Essential for designers: It took 8 hours to sort out 100 free commercial fonts, allowing you to get rid of copyright troubles in an instant

Introduction

Learn about commercial fonts, and solve the copyright issues that designers and Party A's father have a headache.

This article is reproduced from designer Mr. Yu

ID: shejifish

With the rapid development of the times, copyright awareness is becoming more and more important. Many designers and companies have already suffered from copyright losses, received letters from lawyers, and encountered fines.

There was a customer who used a font of Founder, but failed to "get away with it" because he did not pay the copyright fee for the font. The design work was discovered during the use of the exhibition, and the compensation was more than 20,000 yuan. Such things happened frequently. The font copyright has also caused many designers and Party A's father a headache.

Mr. Yu came to fill in the pits for everyone today. It took a day to sort out nearly a hundred free commercial fonts and share them with fish fans. I hope can help fish fans avoid font copyright issues and save more precious time.

First of all, the fonts that have been used by the public all the time, such as Song Ti, Fang Song, Hei Ti, Kai Ti, Li Shu, and You Yuan, are commercially available.

——Naughty dividing line——

1. Siyuan Blackbody

Siyuan Heiti is a particularly good font with 7 thicknesses. The open-source fonts launched by Adobe and Google for China, Japan and South Korea strictly speaking have only one font, but there are 7 levels of font weight (font thickness).

Siyuan Blackbody Extra Light

Siyuan Blackbody Light

Siyuan Blackbody Normal

Siyuan Blackbody Regular

Siyuan Blackbody Medium

Siyuan black body Bold

Siyuan Blackbody Heavy

This set of fonts is more aesthetically pleasing, including Mainland (SC), Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan (TC) versions, and a HW (monowidth) version for regular and bold fonts, mainly due to differences in English fonts, text Same width.

2. Siyuan Song Type

It is also Adobe and Google that after a year and a half of research and development, released Source Han Serif (Source Han Serif, Google called Noto Serif CJK) on April 3 this year.

Source Arial ExtraLight

Siyuan Song Typeface Light

Siyuan Song Regular

Siyuan Song Type Medium

Siyuan Arial SemiBold

Siyuan Song Bold

Siyuan Song Type Heavy

Siyuan Song typeface contains four kinds of Chinese characters, Simplified, Traditional, Japanese and Korean, with a total of 7 weights, and a total of 458,745 Chinese characters are designed. That is to say, each font weight includes 65535 glyphs.

3. Siyuan soft black body

Siyuan soft black body retains the original elegance and readability of Siyuan black body, and rounds the corners of the text, making the overall look more lively, lovely, and more energetic. There are three versions of Siyuan soft black body, the difference lies in the degree of roundness of the rounded corners, the rounded corners of L are lighter, the rounded corners of X are the heaviest, and the one in the middle is the standard version.

4. Siyuan True Black Body

Siyuan Zhenhei font is also from Japan's own font workshop. It can be called the sister work of Siyuan Rouhei.

5. Founder free font

Here is a special point, many junior designers think that Microsoft Yahei is a free font, but it is not! Its copyright belongs to Founder, please do not use it indiscriminately, causing infringement!

Founder free fonts include four fonts: Founder HeiTi, Founder Book Song, Founder Fang Song, and Founder KaiTi. This use is free for "commercial distribution".

Founder's Song Style

Block script

Founder imitation Song style

Founder Heibody Simplified

Except Shu Song, all support GBK (simplified and traditional extended), BIG-5 (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), GB12345-90 (mainland traditional), GB2312-80 (mainland simplified).

Note: Although Founder has four excellent free commercial fonts, but there is a bit of trouble that requires written authorization. If you are interested, you can check the scope of authorized use on their official website.

6. Zhanku series font

Zcool is a great communication and learning platform for designers, and it also uses resources to provide free commercial fonts for designers, which is really amazing. Special thanks to Zcool and the designers who worked hard to create fonts! Up to now, there are 4 fonts, all of which are freely authorized for use by the whole society and commercial use is allowed.

Station cool black body

Station cool high-end black

Station Cool Italian

cool happy body

Zaku High-End Black, Zaku Happy, Zaku Italian, and Zaku Hei were initiated by Hu Xiaobo, Liu Bingke, Liu Bingke, Big Cat Addic, and Hu Xiaobo respectively. Some are group design results spontaneously organized by Zcool designers, and more than 100 people may participate in the production.

7. Wang Hanzong free font

Developed and donated by Professor Wang Hanzong, Department of Mathematics, Chung Yuan University, authorized by GPL, free to use. Creation is not easy, thanks to Professor Wang Hanzong for his generous sharing!

8. Arphic public authorized font

9. Wenquanyi font

10. Seto font

11. Pangmen Zhengdao title body

12. Xindi font

13. Zheng Qingke butter body

Zheng Qingke butter body

This is a butter body launched by a personal designer, designed by Zheng Qingke.

14. Armored Ming dynasty body

Armored Ming Dynasty Style: It is a new font modified based on Siyuan Song, which can be simply understood as an old version of Siyuan Song, from Japanese font lovers.

15. Yuanjie Ming Dynasty font

This font is based on "Siyuan Song Typeface" ("Yuan ノ Ming Dynasty" in Japanese), and the destruction effect is added to make it the closest to the readable state. It can be simply understood as the destroyed version of Si Yuan Song Typeface. With considerable tension, it can be used as captions and large characters within pictures, and it is quite eye-catching and effective overall.

Yuanjie Mingchao fonts can be used for free regardless of personal use or commercial use. It is based on the SIL Open Font License 1.1 protocol.

16. Source-like bright body, source lumen body, source cloud bright body

But Ko, the administrator of Taiwan's most active font community "Zi Hei", has released three traditional Chinese fonts modified from Siyuan Song, which are open to users who need them for free download!

17. The second body of the virtuous

Xian Erti is a commercial free font jointly launched by Beijing Longquan Temple Animation Center and Hanyi Font.

The font of Xian Erti is long, with sharp starting and ending strokes and obvious thickness contrast, and the strokes are clumsy with a slight sense of curve. The font combination structure is loose and the center of gravity is unstable, achieving a humorous and lovable effect.

18. Super thin font

19. Taiwan Mingti

Taiwan Mingti cwTeXMing is an old glyph appearance, to a certain extent modeled on the font of the ancient book "Kangxi Dictionary". The glyph structure is stable, solemn and generous, and it is suitable for printing ancient books.

20. Handwritten miscellaneous fonts

851 handwritten miscellaneous fonts, free modification and redistribution, commercially available, but copyright reserved.

21. Fandol

From a bankrupt font company, now open source!

22. Carved Stone Record

Carved Stone Record Pen Crane Body, Carved Stone Record Ming Body, Carved Stone Record Yan Body

23. Ministry of Education

Big5 Taiwan standard font launched by Taiwan Ministry of Education. Taiwan Ministry of Education Standard Regular Script, Taiwan Ministry of Education Standard Song Style, Taiwan Ministry of Education National Character Official Script.

24. Yang Rendong bamboo stone body

Yang Rendong's bamboo and stone fonts are very beautiful, and the overall style looks simple and elegant. This set of fonts contains seven different thicknesses, and these seven sets are free for commercial use, suitable for posters, logos, web pages, APPs, etc.

25. Garden Ming Dynasty Style

Hanazono (Hanazono) is a free font, developed for 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).