ogham, Noto Sans Ol Chiki, Noto Sans Old Italic, Noto Sans Old Persian, Noto Sans Old South Arabian, Noto Sans Old Turkic, Noto Sans Oriya, Noto Sans Osmanya, Noto Sans Phags Pa, Noto Sans Phoenician, Noto Sans Rejang, Noto Sans Runic, Noto Sans Samaritan, Noto Sans Saurashtra, Noto Sans Shavian, Noto Sans Sinhala, Noto Sans Sundanese, Noto Sans Syloti Nagri, Noto Sans Symbols, Noto Sans Syriac Eastern, Noto Sans Syriac Estrangela, Noto Sans Syriac Western, Noto Sans Tagalog, Noto Sans Tagbanwa, Noto Sans Tai Le, Noto Sans Tai Tham, Noto Sans Tai Viet, Noto Sans Tamil, Noto Sans Telugu, Noto Sans Thaana, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Sans Tibetan, Noto Sans Tifinagh, Noto Sans Ugaritic, Noto Sans Vai, Noto Sans Yi, Noto Serif Armenian, Noto Serif Bengali, Noto Serif Devanagari, Noto Serif Georgian, Noto Serif Gujarati, Noto Serif Kannada, Noto Serif Khmer, Noto Serif Lao, Noto Serif Malayalam, Noto Serif Tamil, Noto Serif Telugu, Noto Serif Thai. Late additions include Noto Sans and Serif for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, developed at Adobe.

In 2015, Adam Twardoch placed the Noto fonts on Github under the name Toto Fonts. A question of licenses. Toto Han fonts, 123MB worth of them. P>In 2018, Monotype published a fork of Noto Sans Display, called Avrile Sans (free at Open Font Library). See also Avrile Sans Condensed (2015) and Avrile Serif (2018).

Github repositories. Open Font Library link. CTAN link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noto CJK

Noto Sans CJK and Noto Serif CJK are free typeface families developed at Adobe and Google to complement the universal Noto font package between 2014 and 2017. CTAN link. Credits :

• Ken Lunde (project architect at Adobe, glyph set definition and overall production).
• Masataka Hattori (production and ideograph elements).
• Ryoko Nishizuka (kana and ideographs).
• Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).
• Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo).
• Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang and Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters and syllables).

Dedicated Google fonts sites include Noto Serif SC (for Simplified Chinese; it covers all the Chinese characters listed in China's (Tongyong Guifan Hanzibiao) along with the ASCII, additional Latin letters for Pinyin, punctuation marks and full-width characters used in Chinese), Noto Sans SC, Noto Serif TC (for traditional Chinese), Noto Sans TC, Noto Serif JP and Noto Serif KR. Noto Serif KR has been subsetted to cover the full repertoire of modern Hangul syllables (11,172) and most of symbols in KS X 1001. It also has the full support for Old Hangul with Unicode Hangul Conjoining Jamos and Opentype features. It does not have any Hanjas (Chinese characters) and Greek/Cyrillic letters. Noto Serif JP has been subsetted to all of the kanji in JIS X 0208, JIS X 0213, and JIS X 0212, including all kanji in Adobe-Japan1-6.

See also Noto Sans HK. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NTU

Four Chinese TrueType fonts (Kai, Lei, FunSung, Thin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

NTU Chinese Truetype Fonts
[Thian-Huat Ong]

The catalog of the true type fonts by the National Taiwan University was compiled by Thian-Huat Ong in 1999. The fonts, called NTU, are here and here. The creator of the (free) NTU fonts is Lin Yaw-Jen (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei). The fonts were derived ca. 1993 from bitmap fonts provided by Dynafont by a bitmap to truetype program developed in-house. [Google] [More]  ⦿

onevision

Jiangshan, China-based creator of a couple of Chinese fonts in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Onevision

Graphic designer in Jiangshan, China, who created a Chinese font called Lihei in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

OReilly

Free type fonts for Chinese (MOEKai, MOESung), Korean (Munhwa) and Japanese (WadaGo, WadaMaruGo, WadaMin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oren Watson

Oren Watson is a computer programmer from Canada. Designer of the free pixel font Neoletters (2016). It has 8653 glyphs, including about 1600 Chinese ones. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oriental Fonts

Free fonts for Chinese (MS Song, MingLiu), Arabic (ArabicKufiSSK, ArabicKufiSSKBold, ArabicKufiSSKItalic, WL-ArabicNaskh-Bold-Italic, Riyadh, WL-ArabicNaskh, WL-LatinALA-LC1Times, WL-PersianNaskh, WL-ArabicNaskh-Bold, WL-ArabicNaskh-Italic), Phags (Phags-pa-Unicode-Reference, Phags-pa, Phagspa, hPhags-pa-(rotated)). The Phags-Pa font is by Babelstone1357 (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

OSS

Ten full Chinese display fonts, wcl-01 through wcl-10. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

PC Fai

Large Chinese font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philip Reimer
[The Miao Unicode project]

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Ping Ji

Ping Ji (Minneapolis, MN) created the typeface Xing (2014), which tries to blend Latin and Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pintone fonts

Pintone tone fonts and progams. One Mac and three PC fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pinyin fonts for Windows
[Daqing Chu]

Pinyin TT fonts by Daqing (David) Chu of Calgary. "Pinyin is a phonetic system used in Chinese to help people to pronounce Chinese (Mandarin). It has been widely used in the People's Republic of China since 1958. Many none-speaking-Chinese people also find out that this is a very good phonetic system for them to learn Chinese." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pinyin Joe's

Chinese Fonts included in Microsoft Windows XP:

• SimSun: Simplified Song, proportional
• NSimSun: Simplified Song, monospaced
• SimHei: Simplified/Traditional Hei, proportional
• PMingLiU: Traditional Xi Ming (Song), proportional
• MingLiU: Traditional Xi Ming (Song), monospaced

Replacements for SimSun and NSimSun with more characters have been available since 2001. "SimSun 18030" conforms to the current PRC government standard, GB 18030, which supports a larger portion of Unicode. Microsoft could not sell XP in mainland China without it, but did not include this in other country versions of Windows until Vista and Win7. Elsewhere on this site I have more info about GB code, but all you really need to know is that you can download the SimSun 18030 update from Microsoft.

Replacements for MingLiu and PMingLiu are also available to keep you current with the versions of those fonts on Windows 7 and Vista, which now support more Unicode characters based on a Hong Kong standard released in 2004. You can ignore any instructions from Microsoft requiring Language Packs or different Locale settings, they are not correct. Just go ahead and install: First enable East Asian languages on your system, then download the MingLiu update from Microsoft. The file ending in "x86.exe" is for 32-bit systems; the file ending in "x64.exe" is for 64-bit systems.

You have the SimHei headline font with simplified Chinese Heiti characters and a limited set of traditional Chinese Heiti characters. There are not enough characters in this font to cover the larger range of a standard traditional character set.

You are missing two standard Chinese fonts that are normally in a basic set: the Kai and Fangsong fonts, which you could say are roughly equivalent to ornate or italic styles. Often a basic set of traditional Chinese fonts include all of the above plus the Weibei and Yuan fonts as well. These fonts are very common, and you should consider buying a third-party font package if you are doing more than just casual e-mail and messaging. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pinyin Joe's: Windows 7

Pinyin Joe's great intro to Chinese fonts on Windows. He show s a table with the Chinese fonts available in Windows 7. For the PRC, where Simplified Chinese is the standard, the Chinese keyboards support DFKai-SB, FangSong_GB2312, KaiTi, Microsoft JhengHei, Microsoft YaHei, MingLiU, MingLiU-ExtB, MingLiU_HKSCS [with support for Hong Kong Cantonese characters], MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB, NSimsun, PMingLiU, PMingLiU-ExtB, SimHei, Simsun [the default in the PRC], Simsun-ExtB. Traditional Chinese, still in use in Taiwan (and to some degree in Hong Kong and Macau) has keyboard support for DFKai-SB Microsoft JhengHei, MingLiU, MingLiU-ExtB, PMingLiU [the default in Taiwan], PMingLiU-ExtB.

Microsoft link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pinyin Okay Font

Free Times truetype font to enable correct printing of all characters and accents in the Han4yu3 Pin1yin1 transcription system (for Chinese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

PMingLiU

Free Chinese Unicode font that comes with MS Office 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Polyform
[Lisa Huang]

Lisa Huang was born and grew up in France, and is currently based in Paris. Lisa studied mostly in Paris in graphic design before going further in type and typography with Type@Cooper Condensed program in 2015 in New York City and a couple of years in design companies such as BETC Design and type foundry Black[Foundry] both in Paris. In 2018, she graduated from TypeMedia at the KABK in The Hague.

Lisa's specializes in multi-cultural projects, especially mixing Latin / French and Chinese cultures. In 2019, she founded a graphic and type design studio with her partner Thomas Kim called Polyform Studio (Paris). At Type@Paris 2016, Lisa Huang designed the warm text/sans typeface pair Julie et Julien. Her graduation typeface at KABK was Model Sans and Display (2018). She writes: I paid my attention to the balance between conventional structures of sans serif typefaces, optical corrections for legibility, and details from hand drawn shapes to give it personality.

Contributor in 2019 to the variable programming font Recursive Sans+Mono, the brainchild of Stephen Nixon. Github page where we learn that contributors besides Stephen Nixon include Katja Schimmel, Lisa Huang and Rafal Buchner. In 2019, these authors published Recursive as a variable font with five axes, Mono, casual, weight, slant and italics. Dedicated page. It will be added to Google Fonts at some point. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pop Chang

Based in Shanghai, Pop Chang is an original and creative designer, illustrator and photographer. His typographic work includes Paperclip (2011), the funny Bike Chain Font (2008), and a pair of pixel fonts called Pixel Faces Pattern (2008).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Porter He

Chengdu, China-based designer of the Latin alphabet Two Way (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qi Yuan

Designer in Xiamen, China, who designed a beautiful connect-the-dots typeface in 2017 called Kaleidoscope. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qian Hao

Student at the China Academy of Art in Shanghai. He created some experimental Latin alphabets in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qianqian Fang
[Wen Quan Yi]

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Qianqian Fang
[WenQuanYi Zen Hei]

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Qing Yan

Shanghai-based designed of several sets of oriental simulation numbers (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qiu Yin

Qiu Yin (b. 1962) is the Development Director of Founder Type in China, where he designed the Chinese typefaces FZ-YouHei and FZ-DaWei. He designed the identity (and font) for the 2010 GuangZhou Asian Games. His books on typography and calligraphy include ChouYin Pen Writing, ChouYin write foreign poem, Pen writing ancient calligraphy, Pen writing Lei Feng's diary, Pen writing famous foreign poem, and Copybook of famous words of advice. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Fusion. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qiushuo Li

Chinese creator at the School of Visual Arts in New York City of a colorful geometric decorative caps typeface in 2016 that was inspired by ACME Studios. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Quan-gang Li
[Quatype]

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Quatype
[Quan-gang Li]

Quatype is a Chinese type foundry founded by Quan-gang Li in 2018. His typefaces include the Chinese ink brush font Lianhua (2019: Lianhua means lotus). In 2020, he published the 6-style rounded sans typeface Quavo and the medieval typeface Mollis Gothic.

Typefaces from 2021: Jacob Graffiti. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Queenie Sun

Beijing, China-based designer of a few Latin and Chinese typefaces in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ran Mingwei

Shenzhen, China-based designer of the free geometric sans typeface Rany (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Reeji Studio

Chinese studio. Their typeface Mudan Type won an award at Granshan 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rendong Shijue
[Yang Rendong]

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Renzhi Li
[Belleve Invis]

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Reza Ray
[Royalclub]

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Reztype

Wuhan, China-based designer of the sans typeface family Nelson (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rhinophant Graphics
[Eric Amate]

Born in 1988 in China, Eric Amate (Rhinophant Graphics) designed White Knight in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Sears

Chinese symbols in all their historical forms---a lifetime of work for Richard Sears. [Google] [More]  ⦿

RichWin

Demo Chinese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richwin Software Products

Sells Chinese Expert package which has 68 Chinese TrueType fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricky Chun
[China Type Designs Ltd.]

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Robin Hui

Robin Hui joined China Type Design / Monotype Hong Kong in 1988 as a type designer. As chief typographer and production manager, Hui managed China Type's type design team and was responsible for a variety of font projects. In 2006, China Type was acquired by Monotype.

Robin was involved in a large number of type design and development projects, including the famous Monotype Hei, Sung and Kai families.

Robin's own creations include M Ngai, M Windy, M Comic (1991-2020: M Comic 2 HK, M Comic 2 PRC), M Razor, and M Lady. He is currently the chief design and production manager of Monotype Hong Kong, responsible for a wide variety of type design and technology projects, including compression, hinting and rendering control of typefaces across different platform, on different display environments such as LCD and ePaper.

Robin Hui helped to extend M Hei, M Sung and M Ying Hei to cover multiple Asian regions. He is currently representing Monotype in the Chinese Language Interface Consultation Committee of the Hong Kong SAR government.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Ideographic type design and production. In this talk, together with Kenneth Kwok, he explains the following claim: Some of the many challenges of designing and producing a CJK ideographic font is to maintain consistency and tranquility.

He won an award at Granshan 2016 for the Chinese typeface M Ying Hei. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robyn Makinson
[Type with pride]

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Roman Type
[Roman Wilhelm]

Born in 1976 in Germany, Roman Wilhelm graduated in 2004 with a diploma related to a German-Chinese book project. He studied visual communication at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale) in Germany and type design at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Fred Smeijers. He briefly taught type design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Besides working for Berlin-Beijing-based studio INSIDE A Communications, he is a member of the Multilingual Typography Research Group at the Geneva University of Art and Design. A fluent Chinese speaker, his work focuses on cross-cultural mediation, Chinese-Western bilingual typography and typeface design issues. A frequent visitor of Asia, he has taught at various academies such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, as well as the Seoul National University College of Fine Art. He is working towards a PhD at the Braunschweig University of Art.

Roman is primarily a web, book and magazine designer, but in 2009, he did create Sung New Roman, a typeface for Latin-Chinese typography, for which he received the award Ars Lipsiensis in 2009.

In 2013, he designed a wonderful hand-drawn Chinese typeface, Laowai Song. It has over 28,000 Chinese ideographs, supported by a perfectly matched hand-drawn roman.

At 3type, he published Hong Kong Street Face (2015), a Hanzi font that reflects the character of Hong Kong.

His typeface Koex Text (2016) aims to meet the requirements of style-switching typography, i.e., the use of a different style for imported words or special context material [examples of this include katakana in Japanese, or roman letters in blackletter text in 16th century Prussia for words of Latin origin].

Designer of the octagonal / techno typeface family 946 Latin (2019), Pivnaya-Cyrillic Greek, Pivnaya-Arabic, Pivnaya-Hebrew and Pivnaya-Latin. Pivnaya, a geometric display typeface inspired by Bauhaus and featuring many triangles.

In 2017, Roman Wilhelm and 3type, a Shanghai-based type foundry, released a six-style extension called Freundschafts Antiqua Neue, a revival and extension of the famous Freundschafts-Antiqua made between 1959 and 1962 by Yu Bingnan during his studies and research under Albert Kapr in Leipzig. 3type has also fashioned a sans-serif member of the Freundschafts-Antiqua Neue family.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong on multicultural typography. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Code Switching, Multi-Style, Diglossia. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of multilingual typography in Belgium. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Roman Wilhelm
[Roman Type]

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Rong Chen

Chief of Visual Communication and Information Department, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts (SIVA), and Chief Creative Director of Qinwei Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Royalclub
[Reza Ray]

Royalclub is a Chinese agency specializing in design for sports, street wear, gaming and emerging cultures. In 2020, they released the tropical island / tiki / wooden plank font Beachclub (by Reza Ray). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Royalclub

Design agency, est. 2013, operating in Shanghai and Paris. Creators of the wooden plank or tiki font Beachclub (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Lau

Graphic and type designer in Shanghai. At the Shanghai, China-based type foundry 3type, he released Ryan Serif in 2017. He also experimented with Coriand in 2018, a variable Hanzi typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Salika

Commercial Khmer font producer. Salika Ltd is located in Tokyo. Their Khmer fonts are named Khm-1 through Khm-4. They also have fonts for Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Latin, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Nepali, Cyrillic, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

SalomeNJ
[Graphic Box (was: SalomeNJ)]

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Sammy Or

Chinese type designer who created the sans typeface Xin Gothic (2011) that covers both Chinese and Latin. This clean and crisp typeface, typical of the Sammy Or style, is ideal for wayfinding and is also being used in e-books.

He created tens of CJK typefaces but is most proud of his first designs, Li Gothic (Li Hei) and Li Song, from the early eighties, which are still used in Apple products today, and Zhaujinti. Zhaujinti is Sammy's re-interpretation of Song emperor Huizong's Zhaujiin calligraphic style. Its strokes are thin and mannered. Matthew Carter designed matching Latin and Osamu Torinoumi (Jiyokobo) created gorgeous kana characters for it.

Another URL.

His CV at VM Type: A seasoned typeface designer, Sammy Or's career spans 30 years. He is one of the most prolific and important designers of contemporary Chinese typefaces. With a solid grounding in traditional Chinese calligraphy as well as thorough knowledge in current font technologies, Or's typefaces are amongst the most widely used in the Chinese-speaking world today. Or began his work in typeface design as a Sign Systems Designer for the Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTR) in Hong Kong in the 1980s. At MTR, Or participated in the development of a corporate typeface for its wayfinding system, which is still in current use. Subsequently, he was employed by the Hong Kong branch of the Monotype Corporation as Type Manager and Chief Typographer. While at Monotype, Or developed over twenty Chinese typefaces, including the first Chinese digital LaserCom fonts for the Hong Kong Government's Printing Department. The Monotype Sung and Hei families---typefaces of choice for numerous publications as well as the Hong Kong Government---are also his designs. In 1989, Or founded TTL Technology Limited. LiSung and LiGothic were the first Chinese outline (Postscript) fonts designed and developed for Apple Computers. These remain system fonts in the Macintosh operating system to this day. He also designed and marketed the popular 'Li' family of over thirty typefaces. In 1992, Or assumed the position of Vice-president and Chief Font Designer of DynaLab Inc., a preeminent font manufacturer in Asia. Or has also been a project-based development consultant for Bitstream Inc. for several years, designing CJK stroke-based technologies for international fonts. He is also a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Keynote speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samsung One UI Fonts

Download 4444 free fonts for Samsung One UI, with special subcollections of 3941 Latin fonts, 486 Korean and 17 Chinese fonts. These are not system fonts, but mostly scrapbook or amateur typefaces.

The 486 Korean fonts:

• From Human365, between 2011 and 2015: 365Dashofcharm, 365Enamored, 365Fallyouth, 365Ghostsmet, 365Greatstyle, 365Honestppum, 365Hummingsusu, 365InnocentBeauty, 365Iwanttosee, 365Kuhitdehet, 365Likeactress, 365Maryjane, 365Mystyle, 365Naivegirl, 365Orangeblue, 365Pureappears, 365Riseyouth, 365Romanticgothic, 365Sugarball, 365ThatsOK, 365Thinkeveryday, 365Toyou, 365Wehappy, 365brotherstyle, 365happyday, 365honeyclover, 365pickastar, 365simplevintage, 365smileange, 365socool, 365sweetnco, 365thegirl, 365vanillacandle, 365warmhearts, 365whitelove, Dailyvlog365, EverybodyLikes365, Fallingstarlight365, Finedayjeju365, Loveyoumorethanme365, MeetOnMonday365 Pigrabbit365, Starserenade365, Tteokbokki365.
• From Aafont in 2020: AaDecember, AaFebruary, AaFlowerStar, AaGoTerSans, AaGodSummer, AaJanuary, AaJejuSea, AaJuly, AaMapoSans, AaMapoSansMedium, AaMarch, AaMay, AaMoonrise, AaOnTheCloudsLight, AaPipiLong, AaPrettyDay, AaPrettyThing, AaYouthfulLight, AaxSeoyeon, BaBlahmyungjo, BaEggMayo, BaNiceBookstore, BaNoteWriting, BaSalala, BaTheLove, BaTypefont, Bablahgothic, Basweetday.
• From Type&Type in 2020: AndBroccoli_K-Regular, AndFinetypeL-Regular, AndGanadara-Regular, AndHawaiianCouple-Regular, AndSecretDoor-Regular.
• From BraceTech in 2020: BRbookmark, BRcutepet, BRcutetype, BRfruits, BRserifcharm, BRserifsans, BRwindblow, Merong.
• From Lee DS in 2015: ByAdoreme.
• From Byfont in 2020: ByAppleCrumble, ByBbibbimongAgain, ByBboBbo (Daseul, 2020), ByBeagle (Kyung, 2020), ByChickpea, ByCutePuppy, ByCutie, ByDangerous, ByDdoddot (Daseul), ByHoneybutterfont, ByHulaolala, ByInJeong, ByMycalli (Daseul), ByMyheart (Daseul), ByNanaCoco, ByOkidoki (Daseul), ByOmgpretty (Daseul), ByOneMoreAge, ByPpuing, ByRealjackpot (Daseul), ByRoseSherbet, BySeeagain (Daseul), BySooooCozy, BySooooCute, BySooooNeatly, BySooooPrim, BySugarGothic, BySummerlight, ByUdidwell (Daseul), ByWritepencil, ByYlangYlang, ByYouthLetter, Bybandeut, Bycupofcoffee, Byggomjirak, Byhappyrudolph (Siri), Bylilylily (Kyung), ByHugMe (Kyung).
• By CE Font in 2020: CEAutumnletters, CEClassica, CEFairy, CEMinstrel.
• By EEDA in 2020: CatBaristaNote, CatGothicNo1, CatMislangSandwich, CatRomanticKittyg.
• From DY Font: DYHoneylemontea_K-Regular, DYMyfortune_K-Regular, DYRingaDinga-Regular, DYShyGiraffe-Regular, DYflutteringly-Regular.
• From Daintype, 2014-2020: Dain10YearsOld_K-Medium, DainCelebrity_K-Medium, DainCiabattaMedium, DainDDyong_K-Medium, DainFullMoonMedium, DainMalMedium, DainSewing2Medium, DainStrangeMedium, DainTall, DainUEOng_K-Medium, DainYoungPenRegular.
• From DdFont: DdBlueSans, DdD-Gothic, DdDuoPt2, DdNawaHamkke.
• From By-Dear Font in 2020: DearBanana, DearForest, DearGrooming, DearMemo, DearMerrymerry, DearPistachio, DearRainbow.
• From Sunju Han in 2019 and 2020: Egg9CutieBoy-Regular, Egg9DailyAndH-Regular, Egg9ILOVEYOU-Regular, Egg9Marshmallow-Regular, Egg9MellowGray_K-Regular, Egg9MilkyWay-Regular, Egg9MintTeaH-Regular, Egg9Mischievous-Regular, Egg9ModernHouse-Regular, Egg9MyStory-Regular, Egg9MyWedding-Regular, Egg9OneTwo_K-Regular, Egg9StarMoon-Regular, Egg9SweetSky-Regular.
• From Goodfont: GFBreath, GFConsonant, GFCookieLight, GFCopywriter, GFDolmen, GFFairness, GFGiraffeGreen, GFMate, GFMonophagia, GFOnlyGuitar, GFOwlType, GFPanache, GFPenLight, GFPencil, GFRabbit, GFRoundGothic, GFSalmons, GFSilentNight, GFSmart, GFSpaceTour, GFSweetFish, GFWinterBeach.
• From Heumm: HUBlossom, HUChurros, HUCustomgoth, HUDailynew, HUEdgegoth, HUFinepenM_K, HUGrimb, HUIncludemj, HUIncludemjM_K, HUMonba, HUNeatwrt_K, HURicecake_K, HUSistergo, HUSkymjo_K, HUSugarcookie, HUWeirdacorn_K, HUWiselife, HUZodiac_K.
• From Login Design: Log_Ankyung, LogBandalgom, LogByeolnan, LogChwihyang, LogDalbitsigdang, LogDonggle, LogGaebab, LogJjingothic, LogMemory, LogMyGamsung, LogNemokimbap, LogPooggak, LogSecondfloor, LogShampoo, LogTraveler, LogUchippong.
• From Morris Design: MDBangabso, MDBucketList, MDConfidence, MDCozycozy, MDDabansa, MDDaldalgoory, MDDoljikku, MDEsop, MDFriendship, MDHaebongyi, MDHappyharu, MDHealingtalk, MDHeartalk, MDHoneylollipop, MDHugme, MDItgirl, MDJihoon, MDKkamnyang, MDMaimai, MDMellowcream, MDMelodybong, MDMine, MDNewstart, MDOppabelieve, MDPinklady, MDPlaywithme, MDPounding, MDRomanticist, MDSweetday, MDTruefriend, MDWerfriends, MDYourName, MDZoneout.
• From MFont: M_BabyPanda, M_Dancingcat.
• From MIJ Communication: MfAmpleGothic, MfCloudGothic, MfEmperorMj, MfNaturalGothic, MfNiceFonts, MfPitapat, MfSantoriniM, MfSlyRabbit, MfSoftGothicL, MfTimeTraveler, MjBlackFit, MjLittlePrince, MjLoveAgain, MjMJGothic, MjMeAfterYou, MjRaindust, MjStarPoem, MjThatAutumn, MjWinterSea.
• From MongFont in 2020: MongBrownie, MongCupCake, MongKindLetter, MongLandBySky, MongLikeYouLight, MongPencilMong, MongRiverPark.
• From FontNAMU: NaHaesoldiary, NaYeRimDiaryL_K, Nabicycletrip_L, Nagoodjobtoday_K, Nainmyheart.
• From NeoFont: Neo2Hak3Ban, Neo3Hak4Ban, NeoAutumnItalic, NeoAutumnmyung, NeoBeancoffee, NeoCheesecake, NeoDogdung, NeoFontLand, NeoFonttaste, NeoGolmok, NeoGothic, NeoGothic2, NeoGothic2Italic, NeoGothic2Light, NeoHappycharge, NeoHardramen, NeoHipenguin, NeoKingkongdung, NeoMew, NeoMixramen, NeoRabbittown, NeoRobot1, NeoRobot2, NeoRobot3, NeoStarlight, NeoThefirstgrade, NeoTomboy.
• From TogetherGroup: OdAGratefulDay, OdAngButter, OdAutumnPoem, OdByulHana, OdDawnNightSky, OdOhMyGoodness, OdOnionPotato.
• From By-Only: OnlyCherry, OnlyDaisy, OnlyDoremi, OnlyPlayBest, OnlyWintersky, OnlyWritepencillight, Onlycutefont.
• From Fontrix: RixAloha, RixArtist, RixBaguette, RixCloud, RixFallVacation, RixHipster, RixMangoIce, RixManyThanks, RixMilkCaramel, RixNemoSans, RixScribbleT, RixThankyou, RixTokyoEmotion, RixVanillaBean, RixWinterGlow.
• From SF Font: SFHiSantaClaus, SFJongdalriSuper, SFSoCute, SFSummerVacation, SFToFlowers.
• From Jungle System Co: COOBlueSmoothie, COOBongsoon, COOFallisHere, COOGothicMode, COOStarNovel, COOWinterRomance, SJBanggu, SJEngagement, SJHeartCandy, SJLeafwind, SJLoveplus, SJLover, SJRedAcorn, SJStarlight, SJSummergothic, SJSympathy, SJcherrypop, Sjpromise.
• From JIUT between 2017 and 2020: SUM3aXmX, SUMacorn, SUMcbcookies, SUMfontmonster, SUMlegostar, SUMsummercandy, SUMwatermelon, SUMyumyum-Regular.
• From Samsung Electronics Co in 2017: SamsungOneUI-Bold, SamsungOneUI-Regular. SunnyHandwriteRegular,
• From Typodesign.Lab.Inc: T4Drizzle, T4Halfsquare, T4Havesmile, T4Newsquare, T4Pestlebunny, T4Rustle, T4Scribble, T4Tangerine, T4Wishspring, TDBearandrabbit, TDBurnfriday, TDCrackup, TDLovefont, TDPureMJ, TDStarCoffee, TDUgly, TDbearpants, TYPOAwesome, TYPOGiraffetree, TYPOGoodboy, TYPOHalloween, TYPOHsummer, TYPOLovefeel, TYPORednose, TYPOSofttender, TYPOWatchhead.
• From TheFontGroup: THEAlbino, THECandybar, THECoyly, THEEuropetravel, THEGaeideuk, THEHappyfruit, THEHoneybrown, THEInhojin, THEKingsulk, THEMacaron, THEMidnightdiner, THEYNForest.
• From Typespace: TSautumncomes, TSbyeol, TSchocolatemilk, TSdeeptree, TSgoodguy, TSkumquat, TSlongballoon, TSmerrytreesmas, TSpogglepogry, TSsummerblue, TSsummervacation, TStropical, TSwassummer.
• From TogetherGroup: TTAgainSea, TTGiwaGothicR, TTLovelySSong, TTNaramalsami, TTPenWorkBook, TTWantToBeHappy, TTleafAndWind.
• From Typeset Company in 2020: TYPECamellia-Regular, TYPEFallromance-Regular, TYPEHoliday-Regular, TYPEMayonnaise-Regular, TYPEMygarden-Regular, TYPESeoulnight-Regular, TYPESunplace-Regular, TYPEYorelatte-Regular.
• Orphaned: WDbananamilkl, WDbehappy, WDbestfontrestaurant, WDmyafternoon, WDrainysummernight, WDwecandoit, Petplant.
• From Wefont: WeGulimaiLt, WeReadingSans, WeReadingSansLt.
• From Yoon Design: Hello, YDAmericano, YDAnyounghaseyo, YDBakedBread, YDBlackFit, YDGirlstory, YDMalangChansoul, YDwhitefit.
• From Fontbank: byadultwrite, bypinkpeach, FBBest, FBBlue (with Lee Yongje), FBGreen (with Lee Yongje), FBGrey (with Lee Yongje), FBLSMB, FBLateBoy, FBMindReading, FBNavy (with Lee Yongje), FBPlum, FBYellow (with Lee Yongje).
• From UnuFont: unuLittlesnowman-Regular, unuREDLIP-Regular, unubabypink-Regular, unulittleforest-Regular, unusmile-Regular.

Samuel Xie
[University of Heidelberg]

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Santhosh Thottingal

Palakkad, Kerala-based computer scientist. He is responsible for Autonym Font (2013). He explains: A font that can render all language autonyms. If we want to show a large number of languages written in their own scripts (autonyms), we cannot apply the usual webfonts to it. This is because when each script requires a webfont, we will end up using a large number of webfonts. This can cause large bandwidth usage. An example of this use case is a language selector on a website. Autonym font tries to solve this. The font contains glyphs and opentype rules for rendering the language autonyms. And it contains only those glyphs for a language. The glyphs for the font are taken from a large number of free licensed fonts.

The sources for the glyphs, by language, are:

• Main: FreeSans.
• Arabic: Droid Arabic Naskh
• Tibetan: Jomolhari
• Bengali: Lohit Bengali
• Telugu: Lohit Telugu
• Tamil: Meera Tamil
• Odia: Lohit Odia
• Malayalam: Meera
• Kannada: Lohit Kannada
• Gujarati: Lohit Gujarati
• Devangari: Lohit Devangari
• Khmer: Hanuman
• Thai: Droid Sans Thai
• Chinese: WenQuanYiMicroHei
• Lao: Phetsarath
• Divehi: FreeFontThaana
• Javanese: TuladhaJejeg
• Myanmar: TharLon

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Saravanakumar Kandasamy

Shenzhen, China-based creator of an untitled Tamil typeface in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sawndip / Zhuang

Zhuang chracters, or sawndip, are logograms derived from Han characters and used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi, China to write the Zhuang languages for more than one thousand years. In Mandarin Chinese, these are called Gu Zhuangzi or Fangkuai Zhuangzi. Old Zhuang Script is restricted to those characters used before the founding of the Republic of China in 1911. Quoting wikipedia on the modern use: After the Chinese Revolution in 1949, even communist revolutionary propaganda was written using sawndip. In 1957 an official romanized Zhuang script was introduced. However there are major phonetic and lexical differences between Zhuang dialects, and the Latin-based system is based on the Wuming dialect; because of this and other reasons, there still are many Zhuang speakers that prefer to write Zhuang using sawndip. Even though it is not the official script at grassroots level various departments have continued to use Sawndip on occasions to get their message across. Coming into 21st century Sawndip understanding and usage of Sawndip remains significant, of those surveyed in two dialect areas just over one third said that they understood Sawndip, and about one in ten that they use Sawndip in most domains these rates are approximately twice those for the romanized script with only one sixth saying they understood it and only one in twenty saying they used in in most domains. [Google] [More]  ⦿

sc.jcwcn.com

Chinese font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scottied

A gorgeous Chinese truetype font by Dynalab called DFGirl-W3-HK-BF (1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scov Type
[Chang Su]

ScovType is a China-based type foundry launched by graphic designer Chang Su also known as Scovsky in 2020. In 2020, Nico Yang and Chang Su created the sharp=edged headline sans typeface Glancias. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sean Moldenhauer
[Art and Fonts by Sean (aka The BlackBox)]

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Sebastien Bruggeman

Dutch author of Hello Chinese (Acco). He has a sub-page on Chinese fonts, and lots of links related to Chinese input, and unicode fonts for Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shan Wu

Taiwan-based designer of a Mandarin phonetic symbol font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shanaya Studio (or: Shanaya Creative)

Chinese designer, b. 1999, based in the British Virgin Islands (according to Behance). Creator of these calligraphic and script typefaces in 2019: Pinklineryh, Griseldya, Redlineryh and Branday. He/she also made Nervousm (2019: a sans), Linguineve (2019: a rounded monoline sans) and Fannabella (2019: a rounded headline brush style sans).

Typefaces from 2020: Hiyotori (a sans), Alenia (a display sans), Lionthine (a great inline typeface), Fonthana (sans), Winter Hunt, Bartenique (sans), Halmahera, Wilkey (a papercut typeface), Sein Blue (a rounded sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shang Wei

Chinese designer who died in 2021 in a car accident. He was best known for his handwritten type. Shang Wei has created fonts for the titles and subtitles of many classic film and television productions such as "The Legend of Wukong", "Happy Camp", "Army League", "Nezha" and "I'm Not the God of Medicine". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shanghaitype
[John Yu]

For the city of Shanghai, a mini-animated-logotype competition took place in 2014. Remarkable contributions by Bob Lei (Macao) and Jody Xiong (Shanghai). See also the Shanghai posters by Zhang Yan and Liang Shi (Shanghai). John Yu's Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shensheng Wen

Shensheng Wen is Vice-President & CTO of Hanyi Fonts. He has been a determined explorer of type design for more than 30 years. Wen is an expert in Chinese type design and production with the parametric method, and is the creator of more than 30 Chinese typefaces.

At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Xuan Zhang, Huaijing Leng and Shensheng Wen propose a parametric type design model for the Chinese script. The abstract of their talk: The Chinese script, as an ideographic writing system, is used by a large proportion of the world's population. Over the centuries, its large character set has been the biggest issue facing type makers. In this presentation, different historical methods of production of Chinese type will be covered. ATypI Antwerp is the right moment to introduce the latest progress on a parameterized design model for Chinese. Various methods of Chinese type casting have been attempted. This talk will therefore consist of three main parts: 1) Designing with Components: the Six Writing theory of Chinese classification illustrates the simple logic behind the complicated shapes of Chinese characters, which gives out the possibility of speeding up the type casting process, either in physical form or in digital type; 2) Designing with Handwriting: Research on handwriting recognition and auto-generation will be mentioned, though it is not a main workflow; 3) Designing with a Parametric Model (Prototype): Inspired by MetaFont, but developed into a practical production stage with detailed control methods for the Chinese character skeleton, strokes, and structural-adjustment algorithm. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shi Long-Min
[Shih Lung-Ming]

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Shih Lung-Ming
[Shi Long-Min]

Chinese designer of the Chinese calligraphic script font YK Xing Kai (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ShiShan

ShiShan is a family of Unicode fonts for the Miao (Pollard) script. This script is extremely common in northeast Yunnan and northwest Guizhou. It is also used by some Yi and Lisu groups, and historically was used by other, smaller language communities in China. SIL has some ShiShan fonts in development since 2014 to cover these dialects:

• Da Hua Miao (Ahmao, Big Flowery Miao). Ethnologue link. Alternate names: A-Hmao, Big Flowery Miao, Da Hua Bei Miao, Da Hua Miao, Diandongbei Miao, FloweryMiao, Great Flowery Tribe, Hua Miao, Hwa Miao, Northeastern Dian Miao, Northeastern Yunnan Miao, Ta HwaMiao Location: Eastern Guizhou and all of northeast Yunnan to Chuxiong.
• Dong Lisu (Lipo, Eastern Lisu). Ethnologue link. Alternate names: Central Lisu, Dayao, Eastern Lisu, Lolongo Dialects: Eastern Lipo, Western Lipo Location: From Luquan scattered northeast to Sichuan and Guizhou, northwest to Panzhihua in Sichuan, west to Chuxiong and near Lijiang. The majority dialect around Yuanmou.
• Bai Yi (White Yi). Ethnologue link. Alternate names: Bai Yi, Central Yi, Gaoshanzu, Hei Yi, Lolopho, Lulupu, Luolu Dialects: Nanhua Lolopo, Shuangbai Lolopo, Yao’an Lolopo Location: Wuding and Luquan south to Kunming, mostly eastward. Not intelligible with identically named dialects around Chuxiong and Qujing, or south of Kunming.
• Gan Yi (Dry Yi). Ethnologue link. Alternate names: Eastern Yi. Dialects: Bijie, Dafang, Qian Xi. Location: Wuding and Luquan area toward Kunming. Not intelligible with identically named dialects south or east of Kunming.
• Hei Yi (Black Yi). Ethnologue link. Alternate names: Black Yi, Dian Dongbei Yi, Hei Yi, Nasu, Wu-Lu Yi. Dialects: Luquan Naso, Wuding Naisu. Location: Northwest Yunnan from around Kunming into Sichuan and Guizhou. Centered around Luquan.

Shuang Wu Wu

Chinese type designer based in Beijing. In 2919, he created the text typeface Dalloway. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Shuo Chen

Singapore-based designer of various modular Latin typefaces (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

SIL Yi

The SIL Yi Font is a single Unicode font for the standardized Yi script used by a large ethnic group in southwestern China. Designed by SIL International, 7500 West Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, Texas. Yi is spoken by the Yi people (also known as Lolo) in Southern China (in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi). The script is a purely syllabic script which was developed on the basis of an older, ideographic system.

Nuosu SIL (2008) is a single Unicode font for the standardized Yi script. The script was standardized in the 1970s by the Chinese government. In the process of standardization, 820 symbols from the traditional scripts of the Liangshan region were chosen to form a syllabary. The syllable inventory of a speech variety from Xide County, Sichuan was used as the phonological basis for standardization. For the most part there is one symbol per phonologically-distinct syllable and vice-versa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sim Chen

Hangzhou, China-based designer of a beatuful thin brush typeface for ChinesCe (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Simenkan

The Shimenkan family of fonts supports the broad variety of writing systems that use the Miao (Pollard) script. Published and mmaintained by SIL under the guidance of Victor Gaultney, eight language-specific font families are part of the project, each reflecting the particular preferences of that language community:

• Salaowu - for Wuding-Luquan Yi / Hei Yi / Nasu
• Sapushan - for Large Flowery Miao / Dahua Miao / A-Hmao
• Shimenkan Guifan - alternate for Large Flowery Miao using the Normalised Miao orthography
• Shimenkan GSM - for Gepo / Bai Yi
• Shimenkan MAS - for Small Flowery Miao / Xiaohua Miao
• Shimenkan MGS - for Sinicized Miao / Waishu Miao / Hmong Shua
• Shimenkan Zonghe - for Aluo / Gan Yi
• Taogu - for Lipo / Dong Lisu

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Simo Herold

Taipai, Taiwan (was: Beijing, China, and Tokyo, Japan)-based designer (b. Finland) of the free art deco typeface Avenue X (2016). In 2019, he designed Xanthie, a free text or headline typeface inspired by a public domain vintage French alphabet learning book for children.

In 2020, he designed the free rounded monolinear industrialist sans typeface Kalmansk. [Google] [More]  ⦿

SimSun

Chinese truetype font by Founder in Beijing. It is a Unicode-encoded GBK font that comes with Microsoft Windows/Office 2000/XP, and is compatible with Unicode-compliant applications in OS 9 and above. Chinese Mac reports on these extensions of SimSun: "SimSun-18030 comes with Microsoft's GB 18030 Support Package for Windows 2000 (or XP) at http://www.microsoft.com/china/windows2000/downloads/18030.asp. To get the font, you have to install the package on a Windows 2000 or XP system. Then you can copy the font to your OS X Library/Fonts folder and use it in Unicode-compliant applications like TextEdit. It works beautifully with Unicode Hex Input, giving you full access to the more than 27,000 Chinese characters in Unicode 3.0 on Mac OS 9 and above. An edition of SimSun containing the full set of around 65,000 Chinese characters in Unicode 3.1, called SimSun (Founder Extended) [filename: SURSONG.TTF], is included with the Microsoft Office XP Proofing Tools CD (Version 2002). It also comes with Chinese editions of Office XP. This font can be used with Unicode Hex Input in Mac OS X 10.1 and above." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sinosplice
[Hanzi Smatter]

Some interesting free Chinese fonts to download: Arphic-Huochai-Bold-GB, CTLiShuSF.TTF FZChaoCuHei-M10S, FZKangTi-S07T, FZZhiYi-M12S, HuabanEG-Ultra-GB, PiliEG-Ultra-GFB, Pop3EG-Extra-GB, STCaiyun, STXingkai, STXinwei, mhyf3gip, mhyj1gfp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

sj00

Free Chinese truetype fonts. Slow page. Latin fonts. Dingbats. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Skydrive

Chinese font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Socean Yang

Changsha, China-based designer of the mechanical octagonal Latin typeface Plan C (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Song Tse

Graphic designer in Shanghai, who created the Latin techno typeface Vision (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Source Han Sans

In July 2014, Adobe and Google jointly announced the publication of the free Asian typeface family Source Han Sans for Chinese (traditional (both Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. This project, based on designs originally due to Ryoko Nishizuka, a senior Adobe designer in Tokyo, started in 2010. The fonts and original code are downloadable from SourceForge and GitHub. Blog page at Typekit. Blog post at Google. The other name for the family, Noto Sans CJK, is used by Google.The open source license even permits modification of the glyphs.

The 42 fonts are designed for small devices, and thus, the glyphs are monolinear and simple. Each font weight in the family has a total of 65,535 glyphs (the maximum number of characters supported in the OpenType format), and the entire family contains just under half a million total glyphs. Adobe sought expertise from foundries such as Iwata Corp to expand the Japanese glyph selection, Sandoll Communication, designer of Korean Hangul and Changzhou SinoType, Adobe's longtime collaborator in China.

On the Google side of the project, where the fonts are added to the Noto Sans and Noto Serif (which covers all major languages of the world and many others, including European, African, Middle Eastern, Indic, South and Southeast Asian, Central Asian, American, and East Asian languages, and, since the joint release with Adobe in 2014, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and minority languages related to them), users can download all Noto fonts freely in a 43 MB file.

References: Ken Lunde (Adobe) on the design and development of Pan-CJK fonts (2010). Inside the fonts, we find these credits: Ken Lunde (project architect, glyph set definition & overall production), Masataka Hattori (production & ideograph elements), Ryoko Nishizuka (kana & ideographs), Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang & Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters & syllables).

At ATypI 2014 in Barcelona, the project was explained by product managers Stuart Gill of Google and Caleb Belohlavek of Adobe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Source Han Serif

Source Han Serif is the serif-style typeface family companion to Source Han Sans. This free superfamily covers Chinese (traditional (both Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. This project, based on designs originally due to Ryoko Nishizuka, a senior Adobe designer in Tokyo, started in 2010. The designers of Source Han Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Source Han serif Japanese and Korean are Frank Griesshammer, Ryoko Nishizuka, Soohyun Park, Wenlong Zhang and Yejin We. The Chinese glyphs, both simplified and traditional, were designed by partner type foundry Changzhou SinoType. The Korean glyphs were designed by partner type foundry Sandoll Communications.

Source han Serif won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Southern Software Inc. (SSi)

In the late 1990s, SSi used to sell foreign fonts for Arabic, Urdu, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Baltic, Burmese, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Cree, Simplified Chinese, Ethiopian, Inuktitut, Gaelic, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mayan. Farsi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Syriac, South Arabian, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese. Plus musical dingbats. Of course, they did not make a single of these fonts themselves. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Spann Lee

Beijing, China-based designer of the hexagonal Latin typeface Spannlee Edge (2015), which ios claimed to be free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sparanoid

Amateur artist located in China. Dafont link. Creator of Zomnk (2008). Kernest link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

StarSuite 8

SUN's trial software comes with some Japanese, Chinese and Korean fonts (choose the right platform/language and throw away the software after locating the fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Zhu

Shanghai-based designer of the paperclip typeface SZ (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stone Co Beijing

Chinese foundry which produced fonts such as YouYuan (1996) and LiSu (1996). Download these here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stones Design Lab
[Xing Chen]

Chinese designer of the thin titling slb serif typeface GaoYah Display Thin (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stratos Efstathiou

Senior art director at Ogilvy & mather in Hong Kong. In 2019, he was involved in the development of Dynafont's large Chinese font, DF King Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Su Shanshan

Shanghai-based designer of Cucumber (2013), an experimental Latin typeface.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Summer Yang

During her studies in Hilversum, The Netherlands, Summer Yang created some experimental typefaces for Latin and Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿