List of CJK fonts

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

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

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

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

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

Ming (Song)

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

Pan-Unicode

Bitstream Cyberbit

Pan-CJK

[F] Hanazono Mincho (花園明朝)[1] Two ttf fonts HanaMinA (Japanese 花園明朝A) for BMP and HanaMinB (Japanese 花園明朝B) for SIP – covers all CJK, CJK Compatibility, CJK-Ext.A, CJK-Ext.B, CJK-Ext.C, CJK-Ext.D, CJK-Ext.E, and CJK-Ext.F. Dual licensed under its own Hanazono Font License or SIL Open Font License. This font has issues in LaTeX if rotated with \setCJKmainfont[Vertical=RotatedGlyphs]{HANAMINA.TTF}, as required for traditional writing: some characters aren't displayed after rotating, while they work without rotation.
[F] Sazanami-Hanazono Mincho[2] – a full CJK and Latin-1 truetype font resulting from merge of Sazanami Mincho and Hanazono fonts.
[F] Source Han Serif / Noto Serif CJK – created by Adobe and Google, released under SIL Open Font License v.1.1 in April 2017.[3]
The font package TH-Tshyn consists of three fonts, TH-Tshyn-P0, TH-Tshyn-P1 and TH-Tshyn-P2. Version 2.1.0 offers complete coverage of all Unicode CJK characters up to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F introduced in June 2017 with Unicode version 10.0.[4]

Pan-Chinese

[F] AR PL UMing (or AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, AR PL 上海宋) – Arphic Public Licensed free font, one of CJKUnifonts project font, included with a number of Linux distributions. It is a merged version of two typefaces in Arphic PL Fonts released to free software by Arphic foundry.

Traditional Chinese

Sample of MingLiU(細明體), monospaced font for Latin characters.

Sample of PMingLiU(新細明體), proportional font for Latin characters.

DLCMingMedium (華康中明體), DLCMingBold (華康粗明體) – the font family from which Windows 3.0's default Traditional Chinese font 'Ming Light' is derived.
MingLiU (細明體) – default interface typeface for Windows 3.0 to Windows XP, derived from DynaLab's DLCMing typeface. Originally distributed as a raster typeface in the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 3.0, then it was available in TrueType format as 'MingLi43' in the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 3.1. The Latin characters in this font is monospaced. Starting from version 2.00, it was internally sorted in Unicode sequence with Big-5 codepage, and carried the English name 'MingLiU'. In version 2.10, the typeface file also contained PMingLiU (新細明體), which is a proportional font. MingLiU (mingliu.ttc) was distributed with the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 95 to Windows 98, all regional versions of Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1, Traditional Chinese version of Windows 10, PMingLiU Update Pack (新細明體更新套件), Traditional Chinese Font Pack for Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft Global IME 5.02 (Traditional Chinese), Office XP Tool: Traditional Chinese Language Pack, Traditional Chinese supplemental fonts for Windows 10.
PMingLiU (mingliu.ttc, 新細明體) – distributed by Microsoft with the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 98 operating system, all regional versions of Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1, and the Traditional Chinese version of Windows 10. The Latin characters in this font is proportional.
MingLiU-ExtB (mingliub.ttc,細明體-ExtB), PMingLiU-ExtB (新細明體-ExtB) – distributed with PMingLiU Update Pack (新細明體更新套件), Windows Vista.
MingLiU_HKSCS, MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB (mingliu.ttc, mingliub.ttc) – distributed with Windows Vista.
LiSong Pro Light (儷宋 Pro) – distributed with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.3–10.4.
Apple LiSung Light (蘋果儷細宋) – distributed with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.2–10.4.
[F] I.Ming (I.明體) – Derived from IPAex Minchō font, availably at Keshilu (刻石錄) and GitHub.[5][6] Licensed under IPA font licence.

Simplified Chinese

Sample of SimSun (中易宋体), monospaced font for Latin characters.

MS Song (MS宋体) – distributed with Simplified Chinese Font Pack for Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft Global IME 5.02 (Simplified Chinese), Office XP Tool: Simplified Chinese Language Pack.
SimSun (simsun.ttc, 中易宋体 or simply 宋体) – default interface typeface for Windows 95 to Windows XP, distributed with the Chinese versions of Windows 95 to Windows 98, all regions of Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2000. The Latin characters in this font is monospaced. The difference between this font ans NSimSun (below) is that NSimSun is labelled monospaced in the post and OS/2 table while SimSun did not.[7][8]
NSimSun (simsun.ttc, 新宋体) – distributed with all regions of Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2000. The Latin characters in this font is monospaced.
SimSun-18030 (宋体-18030), NSimSun-18030 (新宋体-18030) – distributed with the Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP, or as GB18030 Support Package to Windows 2000 or higher.
SimSun (Founder Extended) (宋体–方正超大字符集) – distributed with the Simplified Chinese version of Microsoft Office XP, Simplified Chinese version of Windows, or Microsoft Office Proofing Tools (XP and 2003).
SimSun-ExtA (宋體ExtA, Sun-ExtA)
SimSun-ExtB (simsunb.ttf, 宋體ExtB. Sun-ExtB) – distributed with Windows Vista.
Song – distributed with OS X 10.2–10.4.
STSong (华文宋体) – distributed with MS Office 2000 and XP, OS X 10.2–10.4. The Jiangsu-based foundry, Changzhou SinoType Technology (常州华文印刷新技术), made a series of 30,000+-character fonts for Microsoft and Macintosh between 1998 and 2004 that all begin with "ST" (华文).
STZhongsong (华文中宋) – distributed with MS Office 2000 and XP. A medium-boldness version of STSong made in 1991 and updated in 1998.
[F] WenQuanYi Bitmap Song (文泉驿点阵宋体) – a raster typeface under GNU GPL.
~~[F]~~[F] Fandol Song. In two weights. Licensed under GPL with the font exception. There is debate on whether the font is FOSS as the author may have revoked the license. [9]

Japanese

Sample of IPAMinchō typeface.
[F] IPAex Minchō – Part of IPA font series developed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. Released from here.[10] Licensed under IPA font licence.
[F] IPAmj Minchō – Part of IPA font series developed by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. Released from here.[11] Licensed under IPA font licence.
MS Mincho (ＭＳ明朝) – distributed with the Japanese version of Windows 3.1 or later, some versions of Internet Explorer 3 Japanese Font Pack, all regions in Windows XP, Microsoft Office v.X to 2004.
MS PMincho (ＭＳＰ明朝) – distributed in the Japanese version of Windows 95 or later, all regions in Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2004.
[F] Kochi Mincho (東風明朝) – free typeface included with a number of Linux distributions. Released in the public domain. Originally based on the Watanabe (渡邊フォント) typeface, then reissued based on the Wadalab outlines for legal reasons.
Hiragino Minchō Pro W3 (ヒラギノ明朝Pro W3), Hiragino Minchō Pro W6 (ヒラギノ明朝Pro W6) – included in Mac OS X. It covers almost all of the Adobe Japan 1–5 glyph collection.
Heisei Minchō (平成明朝) – developed by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA) as a standard typeface for information devices in 1989. It has rather straight edges so that low-resolution printers can output characters with less aliasing. It is distributed by various typeface vendors licensed by the JSA.
Ryūbundō Minchō (RyūMin, リュウミン) of the Morisawa foundry.
Kozuka Minchō (小塚明朝), designed by Kozuka Masahiko (also the creator of the sans-serif typeface Shin Gothic or Shingo).
[F] Sazanami Mincho (さざなみ明朝).[12] The last version dates from 2004.

Korean

Batang (바탕), BatangChe (바탕체), Gungsuh (궁서), GungsuhChe (궁서체) – distributed by Microsoft with its Windows operating system. -Che suffix means monospace font.
AppleMyungjo (애플명조) – default Korean font on Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X, and iOS. Fully supports Unicode from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
[F] UnBatang (은바탕), UnGungsuh (은궁서) – included in most Linux distributions. Initially made by Un Koanghui (은광희) as a set of type 1 typefaces to use with Korean LaTeX. Later they were converted to opentype typefaces by Park Won-gyu (박원규). UnBatang also has a version with opentype GSUB/GPOS tables to support archaic Hangul with Hangul Conjoining Jamos.
[F] Baekmuk Batang (백묵 바탕) – included in most Linux distributions, made by Kim Jeong-hwan (김정환) and released under a liberal license.
Seoul Hangang (서울한강체) – distributed by Seoul Metropolitan Government as its official Ming typeface. Special font for vertical writing included.
[F] Nanum Myeongjo (나눔명조) – one of Nanum-series fonts, distributed by Naver, under Open Font License.
[F] Hamchorom Batang (함초롬바탕) – developed by Hancom, supporting Unicode from 1.0 to 5.0 and Hangul Jamo Extended A/B.[13]
[F] Jieubsida Batang (지읍시다바탕) – Korean-language, Ming style offshoot of the Tsukurimashou meta-family, built using METAFONT and distributed under GPL.[14]

Vietnamese

Nôm Na Tống Light – created by the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation. It is based on characters found in Thiền Tông Bản Hạnh (The Origin of Buddhist Meditation, 1933) by Thanh Tu Thich.[15]
[F]Han Nom Font Set – covers Radicals Supplements, CJK, CJK Ext. A, CJK Ext. B; GPL licensed
Han-Nom Minh 1.30 by UBPSHNVN contains 34,736 characters with 34,737 glyphs.
Han-Nom Ming 1.10 by UBPSHNVN contains 34,079 characters with 34,082 glyphs.

Zhuang

[F] Sawndip – in addition to 20k CJK characters in AR PL UMing on which it is based upon it also has over 8 thousand CJK characters used to write Sawndip not in Unicode in PUA plane 16. Distributed under 1999 Arphic Public License.