Zoom in, free commercial Chinese fonts

Yesterday, a commercially available English font was pushed, and more than N people asked about Chinese fonts. It took a whole day to sort it out, and I was exhausted like a dog!

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.

01. Siyuan Blackbody

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Siyuan black body (English: Source>

02. Siyuan Song Style

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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)

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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

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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

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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, we still list the Wang Hanzong fonts that Arphic claims to be infringing here for your reference: Wang Hanzong Bold Style, Wang Hanzong Special Ming Style, Wang Hanzong Thin Round Style, Wang Hanzong Special Round Style, Wang Hanzong Die Round Style, Wang Hanzong Kanting Liu, Wang Hanzong Variety Style, Wang Hanzong Zhongxing Script, Wang Hanzong Variety Style Shuangkong Yin, Wang Hanzong Rough KaiScript Simplified. 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

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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

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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.

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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

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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. Arphic Font

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In the past, there were many free and commercially available Arphic fonts, but now there are only five: Arphic Fine Shanghai Song Traditional, Arphic Zhongkai Traditional, Arphic Baosong Simplified, Arphic Simplified Zhongkai, Arphtic PL Mining U20-L .

10. Seto font

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Seto font is a cute font that supports simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, and Japanese, including CJK common Chinese characters, flat katakana, and JIS level 1 to level 4, with a total of more than 30,000 characters.

11. Quanziku Shuowenjiezi

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"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!

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

12. Pangmen Zhengdao title style

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

13. Huakang font (Alibaba platform only)

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

I'm roughly sure that it's free and commercially available. That's about it. The ability is limited. Welcome to add. (If there is any mistake, please point out). In addition, attach some fonts that I'm not sure about. It is said that they are free and commercially available, but I'm sure No, be careful.

These fonts are found in the open source system linux. After all, they who do open source understand fonts and laws better than us!

Hong Kong Reference Times New Roman

Taiwan Ministry of Education standard font

National Taiwan University Chinese font

Cao Tanzhai Mao Zedong font

Shutifang Free Fonts

Warring States Chu bamboo slips and silk text font