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Work · April 3, 2017

Source Han Serif

Open-source Pan-CJK typeface from Adobe and Google

Source Han Serif launched on April 3, 2017 with 77 votes, #531 of 3,007 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

An open source Pan-CJK typeface

Source Han Serif is the second Pan-CJK typeface family from Adobe Type, and the serif counterpart to Source Han Sans , both of which we released in response to a need for a unified typeface design to serve the 1.5 billion people in East Asia. Source Han Serif supports four different East Asian languages — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean — and the 65,535 glyphs in each of its seven weights are designed to work together with a consistent design that emphasizes shared elements between the languages while honoring the diversity of each. Also included is a rich set of Western glyphs supporting the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts, which were derived from Source…from source.typekit.com

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