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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.
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Abhishek Desai

Hong Kong-based art director. Designer of the elephant-themed Haathi (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aceler Chua

Raised in Hong Kong and a resident of The Philippines, Aceler Chua designed the Farro sans typeface family in 2017 for his company, Grayscale. Link at Typedrawers.

In 2019, he released the free Google web font Farro. Github link. He writes: Farro is an artsy, four-weighted, display typeface that has a peculiar personality flowing through its European humanist silhouette. Fontown link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Charlton

Cofounder with Gregor Vand in 2015 of Brand Craft. Hong Kong-based designer of the free beveled vector format typeface Brighton Sans (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aiko Lau

Kwai Chung, Hong Kong-based designer of the curly eyelash-style typeface Cranky (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Chan

Hong Kong-based type designer whose Japanese / Chinese typeface Geometrika (2013) won an award in the kanji category at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alonglongtime

Hong-Kong-based designer of Half Type (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ananya Mohan

As a student in Hong Kong, Ananya Mohan created Marker (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andre Leung

Graphic designer in Stanley Village, Hong Kong, who created a display font in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Archer Lai

Archer Lai (Hong Kong, b. 1991) created the oriental simulation typeface Real Chinese in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Archetype
[Stephen Tsim]

Archetype is a digital type foundry based in Hong Kong. Its commercial fonts include Axit-Type, Eletro-Type, Geo-Type, Matrix-Type, Quadra-Type, Techno-Type, 6ixbaby (katakana), Aerobaby, Atticbaby, Chinesebaby, Saintbaby, Slimbaby. Several of these are pixel and techno fonts. Stunning web pages. The type founders are John Wu and Stephen Tsim. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley C

Hong Kong-based designer of Ashler Sans (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ATypI 2012

ATypI 2012 was held at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Hotel Icon in Kowloon from 10-14 October 2012. The conference was hosted by the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The main organizer was Keith Tam.

Report by Luc Devroye. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benedict Leung

As a student at Wheaton College, Hong Kong-based Benedict Leung designed Galactico (2017) and Fish Of The Reef Icon Set (2017). [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]  ⦿

Bonnie Cheung

Hong Kong-based designer of the high-contrast display typeface Boni (2015), which was developed during her studies at SCAD Hong Kong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bonnie Wong

During her studies at Savannah College of Art and Design, Bonnie Wong (Hong Kong) created the decorative caps typeface MyType (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Quaglia

Hong Kong-based designer of Welkin Regular (2014), a retro script typeface developed at SCAD. [Google] [More]  ⦿

C. Thim

Hong Kong-based designer who made the modular paper fold typeface Ribbon (2015). [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]  ⦿

Carolina Bettencourt

Portuguese designer (b. 1986) who is based in Macau. Creator of the free script typeface Bettencourt (2012). Her display typeface Radius (2013) is also free.

Behance link. Dafont link. [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Chavelli Tsui

Tsui is a graphic designer born and raised in Hong Kong who recently received her BFA in communication design from Carnegie-Mellon University. She spent a term at the Type @ Cooper program in 2012, where she designed the italic typeface Eikon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chiawen Tsau

Hong Kong-based type designer who co-designed the 5-style sans family HF HySans in 2020 with Jiying Lee at HyFont Studio. In 2021, Tsau released the 5-style monospaced typeface HF Monorita (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Cho Na Mei

Aka Cho nami. Hong Kong-based designer of the silhouette font Dancer (2014). She also does Chinese lettering and calligraphy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CoeYin Lau

During her studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, CoeYin Lau designed the bilined Latin typeface CLLY (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CUHK
[Gladys Tang]

A free phonetic font at CUHK (Chinese University of Hong Kong) called Handkey2002. The web site belongs to Professor Gladys Tang. [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Daniel Yuen

Hong Kong-based designer of Destruction Type (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danielle Huthart
[Pixelyn]

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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]  ⦿

Denise Chan

Hong-Kong-based designer of Aerofoil (2007, calligraphic script), Ampersand (2005, hand-printed) and Cataclysmic (2005, handwriting). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. She used Fontifier to create a handwriting face, Skribble (2004). See also here. Alternate URL. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Kei Yip Poon

Born in Hong Kong in 1968, Dennis Poon was a designer in San Francisco and Stockholm. He currently works at Philips in Singapore. At the Typebox foundry, he designed TxElf (2002, blockish almost-bitmap font), TX Hex (2002) and TX Gitter (2001, a simplified Codex-like face).

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

Eda Sy

Kowloon, Hong Kong-based designer of Robo (2012, dot matrix typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Tang

Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong-based designer of The Font of Monsters (2014). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Coke

During his studies in Hong Kong in 2017, Eric Coke designed the display typeface Mitosis (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fiona Yu

Hong Kong-based designer of the text typeface Angel Hair (2013), which was developed at SCAD. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fong Yi Ching

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

Fontever
[Joe Chau]

A font market place launched in 2014 by Joe Chau (Hong Kong). It sells full rights (at a few thousand dollars a pop) to unique typefaces. The first typeface is Queenamor by Joe Chau (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fonts Preview
[Frank Fero]

Commercial Font preview extension for Adobe Flash and Illustrator, written by Frank Fero (Tuen Mun, Hong Kong). Behance link. [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.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank Fero
[Fonts Preview]

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Freeman Lau

In 1991, Freeman Lau (b. Hong Kong, 1958) won the Bronze Prize at the annual Tokyo Type Designers Club competition for a symbol and logotype for Prime Publishing Co. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fridayfonts
[Pascal Glissmann]

Free font site, est. 2009. The fonts being displayed and introduced were developed by students in seminars and workshops offered by Pascal Glissmann at the Academy of Visual Arts Hong Kong and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Fonts there from 2009

  • Yee Ting Cherry Chan: BambooConstruction.
  • Cherry and Liu Sze Wai: Cherrybomb.
  • Chan Ying: ChineseRadicals.
  • Yuki Leung Tsz Ning: ConstructionWithShadow.
  • Stephanie Ka Ying Lai: Crozline.
  • Cynthia Chan: Cubism.
  • Susie Law Wai Shan: ImbalanceSur.
  • by unknown: Impression
  • Siu Chi Ming and Eason: LightInk.
  • Siu Wing Lam: MTR.
  • Wong Hoi Ying: MobileCode.
  • Li Yan Yee: Neurons.
  • Liu Wing Yi: OldHongKong.
  • Wan Yee Kam: Potata.
  • Ruth Ng: RuthInk.
  • Aegina Kwan Ting Ho: SealScriptRoman.
  • Toby Cheung: Skin Seal.
  • Lung Yan Yu: Transbars.
  • Wian Wai Yan Lau: Unfold.
  • Sandee Tang: GeoGraphics.
  • Liu Shuj Yee: Blowing.
  • Mabel Pui man Choy: Burning.
  • Tsand Lai Yin: Buttons.
  • Carsten Goertz: Eurothai.
  • Chan Kam Kwan (Fanny): Flame.
  • Wong Kai Zen (Gemmy): hexyClover.
  • Annabellali: Ink.
  • Matina Long Ling Cheung: Matina.
  • Yuki Yi Pui Lee: MushroomFont.
  • Pascal Glissmann, Martina Hoefflin: Parasite.
  • Ting Hiu Nam: Staples.
  • Tinny Liu: Treeskin.
  • Ka Yee (Polly) Fung: Triangular.
  • Ng Siu Yin (Hilary): Triclips.
  • Ahyan: Vibrate.
  • Ka Man (Cindy) Tse: Circulia.
  • Ka Yan (Elaine) Ng: Bubblegum.
  • Lo Betty Wing Man: HongKongPattern.
  • Thomas Hawranke: Dickbine.
  • Ip Ka Wai (Maxwell): Impression.
  • Cheung Yung: Pain.
  • Yuen Man Li: Ink (grunge).

In 2010, new fonts were added. Here is a partial list:

In 2013, Glissmann moved to Parsons in New York City, where he continued the tradition of posting the student work. However, there are no more downloads, and links are not clickable. [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]  ⦿

Gladys Tang
[CUHK]

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Gloria Choi

During her studies at City University of Hong Kong, Gloria Choi created the connect-the-dots Latin typeface Star Maps (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

H.A.

Hong-Kong based designer of the asymmetric-serifed typeface Architecture (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hanson Chen

Hong Kong-based designer. His typeface Walk-On (2015) was originally created as a corporate typeface for fashion brand Wang & Lynch. Part art deco, part decorative didone, it is a prototypical fashion mag titling typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hill Wong

Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental typeface Hello Old Boy (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ho Tak Lam

Based in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, b. 1989. Student at City University of Hong Kong, graduation year 2013. Designer of TAK Enchanted (2008) and HT Skyline (2012, techno face).

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

Hon Siuki

Hong Kong-based designer of a typeface called Square (2015). [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

H.Y. Roy Wong

Kowloon, Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental circle-based typeface Zuupler (2015) and the spiky free typeface Luctan (2015, inspired by Texas Longhorn Bulls). [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]  ⦿

Hyning Gan

Hong Kong-based designer of the fat finger font Hynings Handwriting (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Innoise Studio
[Jerry Luk]

Innoise Studio (Hong Kong) writes about itself: Innoise is a creative team founded by Jerry Luk in 2010, whom are specialized in creative projects including branding, art direction, graphic and motion design. Their counterless typeface First Night Bold (2013) was custom made for Total Media Production Co Ltd.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Lam

Jack Lam is from Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. He created the Itchy Curvy typeface in 2013 while studying at SCAD in Savannah, GA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Lee

Graphics and Media Design student at the London College of Communication, who hails from Hong Kong. Home page of "Jack The Rabbit. Designer of the high contrast typeface Currency (2011) and the cubist artistic typeface Stab (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Yan
[Jack Yan and Associates (or: JY&A Fonts)]

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Jack Yan and Associates (or: JY&A Fonts)
[Jack Yan]

Jack Yan (b. 1972, Hong-Kong) now lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where he founded Jack Yan and Associates (JY&A) in 1987, the first kiwi digital type foundry. He designed over 100 typefaces, which mostly share calligraphic roots---his lower case f is like a signature Yan glyph. In 2013, he turned to politics and is running to become mayor of wellington.

He designed the extensive family Aetna, digitized based upon 16th century work by Francesco Griffo and Giovanni Antonio Tagliente. It is Yan's version of Bembo.

His other font families include Decennie Express Pro (2011, a sans companion for JY Décennie), Decennie JY Titling, Integrity JY (2002), Pinnacle JY (1995-1996, +Bold), Ray JY, Rebeca JY (1993), Tranquility (1994-1995), Artemis JY, and Yan Series 333 (1987-1993). JY Koliba (by Jure Stojan, 2001) is a sans serif typeface family based on Slovenian architects' lettering of the 1940s. Other typefaces include Circles JY, Dandy JY (2012: Originally created for a theatre project at Massey University, Dandy is reminiscent of Pablo Ferro's hand-lettering; created by Danielle Smith), Comic Pro JY (1999, by Antonio Gonzalez de Santiago for Jack Yan), Novalis JY (2008, an anthroposophic family), Boomerang JY (by Greg Bastin), Boum-Boum (2002) and Alia JY (2008-2009, an aldine serif family).

JY Pressly (2012, a serif family) was originally designed for Lucire, and destined for web and print use.

Arts and Crafts alphabet by JY&A.

Personal and political web site. Interview.

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Jason Kwan
[JKWAN Design]

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Jason Ng

Hong Kong-based designer of the elegant thin monoline sans typeface Linlegrey (2017), the handcrafted Charmie (2017) and School Rules (2018), and Slendergrey (2017).

Typefaces from 2019: Camaly.

Typefaces from 2020: Bolula (a gaspipe sans), Carnival (a draftsman's font), Santario. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeanie Chong
[No More Bad Type]

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Jeff Schaap

Kowloon, Hong Kong-based creator of the typographic opera poster Carmen (2013) and of the brush typeface Aqua (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jennifer Chan

Hong Kong-based designer of Messy (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jerry Luk
[Innoise Studio]

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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]  ⦿

Jim Wong

Hong Kong-based designer of the 10 Day Fest decorative typeface (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jimmy Kam

Jimmy Kam Chi Ping (Hong Kong) created Tripod (2013), a caps typeface with letters in the shape of a tripod. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jimmy Kam

Graphic designer in Hong Kong who created the ornamental typeface Tripod (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiying Lee

Hong Kong-based type designer who co-designed the 5-style sans family HF HySans in 2020 with Chiawen Tsau at HyFont Studio. [Google] [MyFonts] [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.

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Joe Chau

Hong Kong and/or USA-based designer of the free geometric sans typeface Rayjoe (2014) and of Mens Romance (2014). Handkerchief (2014) and Kindergarden (2014) are hand-drawn typefaces. His typeface Queenamor (2014) can be bought at Fontever for 2200 dollars. He also designed the architectural drawing font Centi (2016).

Joe Chau is the founder of Fontever. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joe Chau
[Fontever]

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Johan Hovgaard Simonsen

Wan Chai, Hong Kong-based designer. He used geometric principles to create his logotype JHS (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Wu

Hong Kong-based designer who co-founded Archetype with Stephen Tsim. He designed some of the Archetype fonts, which comprise Axit-Type, Eletro-Type, Geo-Type, Matrix-Type, Quadra-Type, Techno-Type, 6ixbaby (katakana), Aerobaby, Atticbaby, Chinesebaby, Saintbaby, Slimbaby. In 2010, he created a revival of Robert Trogman's Letraset hit font Yagi, called Yagitype. Axitype (2010) is a further derivation of this font. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joshua1985

Hong-Kong-based designer (b. 1985) of Death Font (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joyce Lam

Hong Kong-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Seafont (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joyce Li Yan Yee

Design student in Hong Kong in 2009. Creator of the hyper-experimental typeface Neurons (2009, Friday Fonts). [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]  ⦿

Justin Lichunho

Hong Kong-based designer of the display typeface Moon (2013) and the tall thin skyline typeface Rangy (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

K. Ko

Graphic designer in Hong Kong who created the deco set of numbers simply called The Numbers (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ka Man Leung

Hong Kong-based designer of Shadow Circle (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kacy Choi

Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental typeface Waiting (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

KaiChung Ho

Hong Kong-based designer of the display typeface Scorpion (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kardre Dear

Hong Kong-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Lace Lacy (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kat J. Weiss

Hong Kong-based designer of the didone typeface Paolini (2013). Cargo Collecrtive link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kathy Siu Yuen Ying

Kowloon, Hong Kong-based designer of the innovative triangle-based caps typeface Septa (2014). [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]  ⦿

Keith Chi-Hang Tam
[Keith Tam Typography]

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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)
He also wrote articles on the slab serif in the 20th century, and the sans serif in the 20th century. At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke on Typographic bilingualism: a framework for the co-existence of Chinese and English texts. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about issues in Chinese text design.

Main organizer of ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong.

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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]  ⦿

Kim Nguyen

Born in a refugee camp in Hong Kong, but raised in Califiernia, Pennsylvania and Florida, Kim Nguyen attended Attended Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and Ringling College of Art and Design. She is currently based in Jacksonville, FL. Creator of the display typeface Whimsy (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kwok Ka Lung

Kwun Tong, Hong Kong-based designer of a decorative typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kylie Lee

Hong Kong-based designer of the modular display typeface Serpentine (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Declercq

Belgian designer in Hong Kong, who created the dot matrix typeface Bulle in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Laurel Wan

Hong Kong-based student-designer of a circular and an experimental typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leanne Leung

Hong Kong-based designer of the decorative sketched Latin typeface Dullface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Yap Yan

Design student in Hong Kong in 2009. Creator of the modular typeface Vibrate (2009, Friday Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leung Ka Ying Bonnie

Aberdeen, Hong Kong-based designer of Book Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leung Pui Yi

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

Lololololu

Hong-Kong-based typographer and web designer who created an experimental font based on an action film. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louis Saunders

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, Louis Saunders moved to Brighton, UK, to study graphic design at the University of Brighton. In 2016, still at Brighton, he designed Future Deco (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luqilen

Hong Kong-based designer of the free geometric solid typeface Logi (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

M+

Hong Kong-based studio that designed the bespoke stencil typeface Nomadic in 2013. [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]  ⦿

Madman Liu

Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Triangle (2014), which takes inspiration from Braggadocio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mak Sui Shing
[DEMO Company]

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Man Chung Lee
[Shellmoonsite]

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Mandice Wong

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

Marco Cheong

Hong Kong-based designer of MC Script (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marica
[Miphol Studio]

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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]  ⦿

Mary Wong

In a nice example of icon design, Hong Kong-based Mary Wong created a set of icons, called All About Mary (2013), using only the letters M, A, R and Y in each glyph. Creator of GYshufa (2013), an oriental simulation typeface. GYshufa stands for Guang Ying Shufa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Tam

At Central Saint Martins, Matt Tam, who is originally from Hong Kong, designed the decorative typeface Magnet (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Hagino

During her studies at SCAD Hong Kong, Michelle Hagino created a squrish sans typeface called Glass House (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Sjoberg

Michelle Sjoberg (b. 1987) has lived and worked in Hong Kong, DSweden and New York City. Currently located in New York, she created the modular typeface Tic Tac (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikaela Elle

During her studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY-based Mikaela Elle (b. Hong Kong) designed the pixelish typeface Martian (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mimi Leung

Talented Hong Kong-based illustrator whose work is characterized by heavy color mixing. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miphol Studio
[Marica]

ShenZhen/Hong Kong-based photographer, b. 1989, who currently lives in Miami, FL. Alternate URL. Miphol Studio is related to Marica Typographic Design Studio, run by Marica. Creator of the elegant hairline sans family ULT Sans (2007). She says that, inspired by FF Milo and Stainless, it took her over two weeks of straight work just to get the beta out. She also made the squarish stencil typeface SquareX (2008), the mechanical typeface Incognita (2008), and the semi-serif typeface ChanorSans (2008). Her latest: the gorgeous constructivist-marries-didone headline typeface Modern 9, and Melor (2008, a simple sans family in two styles done for Miphol Studio). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohini Khadaria

Art director in Hong Kong who created the sans typeface Quake in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neville Lam

Neville Lam (Kowloon) created the ornamental caps typeface 3BAL (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nevin Mizelle

Nevin Mizelle (Kitty Hawk, NC) studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Hong Kong in 2014, where she created the modular typeface Sympl (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ng Yee Man Lovi

Hong Kong-based designer. A school project for an imaginary lifestyle store Bisou Bisou in 2012 led her to develop a typeface and create some interesting rococo typographic pieces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikki Louise Palomaria

Wan Chai, Hong Kong-based graphic designer who created the dot matrix typeface Mercury (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nine Font
[Paul Chen]

Nine Font is Paul Chen's type foundry in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. In 2014, Paul Chen designed the condensed handcrafted sans typeface family Briko (+Ornaments, +Rough, +RoughOrnaments), the condensed sans typeface Nephrite, and the 6-style caps typeface family Dimor (with Inline, Outline, and Diamond (beveled) sub-styles).

In 2015, he designed the sans typeface family Lanz and the rough brush font Bellis.

Typefaces from 2016: Sebino (neutral sans famly), Carin (an all caps family including several tattoo and blackboard bold styles), Rohn (a robust squarish sans), Rohn Rounded.

Typefaces from 2017: Glence (a geometric sans with a beautiful hairline weight).

Typefaces from 2018: Sebino Soft (a comfy toilet paper soft sans family).

Typefaces from 2020: Jindo (a 16-style sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

No More Bad Type
[Jeanie Chong]

Jeanie Chong (b. Hong Kong) graduated from Otis College of Art and Design and now lives in Los Angeles (since 2007) where she is a graphic designer, and started No More Bad Type.

Creator of the thin typeface Steno (2010-2012). [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]  ⦿

Oiki Yeung

Hong Kong-based designer of Tambourine (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paco Choi

Hong Kong-based designer of the oriental emulation typeface Hong Kong Beiwei Latin (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pascal Glissmann
[Fridayfonts]

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Paul Chen
[Nine Font]

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Pedro Tunho

Pedro Tunho was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Macau and Taiwan. Now based in Macau, he created a cool display typeface called Half (2012) for the identity of Half Hlaf. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Kin-Fan Lo

Type designer (b. Hong Kong, 1966) of the multiple stroke handwriting typeface Flurry (1999, Garagefonts) and of Linotype Ancient Chinese (1997, dingbats of Chinese heads). MyFonts link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pik Chu Ahmetaj

Pik Chu Ahmetaj (b. Hong Kong) studied at Tompkins Cortand Community College Upstate NY, and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Her decorative caps Garden typeface (2013) is based on Century Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

PinkLab
[Pinky Leung]

PinkLab is a Hong Kong-based creative studio, founded by Pinky Leung (b. Hong Kong), who has a BA in graphic design from Middlesex University, UK. In 2011, he designed the experimental typeface Plastic Bag. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pinky Leung
[PinkLab]

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Pixelyn
[Danielle Huthart]

Pixelyn stands for "Pixels in Brooklyn". Until its web site disappeared, it offered free (Mac) truetype pixel fonts for small sizes on screen, designed by Danielle Huthart in 2001. The fonts: Standard, Lilany, Bless, Pixelyn, Pixelyn Outline, Opshift, Demtrek, Fuseseven, Transfer Regular, Transfer Scripty, Gala, Icon Bit One, Icon Bit Two. It was located in Hong Kong.

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Po Cheung

Or Pou Cheung Siu Po. Communication designer based in Hong Kong and Berlin, who graduated with a BA in Communication Design from the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, class of 2017. During a workshop at Type Paris 2018, she designed Hoko. Hoko is a humanist Latin typeface inspired by Hong Kong Beiwei calligraphy which was used on stores there to be seen from far away. She writes: Influenced by the marks made by a chisel, Beiwei Kaishu has a rustic sensibility, with sharp strokes, dynamic forms and slightly asymmetrical constructions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pop and Zebra

Boutique design studio in Hong Kong that created the decorative typeface Elefont (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Popcornmi mi

Designer from Kowloon, Hong-Kong. At Behance, one can view hs peace silhouette alphabet Love and War (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Ching

During her graphic design studies in Hong Kong, Rachel Ching created a geometric display typeface, The Elements (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Randy Yip

Hong Kong-based designer of the triangle-based typeface TriFont (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ray Ip

Hong Kong-based designer of Tetris (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricky Chun
[China Type Designs Ltd.]

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Ringo Ho

Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental 3d typeface Crystallize (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Carlson

Download Borjagan Book (1997), a Mongolian language font by Robert Carlson from Hong Kong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Roger Black

Roger Black (New York and Saint Petersburg, FL) is a media guru extraordinaire, and professional content brander. Black was chief art director of Newsweek, The New York Times, New York Magazine and Rolling Stone. He was a major partner in The Font Bureau, Inc., which he started with David Berlow in 1989. In 1989, with Eduardo Danilo, he set up Danilo Black, a publication consulting firm. Roger Black redesigned the Houston Chronicle, Popular Mechanics and the Los Angeles Times. In 2013, Roger took a new position as group creative director of Edipresse Media in Hong Kong. Cofounder in 2016 of Type Network.

In 2013, David Jonathan Ross and Roger Black revived Nebiolo's Forma for the redesign of Hong Kong Tatler, a fashion mag, supervised and commissioned by Roger Black, who was then based in Hong Kong. Read about the whole process in this piece by Indra Kupferschmid. Page specially dedicated to DJR Forma.

Frequent speaker at type meetings, including, for example, ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, ATypI 2009 in Mexico City (as co-organizer and session chair) and ATypI 2017 Montreal (keynote). Home page. His current interests include web typography, typeface delivery for the web and small portable devices, newspaper design, and newspaper web design. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

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.

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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]  ⦿

Samuel Khiatani

Based in Tai Wo, Hong Kong, Samuel Khiatani drew GrungeVetica in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Ng

Sara Ng (Sala Ink, Hong Kong) designed the calligraphic typefaces Quinton Script and Miss Kalina Script in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shellmoonsite
[Man Chung Lee]

Man Chung Lee's site. Born in Hong Kong in 1976, he studied multimedia in Vancouver in 1999. Presently, he is the Creative Art Director of CREAM, Hong Kong's culture and art magazine. He created some free fonts such as the experimental AreaLINEe (2001) and AreaOUTLINEe (2001). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shing Hei Lam

Hong Kong-based designer (b. 1999) of the hand-drawn typeface Hasty Grass (2014). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sin Wing Yan

Tai Po, Hong Kong-based designer of the puffy cloud typeface Daydream (2012). [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]  ⦿

Stelia Leung

Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong-based designer of the striped typeface Corrugated (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephanie Yung

At SCAD in Hong Kong, Stephanie Yung designed the Peignotian typeface Delight (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Tsim
[Archetype]

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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]  ⦿

Studio Frames

Hong Kong-based designer of the condensed fashion mag typeface Moustique (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sze Lam Wong

During his studies at Raffles College of Design and Commerce in Hong Kong, Sze Lam Wong designed the bilined deco typeface Cherish (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tak Fung Chan
[Tomson Chan]

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Takahiro Kurihara

Hong Kong-based designer (b. Japan) of some unnamed poster alphabets in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Chan

Hong Kong-based designer of Glow sans (2019) and Chivalry Sans (2019: a decorative font for Chinese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Wong

Hong Kong-based graphic designer who made the condensed modular typeface Genesis (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tianxin Xia

Tianxin Xia lived in Beijing, Hong Kong and the UK. At Falmouth University in the UK, Tianxin Xia designed the dotted typeface Happy Type (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tiffany Cheng

During her graphic design studies at Savannah College of Art and Design, Tiffany Cheng, who was born and raised in Hong Kong, created the bubbly typeface Jubbler (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ting Kit Wong
[TKT Kate]

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TKT Kate
[Ting Kit Wong]

Hong Kong-based designer. In 2021, he released TKT Kate (a fashion mag typeface inspired by Optima). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tom C. Lai

Three phonetic truetype fonts: SILDoulosIPA, SILManuscriptIPA, SILSophiaIPA.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom Chiu

Australia-based Tom Chiu is working hard on Chinese and Korean truetype fonts. Some are almost finished, and all are free: check out Ming Li, Kai, Hei and FangSong. He designed FingerNumber (each digit from 0-8 is represented by fingers, Hong Kong Style), MimosaRat (rat-related characters) and TomScript (his handwriting). The Chinese fonts are temporarily unavailable. He also has software to view Chinese characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tomson Chan
[Tak Fung Chan]

Designer in Hong Kong. At TypeParis 2017, Tomson Chan designed the Latin typeface Anvers to fit in with standard Chinese strokes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tony Leung

Kowloon-based designer of the Chinese Fighting Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Toto Ng

Toto Ng (b. 1993, Hong Kong) studied in Seattle in 2014. Pastas (2014) is a display typeface designed during Toto's studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tsang Kin-Wah

Hong Kong-based typographic poster artist and designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wai Shan Tsang

Hong Kong-based designer of the tall sans typeface Junoesque (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wai Wong

From the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wai Wong is the keynote speaker at TUG 2005: Typesetting Chinese: a personal perspective. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wai Yeung

Graphic designer in Hong Kong who created the bullet holed typeface Element in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

XMind

XMind is a mind mapping software company set up by Brian Sun in Hong Kong. In 2019, XMind released a free 28-font sans family, Nevermind, which was designed by the XMind Design team led by "Lan". Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yanny Cheng

Hong Kong-based designer of Tortoise Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yasha Argal

Hong Kong-based designer of the Latin typefaces Paperclip (2019) and Tape (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yip Sheung Yu

Hong Kong-based creator of the experimental Chinese typeface Rolling Eyes (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yung Yung

Hong Kong-based designer of Tenacity (2015), a Latin typeface inspired by balustrades. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zach Wong

Graphic designer in Hong Kong who created the stick-based experimental typeface Ben Funiturs (2014) which is based on Avenir Next Condensed Ultra Light. [Google] [More]  ⦿