sexta-feira, 30 de abril de 2010

Large, multi-script Unicode fonts for Windows computers

Large, multi-script Unicode fonts for Windows computers

These fonts are chinese Unicode fonts which include the following charsets:

  • Big5
  • GB2312-80
  • ISO8859-1,2,3,4,7,9,10,13,14,15
  • Bopomofo Extended for Minnan and Hakka (台、客語)
  • HKSCS (香港), CNS11643, GB18030, Japanese and Korean are work in progress.

Current release: 0.0.20041205-1

License: [Arphic Public License]

The fonts can be downloaded from http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/ as tarball and deb package.

  • Mingti: ShanHeiSun-Uni ttf-arphic-uming [tgz] [deb]
  • Kaiti: Zenkai-Uni-Medium ttf-arphic-ukai [tgz] [deb]

Apt-repository: deb ftp://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/apt/ unstable main

If you have already downloaded a tarball version of the fonts and only want to upgrade to a newer release, you can use xdelta to apply binary patches.

Xdeltas of the fonts are in http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/xdeltas/

  • For upgrading between releases download the xdelta file from the corresponding subdirectory. (Example: 0.0.20041031-1_0.0.20041205-1/)
You need to have xdelta version 1.1.3 installed. Debian users can simply get it via apt-get, others might want to visit http://www.xdelta.org. Be sure to get version 1.1.3 and not any newer one, the newer ones are not compatible and have different purposes.

Windows users can visit http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~ejones/software/xdelta-win32.html

Then put your tar.gz pagage of the old font and the downloaded xdelta file into a temporary directory and use:

xdelta patch

(without the <> of course).

These pdf files show which glyphs are already encoded (Size: 35 MB each):

  • Mingti: ShanHeiSun-Uni [pdf]
  • Kaiti: Zenkai-Uni-Medium [pdf]
Xdelta files are in http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/xdeltas/pdf/

The font packages contain two variants of the font, which only differ in the Bopomofo Extended glyphs. These glyphs are mainly used in Taiwan for teaching Taiwanese and Hakka. There exist two varaints of those glyphs, one according to the Unicode standard and one, called Modern Bopomofo Extensions (MBE), which has been developed by Mr. Yang Qing-Chu (楊青矗). The MBE variants are considered easier to read and write.

To get a picture how those glyphs differ:

  • Bopomofo Extensions according to Unicode 4.0
unicode32.png
  • Modern Bopomofo Extensions according to Mr. Yang Qing-Chu (楊青矗)
unimbe.png

The TTF in the font packages contains both variants already, the Unicode variant is the default. The MBE variant is encoded seperately as stylistic alternative to the Unicode variant. If your application supports this, you can choose which variant you want to see there.

If your applications don't support the stylistic alternatives feature, you can patch the TTF file with the xdelta file included in the tarball. To do this, copy the TTF file and the xdelta file into a temporary directory and use the xdelta command like shown above. You can also install both variants in parallel.

Development ressources:

Author: Arne Götje (高盛華), Taiwan : arne at linux dot org dot tw

If you want to contribute, please send me a mail.

Contributers:

  • Akar Chen (), Hong Kong

Unifonts - DebianWiki

Unifonts - DebianWiki

These fonts are chinese Unicode fonts which include the following charsets:

  • Big5
  • GB2312-80
  • ISO8859-1,2,3,4,7,9,10,13,14,15
  • Bopomofo Extended for Minnan and Hakka (台、客語)
  • HKSCS (香港), CNS11643, GB18030, Japanese and Korean are work in progress.

Current release: 0.0.20041205-1

License: [Arphic Public License]

The fonts can be downloaded from http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/ as tarball and deb package.

  • Mingti: ShanHeiSun-Uni ttf-arphic-uming [tgz] [deb]
  • Kaiti: Zenkai-Uni-Medium ttf-arphic-ukai [tgz] [deb]

Apt-repository: deb ftp://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/apt/ unstable main

If you have already downloaded a tarball version of the fonts and only want to upgrade to a newer release, you can use xdelta to apply binary patches.

Xdeltas of the fonts are in http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/xdeltas/

  • For upgrading between releases download the xdelta file from the corresponding subdirectory. (Example: 0.0.20041031-1_0.0.20041205-1/)
You need to have xdelta version 1.1.3 installed. Debian users can simply get it via apt-get, others might want to visit http://www.xdelta.org. Be sure to get version 1.1.3 and not any newer one, the newer ones are not compatible and have different purposes.

Windows users can visit http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~ejones/software/xdelta-win32.html

Then put your tar.gz pagage of the old font and the downloaded xdelta file into a temporary directory and use:

xdelta patch

(without the <> of course).

These pdf files show which glyphs are already encoded (Size: 35 MB each):

  • Mingti: ShanHeiSun-Uni [pdf]
  • Kaiti: Zenkai-Uni-Medium [pdf]
Xdelta files are in http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/xdeltas/pdf/

The font packages contain two variants of the font, which only differ in the Bopomofo Extended glyphs. These glyphs are mainly used in Taiwan for teaching Taiwanese and Hakka. There exist two varaints of those glyphs, one according to the Unicode standard and one, called Modern Bopomofo Extensions (MBE), which has been developed by Mr. Yang Qing-Chu (楊青矗). The MBE variants are considered easier to read and write.

To get a picture how those glyphs differ:

  • Bopomofo Extensions according to Unicode 4.0
unicode32.png
  • Modern Bopomofo Extensions according to Mr. Yang Qing-Chu (楊青矗)
unimbe.png

The TTF in the font packages contains both variants already, the Unicode variant is the default. The MBE variant is encoded seperately as stylistic alternative to the Unicode variant. If your application supports this, you can choose which variant you want to see there.

If your applications don't support the stylistic alternatives feature, you can patch the TTF file with the xdelta file included in the tarball. To do this, copy the TTF file and the xdelta file into a temporary directory and use the xdelta command like shown above. You can also install both variants in parallel.

Development ressources:

Author: Arne Götje (高盛華), Taiwan : arne at linux dot org dot tw

If you want to contribute, please send me a mail.

Contributers:

  • Akar Chen (), Hong Kong

Chinese fonts

Chinese fonts

Last update: Thu Apr 29 00:10:00 EDT 2010



Chinese fonts

[Optical illusion Chinese opera poster by Su Iting]

Disoriented Canadian moose after drinking two Belgian beers Luc Devroye
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http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/index.html
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/fonts.html








140.128.151.3

Chinese font archive. The fonts are simply called tt1, tt13, tt2, tt201f, tt202f, tt203a, tt205a, tt205f, tt207f, tt208c, tt208d, tt208f, tt30, tt39, tt40, tt43, tt44, tt45, tt9, ttc5, ttmb001, ttmb002, ttmb009, ttmb013. [Google]

3lian

Chinese font archive. [Google]

51fonts.com

2000+ font archive. Graphically heavy, it shows just 5 fonts per page, so it takes a huge amount of time to get anywhere. The best way to use this place is to use the built-in search window. It contains also about 100 full Chinese truetype fonts for PC. Plus about 2000 Mac fonts as well. [Google]

7wind

Chinese font archive. Has some Latin fonts. [Google]

ACAF

ACAF stands for Ascender Compact Asian Fonts. Their blurb at the launch in 2006: ACAF uses proprietary techniques to render the complex ideographs found in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts. By using component outlines, versus entire character outlines, ACAF offers significant benefits over standard TrueType or OpenType font formats. And unlike other compact font formats, such as stroke or stick fonts, the quality of Ascender Compact Asian Fonts is such that no embedded bitmaps are necessary for typical screen sizes. This savings in space by reusing pierces of font outlines is useful for high quality (scalable) fonts on mobile devices and digital TVs. [Google]

Ahoi

Paul Rädle's great jump page for foreign fonts and phonetic fonts. [Google]

Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

Great Unicode jump page. Has a page showing all fonts that support the various Unicode ranges. Check, for example, his Shavian Unicode sub-page. Unicode font utilities. Some font downloads, including the Unicode font MPH Damase (2005, Mark Williamson). [Google]

Apple

Chinese fonts distributed by Apple:

  • Unicode character set: Arial Unicode MS.
  • GB18030 character set: STHeiti Light [STXihei], STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong, STFangsong.
  • GB2312 character set: Hei, Kai, Song, Fang Song, Beijing (the latter three not supported after OS X 10.3).
  • Big-5 character set: Taipei (discontinued after OS X 10.2), Apple LiSung Light, Apple LiGothic Medium, BiauKai, LiSong Pro Light, LiHei Pro Medium.
[Google]

Apropos

Explanations of Japanese/Chinese typesetting. [Google]

Arabia Ware Benelux

Vendor of Mac and PC fonts for several languages and from a variety of companies. Only commercial stuff for Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Tamazight, Turkish, Greek, Indic, Thai, Eastern European, and Korean. [Google]

Arphic Fonts

The free Arphic fonts in PostScript format. Truetype format. The families include bkai00mp, bsmi00lp, gbsn00lp, gkai00mp. [Google]

Arphic Technology

Four high-quality Chinese TrueType fonts generously provided by Arphic Technology to the Free Software community under the "Arphic Public License". The four free Chinese truetype fonts are about 10MB each: ZenKai-Medium, BousungEG-Light-GB, GBZenKai-Medium, ShanHeiSun-Light. Alternate URL. One more site. Yet another URL. This site has a file called fireflysung, which has the full Chinese font AR PL New Sung (1994-1999). [Google]

Arphic Technology Co

Taiwanese font company in Taipei. In 1999, they donated four TrueType fonts to the Open Source community under the Arphic public license. These four fonts consist of two Sung type faces and two Kai type faces, each for traditional and simplified Chinese: bkai00mp.ttf (AR PL KaitiM Big5), # # P L # # Big5 (14148) bsmi00lp.ttf (AR PL Mingti2L Big5), gkai00mp.ttf (AR PL KaitiM GB), gbsn00lp.ttf (AR PL SungtiL GB). It sells the UniFonts 2000 package, as well as an XPDF font pack. Many of the free Chinese fonts on the web originate from Arphic. For example, here, one can download these fonts from 1998: Arphic-Mingti2-Light-BIG5, HerSin-Medium, InnMing-Bold, InnMing-Extra, InnMing-Heavy, InnMing-Medium, InnMing-Ultra, MaokaiEG-Bold-Big5, MaokaiEG-Extra-Big5, MaokaiEG-Heavy-Big5, NewGothic-Bold, NewGothic-Extra, NewGothic-Heavy, NewGothic-Light, NewGothic-Medium, OvlapRound_Outline-Ultra, PensinkaiEG-Light-Big5, PensinkaiEG-Medium-Big5, Pop1-Bold, Pop2EG-Bold-Big5, Pop3EG-Extra-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big565329, ShanHeiSun-Light, ShanheisunEG-Bold-Big5, ShanheisunEG-Medium-Big5, SingkaiEG-Bold-Big5, SingkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdKai-Medium, StdMing-Medium, StdkaiEG-Bold-Big5, StdkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdsungEG-Bold-Big5, StdsungEG-Heavy-Big5, StdsungEG-Light-Big5, TankuinEG-Bold-Big5, YankaiEG-Heavy-Big5, YankaiEG-Ultra-Big5, YenRound-Bold, YenRound-Extra, YenRound-Heavy, YenRound-Light, YenRound-Medium, YenRound-Ultra, ZuinnEG-Medium-Big5. Their Japanese fonts are sold by Dex Web. FireFly, a Taiwanese company, maintains the free font AR PL New Sung (2004), which was originally an Arphic font. Alternate URL. [Google]

Art and Fonts by Sean (was: the Black box)

Sean BW showcases great Arab, Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. In addition, his free fonts include Thorns, Hours in the Rain, The Tomb, Vampyres Garden (initial caps inspired by the Romant de la Rose from the beginning of the 16th century), and Seven Waves Sighs Salome. Very nice gothic and medieval style creations. Many caps, great historical fonts, with sources discussed. I wish the designer would divulge his name. See also here. [Google]

AsiaFont Studio

Font editor by Pyrus/FontLab for Asian type design. Mac and Windows. [Google]

Asiasoft

Vendor of Korean, Japanese and Chinese software, including font packs for Mac and PC. AsiaSoft Inc./AsiaTech Inc. is located in Vero Beach, FL. Their font Urdu Naskh Asiatype (2001) for Urdu can be found here and here. Pashto Kror Asiatype (1994-2002) is here. [Google]

Autumn Mist

Dead link. This was a huge truetype and type 1 archive. The biggest font here is the 22MB Arial Unicode MS monster. There are many Monotype and Font Bureau families as well. Plus the Microsoft collection, MS Mincho (full font, by Ricoh), Palatino Linotype, SimSun (10MB multipurpose font by Zhongyi Electronic, 1995), and about 600 other basic fonts. One of the most useful archives anywhere, with every font seemingly included only for its usefulness. The fonts are now in one zip file. [Google]

AVSYV

Heavy blockletter Chinese font. [Google]

Beijing Founder Electronic Co

Chinese font foundry, offering many full Chinese/Western font sets in truetype format. The list: FZ Bao Song Z04, FZ Cai Yun M09, FZ Chao Cu Hei M10, FZ Cu Hei B03, FZ Cu Qian M17, FZ Cu Song B09, FZ Cu Yuan M03, FZ Da Biao Song B06, FZ Da Hei B02, FZ Fang Song Z02, FZ Gu Li S12, FZ Hei B01, FZ Hu Po M04, FZ Hua Li M14, FZ Huang Cao S09, FZ Ka Tong M19, FZ Kai Z03, FZ Kang Ti S07, FZ Li Bian S02, FZ Li Shu II-S06, FZ Mei Hei M07, FZ New Bao Song Z12, FZ New Shu Song Z10, FZ New Shu Ti S08, FZ New Xiu Li Z11, FZ Pang Wa M18, FZ Ping He S11, FZ Ping Hei B04, FZ Qi Ti S14, FZ Shao Er M11, FZ Shou Jin Shu S10, FZ Shu Song Z01, FZ Shu Ti S05, FZ Shui Hei M21, FZ Shui Zhu M08, FZ Song Hei B07, FZ Song III-Z05, FZ Song Yi Z13, FZ Wei Bei S03, FZ Xi Deng Xian Z06, FZ Xi Hei I-Z08, FZ Xi Qian M15, FZ Xi Shan Hu M13, FZ Xi Yuan M01, FZ Xiao Biao Song B05, FZ Xiao Zhuan Ti S13, FZ Xing Kai S04, FZ Yao Ti M06, FZ Yi Hei M20, FZ Ying Bi Kai Shu S15, FZ Ying Bi Xing Shu S16, FZ You Xian Z09, FZ Zhan Bi Hei M22, FZ Zhi Yi M12, FZ Zhong Deng Xian Z07, FZ Zhong Kai B08, FZ Zhong Qian M16, FZ Zhun Yuan M02, FZ Zong Yi M05. [Google]

Beijing Founder Electronic Co., Ltd.

Founder is the earliest TrueType developer as well as the biggest TrueType products vendor for Chinese characters in China. It has developed hundreds of Chinese, Western languages and multi-national fonts. Fonts now also sold by MyFonts. Fonts include: FZ Bao Song Z04, FZ Cai Yun M09, FZ Chao Cu Hei M10, FZ Cu Hei B03, FZ Cu Qian M17, FZ Cu Song B09, FZ Cu Yuan M03, FZ Da Biao Song B06, FZ Da Hei B02, FZ Fang Song Z02, FZ Gu Li S12, FZ Hei B01, FZ Hu Po M04, FZ Hua Li M14, FZ Huang Cao S09, FZ Ka Tong M19, FZ Kai Z03, FZ Kang Ti S07, FZ Li Bian S02, FZ Li Shu II-S06, FZ Mei Hei M07, FZ New Bao Song Z12, FZ New Shu Song Z10, FZ New Shu Ti S08, FZ New Xiu Li Z11, FZ Pang Wa M18, FZ Ping He S11, FZ Ping Hei B04, FZ Qi Ti S14, FZ Shao Er M11, FZ Shou Jin Shu S10, FZ Shu Song Z01, FZ Shu Ti S05, FZ Shui Hei M21, FZ Shui Zhu M08, FZ Song Hei B07, FZ Song III-Z05, FZ Song Yi Z13, FZ Wei Bei S03, FZ Xi Deng Xian Z06, FZ Xi Hei I-Z08, FZ Xi Qian M15, FZ Xi Shan Hu M13, FZ Xi Yuan M01, FZ Xiao Biao Song B05, FZ Xiao Zhuan Ti S13, FZ Xing Kai S04, FZ Yao Ti M06, FZ Yi Hei M20, FZ Ying Bi Kai Shu S15, FZ Ying Bi Xing Shu S16, FZ You Xian Z09, FZ Zhan Bi Hei M22, FZ Zhi Yi M12, FZ Zhong Deng Xian Z07, FZ Zhong Kai B08, FZ Zhong Qian M16, FZ Zhun Yuan M02, FZ Zong Yi M05. [Google]

Beijing Hanyi Keyin Information Technology Co Ltd

The Beijing Hanyi Keyin Information Technology Co is a joint venture between CAPT (the Chinese Academy of Printing Technology) and TAICEM, based in Singapore, and was established in 1993 in Beijing. The company developed many (principally Chinese and Japanese) fonts using the Ikarus system, and partners on many projects with URW++, which sells these Hanyi fonts: Fang Song, Hei, Song, Song Medium, Yuan, Hupo, Kai, Lishu, Wei Bei, Zong. [Google]

Bitstream Cyberbit

From Bitstream's web page: "Bitstream Cyberbit is our award-winning international font. Based on one of our most popular and readable type designs (Dutch 801 BT [note: Bitstream's version of Times and Times New Roman]), it includes all the typographic characters for most of the world's major languages. Cyberbit is now available! The product release includes the roman weight of Dutch 801 BT, a "serif" font. (A serif font has small finishing strokes at the end of the main stems, arms, and tails of characters, while a sanserif font does not.) The font is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Future releases will provide support for "sanserif" typefaces, other platforms, other font formats, and even more languages. Bitstream Cyberbit is a work in progress. Bitstream is now distributing the roman weight of Cyberbit, free of charge, over the Internet! Remember, this release is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT". --- Well, Bitstream no longer offers the font. It is still out there however. Try here, here, here, or here. Has these unicode ranges: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Spacing Modifier Letters, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew Extended (A and B blocks combined), Thai, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Dingbats, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Combining Diacritical Marks, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A and -B, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul Compatibility Jamo, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, CJK Compatibility, Hangul, CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Forms, Small Form Variants, and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. [Google]

Boston Chinese home page

Links and help for Chinese typography on all platforms, from PC to Mac to DOS and UNIX and X-Windows. Includes free text processing software with embedded fonts. [Google]

Bruce H. Liu

Bruce works at Dynalab, which offers Japanese and Chinese fonts. Examples: DynaLab Premium 17 Japanese Truetype fonts for JWindows3.1 US $30. DynaLab Premium 30 Japanese Truetype fonts for JWindows3.1/95 or Mac. US $50. Lots of Chinese fonts on sale at 8$ per font. DynaLab 15 artistic Truetype fonts for Windows95 or Mac for US $50. Sample fonts: DFBiaoKaiShu1B, DFBiaoSong1B, DFFangSong1B, DFGirl1B, DFGuYinMedium1B, DFHeiBold1B, DFHeiMedium1B, DFHeiUBold1B, DFKaiShuMedium1B, DFKanTingLiu1B, DFLiFancySong1B, DFLiHeiBold1B, DFLiHeiLight1B, DFLiHeiMedium1B, DFLiKingHei1B, DFLiKaiShu1B, DFLiSongBold1B, DFLiSongLight1B, DFLiSongMedium1B, DFLiYuanBold1B, DFLiYuanXBold1B, DFLiShu1B, DFMingBold1B, DFMingLight1B, DFMingMedium1B, DFMingUBold1B, DFPOP1B, DFXingShuMedium1B, DFYuanBold1B, DFYuanLight1B, DFZongYiBold1B, DFLiSongLight1B-GB, DFFangSong1B-GB, DFHei1B-GB, DFKaiShu1B-GB, DFSong1B-GB, DFSongXBold1B-GB, DFWeiBei1B-GB, DFZongYiBold1B-GB. [Google]

CAI's Software Page

Yidao Cai's free software. Most interesting is CNPRINT: "CNPRINT is a utility to print Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) text (or convert to PostScript) under DOS, VMS and UNIX systems. It works just as a print command on your system. Currently GB, Hz, zW, BIG5, CNS, JIS, EUC, Shift-JIS, KSC, UTF8, UTF7 and UTF16 formats are supported. With its full Unicode support, it should be able to print other language (e.g. Thai, Vietnames, Arabic as well)." Also, MSHei and MSSong truetype fonts for Chinese, Korean and Japanese, developed by Stone Corporation, Zhuhai, China. [Google]

Catalog of NTU Chinese Truetype Fonts

Catalog of Chinese truetype fonts compiled by Thian-Huat Ong. The NTU series of fonts includes 8 fonts. The fonts are here. [Google]

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]

CFMIN

A few simplified Chinese fonts in the CFMIN family, in truetype. [Google]

Changzhou SinoType Technology Co

Chinese foundry in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. As one of the majopr foundries there, it made fonts such as Heiti (2002), which can be downloaded here. Its fonts start with the letters ST. No retail font sales, but the fonts are worked into many packages. STXingkai (1998) is here. STCaiyun, STXihei, STXingkai, STXinwei, STZhongsong, all made in 1998, are here. This site carries their free fonts STFangSong, STeiTi, STKaiTi and STXiHei with a date of 2003. [Google]

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. [Google]

CHANT (Chinese Ancient Texts)

About the ancient Chinese scripts covering Jiaguwen, Jianbo, Jinwen, Pre-Han, Han, the six dynasties, and Leishu. [Google]

China Daily

The mother of all Chinese archives with hundreds of Chinese and thousands of Latin fonts downloadable for free. [Google]

China Daily (II)

Archive at the China Daily:

  • In Latin fonts, we find Adobe's FranklinGothic family (type 1), TimesNRMT (type 1) and these truetype fonts: AcademyEngravedLetPlain, AllegroBT-Regular, AmerTypewriterITCbyBT-Medium, Arial-Black, Arial-BlackItalic, Arial-BoldItalicMT, Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, ArialMT, ArialNarrow-Bold, ArialNarrow-BoldItalic, ArialNarrow-Italic, ArialNarrow, AvantGardeITCbyBT-Book, AvantGardeITCbyBT-BookOblique, AvantGardeITCbyBT-Medium, AvantGardeITCbyBT-MediumOblique, BankGothicBT-Medium, Basemic, BasemicSymbol, BasemicTimes, BenguiatITCbyBT-Bold, BernhardFashionBT-Regular, BernhardModernBT-Bold, BernhardModernBT-BoldItalic, BookAntiqua-Bold, BookAntiqua-BoldItalic, BookAntiqua-Italic, BookAntiqua, BookmanOldStyle-Bold, BookmanOldStyle-BoldItalic, BookmanOldStyle-Italic, BookmanOldStyle, BremenBT-Bold, CenturyGothic-Bold, CenturyGothic-BoldItalic, CenturyGothic-Italic, CenturyGothic, CharlesworthBold, ComicSansMS-Bold, ComicSansMS, CommonBullets, CopperplateGothicBT-Bold, CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT, CourierNewPS-BoldMT, CourierNewPS-ItalicMT, CourierNewPSMT, DauphinPlain, English111VivaceBT-Regular, FranklinGothic-Medium, FranklinGothic-MediumItalic, FuturaBT-Bold, FuturaBT-BoldItalic, FuturaBT-ExtraBlack, FuturaBT-Light, FuturaBT-LightItalic, FuturaBlackBT-Regular, Garamond-Bold, Garamond-Italic, Garamond, Georgia-Bold, Georgia-BoldItalic, Georgia-Italic, Georgia, GeorgiaRef, Goudy-Bold, Goudy-BoldItalic, Goudy-ExtraBold, Goudy-Italic, Goudy, GoudyHandtooledBT-Regular, GoudyOldStyleBT-Bold, GoudyOldStyleBT-BoldItalic, GoudyOldStyleBT-Italic, GoudyOldStyleBT-Roman, HighlightLetPlain, Humanist521BT-Bold, Humanist521BT-BoldItalic, Humanist521BT-Italic, Humanist521BT-Roman, Impact, JohnHandyLetPlain, JokermanLetPlain, KabelITCbyBT-Book, KabelITCbyBT-Ultra, Kingsoft-Phonetic, LaBambaLetPlain, Lithograph-Bold, LithographLight, LucidaConsole, LucidaSansUnicode, MSReference1, MSReference2, MSReferenceSansSerif-Bold, MSReferenceSansSerif-BoldItalic, MSReferenceSansSerif-Italic, MSReferenceSansSerif, MSReferenceSerif-Bold, MSReferenceSerif-BoldItalic, MSReferenceSerif-Italic, MSReferenceSerif, MSReferenceSpecialty, MT-Extra, MekanikLetPlain, MicrosoftSansSerif, MicrosoftSansSerif, OdessaLetPlain, OneStrokeScriptLetPlain, OrangeLetPlain, OzHandicraftBT-Roman, PalatinoLinotype-Bold, PalatinoLinotype-BoldItalic, PalatinoLinotype-Italic, PalatinoLinotype-Roman, PosterBodoniBT-Roman, PumpDemiBoldLetPlain, QuixleyLetPlain, RageItalicLetPlain, RefSpecialty, ScruffLetPlain, SmudgerLetPlain, SerifaBT-Bold, SerifaBT-Italic, SerifaBT-Roman, SerifaBT-Thin, SouvenirITCbyBT-Demi, SouvenirITCbyBT-DemiItalic, SouvenirITCbyBT-Light, SouvenirITCbyBT-LightItalic, TirantiSolidLetPlain, UniversityRomanLetPlain, VictorianLetPlain, WestwoodLetPlain.
  • There are about 30 full Chinese fonts as well, including fonts from Changzhou SinoType Technology Co (STCaiyun, STXihei, STXingkai, STXinwei, STZhongsong, all made in 1998), GreatWall Computer Co (KaiTi_GB2312 (1994), FangSong_GB2312 (1994)), Zhongji Electronic Corp (SimHei (1995), SimSun (1995)), Stone Co Beijing (YouYuan (1996), LiSu (1996)), and the Founder Corporation (FZShuTi or FZSTK--GBK1-0 (1998), FZYaoTi or FZYTK--GBK1-0 (1998)). Also, we have GCCMH00B, GCCSN00B, GCDLS00B, GCDSN00L, GCDSN00M, GCFSN00M, GCHEI00B, GCHEI00M, GCHW00U, GCKAI00M, GCSKA00B, GCSTT00B, GCSUN00B, GCSUN00M, GCSUN02M, GCWEI00B, GGTR00B, GGTR00H, GGTR00L, GGTR00U, GHEI01B, GHEI01U, GKAI00M, GLEI00M, GMIN00B, GMIN00H, GMIN00M, GMIN00U, GSIN00M, GSKA00B, GSUN00L, and GWEI00B.
  • From Arphic Technology (1996), we have these Chinese fonts: TCBSN00L, TCCMH00B, TCCSN00B, TCHEI00B, TCHEI00M, TCHW00U, TCSKA00B, TCSTT00B, TCSUN00B, TCSUN00M, TCSUN02M, TCWEI00B, TCYEN00B, TCYEN00M, TGTR00L, THEI01B, TKAI00M, TKAN00U, TLEI00M, TMIN00M.
[Google]

China Dragon Beauty Font's Free Download

Free Chinese fonts Dragon POP, Dragon KAI, Dragon Ming, each over 1MB zipped. TrueType and PostScript, PC and Mac. Also a Chinese ATM version for free. [Google]

China Guide Company

Sells 30 Chinese truetype fonts and Chinese software. [Google]

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. [Google]

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]

Chinese font information


Chinese Fonts jump site

Links for Chinese fonts (in Chinese). A few downloads of some fonts from Changzhou SinoType Technology Co (STFangSong, STeiTi, STKaiTi, STXiHei), CMEX Chinese Foundation for Digitization Technology (CMEXKai, 2002 and CMEXSong, 2004), DynaComware Corp (LiHei Pro, 2003), DynaLab (DFSTDLI-Md-HK-BF, 1998), [Google]

Chinese Government

Chinese font archive: FZCuQian-M17S, MSBSF, MSBSJ, MSCHF, MSCHJ, MSCSJ, MSCYF, MSCYJ, MSDBSJ, MSDHJ, MSDSJ, MSDSSF, MSFSF, MSFSJ, MSHKJ, MSHPF, MSHTF, MSKTF, MSKTJ, MSLSJ, MSMHJ, MSSTF, MSTHJ, MSWBF, MSWBJ, MSXTF, MSXYF, MSXYJ, MSZHYJ, MSZYF, MSZYJ. [Google]

Chinese Mac

Help page for the use of Chinese on Apple machines. [Google]

Chinese Mac

Great page on Chinese fonts for the Mac. A must bookmark! [Google]

Chinese Online Reading Assistant

Chin-Chuan Cheng's Mac and Windows fonts for Pinyin. Cheng is at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Fonts: Chinese-Pinyin, Chinese-Pinyin-Cap (1996). [Google]

Chinese Parterner (sic) Truetype fonts

Commercial truetype fonts for windows developed by Twinbridge Software Corporation. [Google]

Chinese TrueType Fonts from Datastation

NewTek Super Chinese True Type Font Package (32 Chinese TTF) for 89USD, and links to other Chinese TTF fonts by Dyna, AllTrue and UnionWay. [Google]

Chinese Typography

Chinese typography page by Chan Shih-Ping. [Google]

Chinese/Japanese tips

Tips on how to use Japanese and Chinese in web pages. Get MS Gothic (Japanese TTF) here, as well as MingLiU and MS Song (Chinese) and GulimChe (Korean). These are mostly Microsoft give-aways. [Google]

chitex

Chinese TEX package. Includes free TrueType fonts fxntufs, fxntukai, fxntuli, and utilities such as ttf2pk and ttf2tfm. [Google]

cice0129

A file with six Chinese fonts, including FZHuangCao-S09S (1998) and FZYingBiXingShu-S16T (2001) from Founder Corporation. [Google]

CJK Fonts

Listing of CJK fonts, as of 2009.

  • Simplified Chinese, serifed: Beijing (M), Bitstream CyberBit (W), Bitstream CyberBitCJK (W), Code2000 (M), Fang Song (M), Kai (M), MS Song (W), NSimSun (W), NSimSun-18030 (W), SimSun (M W), SimSun-18030 (W), Song (M), STFangsong (M), STKaiti (M), STSong (M), STSong Std Acro (W), TSC JSong S TT (W).
  • Simplified Chinese, sans: Arial Unicode MS (W), Hei (M), MS Hei (W), SimHei (W), STHeiti (M).
  • Traditional Chinese, serifed: Apple LiSung (M), BiauKai (M), Ming (W), MingLiU (W), MSung Std Acro (W), PMingLiU (M W), TSC FMing S TT (W).
  • Traditional Chinese, sans: Apple LiGothic (M), Taipei (M).
  • Japanese, serifed: Hiragino Mincho Pro (M), Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro (W), MS Mincho (M W), MS PMincho (W), MS UI Gothic (W).
  • Japanese, sans: Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro (M), Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro (M), MS Gothic (M W), MS PGothic (M W), MS PMincho (M), Osaka (M), Osaka-Mono (M).
  • Korean, serifed: AppleMyungjo (M), Baekmuk Batang (W), Batang (M W), BatangChe (W), #GungSeo (M), Gungsuh (W), GungsuhChe (W), HY Shin Myeongjo Std Acro (W), #MyungjoNeue (M), #PCMyungjo (M).
  • Korean, sans: AppleGothic (M), Baekmuk Dotum (W), Baekmuk Gulim (W), #GothicMedium (M), Gulim (M), Gulim Che (W), Gulim Old Hangul Jamo (W), New Gulim (W), Hangang (M), Seoul (M), #TaeGraphic (M).
[Google]

CJK Quick Start

Pages by Gyula Zsigri on reading and writing Chinese, Japanese and Korean in English Windows. Mirror. [Google]

CJK Type Blog

The CJK Type blog was started by Gu Hua in Adobe's Beijing office, with active contributions by Ken Lunde. [Google]

CJK Unifonts
[Arne Götje]

Arne Götje, a German who lives in Taiwan, works on a project to provide CJK unicode fonts. His work is based on the Arphic fonts AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni and AR PL ZenKai Uni. He added the Chinese dialect phonetic symbols. Furthermore, he merged the embedded Firefly Sung bitmap font into CJKUnifonts. In 2005, the work of the Hong Kong freefonts project (OAKA group) was also merged into CJK Unifonts. Additional URL. [Google]

CJKUnifonts

Free high quality Chinese truetype Unicode fonts under the Arphic license (Arphic is based in Taiwan). They contain almost 22000 characters (!!!) and contain glyphs for Big 5 Chinese, GB2312-80 Chinese, ISO8859-1,2,3,4,7,9,10,13,14,15 and Bopomofo extended for Minnan and Hakka (Taiwan). The missing glyphs for Japanese, Korean and HKSCS are under development. The fonts are Uming (Mingti, or printed) and Ukai (Kaiti, or brush stroke). They are gorgeous and reproduce well at small screen sizes. Subprojects include modules forv typing the Taiwanese styles Minnan and Hakka. Colloborators: Aaron Cheung, Akar Chen, Alex Ho, Chow Lok Yuen, CP Tung, Eric(EC-graphic), Eric Chan Chi Shing, Firefly, Ga Ming, Jack Tse, John Ma, Kevin Tse, K.M. Lau, Kong, Kwok Wun Yung, Lam Wai Tung, Munkwui Ho, Qianqian Fang, Simon Wong, Shiu Kau Wong, Willy Yuen. [Google]

CLE

Taiwanese archive with about one hundred free Chinese truetype fonts in the public domain. [Google]

Clear Chinese.Com

Free Chinese fonts: The HDZB series. [Google]

CMap and CID Font Files Specification Version 1.0

Specs at Adobe for CMap, CID, useful for Chinese, for example. [Google]

CMEX Chinese Foundation for Digitization Technology

Chinese foundry. Its free fonts CMEXKai (2002) and CMEXSong (2004) are here. [Google]

CMUH.org

Taiwanese site. The zip files have 18 full Chinese fonts, including a handwritten one. [Google]

CN Balloons

Archive with five full Chinese/Japanese fonts. [Google]

CNA

Information on viewing Chinese characters for all platforms, with appropriate font links. [Google]

CNS11643

Chinese site which has a free full Chinese font, EBAS (2004), handwritten and using old-style Chinese glyphs. [Google]

ComStar: Chinese Font Software

Lots of Chinese font software sold here. [Google]

Corel 13 CD: CJK fonts

The CJK fonts on the Corel 13CD, all by DynaLab, made in 1997: DFGothic-EB, DFGothic-SU, DFGothic-UB, DFGyoSho-Lt, DFKGothic-Bd, DFKGothic-Md, DFKMincho-Bd, DFKMincho-Md, DFKaiSho-Lt, DFKaiSho-Md, DFKaiSho-SB, DFKaiSho-UB, DFKoIn-W4, DFKyoKaSho-W4, DFLeiGaSo-W9, DFMaruGothic-Bd, DFMaruGothic-Lt, DFMaruGothic-Md, DFMaruMoji-SL, DFMaruMoji-W9, DFMincho-SU, DFMincho-UB, DFMincho-W5, DFPOP1-SB, DFPOP1-W12, DFPOP1-W3, DFPOP1-W5, DFPOP1-W9, DFPOP2-W12, DFPOP2-W9, DFRuLei-W5, DFRuLei-W7, DFSinSo-W3, DFSoGei-W7, DFSoKing-W3, DFSumo-W12, DFTFLeiSho-W5, DFTFLeiSho-W7, DFTFLeiSho-W9. [Google]

CTC Taiwan

Chinese font archive: tt1, tt13, tt2, tt201f, tt202f, tt203a, tt205a, tt205f, tt207f, tt208c, tt208d, tt208f, tt30, tt39, tt40, tt43, tt44, tt45, tt9, ttc5, ttmb001, ttmb002, ttmb009, ttmb013. [Google]

CTC Taiwan

Truetype font archive. Has MSMincho, MSGothic, LucidaSansUnicode, the standard Latin font sets, the Microsoft collection, many Letraset fonts (JokermanLetPlain, JokermanAltsLetPlain, JohnHandyLetPlain, OrangeLetPlain, AcademyEngravedLetPlain, UniversityRomanLetPlain, UniversityRomanAltsLetPlain, VictorianLetPlain, MilanoLet, SmudgerLetPlain, SmudgerAltsLetPlain, WestwoodLetPlain, RuachLetPlain, RageItalicLetPlain, LaBambaLetPlain, QuixleyLetPlain, PumpDemiBoldLetPlain, TirantiSolidLetPlain, MekanikLetPlain, OneStrokeScriptLetPlain, HighlightLetPlain, OdessaLetPlain), and the Chinese fonts InnMing-Medium, GBInnMing-Medium, MingtiEG-Light-SJIS, MingtiEG-Medium-KSC, Sshlinedraw, DFKaiShu-SB-Estd-BF, New-Gulim (this one is a full Unicode font for all languages). [Google]

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]

cwTeX

cwTeX: TeX for Chinese. This is the jump page with links to software and sources, including many Chinese fonts. [Google]

cwTeX Developement Group

Chinese font development group which made these Chinese faces in 2003: CWTEX-BB, CWTEX-F, CWTEX-K, CWTEX-M, CWTEX-R. Download here. [Google]

CWTTF
[Tsong-Min Wu]

Some Taiwanese Free Software Foundation supporters designed a number of free Chinese truetype fonts under the guidance of Edward J. Lee between 1999 and 2005. People involved include Tsong-Min Wu and Tsong-Huey Wu. As of 2005, the fonts are cwTeXFangSong, cwTeXHeiBold, cwTeXKai, cwTeXMing, cwTeXYen. All fonts cover Chinese, Korean and Latin as well. The project is part of CLE (Chinese GNU/Linux Extensions) located in Taiwan. The fonts are especially useful with cwTeX. [Google]

David Prager Branner

Director of the Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork. Designer of these Mac fonts, which area avialable upon request: Neouiue Mac Font (based on the New York font) and Shyrbaw Mac Font (based on the Times font), both of which include Pinyin tone diacritics over vowels. His Longyan Mac Font is monowidth and can place any diacritic over any character (vowel or consonant). [Google]

David Prager Branner

Designer of the Neouiue Mac Font (based on the New York font), the Shyrbaw Mac Font (based on the Times font), and Longyan Mac Font (monowidth, places any diacritic over any character). All fonts include Pinyin tone diacritics over vowels and are available upon request. [Google]

Demo Co

Hong-Kong-based company which created several Chinese-themed dingbat fonts in 2001 and 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. [Google]

deva.net

Chinese truetype fonts: in TTF format, Wei, Wov, WS2, WL3, NTU-MM, NTU-Kai. In TTC format, MingLi. In BDF and PCF formats, many other fonts. Unfortunately, I am getting "permission denied" now. [Google]

Diabetes Australia Multilingual Fonts

Archive: -JS-Rapee (Thai), ER-Bukinist-1251 (Ukranian), Simsun (Chinese), NUTANU-Regular (Hindi), Times-New-Roman-Greek, VPS-Times (Vietnamese). [Google]

Dinc Type
[Diane DiPiazza]

Commercial and free fonts designed by Diane DiPiazza, who lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. Dinc closed its doors in January 2006 but returned some time later in 2006. Most of the fonts evoke the fifties. Wikipedia states: Diane DiPiazza was the first bass player for the The Misfits, although she does not appear on any album. She left the band, vacating the spot that was quickly filled by Jerry Only. Her name is often incorrectly spelled Diane DiPiaza. Growing up in Lodi, New Jersey, she was a friend of Glenn Danzig, the founder of the Misfits. The first lineup consisted of Glenn on vocals and electric piano, Diane on bass guitar, Jimmy Battle on guitar and Manny Martínez on drums. On the Cough/Cool single, The Misfits first release, she is the Diane who Glenn thanks on the sleeve. Diane DiPiazza is an artist. She is a type designer who distributes free fonts and vintage black and white line art at dinc! She is art director at mystifyinglyGLADdesign, who designs for the web, clothing, and packaging. She designs hand screened gig posters and many other forms of rock 'n roll art, retro art, modern art. A collector of vintage design elements, her style has been called retro/modern. Diane also creates custom hand stamped silver jewelry as well as a line of tattoo inspired pieces. She is in the process of recording a demo LP with the working title Last Year's Fab Rave, on which she plays all the instruments, including bass. Free fonts include Bobo, Dilettante, Modern-Love, Note-To-Self, Plastic-U, Post-No-Bills, Road-Crew, Saturdays-Girl, Sleeptalk, Sugaree, Mod Guitars (2007), Woof Squared (2007), Hatcheck (2007), Mess Kit (2007), Billy Dolls (2007), Knitwits (2007), Claim to Fame (2007), Girlfriend (2007), Book of Joe (2007), Joybuzzer (2007, rough outline), Autos (2007, old typewriter), U Better (2007), The Con (2007), Claim to Fame (2007), Girlfriend (2007), Book of Joe (2007), Ahmet (2007), Road Crew (2006, rough stencil), DINC (2006, blackletter), Post No Bills (2006, stencil), Ashtrays&Art (2006), Neat Neat Neat (2005), Shut Up (2005), Hello Hey Joe (2005), Wings For wheels (2005), Trustmaker (2005), Bad To Me (2005), BellBottomBlues (2005), DinkyToy (2005), Funkhouse (2005), Rodeoboy (2005), SaturdaysGirl (2002), SoWhat (2004), Blue Monday (2005), Betcha By Golly Wow (2005), Nathaniel (2005, blackletter), Brillo Blue (2005), Doctor My Eye (2005), Guilt For Dreaming (2005), Rhyming Bells (2005), Bob's Your Uncle (2005), Princess Jasmine (2005), 45 (2005), Seven (2005), 7-7000 (2005), Ahmet (2005), Alexei (2005), Boxer (2005), Cinema Aisles (2005), Divine Intervention (2005), Synchronicity (2005), Tangled Up In Blue (2005), Tjinder (2005), Untrue (2005), Special Edition 6 (2005), 20,000 Roads (2005), Big Diamonds (2005), Charly Baltimore (2005), Dream (2005), Fever In The Funkhouse (2005), Green & Blue (2005), Ring Ring (2005), Swoop Swoop (2005), Fuzzbox (2004; not to be confused with Bragagna's pre-2004 font by the same name), Ace In The Hole (2004), Balls (2004), The Christmas Font (2004), Beau Geste (2004), ByeBye (2004), Heart (2004), Loverboy (2004), Sycophant (2004), The Comedians (2004), Fishboy (2004), Truth (2004), King Me (2004), Snapper (2004), Blue Heaven (2004), Oceans Eleven (2004), Fresh Fish Seven (2004), Trason (2004), Your Type (2004), Da Doo Ron Ron (2004), Big Flirt (2004), Dicky Dee (2003), Boxtop (2004), Satellites (2004), Upsmack (2004), Starry (2004), Silicon Chip (2004), Howdy (2004), Grandpa Boy (2004), Scarlet Letter (2004), Capsule (2004), Doggy (2004), Little Eden (2004), Frank Mills (2004), Chewtoy (2004), Jez (2004), OneWitU (2004), BrineShrimp (2004), Joe College (2004, pixel face), stj-fro (2004), One Inch Rock (2004, pixel face), Black Hole (2004), Ya Ya Baby (2004), Blondie (2004), ShaLaLa (2004), Lower Eastside (2004), GeeWhiz (2004), Sixteen (2004), Joe Strummer (2004), Amy Johnson (2004), JoJo (2004), JodiGirl (2004), Zelda (2004), Hipster (2004), LaDolceVita (2004), LittleLove (2004), Mod (2004), MrEarl (2004), Noveltease (2004), QBats (2004), Ranger (2004), Rhymes (2004), BarkingDog (2004), BFBigmouth (2004), BooHoo (2004), Chance (2004), CowardSquared (2004), Cupid (2004), DincCorona (2004), FiftyFive (2004), FunkyBut (2004), Gamble (2004), HelloHello (2004), IdiotWind (2004), JimmyCap (2004), Luck (2004), Metropolitan (2004), MidnightKiss (2004), Mine (2004, letters in hearts), PerfectCouple (2004), Resolution (2004), Spitball (2004), StencilMeIn (2004), TypeToyNight (2004), YrChickens (2004), 11592003 (2003), 2004 (2003), BrokenPromise (2003), DincCorona (2003), DoublyBlessed (2004), EchoPark (2003), FiftyFive (2003), Fishing (2003), FunkyBut (2003), HelloHello (2003), Hoboken (2003), InstantKarma (2003), Integrity (2003), KaseyMac (2003), MidnightKiss (2003), PeppermintLump (2003), Resolution (2003), StencilMeIn (2003), ThreeCubicFeet (2003), TypeToyNight (2003), Crybaby (2003), DeepDark (2003), MajorLift (2003), Mikes (2003), MinorFall (2003), Beeper (2003), Kate (2003), Blacktop (2003), Def Caroline (2003), EZ Bake (2003), JoJo (2003), Kima (2003), Bait (2003), Dreamgirl (2003), Sugar Daddy (2003), Friday (2003), Birth of the True (2003), Soul Deep (2003), Virginia Plain (2003), Feelin' Groovy, Sunday SF, Socks, Boy Toy and Sweet Potato (2003), FunnyValentine, Laura, LonelyFrog, Pati (2003), BrokenDoll, Placemats, Satori, Scout, ThousandLies, ThousandOceans (2003), GetTheeGone (2003), Promises (2003), Rudeboy (2003), YuppieFraud (2003), Emmanuel (2002), Strummer (2002), Teardrops (2002), Busterboy (2002), Evergreen (2002), Blulite (202), Respect (2002), Pretty Baby (2002), Hickory Wind (2002), Chelsea Boys (2002), Femme Fatale (2002), Tour de Lance (2002), Peppermint Lump (2002), Ce La Luna! Nous (2002), El Goodo (2002, pixel font), Big Boy (2002), Farfallena (2002), Life On Mars (2002), Saturn Return (2002), GeeWhiz (2002), Train in Vain (2002), Massive Blur (2002), Lonely Planet Boy (2002), Littlebits, Secretarial Pool, Eight Bits, Firefly, Fluff, Startone, Cupcake, Diet Dr. Creep, Dr. Creep, messaround, Pencilbox, Crush No 47, Crush No 49, and Dialtone. Mac and PC. Plus Starry F. Hope (1997) at Chank's site. Commercial fonts: Booboy (2001), Ingigo (2001, script font), Rufus (2001: four pixel/bitmap fonts), Chinese Symbols: Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Boxtop Fontset, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Lovelight, Moonlight, Sunlight, YaYa, Alvin, Amplifier, BigBeatBold, BigBox, Bit-Thing, Boxboy, Chatterbox, Chinatown (oriental simulation), Chopsticks, Console, Cup O'Joe, dincBATS, dincINK, Dinette, DincINK (1998), Dixie, Dreamboat, Duojet, Esquire, Fireball, Flashlight, FourWay, Geebot, gomer, goober, Highball, Homework, jacks, Jetage, Jetage Hi-Fi, Jetage Lo-Fi, Kingbats, Light Series, Loverboy, Moondog, Mister Lee, Mr. Big Stuff, PaperTiger, Pipeline, Popstar, Pushpop, Recordhop, Rocketship, Roundup, Rubberduck, Satellite, Scripto, SquareBox, SquareCircle, Speedometer, Starlite, Sugar, Swizzle, Thinman, transistor, TwinTone, Ultramatic, Variable Videobox, W. Square, Wash&Wear, Whatnot, Winky, Yin Yang, Tight Toy Night, Funtime, OCRDINC01 and 02 (OCR-like fonts). Latest commercial fonts: Whirlwind, Gaslight, Love, Captain, Funtime, FiFi, Fakebook, FlameJob, OCRDINC, Tight Toy Night, Swingbats, Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, YaYa, Boxtop Fontset, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Moonlight, Sunlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Hotrod (2001), Iceberg (2001), Gutterball (2001), Homewrecker (2001), Bubba (2001), Starry Night (2001), Lady Luck (2001), Automobile (2001), Hydromatic (2001), Seventeen (2001), Whirlwind (2001), Gaslight (2001), Love (2001), Captain (2001), Swingbats (2001), FiFi (2001), Flamejob (2001), Fakebook (2001), Madness (2001), Apple Scruffs, Marmalade (2002), Queen of Corona (2002), Cupcake (2002), Starry Eyes (2002), Juice (2002), Fivebits (2002, pixel font), Matchbox, Hot Burrito #3, Fishsticks, Eightbits (pixel font), FoolsGold, Drive, Sleepwalk (2002), Icecube, Pruneface, Witness 2HB, Zerogirl (stencil font, 2002), Fairytale of New York, Levi Stubb's Tears (2002), AllModCons (2002), Babylon (2002), BigBoy (2002), ChampsElysees (2002), ConcreteandClay (2002), ElGoodo (2002), Farfallena (2002), Heroes&Villains (2002), LifeOnMars (2002), LittleRamona (2002), MerseyBeat (2002), MetalGuru (2002), Missile (2002), OnYourBike (2002), Pinup (2002), Reconnez (2002), SaturdaysGirl (2002), SaturnReturn (2002), ShepherdsBush (2002), Tatum (2002), TiniestDancer (2002), TumbinDice (2002), VeraGemini (2002), YesterMe (2002), Rising (2002), Treason (2002), Monami Vrai (2002), Robot Girl (2002), Tattooed Sailor (2002), Sunrise (2002), Midnight (2002), Kakadu (2002), Ana (2002), Ace (2002), Yobbo (2002, dot matrix font), GoGo (2002, pixel font), Waltzing Matilda (2002), Memorial Day 911 (2002), Good Riddance (2002), Boys (2002), One Tin Soldier (2002), One After 909 (2002), Joey (2002), Infidelities (2002). Working on a font for Fountain. Some of her fonts can be bought at SnapFonts. [Google]

dmtr40in

Chinese outfit which has the copyright to XLinSans (2003). [Google]

Download HappyChina

A Chinese truetype font, Simkai. [Google]

Dragonfly

Downloads of many truly free font packages for all languages. Besides the Ghostscript type 1 collection, the free CharterBT fonts, and the Utopia, Luxi and Courier series, we find these truetype fonts: 09t@, AndaleMono, Antiqu@rk, Arial-Black, Arial-BoldItalicMT, Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, ArialMT, Baekmuk-Batang, Baekmuk-Dotum, Baekmuk-Gulim, Baekmuk-Headline, Bandal, BitstreamCyberBase-Roman, BitstreamVeraSans-Bold, BitstreamVeraSans-BoldOblique, BitstreamVeraSans-Oblique, BitstreamVeraSans-Roman, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Bold, BitstreamVeraSansMono-BoldOb, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Oblique, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Roman, BitstreamVeraSerif-Bold, BitstreamVeraSerif-Roman, BousungEG-Light-GB, ComicSansMS-Bold, ComicSansMS, CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT, CourierNewPS-BoldMT, CourierNewPS-ItalicMT, CourierNewPSMT, Eunjin, GBZenKai-Medium, GeometricSlab703BT-Light, GeometricSlab703BT-LightItalic, Georgia-Bold, Georgia-BoldItalic, Georgia-Italic, Georgia, Impact, LuxiMono-Bold, LuxiMono-BoldOblique, LuxiMono-Oblique, LuxiMono, LuxiSans-Bold, LuxiSans-BoldOblique, LuxiSans-Oblique, LuxiSans, LuxiSerif-Bold, LuxiSerif-BoldOblique, LuxiSerif-Oblique, LuxiSerif, Kochi-Gothic, Kochi-Mincho, Ongdalsam, Sazanami-Gothic-Regular, Sazanami-Mincho-Regular, ShanHeiSun-Light, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPSMT, Trebuchet-BoldItalic, TrebuchetMS-Bold, TrebuchetMS-Italic, TrebuchetMS, UnBatang-Bold, UnBatang, UnBom, UnDotum-Bold, UnDotum, UnGraphic-Bold, UnGraphic, UnGungseo, UnJamoBatang, UnJamoDotum, UnJamoNovel, UnJamoSora, UnPen, UnPenheulim, UnPilgi-Bold, UnPilgi, UnShinmun, UnTaza, UnYetgul, Verdana-Bold, Verdana-BoldItalic, Verdana-Italic, Verdana, Webdings, ZenKai-Medium. They cover European, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. [Google]

Driv

Malaysian-born graphic designer (b. 1983), who works out of Shanghai. Behance link. In 2009, he created the experimental grungy typeface Between Skin for issue No.6 of Territory magazine, in collaboration with Chris Wong [Google]

DynaComware Corp

Taiwan-based foundry involved in the production of both Chinese and Japanese fonts. It made fonts such as Lihei Pro (2003, for Chinese, which can be downloaded here), DFP Kantei Ryu, DFP Reisho.

Linotype sells these (incomplete list): DF Brush Japanese Font Family, DF Bu Ding Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Bun Cho Min Japanese Font Family, DF Cai Dai Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Craft Japanese Font Family, DF Dan Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF En En Japanese Font Family, DF En Kai Japanese Font Family, DF Fang Yuan Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ga Gei Japanese Font Family, DF Gan Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gang Bi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Glide Japanese Font Family, DF Go Hitu Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gyo Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF H G Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Hai Bao Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Hei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Hibi Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Hibi Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Horror Japanese Font Family, DF Jin Wen Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF K Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Ka Gei Japanese Font Family, DF Kai Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Kaku Pop Japanese Font Family, DF Kaku Tai Hi Japanese Font Family, DF Kann Tei Ryu Japanese Font Family, DF Kann Ting Liu Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ken Ryu Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Ki Sou Kyu Japanese Font Family, DF Kin Bun Japanese Font Family, DF Ko Tai O Hi Japanese Font Family, DF Kyo Geki Japanese Font Family, DF Kyo Sui Japanese Font Family, DF Lei Ga So Japanese Font Family, DF Li Jin Hei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Long Men Simplified Chinese Font Family, DFK Mincho Korean, DF Naughty Japanese Font Family, DF Neko Maru Japanese Font Family, DF PenJi Japanese Font Family, DF POP 1 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP 2 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP 3 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP Mix Japanese Font Family, DF Ren Ren Japanese Font Family, DF Renga Japanese Font Family, DF Ribon Japanese Font Family, DF Script Li Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Miao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Er Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Hsiu Traditional Chinese Font Family,, Liu Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Tsai Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Ya Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Yun Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Chu Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Mo Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Pao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Tou Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Qiao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Shao Nv Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Shi Yi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Shou Jin Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF So Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Song Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF SP Lei Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Star Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Std Kai Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Std Song Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Stick Japanese Font Family, DF Tan Li Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Taru Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Tegaki Warabe Japanese Font Family, DF Toge Pop Japanese Font Family, DF Wa Wa Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Wie Bei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ya Song Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF YaYi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Yu Ga So Japanese Font Family, DF Yuan Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Zong Yi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Zou Kei Japanese Font Family. [Google]

DynaComware downloads

This Chinese font archive carries part of the DynaComware collection. See also here and here. The latter link has these DynaComware fonts: DFBangShuStd-W8, DFBiaoKaiShuStd-W5, DFBiaoSongStd-W4, DFCaiDaiStd-W7, DFDouDouStd-W3, DFDouDouStd-W5, DFFangSongStd-W2, DFFangSongStd-W4, DFFangSongStd-W6, DFFangYuanStd-W7, DFGangBiStd-W2, DFGirlStd-W3, DFGirlStd-W5, DFGirlStd-W7, DFGuYinStd-W5, DFHaiBaoStd-W12, DFHaiBaoStd-W9, DFHeiStd-W12, DFHeiStd-W3, DFHeiStd-W5, DFHeiStd-W7, DFHeiStd-W9, DFHuaZongStd-W5, DFHuiZongStd-W5, DFJinWenStd-W3, DFKaiShuStd-W3, DFKaiShuStd-W5, DFKaiShuStd-W7, DFKaiShuStd-W9, DFKanTingLiuStd-W9, DFKangKaiStd-W5, DFKuoTaiBeiStd-W4, DFLiHeiStd-W3, DFLiHeiStd-W5, DFLiHeiStd-W7, DFLiKaiShuStd-W5, DFLiKingHeiStd-W8, DFLiShuStd-W3, DFLiShuStd-W5, DFLiShuStd-W7, DFLiSongStd-W3, DFLiSongStd-W5, DFLiSongStd-W7, DFLiYuanStd-W7, DFLiYuanStd-W8, DFLianLianStd-W2, DFLianLianStd-W4, DFLiuLiStd-W5, DFLiuLiStd-W7, DFLiuXianStd-W3, DFLiuYeStd-W3, DFLungMenStd-W9, DFMingStd-W12, DFMingStd-W3, DFMingStd-W5, DFMingStd-W7, DFMingStd-W9, DFMoStd-W9, DFNewChuanStd-W5, DFOYangXunStd-W5, DFPOP1Std-W5, DFPOP1Std-W7, DFPOP1Std-W9, DFPOP2Std-W9, DFPOP3Std-W12, DFPuDingStd-W12, DFPuDingStd-W7, DFShiYiStd-W5, DFSoZingStd-W3, DFSuMoStd-W12, DFTanKaiStd-W5, DFTanLiStd-W5, DFTanLiStd-W7, DFTieXianStd-W3, DFTongTongStd-W3, DFWZMingStd-W4, DFWaWaStd-W5, DFWaWaStd-W7, DFWeiBeiStd-W7, DFXingKaiStd-W5, DFXingShuStd-W5, DFYaYiStd-W6, DFYanKaiStd-W5, DFYanKaiStd-W7, DFYanKaiStd-W9, DFYeaSongStd-W9, DFYingHeiStd-W7, DFYuanStd-W12, DFYuanStd-W3, DFYuanStd-W5, DFYuanStd-W7, DFYuanStd-W8, DFYuanStd-W9, DFYuanYuanStd-W2, DFYuanYuanStd-W4, DFZongKaiStd-W7, DFZongYiStd-W5, DFZongYiStd-W7, DFZongYiStd-W9. [Google]

DynaFont

Major producer of Chinese and Japanese fonts. Dynafont OpenType 127 Chinese Fonts (2006) is Dynafont's latest OpenType Chinese font package with 127 fonts. It retails for 200 USD. see also here. [Google]

DynaFonts 98

"DynaFonts 98, is an extensive font package (7 CD's) containing 55 traditional and simplified Chinese True Type fonts (PC)." 150 USD. [Google]

DynaLab

Japanese company, selling Japanese and Chinese postscript fonts here. Example: 38 fonts for 2400 USD. Demo download page. See also here. The Corel 13 CD has these DynaLab CJK fonts, dated 1997: DFGothic-EB, DFGothic-SU, DFGothic-UB, DFGyoSho-Lt, DFKGothic-Bd, DFKGothic-Md, DFKMincho-Bd, DFKMincho-Md, DFKaiSho-Lt, DFKaiSho-Md, DFKaiSho-SB, DFKaiSho-UB, DFKoIn-W4, DFKyoKaSho-W4, DFLeiGaSo-W9, DFMaruGothic-Bd, DFMaruGothic-Lt, DFMaruGothic-Md, DFMaruMoji-SL, DFMaruMoji-W9, DFMincho-SU, DFMincho-UB, DFMincho-W5, DFPOP1-SB, DFPOP1-W12, DFPOP1-W3, DFPOP1-W5, DFPOP1-W9, DFPOP2-W12, DFPOP2-W9, DFRuLei-W5, DFRuLei-W7, DFSinSo-W3, DFSoGei-W7, DFSoKing-W3, DFSumo-W12, DFTFLeiSho-W5, DFTFLeiSho-W7, DFTFLeiSho-W9. [Google]

Easytone Fonts
[James E. Dew]

Pinyin fonts: Freeware fonts for writing romanized Mandarin Chinese using the standard four tone marks. EasyTone fonts are prepared by James E. Dew who works in Beijing's Tsinghua University. Included are 4KeyCourier and 4KeyTimesRoman. [Google]

Editions Alternatives

French publisher which has a nice series of books on writing. These include "Le Verbe géomètre Numérographies et écritures mathématiques" (Valère-Marie Marchand, 2004), "Lettres latines Rencontre avec des formes remarquables" (Laurent Pflughaupt), "Les alphabets de l'oubli Signes et savoirs perdus" (Valère-Marie Marchand), "Le Bruissement du calame Histoire de l'écriture arabe" (Sophia Tazi-Sadeq), and "Entre Ciel et Terre Sur les traces de l'écriture chinoise" (Shi Bo). [Google]

Edward G.J. Lee

Developer in Taiwan of the free GNU-license font family Wang (2004), which ontains a number of full Chinese fonts in all formats: HanWangWCL01, HanWangWCL02, HanWangWCL03, HanWangWCL04, HanWangWCL05, HanWangWCL06, HanWangWCL07, HanWangWCL08, HanWangWCL09, HanWangWCL10, HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangKaiMediumChuIn, HanWangMingMediumPoIn1, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn1, HanWangMingMediumPoIn2, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn2, HanWangMingMediumPoIn3, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn3, HanWangMingLight, HanWangMingMedium, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangYenLight, HanWangYenHeavy, HanWangHeiLight, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangLiSuMedium, HanWangFangSongMedium, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangZonYi, HanWangYanKai, HanWangShinSuMedium, HanWangCC02, HanWangCC15, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangGB06, HanWang-KaiBold-Gb5, HanWang-WeiBeiMedium-Gb5, HanWang-FangSongMedium-Gb5, HanWang-SinSongThin-Gb5. All these fonts were originally created by Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang of HtWang Graphics Laboratory. [Google]

Egg Lu

Chinese designer of the Chinese font Font Number (2006). Home page. [Google]

Epoch times

Links to many Chinese fonts. [Google]

Epoch Times

Chinese font links. [Google]

Fang Zheng Fonts

A collection of free Chinese fonts. For commercial versions, go . [Google]

figfonts-cjk 2.2-3

Chinese-Japanese-Korean fonts for figlet, a GNU Linux program by Francesco Tapparo. "Figlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters. It can create characters in many different styles and can kern and "smush" these characters together in various ways. Figlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the end of e-mail and Usenet messages. " Fonts included: Fang Song Ti, Song Ti, CNS, Jiskan 16, Hanglg16, Kanglm16. [Google]

Firefly Sung

In 2004, a Taiwanese OSS writer, Firefly, completed a new set of 12x16 bitmap fonts based on the four public domain Arphic fonts. He merged Traditional and Simplified Chinese glyphs and embedded the manually optimized bitmap fonts into a single TTF, which is known as fireflysung.ttf. It consists of 16976 glyphs. Download. [Google]

Fisher Virginia

Download Ming Liu (TrueType) for Chinese Traditional, MS Hei (TrueType) for Chinese Simplified, MS Song (TrueType) for Chinese Simplified, MS Gothic (TrueType) for Japanese, MS Mincho (TrueType) for Japanese. [Google]

Flash8.net

Chinese font archive that carries many Latin fonts as well. [Google]

FONT BANK

Font vendor located in Korea. It covers Latin (fonts by Adobe, Agfa, Bitstream, Emigre, FontFont, Garagefonts, ITC, Linotype-Hell, Monotype, T-26, URW, and others), Korean, Japanese (fonts by Morisawa, Dynalab and Fontworks), Chinese (FZ series fonts), Arabic (Kitabi LS, Lateefi LS, Nargisi LS), and Cyrillic. [Google]

FontChina

Chinese font archive. Seems dysfunctional. [Google]

Fontchu.com

Vietnamese site. It has an archive of Vietnamese, Korean, Latin, Chinese and Japanese fonts. [Google]

Font.cn

Type portal in China. [Google]

Font.com.cn

Chinese font archive. Alternate URL. [Google]

FONT.com.cn

Chinese font archive. [Google]

Fontcx

Chinese site that has an archive of both latin and Chinese fonts. [Google]

Font.Knowsky

Chinese type information site with a 2000-strong Latin font archive. Downloads not easy. [Google]

Fonts and font facilities supplied with ghostscript

Information on fonts in ghostscript. Discussed are the 35 free URW type 1 fonts, Basil Malyshev's Paradissa fonts for Computer Modern, the use of the Fontmap, the prfont.ps program for printing a sample sheet, the free Hanzi font (Chinese) by Jackson Technologies, the free Kanji type 1 fonts by Tetsurou Tanaka of the Department of Engineering, University of Tokyo, N. Glonty and A. Samarin's CM Cyrillic fonts, the bdftops (BDF font to type 1 font) conversion program, and many technical details. [Google]

Founder Corporation

Chinese foundry, also called the Beijing Founder Electronic Co., Ltd. (see elsewhere on this page), which produced fonts such as FZShuTi and FZYaoTi (1998) (download these here). Formerly Zhongyi. The following faces from 1998-1999 are here: FZBaoSong-Z04, FZBaoSong-Z04S, FZCaiYun-M09S, FZChaoCuHei-M10S, FZDaBiaoSong-B06S, FZDaHei-B02S, FZFangSong-Z02, FZFangSong-Z02S, FZFangSong-Z02T. This site has FZWeiBei-S03S (1998). Maybe the most complete collection is here: FZBaoSong-Z04, FZCaiYun-M09, FZChaoCuHei-M10, FZCuQian-M17, FZCuSong-B09, FZCuYuan-M03, FZDaBiaoSong-B06, FZDaHei-B02, FZFangSong-Z02, FZHei-B01, FZHei-B01S, FZHuPo-M04, FZHuaLi-M14, FZHuangCao-S09, FZKai-Z03, FZKangTi-S07, FZLiBian-S02, FZLiShu-II-S06, FZLiShu-S01, FZMeiHei-M07, FZNew-BaoSong-Z12, FZNew-ShuTi-S08, FZPangWa-M18, FZPingHe-S11, FZShaoEr-M11, FZShouJinShu-S10, FZShuSong-Z01, FZShuTi-S05, FZShuiZhu-M08, FZSong-III-Z05, FZSongHei-B07, FZSongYi-Z13, FZWeiBei-S03, FZXiDengXian-Z06, FZXiHei-I-Z08, FZXiQian-M15, FZXiShanHu-M13, FZXiYuan-M01, FZXiaoBiaoSong-B05, FZXingKai-S04, FZYaoTi-M06, FZYouXian-Z09, FZZhiYi-M12, FZZhongDengXian-Z07, FZZhongQian-M16, FZZhunYuan-M02, FZZongYi-M05. EU-HX (2001) contains Latin glyphs and symbols. See here for a direct download of the EU and FZ families. Founder Lanting TrueType 200 (125 dollars) is a package of 62 fonts. Small catalog. [Google]

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]

Frank Tang

Frank Tang on how to View Chinese/Japanese/Korean HTML with Netscape Communicator on US version of Windows 95 or NT. Has links to many Chinese, Japanese and Korean faces, and some downloadable fonts, such as a collection of Chinese truetype fonts from INDEED Information Computer Co. [Google]

FREELANG Fuentes

Spanish language site for various non-Latin language fonts. A sampling: Afus Deg Wfus 2 (for Berber), AlKatib1 (2001, an Arabic face by Naseem Amjad), Albanian, Alice_0 (Lao face by by Ngakham Southichack), LAOMAY_5 CHAREUNSILP (Lao face by by Soupasith Bouahom), Arial AMU (1999, Armenian face by Ruben Tarumian), BaltFrutigerLight, BaltHelveticaMedium, BaltNewCenturySchoolbookMedium, BaltOptimaMedium, BaltTiffanyMedium, BaltUniversityMedium, CarloAtor (1997, Arabic family by Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Caligraf-W, Ciula (1996, a Romanian face by Paul Hodor), Cursiv (Romanian), AnlongvillKhek, GabrialAtor (another Arab family by Timm Erickson), Gin, Greek (1993, by Peter J. Gentry & Andrew M. Fountain), HandSign (1993, Sam Wang), HFMassisShantNUnicode (1990-1994, an Armenian unicode face by BYTEC Computers and Massis Graphics), HONGKAD (1994, a family by Dr. Hongkad Souvannavong), IsmarBold, IsmarLight, Lakshmi, X000000A (1994, a lao face by Sith Bouahom), LAOMAY_2-CHAREUNSILP, Alice3Medium, Alice0Medium, Langagedessignes (1998, by Philippe and François Blondel), NorKirk (1997, a great Armenian face by Ruben Tarumian), NovaTempo (for Esperanto), Pazmaveb (for Armenian), ILPRumanianB100 (1996, by Charles J. Coker), Saysettha-Lao, Saysettha-LaoBold, SenzorgaAnhok, Timok, Tribuno, Turn-W, TimesUnicode, ArialAMU, PoliceTypeAPI (for Armenian), Cieszyn-Regular, PoojaNormal, Shibolet (1995, Hebrew), Shree-Ass-0552 (2000, by Modular InfoTech), Tudor-Semi-Lite, Webdunia, TimesNRCzech, TNRLiboriusVII (2001, a fully accented Times face by Libor Sztemon), GreatMoravia (2001 Libor Sztemon, Czechia), Johaansi-ye-Peyravi (2001, a full accent blackletter face by Libor Sztemon, Czechia), TimesNREuskaraEuransiEsperanto (2001, Libor Sztemon). [Google]

fzfont

About 45 full Chinese truetype fonts for Mac and PC. All fonts made by Founder in Beijing. The fonts with D.ttf in the name are incomplete. The "sea" and "zip" fonts are complete. They are GB encoded and come in two forms: Simplified (jianti, GB 2312-80, "S" in the name) and Traditional (fanti, GB/T 12345-90, "T" in the name) character sets. Some names: FZBaoSong-Z04S, FZCaiYun-M09S, FZCaiYun-M09T, FZChaoCuHei-M10S, FZChaoCuHei-M10T, FZCuHei-B03T, FZCuQian-M17S, FZCuQian-M17T, FZCuSong-B09S, FZCuSong-B09T, FZCuYuan-M03S, FZDaBiaoSong-B06S, FZDaBiaoSong-B06T, FZDaHei-B02S, FZFangSong-Z02S, FZFangSong-Z02T, FZGuLi-S12S, FZGuLi-S12T, FZHuangCao-S09S, FZKangTi-S07S, FZKangTi-S07S, FZKangTi-S07T, FZLiBian-S02S, FZLiBian-S02T, FZLiShu-II-S06S, FZLiShu-II-S06T, FZNew-BaoSong-Z12S, FZShouJinShu-S10T, FZShuiZhu-M08S, FZShuiZhu-M08T, FZYaoTi-M06S, FZYouXian-Z09T, FZZhunYuan-M02S. [Google]

GakuSoft

GakuSoft markets KingKanji, a free Japanese flashcard program for Windows.a Included are free Japanese, Chinese and Hangul fonts. [Google]

gangzou

Chinese truetype fonts [Google]

GB 2312 and GB 18030

The GB 2312-1980 character set standard represents Simplified Chinese characters. GB is short for Guojia Biaozhun, Chinese for national standard. GB 2312-1980 contains 7,445 characters, including 6,763 Hanzi and 682 Latin, symbol and punctuation characters. As additional extensions were added and the Unicode Standard expanded, GB character sets were updated accordingly. The most recent, GB 18030-2000, was introduced in to the Unicode Standard in 2000. It contains room for 1.6 million characters, can include one, two or four byte characters, and includes support for Mongolian, Tibetan, Yi, and Uyghur, as well as all previously supported Chinese scripts. The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) government requires that all language-related products introduced into the Chinese marketplace must be able to function using all the characters in GB 18030. [Google]

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]

gch

Interesting Taiwanese archive. [Google]

gnu.org

Chinese truetype fonts. And 20 MB worth of international bitmap fonts. The fonts at the latter link contain PCF and BDF sources, and some truetype and type 1 fonts. Among the bitmap (BDF) fonts: ISO8859 series 1 through 9 (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic), KOI8 (Cyrillic), Indic, Lao, Tibetan, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ethiopic, Arabic, IPA, Hebrew. Truetype: Latin-X fonts, Vietnamese (VISCII roman). Type 1: Latin-X fonts, Vietnamese (VISCII roman), Thai (TIS620), Thai National Font. The readme goes: "We greatly appreciate the contribution of Yannis Haralambous and Tereza Tranaka. They made free TrueType and Type1 fonts for Latin-X series, Thai, and Vietnamese. They will eventually make fonts for more character sets." The fonts are called OmegaSerif, and were made in 1999. Also included is the Thai National font Nf3, made by Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich in 1999. [Google]

GreatWall Computer Co

Chinese foundry which produced fonts such as KaiTi_GB2312 (1994) and FangSong_GB2312 (1994). Download these here or here. [Google]

grkj

Well over 300 full Chinese truetype fonts. Great page! Has a substantial Bitstream/URW archive as well. [Google]

gs-cjk

"The package distributed in this site provides the patches for gs6.50 to handle CJK (Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean) TrueType fonts as CID-keyed fonts and some improvements upon CID-keyed font handler in gs6.50. We also aim to add our results to the original Aladdin/Artifex ghostscript. " The developers are Toshiya Suzuki, Masatake Yamato, Taiji Yamada, Hideyuki Suzuki. [Google]

gynic.net

69 Chinese/Japanese truetype fonts. About 400MB in all. Slow page, but good quality fonts. Unfortunately, this server shut down. [Google]

Ham Fonts

MSGothic and MSMincho, as well as other fonts. [Google]

Hanyu Pinyin font
[Bryan Wagner]

Free high quality truetype Pinyin font by Bryan Wagner, 1999. [Google]

Hare Gon

Japanese commercial foundry related to Jikji Soft, Hanyang Systems and Yoon Design. Fonts:

  • From Jikji Soft (Korean): KRJBatang120, KRJBatang125, KRJBatang130, KRJBatang140, KRJBatang150, KRJBatang210, KRJBatang220, KRJHangSer, KRJSongMyung, KRJDotum110, KRJDotum130, KRJDotum135, KRJDotum140, KRJDotum150, KRJDotum230, KRJDokDo, KRJFreeTourM, KRJGMokPan, KRJJunEum, KRJKidM, KRJMokPan, KRJMyungMoon, KRJNonSquare2M, KRJNonSquareM, KRJORyoun, KRJRGra, KRJSatGat, KRJSeVal, KRJSunFlowerM, KRJTimeMachineM, KRJWallin.
  • From Hanyang Information & Communications Co: KRHYMokPTrace-Bold, KRHYMokPTrace-ExtraBold, KRHYMokPTrace-Medium, KRHYNamu-Bold, KRHYNamu-Light, KRHYNamu-Medium, KRHYPillGi-Light, KRHYPMokGak-Bold, KRHYPMokPan-Bold, KRHYPMokPan-Light, KRHYPop-Bold, KRHYPop-Light, KRHYPop-Medium, KRHYPost-Bold, KRHYPost-Light, KRHYPost-Medium, KRHYSam-Bold, KRHYSam-Light, KRHYSam-Medium, KRHYSan-Bold, KRHYSan-Light, KRHYSan-Medium, KRHYSeNse-Bold, KRHYSeNse-Light, KRHYSinGraPhic-Medium, KRHYTaJa-Bold, KRHYTaJa-Light, KRHYTaJa-Medium, KRHYTaJaFull-Bold, KRHYTaJaFull-Light, KRHYTaJaFull-Medium, KRHYTeBack-Bold, KRHYYeaSo-Medium, KRHYYeaSol-Bold, KRHYYeatGul-Bold, KRHYYeatGul-Medium, KRHYYoyo-Bold, KRHYYoyo-Light, KRHYYoyo-Medium, KRHYBackSong-Bold, KRHYBada-Bold, KRHYBada-Light, KRHYBada-Medium, KRHYBaram-Bold, KRHYBaram-Light, KRHYBaram-Medium, KRHYBuDle-Medium, KRHYBuwhaL-Bold, KRHYBuwhaL-Light, KRHYBuwhaL-Medium, KRHYChunjyin-A, KRHYChunjyin-B, KRHYCrystal-Bold, KRHYCrystal-Light, KRHYCrystal-Medium, KRHYCSWheysang-Bold, KRHYCSWheysang-ExtraBold, KRHYCSWheysang-Medium, KRHYDongNyuk-Bold, KRHYDongNyuk-Light, KRHYDongNyuk-Medium, KRHYGraPhic-Bold, KRHYGraPhic-Medium, KRHYHaeSo-Medium, KRHYInyoen-Bold, KRHYInyoen-Light, KRHYInyoen-Medium, KRHYKang-Bold, KRHYKang-Light, KRHYKang-Medium, KRHYKumgangsan-Bold, KRHYKumgangsan-ExtraBold, KRHYKumgangsan-Light, KRHYKumgangsan-Medium, KRHYMokGak-Bold, KRHYMokPan-Bold, KRHYMokPan-Light, KRHYGungSo-Bold, KRHYMyeongJo-Bold, KRHYMyeongJo-ExtraBold, KRHYMyeongJo-Light, KRHYMyeongJo-Medium, KRHYMyeongJo-Ultra, KRHYSinMun-MyeongJo, KRHYSinMyeongJo-Bold, KRHYSinMyeongJo-Medium, KRHYSooN-MyeongJo, KRHYGoThic-Bold, KRHYGoThic-ExtraBold, KRHYGoThic-Light, KRHYGoThic-Medium, KRHYHeadLine-Bold, KRHYHeadLine-Medium, KRHYKHeadLine-Bold, KRHYKHeadLine-Medium, KRHYRGoThic-Bold, KRHYRGoThic-Medium, KRHYSuPungSun-Bold, KRHYSuPungSun-ExtraBold, KRHYSuPungSun-Light, KRHYSuPungSun-Medium, KRHYTeGoThic-Bold, KRHYWulNunDo-Bold, KRHYWulNunDo-ExtraBold, KRHYWulNunDo-Light, KRHYWulNunDo-Medium.
  • From Yoon Design: KRYD-Mincho110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160; KRYD-Gothic110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 220, 230, 240, 250; KRYD-Yoon [B, M, L, UL]; KRYD-GamenB, KRYD-GamenM, KRYD-GamenL, KRYD-HawheB, KRYD-HawheM, KRYD-HawheL, KRYD-TogeB, KRYD-TogeM, KRYD-TogeL, KRYD-SapphireB, KRYD-SapphireM, KRYD-SapphireL, KRYD-KaisouB, KRYD-KaisouM, KRYD-KaisouL, KRYD-ChildB, KRYD-ChildM, KRYD-ChildL, KRYD-GyosonB, KRYD-GyosonM, KRYD-GyosonL, KRYD-TonboB, KRYD-TonboM, KRYD-TonboL, KRYD-KasasagiB, KRYD-KasasagiM, KRYD-KasasagiL, KRYD-DirtyB, KRYD-DirtyM, KRYD-DirtyL, KRYD-PanchiGo, KRYD-PanchiMin, KRYD-SaleB, KRYD-SaleM, KRYD-SaleL, KRYD-KakkouB, KRYD-KakkouM, KRYD-KakkouL, KRYD-KaiB, KRYD-KaiM, KRYD-KaiL, KRYD-YamabikoB, KRYD-YamabikoM, KRYD-YamabikoL, KRYD-ShosetsuB, KRYD-ShosetsuM, KRYD-ShosetsuL.
[Google]

Helena Ahlstrom Jole

Designer of the free fonts Helena'sHand (handwriting), and Scrapbook-Chinese (Chinese characters). Helena grew up in Ohio and graduated from Brigham Young University. [Google]

Hohi

Large Chinese font archive. FZ font subarchive. Many fonts from the Founder Corporation, for example. [Google]

Hong Feng

Researcher from CTUG, China. At TUG 2005 he explains howwavelets can be used in conjunction with Metafont/Metapost to design Chinese fonts. [Google]

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]

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]

HTMLCOM's Chinese and Kanji fonts

Bruce H. Liu. [Google]

HtWang Graphics Laboratory
[Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang]

Free Chinese fonts made by Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang from 2002-2004. The CLE project run by "Seventeen" and Edward G. J. Lee has resulted in a number of free Chinese truetype and type 1 fonts, listed below, with corresponding PostScript names: wt001 (HanWangMingLight), wt002 (HanWangMingMedium), wt003 (HanWangMingBold), wt004 (HanWangMingHeavy), wt005 (HanWangMingBlack), wt006 (HanWangYenLight), wt009 (HanWangYenHeavy), wt011 (HanWangHeiLight), wt014 (HanWangHeiHeavy), wt021 (HanWangLiSuMedium), wt024 (HanWangFangSongMedium), wt028 (HanWangKanDaYan), wt034 (HanWangKanTan), wt040 (HanWangZonYi), wt064 (HanWangYanKai), wt071 (HanWangShinSuMedium), wtcc02 (HanWangCC02), wtcc15 (HanWangCC15), wthc06 (HanWangGB06), wtg-06cut1 (HanWangGSolid06cut1), wp010-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn), wp110-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn1), wp210-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn2), wp310-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn3), wp010-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn), wp110-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn1), wp210-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn2), wp310-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn3), wts11 (HanWang KaiBold-Gb5), wts43 (HanWang WeiBeiMedium-Gb5), wts47 (HanWang FangSongMedium-Gb5 wts47 wts55 (HanWang SinSongThin-Gb5), WCL-01 (HanWangWCL01), WCL-02 (HanWangWCL02), WCL-03 (HanWangWCL03), WCL-04 (HanWangWCL04), WCL-05 (HanWangWCL05), WCL-06 (HanWangWCL06), WCL-07 (HanWangWCL07), WCL-08 (HanWangWCL08), WCL-09 (HanWangWCL09), WCL-10 (HanWangWCL10). This archive has HanWangCC02, HanWangCC15, HanWangFangSongMedium, HanWangGB06, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangHeiLight, HanWangKaiMediumChuIn, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangLiSuMedium, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingLight, HanWangMingMedium, HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangShinSuMedium, HanWangWCL01, HanWangWCL02, HanWangWCL03, HanWangWCL04, HanWangWCL05, HanWangWCL06, HanWangWCL07, HanWangWCL08, HanWangWCL09, HanWangWCL10, HanWangYanKai, HanWangYenHeavy, HanWangYenLight, HanWangZonYi. Some of the WCL fonts are also here. HanWangShinSuMedium is a nice brush script. HanWangFangSongMedium is a clean script. [Google]

Huatian Fonts

From the web page: "With the help of many experts, more than 100,000 Chinese characters have been collected in Huatian fonts. Of course the collected is the most complete in China, it include Chinese-traditional, Chinese-simplified, Chinese-dialectal, characters in popular form, slangy characters, variant form of characters, characters collected Taoist scriptures and the Chinese characters that popular in Japan, Singapore and Korea. Now, these characters have been made into TTF fonts and Huatian Super Multi-steps Curvilinear Structural Fonts(this fonts is the state patent of Hunan Huatian Information Industry Co., Ltd)." Freely downloadable fonts include HuaTianKaiTi (1999) and HuaTianSongTi (1999). [Google]

I Ching

A system of 8, and 8x8, binary-coded symbols dating back to 2800 BC in China. Example. [Google]

i-ching
[Wlodek Bzyl]

The i-ching package by Wlodek Bzyl contains I-Ching-Regular in type 1 format and various macros and TEX files. Author of The Tao of Fonts (TUGBoat, vol. 23, pp. 27-40, 2002, in which he explains about font design using Metafont and MetaPost. [Google]

IDV Taiwan

Free Chinese truetype fonts (the "Wang collection"): the WCL 1 through 10 fonts from 2003, as well as TSC FMing S TT (TwinBridge Software Corp. 1993-1998), and CCWTEX-BB, CWTEX-F, CWTEX-K, CWTEX-M and CWTEX-R, all by cwTeX Developement Group, 2003. [Google]

IDV Taiwan

Chinese font archive that includes DFTT-H6, FZCaiYun-M09T (Founder Corporation, 1997), dfft-s5, dftt-f5, dftt-k5, dftt-r7, tt1, tt10, tt11, tt12, tt14, tt16, tt17, tt18, tt19, tt21, tt22, tt31, tt36, tt42, tt43, tt45, tt47, tt50, tt9. [Google]

Indeed Information Computer

From Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, a company that sells Chinese (Big5) fonts. [Google]

INDEED Information Computer Co

Taiwanese company, where you can download four Chinese truetype fonts. [Google]

Internet Yellow Pages

Each of these fonts has about 50 Chinese characters: CFMINC1Normal, CFMINC2Normal, CFMINC3Normal, CFMINC4Normal, CFMINC5Normal, CFMINC6Normal, CFMINC7Normal. [Google]

IP98

Download a free Chinese truetype font, DFTT-H6. Font is gone! [Google]

IS X 0213:2004 vs Unicode mapping table
[T. Fujiwara]

Listing of glyphs with their Kuten, JIS, SJIS and Unicode numbers, as well as their Unicode names. [Google]

iTbulo

Chinese font archive. [Google]

ITP Berkeley

A 2MB file Fonts.zip has a full Unicode font FGGYM_0 (with Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Chinese), and the font Transistor. [Google]

Jackal

Two Chinese/Japanese fonts. [Google]

Japanese Fonts 01
[Hiroshi Utumi]

Links to free Japanese and Chinese fonts. Plus a free direct downloads, such as

[Google]

Jenny Lau Shi Ting

Designer of the handwriting face Jalligraphy01 (2004), created via Fontifier. She also made the handwritten Chinese face Jalligraphy02 this way. [Google]

J.J. Sun

From a user at Carnegie Mellon, a small truetupe archive (ChopinScript, CopperplateGothicBT-Bold, CopperplateGothic-Bold, CopperplateGothic-Light, Frosty, ScheherezadeRegularSwfte, FreebooterScript-Alts, FreebooterScript, Fairytale, LaurenScript, Scriptina, SheerGrace, SheerElegance, ChowFun, LibbyScript), and some free Chinese fonts in the HanDing-CS-Fonts series. [Google]

John Brandon Lowe

A consultant in Berkeley, CA, who created a font in 1993 for Tangut, an extinct Tibeto-Burman language written in an ideographic script of about 6,000 characters which superficially resembles Chinese, while he was a visiting researcher at Vakgroep Verglijkende Taalwettenschappen, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands. Co-developer in 1993 of the phonetic font STEDT, based on an original bitmap designed by Stephen P. Baron in the late eighties. [Google]

John Jenkins

Organizer of the font collection for the Unicode charts. He contributed the fonts for KangXi and the CJK radicals. [Google]

jscode.cn

Large Chinese font archive. Inconvenient multi-click downloads. [Google]

JUSTDN

Chinese font archive with these truetype fonts: FZSZJW--GB1-0 (Founder Corp., 1998), GSKA00H, FZHCJW--GB1-0 (Founder Corp., 1998), GPIL00U, FZZhongQian-M16T (Founder Corp., 1999), FZZhiYi-M12S (Founder Corp., 1999), FZZhongQian-M16S (Founder Corp., 1999), SimSun, HDZB_1, HDZB_4, HDZB_5, HDZB_25, HDZB_72, HDZB_79, GYAN00E, GYKG00U, JDFHCU, JQBSJT, LISHUSF, TPOP02B, TSIN00M, TTAK00B, MJ1GFM. There is also a small Latin truetype font archive with fonts from 04b. [Google]

K666

Large Chinese font archive that includes a few thousand Latin fonts. We find, for example, te entire enStep collection from 19097. On the Chinese side, several hundred full Chinese fonts, including about 100 fonts from Dynacomware. Other similar download sites include K666, vv66, 6ccc, 88gg, 88uu, 88qq, 7377, 66vv, vv66. [Google]

Karate Chinese Alphabet Page

Strange page with Chinese alphabet clip art and a Hanzi-Kaishu font (by Spring Systems Inc) in truetype. Page by Shihan Mike Skinner. [Google]

KBS Japan

Commercial type 1 fonts for Chinese (DLCHei, DLCSong, DLCKaishu, DLCFangSong, DLCZongYi, DLCWeiBei, GBYen, HeitiCSEG, TankuinEG, HeitiEG), Thai (DBErawan, DBFongNam, DBNarai, DBPradit), Hangul (HYGothic, HYTeGoThic, JCLIGHT, HYMyeongJo), Vietnamese (Vina family), Cyrillic (Vina, Helvetica, Newton), and Arab (Geezah, Nadeem, LotusTT, Yakoot, DedanAB). [Google]

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 (a font developed during his graduate studies at Reading for reading signs from afar or while driving) and DGSans. 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. [Google]

Kerinet

Korean site which has HYHaeSo-Medium (Korean), a broken stick Korean font called Sense, and Hanjabusu (limited character set Chinese). [Google]

Kimassiya

Asian font archive. Carries Dynafont, CREOFont, Vodafone Opentype, Ricoh Valuefonts, Osaka.ttc, and more. [Google]

LaTeX Navigator
[Denis Roegel]

General links on typography and fonts, compiled by Denis Roegel (with earlier contributions by Karl Tombre who is no longer involved). Very, very useful. This page contains, among other things:

  • METAFONT for Beginners (Geoffrey Tobin)
  • The METAFONT book (TeX source) (Donald E. Knuth)
  • How to Create Your Own Symbols in METAFONT and for use in LaTeX Documents (Richard Lin)
  • Milieu -- METAFONT and Linux: A Personal Computing Milieu (Thomas Dunbar)
  • Simple drawings with METAFONT (Zdenek Wagner)
  • Some METAFONT Techniques (article from TUGboat, 10 pages) (Yannis Haralambous)
  • List of all available Metafont fonts
  • Liam Quin's Metafont Guide (last version)
  • MetaFog: Converting METAFONT Shapes to Contours (Richard J. Kinch)
  • METAFONT source
  • Design of a new font family (slides) (Gerd Neugebauer) (1996)
  • PERL Module for reading .tfm files (Jan Pazdziora) (1997)
  • fig2mf (UNIX manual) (Anthony Starks)
  • bm2font (Friedhelm Sowa)
  • Essay on math symbols by Paul Taylor
  • drgen genealogical symbol font by Denis Roegel, 1996
  • Chess fonts
  • The Marvosym Font Package (Martin Vogels)
  • Eurosymbol, another font for the euro symbol
  • Lots of stuff on virtual fonts
  • P. Damian Cugley's Malvern (Greek) font
  • Yannis Haralambous's Omega project
  • DC and EC fonts by Joerg Knappen
  • Technical notes on Postscript fonts, and Postscript fonts in TEX
  • Computer Modern type 1 fonts
  • Articles on computer typography by Sebastian Rahtz, Aarno Hohti & Okko Kanerva, Richard J. Kinch, Basil K. Malyshev, Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Karl Berry, Victor Eijkhout, Vincent Zoonekynd, Tom Scavo, David Wright, Erik-Jan Vens, and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
  • Articles on mathematical symbol fonts
  • Links to essential pages for Cyrillic, Japanese, Berber, Khmer, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Indic, Syriac, Hebrew, Hieroglyphic, Tibetan, Mongolian, African fc
At FontStruct, he created Sixer (a pixel face) and Smallish (bold unicase). [Google]

Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

About four full Chinese truetype fonts, but the permissions were altered recently. [Google]

LGJ Font Notes
[Edward G.J. Lee]

Edward Lee's font information pages (in Chinese). Has useful technical discussions on Metafont, OpenType, Truetype and type 1. Downloadable full CJK fonts include cwHBMono (2008, Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu and Edward G.J. Lee). [Google]

Library Palooza
[Qianqian Fang]

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a huge unicode-compatible Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Latin (CJK) truetype font, available for free under the Gnu license. From the web page: The WenQuanYi Zen Hei font is a Chinese (or CJK) outline font with Hei Ti style (a sans-serif style) Hanzi glyphs. This font is developed for general purpose use of Chinese for formating, printing and on-screen display. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Latin, extended Latin, kana etc were merged from cmunss.ttf from the CM-Unicode project, and mplus-1p-medium.ttf from the M+ project. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi contributors and Qianqian Fang based on the bitmap fonts by firefly.
WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographics. This font provides full coverage to the required code points for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk and zh_mo locales. The total vector glyphs in this font is over 35000 including Latin characters, Japanese kanas, hanguls and symbols from many other languages.
Developers:

  • Qianqian Fang: Developer for online and off-line stroke decomposition software, server-side scripts and database, software for vector glyph generation, font creation and version control, all the spline Hanzi glyphs, document and tutorial contributors and release manager. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • Ailantian: key developer for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
  • Haitao Han, "twang467", and Qing Lei: key developers for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
Links: Chinese version, English version, Sourceforge project, Development site, User forum, Screenshot gallery, Firefly bitmap font, Qianqian Fang homepage, Chinese National Standard. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Google]

Lin Yü-Bingnan

Chinese-born graphic designer who studied in Leipzig, Germany in the early 1960's and graduated in 1962. He is credited with Freundschaft (Typoart, 1962) and Chinese Roman. These faces can be found in Jaspert's book and in Hildegard Korger's Handbook of Type and Lettering. [Google]

Linux 3JK

Free fonts, but slow downloads. We find AVLV and AVOV, two Chinese brush-style fonts. [Google]

Linuxhall

Free Chinese font: AR-PL-New-Sung (2004, Arphic Technology Co). [Google]

Livid.cn

Chinese archive: Gulim (Latin/Cyrillic/universal and Korean face by HanYang, 2000), Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro W4 (OTF by Dainippon, 2002), Hei (for Mac), Heiti (Chinese font by Changzhou SinoType Technology Co, 2002), Lihei Pro (Chinese font by DynaComware Corp, 2003). Also, the Luxi family. [Google]

Luluw

A 9.5MB file with MSGothic and MSMincho. [Google]

Luon.net

Custom fonts made by Martin Majoor for Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in 1999. In truetype: TUELogosVLBold, TUELogosVL, TUEMeta-Book, TUEMeta-Medium, TUEMetaWide, TUEScala-BoldItalic, TUEScala-Bold, TUEScala-Italic, TUEScala. [Google]

Macau Yellow Pages

Download the CFMIN family (seven partial Chinese fonts). [Google]

MacCampus Pinyin

Chinese transliteration fonts for the Mac (Pinyin fonts): SinoFont 02 therough 07. [Google]

Macintosh Chinese Page

Has the AddTones font for the Mac developed by Patrick Edwin Moran. For Pinyin. [Google]

Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks2

Chinese font links. A great resource brought to you by Marjorie Chan at Ohio State. [Google]

Maynard Chen

Designer of a Pinyin font as part of the Mishu-Wuhan Desk Accessory demo for Macs that was available for downloading at UCSD's Multilingual FTP Site. [Google]

Microsoft

Chinese fonts bundled with various Microsoft products:

  • Unicode: Arial Unicode MS, DFKai-SB, PMingLiU, MingLiU, PMingLiU-ExtB, MingLiU-ExtB, SimSun-ExtB.
  • GBK encoding: SimHei, SimSun, NSimSun.
  • GB18030 encoding: KaiTi, FangSong.
  • GB2312 encoding: FangSong_GB2312, KaiTi_GB2312.

The Office 2000/XP/2003 Proofing Tools (and Chinese editions) include the same set of 14 additional fonts, as follows: for the GBK character set: LiSu, YouYuan, STXihei, STKaiti, STSong, STZhongsong, STFangsong; for the GB 2312 and GB/T character sets: FZShuTi, FZYaoti; for the GB 2312 character set: STCaiyun, STHupo, STLiti, STXingkai, STXinwei. The Office XP/2003 Proofing Tools (and Chinese editions) also include the font SimSun (Founder Extended, 2001), which contains over 64,000 hanzi, including most of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block. [Google]

Microsoft: Chinese

Microsoft fonts for Chinese include Microsoft YaHei and Microsoft JhengHei. [Google]

Microsoft fonts for Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Someone posted this on alt.binaries.fonts. To obtain a free Japanese TrueType font from Microsoft: (1) run Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE); (2) go to any web page; (3) change the View menu / Encoding item to Japanese; and (4) wait for several megabytes to download. Use the same procedure for Chinese or Korean. Microsoft has a web page for these downloads. Search for the keywords "Chinese", "Japanese", or "Korean" (without the quotes) on the http://office.microsoft.com/ web site. You want the "language pack" downloads. These pages often move, but recently were: Japanese (2557 KB with the "MS Gothic" font), Korean (1985 KB with the "GulimChe" font), Simplified Chinese (2561 KB with "MS Hei" and "MS Song" fonts), Traditional Chinese (3541 KB with the "MingLiU" font). [Google]

Min Wang

Min Wang (1913-2007) studied graphic design with Armin Hoffman, Paul Rand, and Bradbury Thompson at Yale, where he later joined the faculty. He worked in the Creative Services division at Adobe, and 1998 started the firm Square Two Design with Eddie Lee. Clients included IBM, Intel, Stanford University, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. At Adobe, he designed the mythical figure caps face Mythos (together with Jim Wasco). [Google]

MingLiu

One of the many places where one can download the free Chinese TTC fonts MingLiu and MingLiuB. See also here. [Google]

MinLiu

Minliu Chinese CJK truetype font: 4MB, free. [Google]

MIT Taiwan

Chinese font archive: From Arphic, we find LinGothic and STDSunEG-Heavy (Big 5). Also, U2030. [Google]

moe kai

Chinese TrueType font moe_kai.ttf (8.77MB). And software (cb2tt) for creating Chinese TrueType fonts from bitmap fonts. [Google]

Mojikyo English Page

The Mojikyo Institute is in Yokohama, Japan. Its goal is to produce free universal tools for Japanese, Chinese and Korean word processing and typesetting. Several tens of complete fonts are already finished, in all possible font formats (truetype, type 1, metafont). "Mojikyo is the newest kind of software for Chinese Character word-processing. More than 80,000 character fonts have been built in Mojikyo. So, everyone in the world can use any font of Mojikyo, free of charge. Moreover, if you want to use Chinese Character which cannot be found in Mojikyo Internet fonts, you can ask us to make new character provided that you inform us the source(s) of the character. We make them, and put them on our Home Page free of charge for public use." Truetype fonts for Chinese and Japanese characters: The Mojikyo fonts are Japanese Shift-JIS-encoded fonts for the 48,902 Chinese characters in the Morohashi dictionary, along with tens of thousands of additional characters. Each character is assigned a six-digit Mojikyo number. The Morohashi characters are contained in fonts M101-109. Fonts M110 and above contain characters not in Morohashi. These include, for example, oracle-bone characters [M117-118], Siddham [M119-121], and Tangut [M202-203]. Mojikyo Windows truetype fonts. TEX-specific download page. More on this truetype set of fonts named Mojikyo-M101, Mojikyo-M102, Mojikyo-M103, Mojikyo-M104, Mojikyo-M105, Mojikyo-M106, Mojikyo-M107, Mojikyo-M108, Mojikyo-M109, Mojikyo-M110, Mojikyo-M111, Mojikyo-M112, Mojikyo-M113, Mojikyo-M114, Mojikyo-M115, Mojikyo-M116, Mojikyo-M117, Mojikyo-M118, Mojikyo-M119, Mojikyo-M120 and Mojikyo-M121 here. [Google]

Monotype

Chinese fonts at Monotype Imaging:


Chinese - (Simplified - Mainland)

Font Name

Character Set

Encoding

MHeiMedium

Simplified Hanzi

GB

MKaiMedium

Simplified Hanzi

GB

MSungLight

Simplified Hanzi

GB

MSungS-Medium-U

Simplified Hanzi

Unicode

MHeiS-Bold-U

Simplified Hanzi

Unicode

MSungS-Light-U

Simplified Hanzi

Unicode

MHeiS-Medium-U

Simplified Hanzi

Unicode


Chinese - (Traditional)

Font Name

Character Set

Encoding

MHei-Medium

Traditional Hanzi

Big Five

Mkai-Medium

Traditional Hanzi

Big Five

Msung-Light

Traditional Hanzi

Big Five

MSungUGL-Light

Both Radicals

Unicode

MSungT-Light-U

Traditional Hanzi

Unicode

MSungT-Medium-U

Traditional Hanzi

Unicode

MHeiT-Medium-U

Traditional Hanzi

Unicode

MHeiT-Bold-U

Traditional Hanzi

Unicode


[Google]

Monotype

Monotype sells fonts for the following languages: Amharic, Aksara Kaganga, Arabic, Armenian, Balinese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Coptic, Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi/Nepali), Farsi, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gujerathi, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hebrew, Japanese, Javanese, Jawi, Kannada, Korean, Laotian, Lontarak, Malayalam, Old Bulgarian, Oriya, Pushto, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Surat Pustaha, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese. [Google]

Monotype's East Asian Stroke Font Set

Monotype states: Traditional Asian TrueType fonts require megabytes of storage too much for most memory-restricted or low-resolution devices. Yet, storage requirements can be reduced 90 percent or more using our stroke-based fonts. For example, a standard GB 2312 Simplified Chinese TrueType font with 7,663 characters is about 2.7 MB. Our stroke font equivalent is under 250 KB. Cell phones, set-top boxes, PDAs, most other wireless devices and even operating systems benefit from stroke-based fonts. Our fully scalable stroke-based fonts consist of composite strokes or graphemes. These simple shapes appear as pen strokes or lines and are used repeatedly to build complex East Asian characters. Graphemes offer huge storage savings. The same graphemes are used to construct various characters that can add up to thousands in a single font. Another major advantage lies in the technologys simplicity: less than half the number of points are needed to render characters much less than building characters using traditional outlines where points are located on the edges of shapes rather than at the centerlines. Our stroke-based fonts support both native and Unicode encodings and are available for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts. [Google]

MSGothic, MSMincho

Microsoft fonts for Chinese and Japanese. Some sites where you can find them: Kodyzone, TZoNE, Deepmind, MSIME98, Technote2002, Wintness Peacenet, Lantern Festival. [Google]

Multi Font

Free truetype versions of MSGothic (Japanese), GulimChe (Korean), MingLiu (Chinese), MSSong (Chinese), MSHei (Chinese). Page seems down. [Google]

Nankai University

Download two Chinese fonts: gbsn00lp and gkai00mp. [Google]

Naxidongba

Naxidongba sells a huge dingbat font, E-dongba, that is related to Chinese characters. [Google]

NBTVU

Chinese font archive. It has, for example, DFKaiShu-SB-Estd-BF, FangSong, HT_CJK+, KaiTi, LiHeiPro, MS-Song, MicrosoftJhengHeiBold, MicrosoftYaHei (+ Bold), MingLiU, New-Gulim, QuiMi-mincho, SimHei, SimSun-ExtB. [Google]

NCIT.EDU

Taiwanese site with a few Chinese font collections, including the Arphic fonts, several truetype fonts, and a number of PCF (X-Windows) fonts. [Google]

NCKU Taiwan

Two Chinese TrueType fonts: DFFT-S5.TTF, DFTT-L5.TTF. [Google]

NCTU

Grab the files starting with NTU: these contain Chinese TrueType fonts for the Mac encoded in BIG5: Black-Medium, FunSung, Kai, Lei, Ming-Medium, Round-HRound-Medium, and Thin. [Google]

New Breed Software

Free truetype fonts for Greek (Thryomanes by Herman Miller, 2002), Chinese (AR PL SungtiL GB by Arphic Design, 1999), Japanese (Kochi Gothic by Wadalab), Tamil (TSCu_Comic by Thukaram Gopalrao, 1999), Hebrew (Nachlieli Light by Maxim Iorsh, 2002) and Korean (Baekmuk Gulim by Hwan Design, 2000). [Google]

NewTek Super True Type Fonts CD-ROM

"32 Chinese TTF for Chinese Windows 3.1 or Windows 95." [Google]

NHINF

Archivce with some Corel and Microsoft fonts, mixed in with Chinese truetype fonts. [Google]

Nice Taipei

A free Mac font for Chinese with roman letters as in Geneva. It was designed as a replacement for Apple's Taipei system font. [Google]

NJMU

Chinese site with about ten Chinese fonts. Included is FZWeiBei-S03S (1998, Founder Corporation). [Google]

NJStar Company

Commercial Chinese and Japanese fonts and word processors. [Google]

NTU

Four Chinese TrueType fonts (Kai, Lei, FunSung, Thin). [Google]

NTU Chinese Truetype Fonts

Catalog of NTU (National Taiwan University) Chinese TrueType fonts. All are free. Maintained by Thian-Huat Ong. [Google]

NTU Chinese Truetype Fonts
[Lin Yaw-Jen]

The catalog of the true type fonts by the National Taiwan University was compiled by Thian-Huat Ong in 1999. The fonts, called NTU, are here and here. The creator of the (free) NTU fonts is Lin Yaw-Jen (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei). The fonts wwere derived from bitmap fonts provided by Dynafont by a bitmap to truetype program developed in house. [Google]

OReilly

Free type fonts for Chinese (MOEKai, MOESung), Korean (Munhwa) and Japanese (WadaGo, WadaMaruGo, WadaMin). [Google]

Oriental Fonts

Free fonts for Chinese (MS Song, MingLiu), Arabic (ArabicKufiSSK, ArabicKufiSSKBold, ArabicKufiSSKItalic, WL-ArabicNaskh-Bold-Italic, Riyadh, WL-ArabicNaskh, WL-LatinALA-LC1Times, WL-PersianNaskh, WL-ArabicNaskh-Bold, WL-ArabicNaskh-Italic), Phags (Phags-pa-Unicode-Reference, Phags-pa, Phagspa, hPhags-pa-(rotated)). The Phags-Pa font is by Babelstone1357 (2003). [Google]

OSS

Ten full Chinese display fonts, wcl-01 through wcl-10. See also here. [Google]

PC Fai

Large Chinese font archive. [Google]

Pintone fonts

Pintone tone fonts and progams. One Mac and three PC fonts. [Google]

Pinyin fonts for Windows
[Daqing Chu]

Pinyin TT fonts by Daqing (David) Chu of Calgary. "Pinyin is a phonetic system used in Chinese to help people to pronounce Chinese (Mandarin). It has been widely used in the People's Republic of China since 1958. Many none-speaking-Chinese people also find out that this is a very good phonetic system for them to learn Chinese." [Google]

Pinyin Okay Font

Free Times truetype font to enable correct printing of all characters and accents in the Han4yu3 Pin1yin1 transcription system (for Chinese). [Google]

PMingLiU

Free Chinese Unicode font that comes with MS Office 2000. [Google]

Pop Chang

Based in Shanghai, Pop Chang is an original and creative designer, illustrator and photographer. His typographic work includes the funny Bike Chain Font (2008), and a pair of pixel fonts called Pixel Faces Pattern (2008). Behance link. [Google]

RichWin

Demo Chinese fonts. [Google]

RichWin Chinese support software

"A new generation of Asian language software for Windows. RichWin is an add-on software that fits between Non-Chinese Windows and other Windows applications, enabling users to process the two-byte languages Chinese, Japanese and Korean on non-Chinese Windows and on other platforms. It provides 30 different Chinese fonts." For more info, email Bruce Liu. [Google]

Richwin Software Products

Sells Chinese Expert package which has 68 Chinese TrueType fonts. [Google]

Robin Hui

Robin Hui joined China Type Design 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. [Google]

Roman Wilhelm

Born in 1976 in Germany, Roman Wilhelm graduated in 2004 with a diploma related to a German-Chinese book project. He briefly type design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. He specializes in multilingual typography, which includes Chinese and Korean, and he taught in Seoul, Hong Kong and Shenyang. He is primarily a web, book and magazine designer, but in 2009, he did create Sung New Roman, a typeface for Latin-Chinese typography, for which he received the award Ars Lipsiensis in 2009. [Google]

Salika

Commercial Khmer font producer. Salika Ltd is located in Tokyo. Their Khmer fonts are named Khm-1 through Khm-4. They also have fonts for Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Latin, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Nepali, Cyrillic, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese. [Google]

sc.jcwcn.com

Chinese font archive. [Google]

Scottied

A gorgeous Chinese truetype font by Dynalab called DFGirl-W3-HK-BF (1997). [Google]

SimSun

Chinese truetype font by Founder in Beijing. It is a Unicode-encoded GBK font that comes with Microsoft Windows/Office 2000/XP, and is compatible with Unicode-compliant applications in OS 9 and above. Chinese Mac reports on these extensions of SimSun: "SimSun-18030 comes with Microsoft's GB 18030 Support Package for Windows 2000 (or XP) at http://www.microsoft.com/china/windows2000/downloads/18030.asp. To get the font, you have to install the package on a Windows 2000 or XP system. Then you can copy the font to your OS X Library/Fonts folder and use it in Unicode-compliant applications like TextEdit. It works beautifully with Unicode Hex Input, giving you full access to the more than 27,000 Chinese characters in Unicode 3.0 on Mac OS 9 and above. An edition of SimSun containing the full set of around 65,000 Chinese characters in Unicode 3.1, called SimSun (Founder Extended) [filename: SURSONG.TTF], is included with the Microsoft Office XP Proofing Tools CD (Version 2002). It also comes with Chinese editions of Office XP. This font can be used with Unicode Hex Input in Mac OS X 10.1 and above." [Google]

Sinosplice
[Hanzi Smatter]

Some interesting free Chinese fonts to download: Arphic-Huochai-Bold-GB, CTLiShuSF.TTF FZChaoCuHei-M10S, FZKangTi-S07T, FZZhiYi-M12S, HuabanEG-Ultra-GB, PiliEG-Ultra-GFB, Pop3EG-Extra-GB, STCaiyun, STXingkai, STXinwei, mhyf3gip, mhyj1gfp. [Google]

sj00

Free Chinese truetype fonts. Slow page. Latin fonts. Dingbats. [Google]

Skydrive

Chinese font archive. [Google]

Southern Software Inc. (SSi)

SSi sells foreign fonts for Arabic, Urdu, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Baltic, Burmese, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Cree, Simplified Chinese, Ethiopian, Inuktitut, Gaelic, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mayan. Farsi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Syriac, South Arabian, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese. Plus musical dingbats. Of course, they did not make a single of these fonts themselves. [Google]

Sparanoid

Amateur artist located in China. Dafont link. Creator of Zomnk (2008). Kernest link. [Google]

StarSuite 8

SUN's trial software comes with some Japanese, Chinese and Korean fonts (choose the right platform/language and throw away the software after locating the fonts). [Google]

Stone Co Beijing

Chinese foundry which produced fonts such as YouYuan (1996) and LiSu (1996). Download these here. [Google]

Sun-Ext

Sun-ExtA and Sun-ExtB are two full free Unicode fonts, covering everything under the sun. [Google]

Suntendy USA

Vendor of Chinese fonts for these companies: HanDing, Fang Zheng, Han Yi, Mi Ni, Microsoft, Wen Ding, Chang Cheng, Chuang Yi, Chao Shi Ji and Jin Mei. The latter two are in Big5 format, while the others follow GB2312. [Google]

T. Fujiwara

This site has free full-Unicode (including Chinese/Japanese) fonts by T. Fujiwara: Mincho2000, Mincho2000P. It also has BitstreamCyberbit-Roman, a full unicode font. Later additions: Mincho2004, Mincho2004P. [Google]

TAG Publication

A full Unicode font: gunsuhche. [Google]

TCDM Taiwan

Chinese fonts from Arphic Technologies, published in 1998: Arphic-Mingti2-Light-BIG5, HerSin-Medium, InnMing-Bold, InnMing-Extra, InnMing-Heavy, InnMing-Medium, InnMing-Ultra, MaokaiEG-Bold-Big5, MaokaiEG-Extra-Big5, MaokaiEG-Heavy-Big5, NewGothic-Bold, NewGothic-Extra, NewGothic-Heavy, NewGothic-Light, NewGothic-Medium, OvlapRound_Outline-Ultra, PensinkaiEG-Light-Big5, PensinkaiEG-Medium-Big5, Pop1-Bold, Pop2EG-Bold-Big5, Pop3EG-Extra-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big565329, ShanHeiSun-Light, ShanheisunEG-Bold-Big5, ShanheisunEG-Medium-Big5, SingkaiEG-Bold-Big5, SingkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdKai-Medium, StdMing-Medium, StdkaiEG-Bold-Big5, StdkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdsungEG-Bold-Big5, StdsungEG-Heavy-Big5, StdsungEG-Light-Big5, TankuinEG-Bold-Big5, YankaiEG-Heavy-Big5, YankaiEG-Ultra-Big5, YenRound-Bold, YenRound-Extra, YenRound-Heavy, YenRound-Light, YenRound-Medium, YenRound-Ultra, ZuinnEG-Medium-Big5. We also find DFKaiShu-SB-Estd-BF. In addition, there are some Latin fonts: AcademyEngravedLetPlain, Arial-Black, Arial-BlackItalic, Arial-BoldItalicMT, Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, ArialMT, ArialNarrow-Bold, ArialNarrow-BoldItalic, ArialNarrow-Italic, ArialNarrow, ArialUnicodeMS, Blackletter686BT-Regular, BookAntiqua-Bold, BookAntiqua-BoldItalic, BookAntiqua-Italic, BookAntiqua, BookmanOldStyle-Bold, BookmanOldStyle-BoldItalic, BookmanOldStyle-Italic, BookmanOldStyle, BroadwayBT-Regular, Calligraphic421BT-RomanB, CataneoBT-Regular, Century, CenturyGothic-Bold, CenturyGothic-BoldItalic, CenturyGothic-Italic, CenturyGothic, ComicSansMS-Bold, ComicSansMS, CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT, CourierNewPS-BoldMT, CourierNewPS-ItalicMT, CourierNewPSMT, Garamond-Bold, Garamond-Italic, Garamond, Georgia-Bold, Georgia-BoldItalic, Georgia-Italic, Georgia, Haettenschweiler, HighlightLetPlain, HolidayPiBT-Regular, Impact, JohnHandyLetPlain, JokermanAltsLetPlain, JokermanLetPlain, LaBambaLetPlain, LucidaConsole, LucidaSansUnicode, MSOutlook, MekanikLetPlain, MicrosoftSansSerif, MilanoLet, MisterEarlBT-Regular, MonotypeCorsiva, Myriad-BdWeb, Myriad-CnItWeb, Myriad-CnWeb, Myriad-ItWeb, Myriad-Web, OdessaLetPlain, OldDreadfulNo7BT-Regular, OneStrokeScriptLetPlain, OrangeLetPlain, PalatinoLinotype-Bold, PalatinoLinotype-BoldItalic, PalatinoLinotype-Italic, PalatinoLinotype-Roman, ParkAvenueBT-Regular, PumpDemiBoldLetPlain, QuixleyLetPlain, RageItalicLetPlain, RuachLetPlain, ScruffLetPlain, SimHei, SimSun, SmudgerAltsLetPlain, SmudgerLetPlain, Square721BT-Roman, Staccato222BT-Regular, SymbolMT, Tahoma-Bold, Tahoma, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPSMT, TirantiSolidLetPlain, Trebuchet-BoldItalic, TrebuchetMS-Bold, TrebuchetMS-Italic, TrebuchetMS, UniversityRomanAltsLetPlain, UniversityRomanLetPlain, Verdana-Bold, Verdana-BoldItalic, Verdana-Italic, Verdana, VictorianLetPlain, Webdings, WestwoodLetPlain, Wingdings-Regular, Wingdings2, Wingdings3. [Google]

TCDM.com

Taiwanese archive with Latin and Chinese truetype fonts. From Arphic Technologies, we have these Chinese fonts: Arphic-Mingti2-Light-BIG5, HerSin-Medium, InnMing-Bold, InnMing-Extra, InnMing-Heavy, InnMing-Medium, InnMing-Ultra, MaokaiEG-Bold-Big5, MaokaiEG-Extra-Big5, MaokaiEG-Heavy-Big5, NewGothic-Bold, NewGothic-Extra, NewGothic-Heavy, NewGothic-Light, NewGothic-Medium, OvlapRound_Outline-Ultra, PensinkaiEG-Light-Big5, PensinkaiEG-Medium-Big5, Pop1-Bold, Pop2EG-Bold-Big5, Pop3EG-Extra-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big56955, ShanHeiSun-Light, ShanheisunEG-Bold-Big5, ShanheisunEG-Medium-Big5, SingkaiEG-Bold-Big5, SingkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdKai-Medium, StdMing-Medium, StdkaiEG-Bold-Big5, StdkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdsungEG-Bold-Big5, StdsungEG-Heavy-Big5, StdsungEG-Light-Big5, TankuinEG-Bold-Big5, YankaiEG-Heavy-Big5, YankaiEG-Ultra-Big5, YenRound-Bold, YenRound-Extra, YenRound-Heavy, YenRound-Light, YenRound-Medium, YenRound-Ultra, ZuinnEG-Medium-Big5. The Latin fonts are from Microsoft, Letraset and Bitstream. [Google]

Tharuka

Free Japanese/Chinese truetype fonts: MS Gothic, MS Song, MingLiu (Chinese), MSHei. [Google]

The Fool's Workshop

Pinyin fonts online: links. [Google]

The TimesPinyin Font
[Zev Handel]

This page by Zev Handel had a downloadable Chinese Pinyin font for the Mac. [Google]

Thomas Han

About 50 full Chinese TTC and TTF fonts. See also here. [Google]

Thomas Ridgeway

Thomas Ridgeway (d. 2005) held a Ph.D. in Asian linguistics. He was Director of the Humanities and Arts Computing Center, University of Washington, Seattle WA, where he worked until around 2002. He is the author of

  • Poorman: Free fonts (metafont/bitmap/pk) for Chinese and Japanese, developed in 1990. As Ridgeway explained: "pmC and pmJ are less than ideal implementations of Chinese and Japanese for TeX. Less than ideal because they use fonts based on 24x24 dot-matrix fonts, and don't do vertical format typesetting and so forth."
  • IPBS (Indo-Persian BitStream Charter) is a free font family in truetype with these fonts: IPbschtrBoldItalic, IPbschtrBold, IPbschtrItalic, IPbschtrNormal. The fonts were modified by Richard J. Cohen, from "HACC Indic" by Thomas Ridgeway (1993), which is based on "BitStreamCharter," a font in the public domain. Richard Cohen is with the South Asia Regional Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania.
  • WNTamil is a Tamil metafont created by Ridgeway in 1990. Hal Schiffman writes: I worked together with Tom Ridgeway to design this font, at my instigation, since I needed it for my dictionary, and he knew METAFONT. (He did not know Tamil, although he did know Hindi.) We spent many Friday mornings designing the glyphs. He would write the code and run the program, and I would then critique it, and then we would run it again until we had an acceptable glyph. But I realize he thought of himself as the sole developer, which is why he registered it in his name. Afterwards we tweaked some of the glyphs, and Vasu Renganathan worked on later versions, too, so the authors of this font should be listed as myself, Ridgeway, and Vasu Renganathan.
  • A phonetic alphabet has been developed by Thomas Ridgeway for a large subrange of American Indian languages. The first active projects using this are in Salish and Navajo.
[Google]

tieba

Chinese font link site. [Google]

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]

Tompa

Tompa is a script based on images that is used by the Nashi people in Southern China. Presentation by Wang Chao Ying about this, and the relationship to modern day Chinese script. [Google]

Traditional Chinese OLPC

A wiki, with lnks, of free Chinese fonts. [Google]

TrueKeys

A truetype tool by UniDoc System. TrueKeys is the only font conversion utility that handles Chinese/Japanese/Korean TrueType font conversion between Windows and Mac OS platforms. Can also be used to add Unicode support (required for OS X) to older fonts that don't have it. US$50, and crippled free demo. An OS X version is available. The manufacturer reports: "TrueKeys is a Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) 2-byte truetype font conversion utilities. What makes it different from other truetype utilities such as TTConvert 1.5 and TrueConvert 0.3b is that it generates its own cmap table for specified language encoding, and assemble the original font data into a new truetype. This strategy corrects some common PC font problems such as no Mac cmap table support, etc. When TTConvert or TrueConvert does not work for your font, you should seriously try TrueKeys. TrueKeys v3.5 is guarenteed to work with any Mac format CJK truetypes and Windows format truetypes (including TTC format). TrueKeys v3.6 is currently in beta, supporting both pre-MacOS 9 and MacOS X platform." [Google]

TrueKeys v3.4

Commercial (50 USD) Mac utility for Korean/Chinese/Japanese truetype: Convert Chinese/Japanese/Korean truetype fonts between Windows/Macintosh format. Add Apple Unicode encoding table to existing font to support's Apple's Unicode imaging technology. Convert Chinese/Japanese/Korean truetype fonts between popular encodings. [Google]

TrueType Font Editor (TTFE)

A free truetype font editor for the Mac. TTFE version 1.0 came with the localized Chinese Mac OS 8.6 and CLK 2.0. TTFE version 1.5 comes with the Chinese Mac OS 9.1. It also comes with OS X 10.1. [Google]

ttf2pk (Chinese)

Free program. Converts Chinese Big5 TrueType fonts to PK format supporting CJK. Originally written by Yu-Chung Wang and arranged by Yu-Ray Li. [Google]

ttfconvt

William Zhang's free program "converts BIG5 True Type Fonts to GB True Type Fonts and vice versa. It also converts GB files from/to BIG5 files. It is a WIN32 program running on Windows 95 and NT." [Google]

tut.ac.jp

Archive with the NEXT fonts, type 1. Has KaiSu kanji font (type 1) plus the Russian NEXT fonts. The KaiSu font from Jackson Technologies is free but flawed (some characters have their tops chopped off by a bounding box that is too small). [Google]

Twinbridge Software Corporation

46 Hanyi truetype fonts (commercial product). [Google]

TwinBridge Software Corporation

Unicode Chinese, Japanese and Korean true type fonts. Commercial outfit. One of its fonts, TSC-FMing-S-TT (1998) is here. [Google]

twins

Small Taiwanese archive. Two Chinese shareware fonts! [Google]

Typographies.fr
[Jonathan Perez]

French foundry, est. 2008, by Jonathan Perez and Laurent Bourcellier. Graduates from the Ecole Estienne in Paris, they have made the following fonts:

  • The free font Ifao N Copte, a Unicode-compatible font with 809 glyphs for Coptic. By Perez.
  • Unicopte (by Bourcellier) and Copte Scripte (2008, by Bourcellier and Perez; it won an award at TDC2 2009). Discussion.
  • A hieroglyphic font. By Perez.
  • Joos (2009) took its inspiration from an italic, ca. 1530, by Joos Lambrecht, from Gent, Belgium, who was one of the great printers and punchcutters of the 16th century.
  • Extensions of Syntax and ITC Slimbach for Vietnamese (with the help of Pauline Nuñez, Valentine Proust and Mathieu Réguer) for the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet.
Jonathan Perez is a graphic and type designer. He graduated in 2007 from Ecole Estienne in Paris with a provocatively-titled thesis, Giambattista Bodoni, génie ou assassin?. In 2009, Jonathan set up his own site, JonathanPerez.cm, where he plns to publish some Latin typefaces. [Google]

Uhome

Five Chinese truetype fonts depicting various degrees of handwriting. [Google]

UnBatang Odal
[Koaunghi Un]

At this Korean font site, we find free Windows truetype assemblers and disassemblers, and several free truetype fonts called UnBatang (2003, Koaunghi Un), a full Latin/Cyrillic/kana/kanji/hangul text face, made by Koaunghi Un from 1998-2003.. [Google]

UniDoc

Vendor of Elegance Unicode Chinese, Japanese, and Korean truetype fonts for Mac and PC. [Google]

Unine.ch

Greek font archive: GentiumAlt-Italic, GentiumAlt, Gentium-Italic, Gentium, TITUSCyberbitBasic, GaramondClassical, GalatiaSIL-Bold, GalatiaSIL, GaramondClassical, GaramondClassical-Bold, GaramondClassical-Italic, GRTimesNewRoman, GRTimesNewRoman-Bold, GRTimesNewRoman-BoldItalic, GRTimesNewRoman-Italic. Most of these fonts also have full Latin and Cyrillic letters. Opentype: KadmosU (2005, American Philological Association). [Google]

UnionWay AsianSuite 97

Download UnionWay AsianSuite 97 for a 60-day free trial: it includes fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The registration procedure and mode of providing the files (exe) make this site not worth visiting for the free downloads at least. [Google]

University of Heidelberg

At the Institute of Chinese Studies of the University of Heidelberg, series of free high quality Chinese truetype fonts, boringly named HDZB 5, 6, through 96 (with some numbers missing). Alternate URL. [Google]

urw++

Hamburg-based foundry established in 1995 by Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau, Peter Rosenfeld, and Jürgen Willrodt. URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, named after Gerhard Rubow and Rudolf Weber, cofounders of the original URW company from which urw++ evolved. It offers a whole range of font services and has an extensive (7000+) font library. At the basis of the early development of many classy PostScript fonts. For example, in 1999, URW++ donated the 35 core PostScript fonts (renamed) under the GNU GPL license to the Ghostscript project. The great 3000-font CD costs about 2000DM. Other CDs are more expensive: on the ITF CD, each font is about 100DM! URW sells fonts and font families with complete rights (you can change, resell, embed, anything, except use the original name), with examples ranging from 2k for a complete family of 12 to 5k for a collection of 250 fonts. This practice continues until today: URW++ thus provides a great service to software developers who want to include high-quality typefaces in their software applications. URW has offices in many countries. Font list. Designers. Presently, the design staff has many people, of which Ralph M. Unger is perhaps the most prolific. OpenType collection guide (in PDF). Latest releases: Anzeigen Grotesk (2009), Clarendon No 1 URW, Nimbus Sans (300 Euros), Nimbus Sans Novus (400 Euros), Nimbus Sans Europa (covering Latin, Greek, Baltic, Cyrillic, Central European, Turkish, Romanian, and so forth), Nimbus Roman No 9 (2001), Nimbus Sans Global and Nimbus Roman Global, each at about 2000 Euros, and each containing 35,000 glyphs, from kanji/Chinese/Korean to all European languages. House faces done for corporations: DaimlerChrysler Corporate ASE (after the Corporate ASE series for Daimler-Benz by Kurt Weidemann), Siemens Schriftfamilie, Deutsche Telekom Schriftfamilie, ZF Friedrichshafen, Körber Argo, URW++ SelecType Raldo (2001, for Igepa). Odd pricing: Kolibri and Colombine cost 49 Euros separately, but together they cost 159 Euros. Some font families have unidentified designers associated with them, e.,g., I would really like to know who "made" Profonts Palisade Pro (2008, an almost connected script). [Google]

Utsunomiya University

Two TrueType Chinese fonts, SimFang, SimKai. [Google]

UWPSTJ-(GB)

One full Unicode/Chinese truetype font by Unionway, UWPSTJ (GB). [Google]

VBQQ

Huge Japanese/Chinese font archive site. [Google]

View Chinese under Netscape

Page by S.W. Lam and Patrick Pang with two full Chinese truetype fonts for Windows. [Google]

viewrich

Chinese font archive. Included are DynaLab's DFFangSong-Md-HK-BF, DFKaiShu-SB-Estd-BF, DFMo-Xb-HK-BF, DFPuDing-UB-HK-BF, DFTongTong-Lt-HK-BF, DFWaWa-Md-HK-BF and about 50 other fonts. [Google]

Vistawide

Archive of free foreign language fonts covering Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Celtic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Old English, Farsi, Georgian, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Myanmar, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh. [Google]

Wai Wong

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

Websbook

Huge Chinese font archive. [Google]

Wen Quan Yi
[Qianqian Fang]

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a huge unicode-compatible Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Latin (CJK) truetype font, available for free under the GNU license. From the web page: The WenQuanYi Zen Hei font is a Chinese (or CJK) outline font with Hei Ti style (a sans-serif style) Hanzi glyphs. This font is developed for general purpose use of Chinese for formating, printing and on-screen display. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Latin, extended Latin, kana etc were merged from cmunss.ttf from the CM-Unicode project, and mplus-1p-medium.ttf from the M+ project. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi contributors and Qianqian Fang based on the bitmap fonts by firefly.
WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographics. This font provides full coverage to the required code points for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk and zh_mo locales. The total vector glyphs in this font is over 35000 including Latin characters, Japanese kanas, hanguls and symbols from many other languages.
Developers:

  • Qianqian Fang: Developer for online and off-line stroke decomposition software, server-side scripts and database, software for vector glyph generation, font creation and version control, all the spline Hanzi glyphs, document and tutorial contributors and release manager. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • Ailantian: key developer for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
  • Haitao Han, "twang467", and Qing Lei: key developers for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
Links: Chinese version, English version, Sourceforge project, Development site, User forum, Screenshot gallery, Firefly bitmap font, Qianqian Fang homepage, Chinese National Standard. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Google]

Wen Quan Yi

Web site about Open Soyurce Chinese fonts. [Google]

West

This archive has about 20 full Japanese/Chinese character truetype fonts. Dead link? [Google]

Wiki freefont

Very useful link site for good quality free fonts for Unicode, and in particular for CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) fonts. [Google]

wqwl

Chinese truetype font archive. Has STXingkai (Changzhou SinoType Technology, 1998), FZKangTi-S07S (Founder Corporation, 1999), LiSu (Stone Co., 1996). [Google]

www.downsc.com

Big Chinese font archive. [Google]

xfbbs

Serious Chinese and Latin font archive. Keep poking around and you will find. Among the 500 Chinese fonts, these beauties:

  • DynaComware Corp: DFGirl Std W3 (1994-2003), DFFangSongW3-A, DFHeiW5-A, DFKaiW5-A, DFSongW3-A, shaoluwenziw3 (OpenType).
  • DynaLab: DFBiology, DFCat, DFClothes, DFFood, DFFunnyEnglish, DFInsect, DFJapanese, DFMachine, DFMark, DFMiscellaneous, DFOa, DFPerson, DFPoker, DFSeals, DFTransportation, DFVegetable. (Dingbats)
  • SinoType Technology Co: STCaiyun, STFangsong, STHupo, STKaiti, STLiti, STXihei, STXingkai, STXinwei, STZhongsong.
  • Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang: HanWangAvSynSu, HanWangCC02, HanWangGB06, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangSinSongThin-Gb5, HanWangWCL03, HanWangWCL05, HanWangWCL06, HanWangWCL07, HanWangWCL08, HanWangWCL10, JetLink-BoldBlack-SolidShadow, JetLink-BoldDoubleBlack, JetLink-BoldDoubleRound, JetLink-BoldFreePop, JetLink-BoldKantenStyle, JetLink-BoldMing, JetLink-BoldPeakPop, JetLink-BoldRightPop, JetLink-BoldRound-DoubleHollow, JetLink-BoldSemiBlack, JetLink-BoldShowArt, JetLink-NewBoldBlack, JetLink-Poka-HollowShadow, JetLink-Smart-Wave, JetLink-ThinBlack, JetLink-ThinMing, JetLink-ThinRound, JetLink-ThinRoundJang.
  • Founder Corporation: FZCuQian-M17T, FZKaTong-M19S, FZLiuXingTi-M26S, FZNew-BaoSong-Z12S, FZNew-ShuSong-Z10T, FZPangTouYu-M24S, FZSong-III-Z05S, FZXiDengXian-Z06S, FZXiHei-I-Z08S, FZXiHei-I-Z08T, FZXiaoZhuanTi-S13T, FZXingKai-S04T, FZYingBiKaiShu-S15S, FZYingBiXingShu-S16S, FZYingBiXingShu-S16T, FZYouXian-Z09S, FZYouXian-Z09T, FZZhanBiHei-M22S, FZZhanBiHei-M22T, FZZhiYi-M12T, FZZhongKai-B08T, FZZhongQian-M16T, FZZhunYuan-M02T.
  • DAYI: DATC5, DATD5, DATF3, DATF5, DATH1, DATH3, DATH7, DATH9, DATK6, DATK7, DATM3, DATM7, DATM8, DATM9, DATW5, DATX1, DATX2, DATY3, DATY7, DATY9.
[Google]

xfonts

Go to xfonts at this Debian site, and get fonts and font software for use under X Windows, including fonts for Japanese, Greek, Chinese, Korean, and Cyrillic. [Google]

Yahei

Pick up SimSun. [Google]

Yati

Yati is an ornamental script which developed from the same script thta modern day Chinese evolved from. Presentation by Wang Chao Ying about this, and the relationship to modern day Chinese script. [Google]

yellowpages.com.mo

A free Chinese truetype font collection (but the glyph collection is woefully incomplete, so don't bother). [Google]

Yi Jing Page
[Harmen Mesker]

Harmen Mesker's fonts: some fonts with Chinese characters: HexagramnamesCaiYun, HexagramnamesFangSong, HexagramnamesGuYin, HexagramnamesGuangGao, HexagramnamesHeiL, HexagramnamesHeiM, HexagramnamesHuBo, HexagramnamesKai, HexagramnamesKantingLiu, HexagramnamesLiM, HexagramnamesLiS, HexagramnamesMaoKai, HexagramnamesMing, HexagramnamesWeiBeiL, HexagramnamesWeiBeiM, HexagramnamesXing, HexagramnamesXingKai, HexagramnamesXingYi, HexagramnamesYanKai, HexagramnamesYao, HexagramnamesYuanL, HexagramnamesYuanM, Yitekens. Plus YiJing. [Google]

Yi Syllabary

Yi (or Lolo) is a member of the Loloish branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. Yi is spoken by between 2 and 5.5 million people in the Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan. A standardized form of the syllabary containing a total of 819 characters was official adopted in 1975 and has been taught in schools since 1978. 756 of the characters are for Yi syllables, the remaining 63 are used for loan words from Chinese and other languages. This page lists part of the beautiful syllabary. [Google]

YMIT Taiwan

The full Chinese truetype font skai00mu. [Google]

Youmade.com

Chinese/Latin font archive. [Google]

YR Soft

Commercial Chinese truetype font family for use with Yangtze Bridge 95 (YB95). 70 USD. From YR Soft in Brooklyn, NY. [Google]

Yury Sokolnikov

Russian designer of Viking TYGRA (1994), an uncial face. [Google]

Yü Bing-nan

Chinese calligrapher and type designer. AR Types writes about Freundschafts-Antiqua AR (2010): Freundschafts-Antiqua AR is based on a 20th-century German type design. Freundschafts-Antiqua (which was also called Chinesische Antiqua) was designed by the Chinese calligrapher Yü Bing-nan when he was a student at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst at Leipzig in 1960. It was cast in 1964 by VEB Typoart, Dresden, in 9-pt and 28-pt (Didot). The design combines the best German traditions with the Chinese bamboo pen. It is a unique, wholly modern, yet quiet and dignified typeface which is well suited for text-setting in many sizes. [Google]

Zhaozi

Huge Chinese and Latin font archive. [Google]

Zhaozi

Chinese font archive. [Google]

Zheng Long

Designer with Hua Weicang of the CJK Extension A part of the font used for the Unicode charts. [Google]

Zhong Yi

Beijing-based foundry that produces high quality Chinese fonts in all formats. They have a font with over 100,000 glyphs! [Google]

Zhongji Electronic Corp

Chinese foundry which produced fonts such as SimHei (1995) and SimSun (1995). Download these here. [Google]

Ziti

Chinese font archive. [Google]

Zychina.com

Big Chinese font archive. [Google]