List of CJK fonts

The first four characters of Thousand Character Classic in different typeface styles, script styles and type styles. From left to right: sans-serif (gothic), Ming, regular script, clerical script and seal script

This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts which contain a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters). These fonts are primarily sorted by their typeface, the main classes being "with serif", "without serif" and "script". In this article, the two first classes are named Ming and sans-serif (gothic) while the "script" is further divided into several Chinese script styles.

The fonts are then sorted by their target writing system:^{[Note 1]}

• Chinese: Chinese character
• Japanese: kanji, hiragana and katakana
• Korean: Hangul, hanja, etc.
• Vietnamese: for the Nom script formerly used
• Zhuang: for Sawndip
• Pan-Unicode: intended to globally support the majority of Unicode's characters, and not specifically designed for one or a few writing systems (note that Pan-Unicode font ≠ Unicode font^{[Note 2]})
• Pan-CJK: intended to support the majority of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and not specifically designed for any one of these writing systems

[F] means this font is free and open-source software (FOSS); [F] means it was formerly seen as FOSS but has been involved in a legal controversy.

Ming (Song)

Sample of Ming typeface. Shown here are its forms in (from top to bottom): Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese.

Sans-serif

Japanese

Sample of Meiryo typeface.

• [F] IPA Gothic – Part of IPA font series developed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. Released from here.^[16] Licensed under IPA font licence.
• Meiryo (メイリオ) – distributed with Windows Vista as default interface font.
• [F] Mona Font – a free font that is included with a number of Linux distributions. Released in the public domain.
• [F] M⁺ OUTLINE FONTS – Japanese font families
• [F]? VL Gothic (VLゴシック) – a font originating from Vine Linux. It includes glyphs derived from M+ FONTS and Sazanami Gothic font, thus the licenses of these two fonts are both regarded.
• MS Gothic (ＭＳ ゴシック) – default system font distributed with the Japanese version of Windows 3.1 or later, all regions of Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1, Japanese version of Windows 10, Microsoft Office v.X to 2004, Japanese font pack for Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft Global IME 5.02 (Japanese), Office XP Tool: Japanese Language Pack, Japanese supplemental fonts for Windows 10.
• MS PGothic (ＭＳ Ｐゴシック) – distributed with the Japanese version of Windows 95 and later, all regions of Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2004.
• MS UI Gothic – Default interface font from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Distributed with the Japanese version of Windows 98 and later, all regions in Windows XP.
• Yu Gothic (游ゴシック) - In non-Japanese versions of Windows 10, MS Gothic is no longer included by default, so this is the default font for Japanese text.
• Osaka – default system font on Classic Mac OS.
• Hiragino Kaku Gothic (ヒラギノ角ゴ) and Hiragino Maru Gothic (ヒラギノ丸ゴ) – default Japanese system font on Mac OS X.
• Kozuka Gothic (小塚ゴシック) – typeface family provided by new versions of Adobe Illustrator.
• GothicBBB-Medium – used by Adobe as one of the two CJK fonts in many examples in its documentation.
• [F] Kochi Gothic (東風ゴシック) – Originally named Watanabe font (渡邊フォント), is a font formerly considered free that is included with a number of Linux distributions. The development of the font stopped when it was discovered that Watanabe font - which Kochi Gothic based on - was copied from the TypeBank Mincho-M font, developed by TypeBank and Design Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.^[17][18][19]
• [F] Sazanami Gothic (さざなみゴシック)^[20] – Also a font formerly considered free and included with a number of Linux distributions.^[21]

Korean

Sample of Malgun Gothic typeface.

• AppleGothic (애플고딕) – default Korean font on Apple Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and iOS 1 to 5.0. Fully supports Unicode from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• Dotum (돋움), DotumChe (돋움체), Gulim (굴림) – included with the Korean version of Microsoft Windows, all regions of Windows XP to Windows 8.1, and the Korean version of Windows 10.
• GulimChe (굴림체) – Distributed with all regions of Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1, Korean version of Windows 10, Office XP Tool: Korean Language Pack, Korean supplemental fonts for Windows 10.
• Malgun Gothic (맑은 고딕) – distributed with Windows Vista as default interface font.
• New Gulim (새굴림), Gulim Old Hangul Jamo – distributed with Old Korean support tools for Microsoft Word 2000, Office XP Tool: Korean Language Pack, Microsoft Office 2003.
• Apple SD Gothic Neo (애플 SD 산돌고딕 Neo) - default Korean font on Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and iOS 5.1.
• [F] UnDotum (은돋움) – one of Un-series fonts initially derived from Korean LaTeX fonts with the same name. freely available and licensed under GPL. included in a number of Linux distributions.
• [F] UnShinmun (은신문)– one of Un-series fonts initially derived from the Korean LaTeX fonts.
• [F] Baekmuk Gulim (백묵굴림) – freely available and included in a number of Linux distributions.
• Seoul Namsan (서울남산체) - distributed by Seoul Metropolitan Government as its official sans-serif typeface.
• [F] Nanum Gothic (나눔고딕) – one of Nanum-series fonts, distributed by Naver, under Open Font License.
• [F] Hamchorom Dotum (함초롬돋움) - developed by Hancom, supporting Unicode from 1.0 to 5.0 and Hangul Jamo Extended A/B.^[10]
• [F] Jieubsida Dodum (지읍시다돋움) – Korean-language, sans serif offshoot of the Tsukurimashou meta-family, built using METAFONT and distributed under GPL.^[11]

Regular script

Sample of Regular script typeface. Shown above are the simplified characters 汉字 (Hànzì; 漢字 in traditional Chinese), meaning "Chinese characters".

Clerical script

Imitation Song

Traditional Chinese character of "Han" in Imitation Song typeface.

Other fonts or projects

See also

Notes

References

Further reading

• Lunde, Ken (2009). CJKV Information Processing. O'Reilly. pp. 633–634. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links