Source Han Sans

Source Han Sans is a sans-serif gothic typeface family created by Adobe and Google. It is also released by Google under the Noto fonts project as Noto Sans CJK.[3] The family includes seven weights, and supports Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean. It also includes Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters from the Source Sans Pro family.[4]

Source Han Sans
CategorySans-serif
ClassificationEast Asian gothic typeface
Commissioned byAdobe, Google
FoundryAdobe
Date releasedJuly 16, 2014 (2014-07-16)[1]
Glyphs65535
LicenseUntil v1.001: Apache License v2.0
Since v1.002: SIL Open Font License v.1.1
Also known asNoto Sans CJK
TrademarkAdobe
Latest release version2.001[2]
Latest release dateApril 9, 2019 (2019-04-09)

Design

The Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters are taken from the Source Sans Pro family,[4] and adjusted to fit in with Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) text. For example, in the normal weight Latin and Latin-like characters are scaled to 115% of their original size, hence they appear larger than Source Sans Pro at the same point size.[5]

For the Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters, the underlying design was designed by Ryoko Nishizuka from Adobe.[6] Multiple type foundaries drew the glyphs for different languages based on the designs: Changzhou Sinotype[7] and Arphic Technology[8] for Chinese, Iwata Corporation for Japanese,[9] and Sandoll Communication for Korean.[10] Ken Lunde of Adobe consolidated the glyphs and created the final font resources,[4] while Google provided funding, testing resources and input.[3]

Differences for the character 返 between different language versions of Source Han Sans

Source Han Sans has five language versions: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese for Taiwan, Traditional Chinese for Hong Kong, Japanese and Korean.[11] Because of the different conventions and standards for each of the regions where the languages are used, the same character in Unicode may have a different shape for each of the language versions.

The font family includes seven font weights: ExtraLight, Light, Normal, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Heavy. At its release, the fonts contains 65,535 glyphs,[12] the maximum limit for CID-based fonts.[13]

The font current cover all of the characters in Unified Repertoire and Ordering of the Unicode Standard in version 2.001[14], but still doesn't cover all of CJK Compatibility Ideographs and extensions of the CJK Unified Ideographs.

Release

The 28-font OTC version of Source Sans Pro became available in version 1.001.[15]

Source Han Sans version 2.000 is a major update of the font family, the major changes include:[11][16]

  • Several glyphs proposed for CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G were included and accessible via the 'ccmp' GSUB feature.
  • The Hong Kong flavor of Traditional Chinese was introduced.
  • The glyphs for bopomofo were redesigned.
  • The glyphs for half-width jamo were replaced.
  • Macintosh 'name' table strings were omitted.
  • Regular weight is style-linked to the Bold weight.
  • The deprecated 'hngl' GSUB feature was removed.
  • The 'vert' GPOS (not GSUB) feature was added to support combining jamo in vertical writing.
  • Some glyphs for newer versions of Unicode were added.

Version 2.001 added a new character stands for Japanese era name Reiwa, and several glyphs for Hong Kong locale.[17]

Noto Sans CJK fonts are released as individual fonts separated by language and weight, or as OTC fonts containing all language variants separated by weight, or OTC fonts containing all weights separated by language, or a single OTC font containing all languages and weights.

Source Han Sans HW (2015)

Introduced as part of Source Han Sans Version 1.002 update, Source Han Sans HW fonts are based on the corresponding Source Han Sans fonts, but include half-width glyphs for ASCII and small number of additional characters in Regular and Bold font weights.[18]

Noto Sans Mono CJK

Noto Sans Mono CJK fonts are monospaced versions of Noto Sans CJK, which includes glyphs in 4 language variants. Only regular and bold weight fonts were released.

Noto Sans Mono CJK was introduced in Noto Sans CJK version 1.002 package.

OTC fonts include Noto Sans Mono CJK, except for the region-specific Subset OTC fonts.

Source Han Code JP (2015)

Source Han Code JP (源ノ角ゴシック Code JP) is a duospaced font family using Latin glyphs from Source Code Pro, with Latin glyphs are scaled to match Japanese characters, and their widths are adjusted to be exactly 667 units (two-thirds of an EM). The remaining characters were from Source Han Sans JP fonts with glyph set supporting only Japanese.[19]

See also

Adobe Open Source Fonts

References
  1. Belohlavek, Caleb (15 July 2014). "Introducing Source Han Sans: An open source Pan-CJK typeface". Adobe Blog. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  2. "Source Han Sans | 思源黑体 | 思源黑體 | 思源黑體 香港 | 源ノ角ゴシック | 본고딕: adobe-fonts/source-han-sans". Adobe Fonts. 20 September 2019.
  3. Xiangye Xiao; Stuart Gill; Jungshik Shin (2014-07-15). "Noto: A CJK Font That is Complete, Beautiful and Right for Your Language and Region". Google. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
  4. Belohlavek, Caleb (15 July 2014). "Introducing Source Han Sans: An open source Pan-CJK typeface". The Typekit Blog.
  5. Lunde, Ken. "Source Han Sans vs Source Sans Pro & Source Code Pro". blogs.adobe.com.
  6. Lardinois, Frederic (16 July 2014). "Adobe Partners With Google To Release Open-Source Font For Chinese, Japanese And Korean Languages". TechCrunch.
  7. Belohlavek, Caleb (18 September 2014). "Pan-CJK Partner Profile: SinoType". The Typekit Blog.
  8. Rhatigan, Dan (20 November 2018). "New Pan-CJK Font Release: Source Han Sans 2.0". Adobe Blog.
  9. "Adobe Releases Source Han Sans: Iwata Extends Japanese Ideographs". Iwata Corporation.
  10. Lunde, Ken. "Source Han Sans Development: Archaic Hangul". blogs.adobe.com.
  11. Lunde, Ken. "Source Han Sans Version 2.000 Technical Tidbits". blogs.adobe.com.
  12. "アドビ、Googleと協力し、画期的なデジタル書体を発表 | Adobe". Adobe.
  13. "Source Han Sans Version 2.001" (PDF). github.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 August 2019.
  14. "New Pan-CJK Font Release: Source Han Sans 2.0". Adobe Blog. 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  15. Belohlavek, Caleb (12 September 2014). "Source Han Sans update: New flavors & minor fixes". The Typekit Blog.
  16. Lunde, Ken. "Source Han Sans vs Source Han Serif". blogs.adobe.com.
  17. Lunde, Ken. "Source Han Sans Version 2.001". blogs.adobe.com.
  18. Lunde, Ken. "Source Han Sans Version 1.002 Update". blogs.adobe.com.
  19. Lunde, Ken. "Introducing Source Han Code JP". blogs.adobe.com.
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