Commercially available Chinese fonts are updated again (with detailed instructions)

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There are three words to describe the copyright of Chinese fonts: a bit messy!

For different font manufacturers, different purposes, different charges, and different terms are very painful.

Why do we need free commercial fonts? I think the answer is only three words, poor and poor!

Because, since free commercial fonts are free, the quality is generally not that high to a certain extent. Many free commercial fonts are not suitable for large-scale typesetting. After all, Coca-Cola is still a little different from Coca-Cola. However, there are also pretty good fonts.

So, here comes the problem, if you don’t have the ability to buy the commercial copyright of these fonts, but you want to use some genuine fonts, what should you do? Below, we will take stock for you.

Why not package and download? Why do you need to link to the official website, I will explain it here, because you don’t know when these free commercial font manufacturers will change the terms, so it is the safest to link to the official website to download, because before downloading, you can Take a closer look at whether their terms have changed and whether they are still commercially available.

01. Siyuan Blackbody

Download address https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/

Source HanSans (English: SourceHanSans) is an open-source font family developed by Adobe and Google. Version 1.001 and earlier are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, while versions 1.002 and later are licensed under the SIL open-source font. It is a sans-serif font.

Siyuan HeiTi was first released on July 16, 2014. It supports Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and has seven font weights (ExtraLight, Light, Normal, Regular, Medium, Bold and Heavy). At the time of publication, it was the font with the largest number of characters at that time, with 44,666 characters belonging to 65,535 glyphs, which is the limit of OpenType font technology.

As far as copyright is concerned, Siyuan HeiTi has to be said to be the conscience of the industry, it can be used for free commercial use, and can even be modified.

02. Siyuan Song Style

Download address https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk

Siyuan Arial is the latest Pan-CJK font released by AdobeType, it is an Arial font corresponding to Siyuan HeiTi; they released these two fonts in response to the need for a unified design to serve a population of 1.5 billion in East Asia.

Siyuan Song Typeface supports four different East Asian languages ​​(Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean), with 65,535 glyphs in each of the 7 weight types that work together to present a consistent visual aesthetic.

The font also includes several Western glyphs, supporting Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts, all derived from SourceSerif.

03. Siyuan soft black body (source soft ゴシック)

Download address http://jikasei.me/font/genjyuu/

This font is modified based on Siyuan HeiTi, and the author is Japan's own フォント Workshop.

Similarly, it offers three versions with different rounded corners, and seven versions with different thicknesses.

04. Huayuan Ming Dynasty Style

Download URL http://fonts.jp/hanazono/

Hanazono (Hanazono) is a free font, developed by GlyphWiki, with a total of 45090+47186 glyphs, including almost all Chinese glyphs.

The disadvantage is that the font is based on the Japanese font, and some characters do not conform to the Chinese writing standards (whether it is the mainland standard or Hong Kong and Taiwan standards).

05. Wang Hanzong series fonts

Download address There are everywhere on the Internet, just search for it

Wang Hanzong's free fonts were first donated by Professor Wang Hanzong of the Department of Mathematics of Chung Yuan University in Taiwan, who developed the Tiancan font library, in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Ten sets of WCL series fonts and 32 sets of new fonts were distributed under the GNUGPL license.

In 2005, Taiwan's well-known font manufacturer Arphic Technology believed that Wang Hanzong's font was extremely similar to Arphic's font. Some free software websites decided to remove the font download before the problem became clear to avoid legal problems.

However, justfont, a cloud font service company, does not believe that there is an authorization problem, and 17 free fonts of Wang Hanzong can be seen in the list of provided fonts. Wending Company felt that Wang Hanzong had many sets of fonts that were copied from Wending. But if it is a complete plagiarism, it will be controversial, because although the skeleton is the same, but the depiction points are different, legally it can only be regarded as "suspected" plagiarism.

In addition, in terms of fonts such as "Lishu", "Fangsong", etc., Arphic is not original. There are many font companies with the same name that almost look exactly the same. In this way, it is actually difficult to say who copied whom.

However, in order to avoid disputes, here we list the Wang Hanzong fonts that Arphic claims to be infringing for your reference: Ming style, Wang Hanzong's fine round style, Wang Hanzong's special round style, Wang Hanzong's stacked round style, Wang Hanzong's Kanting style, Wang Hanzong's variety style, Wang Hanzong's running script, Wang Hanzong's variety style double empty yin, and Wang Hanzong's thick regular script. Arphic claims that the above Wang Hanzong font is infringing, please consider before using it. The Wang Hanzong font in other parts is not controversial.

06. Wenquanyi series fonts

Download address http://wenq.org/wqy2/index.cgi

Wenquanyi is an open source Chinese character font project, founded in October 2004 by Fang Qianqian (FangQ), a scholar in the United States, focusing on solving the shortage of high-quality Chinese fonts on GNU/Linux.

At present, Wenquanyi has developed and released the first multi-standard dot matrix Chinese character library that completely covers GB18030 Chinese characters (including more than 27,000 Chinese characters), and the first open source vector font library that covers GBK character set (Wenquanyi Zhenghei) , and provides most of the symbols related to Chinese, Japanese and Korean in the open source font that currently contains the largest number of characters - GNU Unifont.

These fonts have gradually become the preferred Chinese fonts for Chinese desktops of mainstream Linux/Unix distributions. Currently, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, MagicLinux, and CDLinux use Wenquanyi as the default Chinese font. Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, ArchLinux, and Frugalware provide official source support, while FreeBSD provides it in its ports.

Currently there are

Clear and sharp traditional Chinese interface: Wenquanyi Dot Matrix Song Typeface

Soft and sleek modern Chinese interface: Wenquanyi Zhenghei

Intelligent combination of softness and clarity: Wenquanyi dot matrix is ​​black

A monospaced open source font that takes into account the alignment of both Chinese and English: Wenquanyi Monospace Zhenghei

Small but mighty high-quality vector font: Wenquanyi Micron Black

Classic monospaced dot matrix Chinese font: Wenquanyi Unibit

07. Station cool font

Download address http://www.zcool.com.cn/special/zcoolfonts/#firstPage

Zhanku high-end black

In Christmas 2014, Zaku.com released a completely free Chinese font "Zhanku High-End Black". On January 13, 2015, after collecting the opinions of designers and netizens, the revised version of Zaku High-End Black was released.

This typeface, which took eight months to produce, was initiated by zakuol.com typeface designers Hu Xiaobo and Liu Bingke, and was completed by 100 typeface designers who participated in the Hundred People Dance of Chinese Characters.

All fonts were completed by 79 designers scattered across the country in the form of crowdsourcing, including 6763 Chinese characters, numbers and English letters.

Zhanku happy body

The cool happy font is made by font designer Liu Bingke and 150 friends who design fonts.

This set of relaxed and lively fonts is also the second set of handicraft fonts created by Kuyou collectively after Jizhanku high-end black, which is free for everyone to use permanently (commercially available).

Zaku Happy Font is an example of a relaxed and simple font style. It is very flexible in terms of stroke structure and stroke thickness, and the design is not very difficult.

Considering that the design level of each of us will be slightly different, choosing to design such a font will have a much higher success rate and accuracy rate, and the coordination and unity between characters will be easier to achieve.

Station cool black body

Initiated by Hu Xiaobo, the members of Ziyou Studio carry out the basic glyph design. Ten students from Hu Xiaobo's design class jointly completed the design. The strokes of the font are rough and powerful, and the wide and flat typeface is used to build a thick font shape. The decoration of the stroke details not only enhances the design sense of the font, but also makes the font a little more delicate. The combination of typography between is very eye-catching and beautiful.

Contains 3,500 commonly used characters, 52 English letters, and 10 Arabic numerals.

ZCOOL AddictItalic

Insert an English font, [ZCOOL AddictItalic] ZCOOL AddictItalic is designed by Big Cat Addict, the first non-profit Western character library named by ZCOOL, it is a free commercial Western character, and the first version was released in May 2016. Number of words: 52 letters, 10 numbers, 24 symbols.

Scope of use: Free authorization for the whole society to use (including commercial use).

08. Founder Font

Download address https://www.foundertype.com/index.php/FindFont/index.html

Not much to say, Founder has four fonts that are free for commercial use, but written authorization is required. The four fonts are: Founder Black, Founder Book Song, Founder Fang Song, and Founder Kai.

09. Seto font

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Seto font is a cute font that supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese, including CJK commonly used Chinese characters, Hiragana, and JIS Level 1 to Level 4, with a total of more than 30,000 characters.

This is made by Ms. Seto のぞみ, an amateur font designer in Japan (actually engaged in font design as a housewife).

10.cwtex-q-fonts

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The cwTeX font was originally produced by Tsong-MinWu and Tsong-HueyWu between 1999 and 2004 and released as GNUGENERALPUBLICLICENSEVersion2orlatter. Between 2005 and 2007, EdwardG.J.Lee organized the font. cwtex-q-fonts has been operated by Chen-PanLiao since 2008.

In 2014, Tsong-MinWu, Tsong-HueyWu, EdwardG.J.Lee, and Chen-PanLiao agreed to separate the characters of Chinese characters and Chinese punctuation marks separately and grant them with SILOpenFontLicense (Version1.1) to facilitate cooperation with other Font integration authorized by OFL.

At present, cwtex-q-fonts has five fonts and two authorization methods, which are divided into ten font files.

GPLV2+

OFL

Remarks: This licensed font only contains Chinese characters and common Chinese punctuation marks.

11. Quanziku Shuowenjiezi

Download URL>http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/AIDB/download.do?name=%E5%AD%97%E5%9E%8B%E4%B8%8B%E8%BC%89

"Shuowen Jiezi" is the first calligraphy book in China that systematically analyzes the shape of Chinese characters and studies the etymology. Written by Xu Shen, it was completed in the first year of Jianguang (121) of Emperor An. There are 14 chapters in the original book and one chapter in the narrative. The text is mainly written in Xiaozhuan, with a total of 9353 characters. There are also 1163 characters in the same script, such as ancient Chinese and 籀wen, and more than 130,000 characters in explanation.

The version currently used is "Shuowen Jiezi Zhu" published by the Yiwen Press, which was revised by Xu Xuan in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the version annotated by Duan Yu in the Qing Dynasty (known as the Daxu Version) and referred to the Liming Cultural Enterprise Company. "Shuowen Jiezi Zhuan" and "Shuowen Jiezi Biography" written by Xu Kai in the Southern Tang Dynasty

Since the original text of Shuowen Jiezi does not have a complete correspondence with the current Unicode encoding, it is impossible to include all the glyphs in this font file, so some characters may not display the correct glyphs! (Currently, the total number of words contained in this font file is 6721)

It is estimated that no one will use it, a touch of sadness!

In addition, many people mentioned that the regular script and Zhengsong fonts of Quanziku are free, but in the font download of the official website of Quanziku, there is only Shuowenjiezi. Here, Zhengkai and Zhengsong are not included.

12. Carved stone record series fonts

Carved Stone Record I. Pen Crane Body

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This font is modified from Wang Hanzong's thick steel body. Keshilu recreated and trimmed the missing or unsightly parts of the original font, such as half-size letters, circle characters, common symbols, etc. As for the modification of the Chinese characters, there are no more than two kinds of work: first, changing the font and writing, and second, adding missing characters. Those who change the font change some of the conventional writing in the font into orthodox characters. For example: the word "Qing" originally starts from "Yen", that is, "Dan"; However, since Crane Body is developed from regular script written with a brush, it is a handwritten font, so some handwriting is also accepted, such as three dots next to "糹" and "飠" next to "飠", etc. For supplementary characters, the characters in the list of commonly used Hong Kong foreign characters are added.

Carved stone record I. Bright body

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"I. Bright Body" was born through the efforts of many people. Its predecessor is "IPA font". In 2009, Japan's "IPA" released two "IPA fonts" based on the "IPA Open Font Licensing Terms" in line with the open source definition of the "Open Source Initiative", namely "IPA Ming Dynasty" )” and “IPA Gothic (IPAゴシック)”. The font is derived from two fonts designed by Takao Hayashi: "TB 明体" and "TB黑体" of TypeBank.

Carved stone record I. Yan body

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This font is modified by Wang Hanzong Yanti, and the missing or unsightly parts of the original font are remade and trimmed, such as full half-width letters, hiragana, katakana, Latin letters, Russian letters , Arabic numerals, circle characters, common symbols, etc. As for the modification of the Chinese characters, there are no more than two kinds of work: first, changing the font and writing, and second, adding missing characters. Those who change the font change some of the conventional writing in the font into orthodox characters. For example: the word "Qing" originally starts from "Yen", that is, "Dan"; However, since the Yan style is developed from brush regular script, it is a handwritten font, so some handwriting methods are also accepted, such as the word "羽" writing "point, pick"; "飠" is not changed to "飞" and so on. For supplementary characters, the characters in the list of commonly used Hong Kong foreign characters are added.

13.Fandol series fonts

Download URL http://ctan.org/pkg/fandol

FandolFang, FandolHei, FandolKai, FandolSong four fonts, released based on GNUGENERALPUBLICLICENSEVersion3, commercially available.

14. Pangmen Zhengdao title style

Download address http://www.zcool.com.cn/work/ZMjA0MDg0MDA=.html

This font is jointly produced by Pangmen Zhengdao and Ziyou Space Creative Studio.

15.851 handwritten fonts

Download URL http://www39.atpages.jp/yagoinienie/851fontpage.html

This is a font made by a Japanese, so it will be a Japanese font (however, the author said that he did not follow the Japanese standard in many places, so it is called a miscellaneous font).

The author's description is free to use and redistribute, and it is commercially available, but the copyright is reserved, and the font is still being updated and added.

16. Taiwan Ministry of Education series fonts

Big5 Taiwan standard font launched by Taiwan Ministry of Education.

Taiwan Ministry of Education Standard Regular Script

Download address>

The copyright of this font file adopts CC "Name Marking-Prohibition to be changed to 3.0 Taiwan version".

Taiwan Ministry of Education Standard Arial

Download address>

The copyright of this font file adopts CC "Name Marking-Prohibition to be changed into 3.0 Taiwan version".

Taiwan Ministry of Education Guozi Lishu

Download https://depart.moe.edu.tw/ED2400/News_Content.aspx?n=8940E5C0456177C3&sms=893AAA1CBFE149DE&s=AA29AF7FE3BAD13F

The copyright of this font file adopts CC "Name Marking-Prohibition to be changed into 3.0 Taiwan version". This font file only includes 4808 characters in the commonly used character set.

17.DroidSansFallback (free non-commercial [unknown])

DroidSansFallback is a font designed by Taiwan Huakang Technology (Weifeng Digital) for the characters of East Asian countries when Google launched Android devices. It inherits the design style of DFHeiW5-A, but at the same time, the frame structure of some glyphs is not perfect. After that, Wenquanyi began to design Wenquanyi micron black based on DroidSansFallback. It can be said that DroidSansFallback and Wenquanyi micron black have a strong blood relationship.

In addition, this authorization is also very unclear. Wenquanyi can use it as a blueprint for design, it should be open source, and many people say that it was released by Apache2.0, but later, I read it on other websites. It is not commercially available until now, so it is very confusing, so be careful for safety.

Downloading this does not make much sense, just use Wenquanyi micron black directly and it will be OK.

18. Arphic font (free and non-commercial)

Download URL http://www.arphic.com.tw/zh-tw/support/index#download

In the past, there were many free and commercially available Arphic fonts, but now they are gone.

Thanks to @yyt for the reminder

On the Internet, these fonts of Arphic have been mentioned as free, but does this free include commercial use? I checked again, Arphic’s so-called public authorization means not for commercial use.

Arphic is best known for donating four sets of fonts to the open source software community in 1999: Arphic PL Fine Shanghai Song (Traditional Big5), Arphtic PL Zhongkai (Traditional Big5), Arphtic PL Briefing Song (simplified GB code), Arphage PL simplified Chinese Kai (simplified GB code, that is, both traditional and simplified Song Kai are available). Later, Yinghuofei added dot matrix characters to form Arphic PL Xinsong, and Gao Shenghua improved it into uming and ukai, which have been included in major Linux distributions. The Arphic Public License used for these fonts is recognized by the Free Software Foundation as a free software license.

In 2010, two new sets of public authorized fonts were provided: Arphic PL Ming Ti U20-L and Arphic PL Baosong 2GBK (new Chinese public authorized fonts, using Unicode and GBK codes, the number of Chinese characters is 20902 characters respectively and 21,003 characters, more than 7,000 characters and 14,000 characters more than the old version of the public authorized font).

However, these two sets of fonts use the newly revised Arphic Public Authorization Letter, which commercial use is prohibited, so it does not belong to the free software license.

Therefore, these five are free and non-commercial: Wending Fine Shanghai Song Traditional, Wending Zhongkai Traditional, Wending Baosong Simplified, Wending Jian Zhongkai Simplified, and Wending PL Mining U20-L.

19. Hong Kong reference Song typeface (free and non-commercial)

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The reference fonts purchased by the Hong Kong government from Huakang Technology include simplified and traditional characters and more than 4,000 Hong Kong characters added in the "Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set-2001", a total of 35,399 characters. Although the relevant parties claim that the font complies with the Hong Kong standard, there are many places that do not conform to the writing methods stipulated in the "List of Commonly Used Fonts" recognized by the Education and Manpower Bureau, and there are many restrictions on the terms of use.

It can be used for personal use, but not for commercial use, and requires the written authorization of Huakang.

20. Xindi series fonts (free and non-commercial)

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Hanyi Xindi Small Ball Body and Hanyi Xindi Afternoon Tea Body can be used for personal use, but not for commercial use.

Moreover, it must be noted that any fonts of Xindi Fonts, whether purchased or not authorized, cannot be used for the following purposes:

Hospital ad promoting abortion

Ads for plastic surgery for non-medical purposes

Tobacco Product Advertising

Edible dogs, cats and other companion animals

Eating and hunting endangered animals

21. National Taiwan University Chinese font (free and non-commercial)

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A derivative product of the National Taiwan University "Bitmap to Truetype" program, transferred from the bitmap fonts of Huakang Technology and Eten.

Including NTU bold round script, NTU imitation Song style common characters, NTU regular script, NTU official script common characters, NTU Zhongming style, NTU medium round script, NTU extra fine script, all are Big5 fonts. Not for commercial use, Not for redistribution.

In our download address, you can see that it is a download method of sub-volume compression. All sub-volumes of each font must be downloaded in order to be successfully decompressed. After downloading, it is an ARJ format, a non-mainstream format, but , don't worry, you can decompress it directly with WINRAR without reinstalling any software.

22. Huakang font (only Ali platform)

Download address http://www.dynacw.com.cn/news/news_detail.aspx?s=7

I don't say anything about this, I can't talk about it.

I'm roughly sure that it's free and commercially available, and that's about it. The ability is limited, and you are welcome to add it (if there is any mistake, please point it out).

Finally, attach a detailed description that has been sorted out in the past few days.

If you want a PDF of this form, we also gave an address

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1i5DVbut