Chinese Font

A list of free Chinese fonts, royalty free Chinese fonts to download. You can use these fonts on Microsoft Windows computer or a Mac computer. These fonts are True type fonts (TTF).

LaTeX supports many worldwide languages by means of some special packages. This article explains how to typeset Chinese documents on Overleaf.

Generally used fonts in china are Song（宋体）, Imitated song（仿宋）,Xingkai（行楷）, Hei（黑体）. For most users, writing essays, articles, posts, threads with Song font, it looks standard, easy to read. Google Fonts is a library of 1,075 free licensed font families and APIs for conveniently using the fonts via CSS and Android. We also provide delightful, beautifully crafted icons for common actions and items. Download them for use in your digital products for Android, iOS, and web. Looking for Chinese font? Visit Fonts2u and download free Chinese fonts for Windows or Macintosh.

The recommended approach is to use the XƎLaTeX or LuaLaTeX compilers, as they support UTF-8 directly and allows more flexibility to work with TrueType and OpenType fonts. See this article to learn how to change the compiler in Overleaf.

The ctexart document class here is provided by the ctex bundle, which implements common Chinese typesetting practices. We discuss further details about the ctex classes below.

Modern computer systems allow you to input letters of national alphabets directly from the keyboard. In order to handle characters for Simplified Chinese typesetting you can use the ctex document classes: ctexart, ctexrep, ctexbook and ctexbeamer.

The ctexart class (and other ctex classes) provides Chinese localisation, much like babel. You will not only be able to typeset Chinese characters, but also define elements such as 'Abstract' and the 'Table of Contents' that will be properly translated as 摘要 and 目录.

You can import external fonts to your document, either uploading them to the same directory of your LaTeX file, or using system-wide fonts. For instance, if the BabelStone Han font is already installed on your system, you can use it in your document with

Additional fonts for some parts of the document can be established. To set a specific font for elements that use sans font style use setCJKsansfont{} and for elements that are displayed in monospace font, such as verbatim environments, use the command setCJKmonofont{}. You can refer to the list of Chinese fonts available on Overleaf here.

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Notice that the last line in the example at the introduction is actually using Traditional Chinese characters. This is accomplished by the Fandol font (the default) because this font includes them. So, with the right font, you can actually typeset your document in both simplified and traditional Chinese. If you use a traditional- or simplified-only font, though, then characters whose glyphs are not available would not show up in the output PDF.

You may sometimes be using a different document class e.g. memoir or a thesis .cls provided by your university, but would still like like to use the ctex bundle. You can load the ctex package in this case:

If the complete localisation ctex classes and package feels like an overkill and you just want to typeset some Chinese characters, you can use the xeCJK package.

The xeCJK package only works when compiled with XƎLaTeX.

The CJKutf8 package can also be used to generate a document with pdfLaTeX. Chinese (and Japanese/Korean) text must be placed inside a CJK environment, so this is usually only convenient for documents in English with bits of Chinese text or vice-versa.

The line usepackage{CJKutf8} imports CJKutf8 which enables utf8 encoding for Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts.

In this case every block of Chinese text must be typed inside a begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{gbsn} environment. In this environment UTF8 is the encoding and gbsn is the font to be used. You can use gbsn or gkai fonts for simplified characters, and bsmi or bkai for traditional characters.

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Instructions:

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Prior to installation of the below fonts, please make sure that Chinese characters is enabled in your computer. For recent version of Mac OS X, Chinese characters are enabled by default, you don't need to configure anything. But for Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista user, go to 'Control Panel' -> 'Regional Settings' to enable/select Chinese (simplified or Tradtitional).

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After downloading the desired fonts. You need to go to 'Control Panel' -> 'fonts', click 'file' and then 'Install New Fonts' to proceed with the installation of the Chinese fonts. Restart your word processing program and you shall be able to use the fonts you installed.

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