![]() Our project had now grown to become a collaborative effort between five companies - something somewhat unprecedented in the world of type design. ![]() We chose to partner with Iwata to expand our Japanese glyph selection. In Korea, we went with Sandoll Communication, who also designed the Korean hangul (the native alphabet of the Korean language) and in China, we partnered with our longtime friends at Changzhou Sinotype. With Ryoko’s designs in progress, we knew that to develop a truly successful Pan-CJK font, we would require expertise that could be found only in type foundries with years of in-country design experience. Type designer, Ryoko Nishizuka, drawing some of the characters for Source Han Sans. But despite its simplification, it retains much of the elegance of a traditional sans serif typeface design, providing a high level of readability for text consisting of single lines or short phrases as found in software menus, or for longer text blocks such as those found in ebooks. This makes it more readable on smaller devices such as tablets and smartphones. Ryoko created a typeface that is moderately modern in style, with simplified strokes and a monolinear quality. More information on Google’s Noto Sans CJK family is available on their blog. The new design needed to complement both, since Google is also offering their own version of this font. Finally, Adobe planned on including Source Sans for the Latin glyphs, and Google needed the font to work well with their Roboto and Noto Sans families. The key requirements were daunting: the family had to cover the broad set of languages mentioned above, and also support regional glyph variations from the regions using those languages. (In some cases, glyphs based on an original Chinese pictograph might have as many as four regional variations.) It was also very important that the typeface perform exceptionally well for print, and across the screens of the many tablets and mobile devices in use today. Ryoko Nishizuka, a Senior Designer on our Tokyo-based type team, created the underlying designs for the new typeface family. It was a good match Google contributed significant input into project direction, helped to define requirements, provided in-country testing resources and expertise, and provided funding that made this project possible Adobe brought strong design and technical prowess to the table, along with proven in-country type design experience, massive coordination, and automation. They reached out to Adobe, where we had recently started development on our own open source typeface family. Our discussions with the type team at Google started more than three years ago when they identified a need for an open-source typeface that covered a broad set of East Asian languages. ![]() This is a rather large undertaking for any type foundry, and we couldn’t have done it without Google as a key partner. Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences, and the release of Source Han Sans is yet another way we can forward that vision by giving to the community. Never before has a typeface family of this magnitude, development scope, and value been offered via open source - which makes it a no-cost solution for designers, developers, and everyday users who need a font supporting a broad set of languages. All told, each font weight in the family has a total of 65,535 glyphs (the maximum supported in the OpenType format), and the entire family rounds out at just under half a million total glyphs. It also includes Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs from our popular Source Sans family. Source Han Sans, available in seven weights, is a typeface family which provides full support for Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, all in one font. 한국어로 이 글을 봅니다 (Read this article in Korean) ![]() 日本語の記事を読む (Read this article in Japanese) 阅读该文章的简体中文版本 (Read this article in Chinese Simplified) 閱讀該文章的繁體中文版本 (Read this article in Chinese Traditional) And for those who want to play with the original source files, you can get those from our download page on GitHub. ![]() If you don’t have a Typekit account, it’s easy to set one up and start using the font immediately with our free subscription. Adobe, in partnership with Google, is pleased to announce the release of Source Han Sans, a new open source Pan-CJK typeface family that is now available on Typekit for desktop use. ![]()
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