Open source font for Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean "Source Han Sans"

Multilingual open source font jointly developed by Adobe and GoogleSource Han Sans"Has been released.

The Typekit Blog | Introduction of Source Han Sans: Open-source Pan-CJK typeface
http://blog.typekit.com/alternate/source-han-sans-jp/

Google Developers Blog: Noto: A CJK Font That is Complete, Beautiful and Right for Your Language and Region
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.jp/2014/07/noto-cjk-font-that-is-complete.html

Source Han Sans' basic design was in charge of a senior designer at Adobe's font development teamRyoko NishizukaAnd she said "Words"Ryo"Ryo GothicIt is also famous as a person who designed fonts such as.


Original Sketch of Source Han Sans looks like this.


The newly created Source Han Sans is a valuable font that is provided in open source while covering English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, but it is also easy to read when printing on paper It is designed to be easy to read on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

In fact, using Source Han Sans "When you leave in the morning between Shiraei Sakurai clouds" is written like this, it will be Chinese Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English from above.


In Source Han Sans making project, for creating Japanese fontsIwataAnd with the design of Hangul charactersSandoll CommunicationWhen asked for cooperation with Changzhou Sinotype at the time of Chinese character creation, five companies including Adobe and Google collaborate, and the open source Source Han Sans is born.

Initial design of kanji.


"Bone" in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean from the left.


From the left, things with different designs are prepared for each language even for the same kanji such as Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean "days", and so on.


This font is Adobe's font subscription serviceTypekitAlso available from SourceForge and GitHub.

Source Han Sans / Home / Home
http://sourceforge.net/adobe/source-han-sans/wiki/Home/


Adobe-fonts / source-han-sans · GitHub
https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/