As designers, we have to use a large number of fonts to achieve the effect we want when drawing, but fonts are copyrighted. It is said that Baofeng and Baojie were sued by Fangzheng a few years ago and lost hundreds or tens of millions (I Oh my god, I scared the baby to death)

Recently, I saw in the group that someone else has received a letter from a lawyer. I also received one at the end of last year.

, a font costs tens of thousands! (I fainted in front of the computer in fear), what you may not know is that even Microsoft Yahei is square...

So which fonts are available for free commercial use? ? ?

Brother Yan spent some time checking one by one, checking the authorization, and summarized and sorted out these fonts that are free for commercial use.

1. Siyuan Heidi

Siyuan Heidi, an open source font launched by Adobe and Google for China, Japan and South Korea, strictly speaking has only one font, but the font weight (font thickness) is divided into seven levels.

▲Siyuan Blackbody Extra Light

▲Siyuan Blackbody Light

▲Siyuan Heidi Normal

▲Siyuan Heidi Regular

▲Siyuan Heidi Medium

▲Siyuan Heidi Bold

▲Siyuan Heidi Heavy

This set of fonts is relatively beautiful and includes two versions: Mainland (SC) and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan (TC). It also has an HW (monoswidth) version for regular and bold fonts, mainly Differences in English fonts, the text width is the same.

2. Siyuan Song Ti

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

▲Siyuan Songti Extra Light

▲Siyuan Songti Light

▲Siyuan Songti Regular

▲Siyuan Songti Medium

▲Siyuan Songti SemiBold

▲Siyuan Songti Bold

▲Siyuan Songti Heavy

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

3. Alibaba Inclusive Organization

The biggest feature of Alibaba's inclusive body is undoubtedly universal, open and universal. The design style of Puhuite can simultaneously meet the following 9 most common business scenarios: client (Taobao, Tmall, etc.), marketing scenarios (pages, materials), offline large screens, operating systems, IoT hardware equipment, and architectural space , public relations communication, gifts, merchant authorization.

Alibaba Inclusive Sports-Light

Alibaba inclusive body-Regular

Alibaba Inclusive Body-Medium

Alibaba Inclusive Body-Bold

Alibaba Inclusive Sports-Heavy

4. Zokuu series fonts

As of now, there are 7 fonts, all of which are free and authorized for use by the whole society, and commercial use is allowed.

▲Stand cool black body

▲Station cool high-end black

▲Stand cool Italian style

▲Station cool and happy body

▲Stand Cool Qingke Butter Body

▲Zhanku Xiaowei LOGO

▲Stand cool literary and artistic style

Zhan Cool High-End Black, Zhan Cool Happy Body, Zhan Cool Italian Body, Zhan Cool Black Body, Zhan Cool Qingke Butter Body, Zhan Cool Literary Body, and Zhan Cool Xiaowei LOGO Body,were designed by Hu Xiaobo and Initiated by Liu Bingke, Liu Bingke, Da Mao Addic, and Hu Xiaobo. Some are group design results voluntarily organized by website cool designers, and more than 100 people may participate in the production.

5. Pangmenzhengdao title style

A public welfare project launched by Pangmen Zhengdao Amen quoted a sentence from Amen to express their attitude towards this set of fonts: "No time limit, no limit, no charge, use it as you like!"

▲Pangmenzhengdao title style

This set of fonts was designed by the designers of Ziyou Space for many months. The fonts are relatively flat and smooth, and the design is highly malleable.

6. Founder Series

Founder provides four free fonts, Kaili, Hei, Fang Song, and Shu Song, which can be released commercially as long as they are not converted, adapted, or disseminated.

▲Fangzheng calligraphy in Song style

▲Founder regular script

▲Fangzheng imitation of Song Dynasty

▲Founder black font simplified

Except for Shu and Song, all four encodings are supported: GBK (Extended Simplified and Traditional), BIG-5 (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), GB12345-90 (Mainland Traditional), and GB2312-80 (Mainland Simplified).

Note: Although Founder has four excellent free fonts that are commercially available, it is a bit troublesome and requires written authorization. If you are interested, you can check the scope of authorized use on their official website.

7. Wenquanyi font series

Speaking of the originator of open source Chinese fonts, Wenquanyi, a public welfare project launched by scholar Fang Qianqian in 2004, should be considered one. It is open source and allows commercial release.

▲Wenquanyi Zhenghei

▲Wenquanyi micron black

It is said that the original intention of launching this project was to improve the lack of high-quality Chinese fonts at the time and adapt to Linux system development. There are not many fonts, but the supported characters are quite comprehensive.

8. Zheng Qingke Butter Body

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

▲Zheng Qingke’s buttery body

9. Xindi series fonts (note: this series is no longer available for free commercial use)

Xindi fonts have five free fonts, namely:Xindi Wenzheng Mingti free version, Xindi Xiaowanzi primary school student version, Xindi Xiaowanzi premium version, Xindi Afternoon Tea basic version, Xindi Afternoon Tea Platinum Edition.

Note:

Xindi Fonts has stated on Weibo: All fonts are not free for commercial use, and you need to contact Hanyi for authorization matters.

▲Xindi Xiaowanzi

▲Xindi Afternoon Tea

10. Font Space

Font Space has a full range of fonts, all uploaded by users themselves. As of March 2017, there are 21 free and commercial fonts (including 2 Wenquanyi Chinese).

▲Font Space

Official download address: http://www.fontspace.com

11. Seto font

The font is a free font produced by Seto. The font includes commonly used characters in traditional Chinese and multiple languages.

▲Seto font

12. Arual

This is an English font that designers love to use. It is simple and practical.

▲Arual font

13. OPPO Sans font

At the ColorOS 7 launch conference held by OPPO in Beijing on November 20, this set of OPPO Sans fonts containing 226,003 characters will become the standard fonts of ColorOS 7. What’s more important is that OPPO announced that the OPPO Sans font is free Authorized to be used by the whole society (including commercial use).

It took some time to check and sort out hundreds of fonts in these 13 categories. If there are any omissions or errors, please give me feedback in time and I will make supplements; It is not easy to check and sort these fonts. I hope it can help. You, don't get a lawyer's letter.

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