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List of CJK fonts
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This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts with 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". This article name the two first classes Ming and sans-serif (gothic) while further divide the "script" into several Chinese script styles.
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The fonts are then sorted by their target writing system:[Note 1]
- Chinese: Chinese character. (May also support bopomofo.)
This can be subdivided into the following classification:- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese (General, using printing standard or jiu zixing, 舊字形)
- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, using Standard Form of National Characters by the Ministry of Education, 國字標準字體)
- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong, using the List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters by the Ministry of Education, 常用字字形表)
- The following localization table shortens Simplified Chinese to SC and Traditional Chinese to TC.
- 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 (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
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- [F] means the 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)
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- Sample of Ming typeface. Shown here are its forms in (from top to bottom): Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese.
- Sample of Source Han Serif
Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK
Chinese
- Sample of MingLiU (細明體), monospaced Latin characters.
- Sample of PMingLiU (新細明體), proportional Latin characters.
- Sample of SimSun (中易宋体), monospaced Latin characters.
- Sample of I.Ming (一點明體)
- Sample of KingHwa OldSong (京華老宋体)

Japanese

Korean
Vietnamese
- Sample of Nôm Na Tống
- Sample of Minh Nguyên
Zhuang
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Sans-serif
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Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK

Chinese
- Sample of WenQuanYi Micro Hei (文泉驿微米黑)
- Sample of Microsoft JhengHei (微軟正黑體)
- Sample of SimHei (中易雅黑), monospaced Latin characters.



Japanese


Korean

Vietnamese

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Regular script

Chinese
- Specimens of various Chinese Kai (regular script) typefaces
- Hanyi Kaiti (汉仪楷体)
- SinoType Kaiti (华文楷体)
- Zhongyi Kaiti / SimKai (中易楷体)
- Founder Jiaocai Guifan Kaiti (方正教材规范楷体)
- Founder Kaiti (方正楷体)
- Founder XinKaiti (方正新楷体)
- TW-Kai (全字庫楷體)
- Adobe Kaiti (Adobe楷体)
- DynaFont Kaishuti (華康楷書體)
- DynaFont LiKaishu (華康儷楷書)
- DynaFont BiaoKaiti / KaiU (華康標楷體)
Japanese
Vietnamese

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Clerical script
Imitation Song

- Specimens of various Chinese Fangsong (Imitation Song) typefaces
- Founder Fangsong (方正仿宋)
- Adobe Fangsong (Adobe仿宋)
- Hanyi Fangsong (汉仪仿宋)
- Zhongyi Fangsong / SimFang (中易仿宋)
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Other fonts or projects
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Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK
Chinese

Japanese
Korean
Font series
This section lists fonts that are designed to be used together, or created by the same person/organization such that it forms a series of fonts.
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Font foundries
This section lists major font foundries that produce CJK fonts.
- SinoType Technology (Chinese: 中国常州华文印刷新技术有限公司)
- Founder Group (Chinese: 方正)
- Hanyi Fonts (Chinese: 汉仪科印)
- DynaLab by DynaComware (Chinese: 華康)
- Arphic (Chinese: 文鼎科技)
- Justfont (Chinese: 就是字)
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Notes
- If a Unicode font (font containing a wide range of Unicode's characters) is targeted to one or a few writing systems, it will not be listed as a "pan-Unicode font" (font intended to globally support a wide range of Unicode's characters)
- If rotated with
\setCJKmainfont[Vertical=RotatedGlyphs]{HANAMINA.TTF
, as required for traditional writing: some characters aren't displayed after rotating, while they work without rotation. - Archived copies also available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine: ttf-arphic-uming_0.2.20080216.1.orig.tar.gz, ttf-arphic-ukai_0.2.20080216.1.orig.tar.gz
- Archived copies also available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine: 文鼎科技發佈新的公眾授權字型
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