List of CJK fonts
This is a list of notable CJK fonts. These fonts are primarily sorted by their typeface, the main classes being "with serif", "without serif" and "script". This article names the two first classes Ming and sans-serif while further dividing the "script" into several Chinese script styles.
The fonts are then sorted by their target writing system:
- Chinese: Chinese character.
- * Simplified Chinese
- * Traditional Chinese
- * Traditional Chinese
- * Traditional Chinese
- Japanese: kanji, hiragana and katakana
- Korean: Hangul, hanja, etc.
- Vietnamese: for the Nôm script formerly used
- Zhuang: for Sawndip
- Pan-Unicode: intended to globally support the majority of Unicode's characters, and not specifically designed for one or a few writing systems
- Pan-CJK: intended to support the majority of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and not specifically designed for any one of these writing systems
Legends
- means the font is free and open-source software.
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means it was formerly seen as FOSS but has been involved in a legal controversy. - means the font is free for personal use, but for commercial use, it requires a paid commercial license.
- means that the font is not free and requires a paid license for personal and commercial uses.
Ming (Song)
Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK
Chinese
| Name | Localisation | Editor/Creator | Licensing | Comments |
| BabelStone Han | SC | Andrew West | 1999 Arphic Public License | Based on Arphic PL Fonts, extended partly to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I. |
| DLCMingMedium 華康中明體 DLCMingBold 華康粗明體 | TC | Microsoft | Derivatives include Windows 3.0's default TC font 'Ming Light'. | |
| MingLiU 細明體 | TC | Microsoft | Default interface typeface for Windows 3.0 to Windows XP, derived from DynaLab's DLCMing typeface. Distributed as a raster typeface and then in TrueType format as 'MingLi43' in Windows 3.0. Monospaced Latin characters. | |
| PMingLiU 新細明體 | TC | Microsoft | Distributed starting from Windows 95. proportional Latin characters. | |
| MingLiU_HKSCS 細明體_HKSCS MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB 細明體_HKSCS-ExtB | TC | |||
| LiSong Pro Light 儷宋 Pro | TC | |||
| Apple LiSung Light 蘋果儷細宋 | TC | |||
| I.Ming I.明體 | TC | IPA font licence | Derived from IPAex Minchō font, available at Keshilu blog and GitHub. | |
| MS Song MS宋体 | SC | Microsoft | ||
| SimSun 中易宋体, 宋体 | SC | Microsoft | Default interface typeface for Windows 3.1x to Windows XP, distributed starting from Windows 3.1x. Monospaced Latin characters. Unlike NSimSun, this is not labelled monospaced in the and table. | |
| NSimSun 新宋体 | SC | Microsoft | Distributed starting from Windows 95. Monospaced Latin characters. | |
| SimSun-18030 宋体-18030 NSimSun-18030 新宋体-18030 | SC | Microsoft | Distributed starting from Windows XP, or as GB 18030 Support Package to Windows 2000 or higher. | |
| Simsun 宋体-方正超大字符集 | SC | Microsoft | Distributed starting from Microsoft Office XP. | |
| SimSun-ExtB or Sun-ExtB 宋体-ExtB | SC | Microsoft | Distributed with Windows Vista. | |
| SimSun-ExtG 宋体-ExtG | SC | Microsoft | Distributed with Windows 11 2023 Update and 2024 Update. | |
| Song | SC | OS X 10.2–10.4. | ||
| STSong 华文宋体 | SC | SinoType Technology | Distributed with MS Office 2000 and XP, OS X 10.2–10.4. The foundry made a series of fonts for Microsoft and Macintosh between 1998 and 2004 that all begin with "ST". | |
| STZhongsong 华文中宋 | SC | Microsoft | Distributed with MS Office 2000 and XP. A medium-boldness version of STSong made in 1991 and updated in 1998. | |
| TW-Sung, TW-Sung-Ext-B, TW-Sung-Plus 全字庫正宋體 | TC | Ministry of Education, Taiwan | Open Government Data License v1.0, equivalent to CC-BY 4.0 International license | 100,000+ traditional and simplified characters in Taiwanese orthography, covering CNS 11643. |
| WenQuanYi Bitmap Song 文泉驿点阵宋体 | SC | GNU GPL | Raster typeface. | |
| KingHwa OldSong 京華老宋体 | SC, TC | Terri Wong | Covers CJK Unified Ideographs, Extension A; partially covers Extension B, and covers all encoded simplified Chinese characters. Also covers all commonly used characters in UBPSHNVN's Nôm standard. | |
| FangZheng ShuSong 方正书宋 | SC, TC | FounderType | Released 1996. Based on Shanghai Printing Technology Research Institute's "Song Er" for letterpress. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2. | |
| FangZheng PingXian YaSong 方正屏显雅宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2017. Screen-optimized version of BiaoYaSong. Supports GB2312-80, GBK. |
| FangZheng BoYaSong 方正博雅宋 | SC, TC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2004. Designed for newspaper body text, focusing on readability. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5. |
| FangZheng LanTingSong 方正兰亭宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2004. Designed for new generation newspaper body text. Supports GB2312-80, GBK. |
| FangZheng YaSong family 方正雅宋 | SC, TC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2007. Family with various weights, initially for titles. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5. |
| FangZheng YouSong family 方正悠宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2017. Screen display Song font family. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2. |
| FangZheng XiaoBiaoSong 方正小标宋 | SC, TC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 1996. Common title typeface, often used for official documents. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2. |
| FangZheng DaBiaoSong 方正大标宋 | SC, TC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 1996. Based on 1970 "Hangtou Song", for large titles. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5. |
| FangZheng GuiFan ShuSong 方正规范书宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2013. Supports GBK. |
| FangZheng LanTing KanSong 方正兰亭刊宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2005. Supports GBK, GB2312-80. |
| FangZheng BaoSong 方正报宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 1996. Digital version of "641 Ti" from 1964 for People's Daily. Supports GB2312-80, GBK. |
| FangZheng BoYa FangKanSong 方正博雅方刊宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2009. Optimized version of FangZheng BoYaSong for newspaper printing. Supports GBK, GB2312-80. |
| FangZheng BoYa KanSong 方正博雅刊宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2005. Supports GBK, GB2312-80. |
| FangZheng XinShuSong 方正新书宋 | SC, TC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2012. Optimized version of FangZheng ShuSong for books and magazines. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2. |
| FangZheng SongYi 方正宋一 | SC, TC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 1996. Also "Dictionary Song", designed 1960s for "Ci Hai" dictionary. Supports GB2312-80, GBK, BIG-5, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2022 L2 & L3. |
| FangZheng XinBaoSong 方正新报宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2000. "Second generation BaoSong" designed by Xie Peiyuan for Founder. Supports GB2312-80, GBK. |
| FangZheng SongSan 方正宋三 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 1996. Early digital Song typeface using straight line segments for curves. Supports GB2312-80, GBK. |
| Hanyi ShuSongEr 汉仪书宋二 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 1996. Conforms to GB18030-2022 Level 2. |
| Hanyi ZhongSong 汉仪中宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 1996. Neutral body text Song font. Conforms to GB18030-2022 Level 2. |
| Hanyi XuanSong 汉仪玄宋 | SC | FounderType | Commercial | Released 2021. Song typeface designed for "slow reading". Conforms to GB18030-2022 Level 2. |
| WenJinMincho 文津宋体 | SC | takushun-wu | SIL Open Font License | Based on Source Han Serif. Large character set Song-style font with mainland China glyph standard. Supports full Unicode Hanzi & IVD, various phonetic systems, and extensive OpenType features. |