Category Sans-serif Foundry Adobe Trademark Adobe | Commissioned by Adobe, Google Date created 2014 | |
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Classification East Asian gothic typeface | ||
Source Han Sans is a sans-serif gothic typeface created by Adobe and Google. Latin-script letters and numerals are taken from the Source Sans Pro font, while simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese characters are created by Changzhou SinoType Technology Co., Ltd., Sandoll Communications Inc., and Iwata Corporation.
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The kana characters were designed by Ryoko Nishizuka of Adobe Systems Incorporated, Akira Mizuno (Technical Director, Iwata Corporation), Kazuo Hashimoto (Chief Designer, Iwata Corporation), and Tomihisa Uchida (R&D Director, Iwata Corporation).
The Korean hangul characters, Japanese and Korean ideographs were designed by Sandoll Communication by Kang Ju-yeon directed by Chang Soo-young. CJK ideographs ranges 17627-51760 were designed by Changzhou SinoType.
Specification of the glyph set and Unicode mappings, CJK glyph consolidation were done by Ken Lunde of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
The font family includes seven font weights: ExtraLight 100, Light 200, Normal 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, Bold 700, and Heavy 900. The font contains 65,535 glyphs (the maximum possible in a TrueType font), and covers 29,777 CJK Unified Ideographs and 409 CJK Compatibility Ideographs specified in the Unicode Standard.
Noto Sans CJK (2014)
The Source Han Sans font family was also released under the names Noto Sans CJK JP, Noto Sans CJK KR, Noto Sans CJK SC, Noto Sans TC by Google as part of its Noto fonts family.
The Noto version of the font families include font weights in Thin 250, Light 300, DemiLight 350, Regular 400, Medium 500, Bold 700, Black 900.
Source Han Code JP (2015)
Source Han Code JP (源ノ角ゴシック Code JP) is a monospaced font family using Latin glyphs from Source Code Pro, with Latin glyphs are scaled to match Japanese characters, and their widths are adjusted to be exactly 667 units (two-thirds of an EM). The remaining characters were from Source Han Sans JP fonts with glyph set supporting only Japanese.
Noto Sans Mono CJK
Noto Sans Mono CJK fonts are monospaced versions of Noto Sans CJK, which includes glyphs in 4 language variants.
Noto Sans Mono CJK was introduced in Noto Sans CJK version 1.002 package.