Source Han Serif, Adobe and Google

This is Source Han Serif, the largest open source typeface on the market.

Source Han Serif is a pan CJK typeface, meaning it spans across Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Characters for these languages number in the tens of thousands. Source Han Serif include 65,535 glyphs (the maximum number for .otf files) and comes in 7 weights.

In Chinese Japanese Korean (CJK) languages, the same ideograph character may have subtle, but different writing conventions in different regions. Source Han Serif (or Noto CJK Serif for Google) supports writing conventions in four regions, including 18 region-specific fonts.

This Korean manuscript can be displayed with Source Han Serif (or Noto CJK Serif for Google) because the typeface supports Hangul syllables and offers support for vertical layout.

This is Ryoko Nishizuka & Frank Grießhammer, the designers of Source Han Serif.

Type designer Ryoko Nishizuka's sketches of some of the characters for Source Han Serif

Dan Rhatigan and Dr. Ken Lunde also helped with the creation of Source Han Serif.

The Adobe Type Team, Google & foundries like Sandoll, SinoType and Iwata have been working on Source Han Serif for a year and a half. It was released at the beginning of April, 2017

You can download the full font on GitHub or use it via Adobe Typekit & Google Fonts.