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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