2018 Winner
Typeface Design
Source Han Serif
Source Han Serif
Category—Typeface Design
2018 Winner
Typeface Design
Source Han Serif
Designer(s)
Ryoko Nishizuka (principal designer; kana & ideographs), Frank Grießhammer (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Soohyun Park, Yejin We & Donghoon Han (hangul elements, letters & syllables)
Client
Adobe Systems, Inc. and Google, San Jose, California
Additional Credits
WEBSITE: source.typekit.com/source-han-serif/
TWITTER: @AdobeType
MEMBERS OF THE TYPE FAMILY: Seven weights: ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, Heavy.
Four languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Japanese, Korean.
Released by Google under the name Noto Serif CJK in the same seven weights.
CONCEPT:
Source Han Serif is the companion serif-style Pan-CJK typeface family to Source Han Sans, and it is offered in seven slightly different weights and in several OpenType/CFF-based deployment configurations to accommodate various system requirements or, in some cases, limitations. Pan- CJK fonts, such as those provided in the Source Han typeface families, are intended to support and render the most important characters for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.