Massive Google fail. Since days of searching have brought me no closer to answering my most pressing Chinese font questions, I bit the bullet and sat down to do some testing and write up my own guide in English for Western web and UI designers targeting users in China (yeah, all three of us).

Everything I’ve written here is the fruit of my own experiments and tests, so if you notice something I’ve missed, do write me a note at me@kendraschaefer.com

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First things first: What are the standard simplified Chinese web fonts?

Font Full Name: Microsoft YaHei Bold: Font Family: Microsoft YaHei: Font Style: Bold; Font Version: Version 0.70 December 21, 2017: Foundry: Microsoft; Source: Official; License type: Non-Commercial; The way of authorization is for reference only. Please contact the copyright party to purchase commercial authorization. Font Embedding Permission. Some of our people are working on Windows (2013 version) and some on MAC (2016). We need to use the same fonts for our communications and have the same local field for everything. I found a full list of fonts used and installed on PC, but it's impossible to get one for MAC. I really need the full list of fonts installed by Office 2016 on MACs. Microsoft iYaHei is a Simplified Chinese font developed by taking advantage of ClearType technology, and it provides excellent reading experience particularly onscreen. The font is very legible at small sizes. Consolas-with-Yahei Description: This is a Customed 'Consolas' Font, Keep all Latin characters of Consolas，and added Chinese Characters of Microsoft Yahei. Forked from Consolas-with-Yahei. This version patched the font with proper powerline characters to enhance terminal experiences. Different From 'Yahei Consolas Hybrid'.

Windows	OS X
???SimHei	????: Hiragino Sans GB [NEW FOR SNOW LEOPARD]
???SimSun	?????STHeiti Light [STXihei]
????NSimSun	?????STHeiti
???FangSong	?????STKaiti
???KaiTi	?????STSong
??_GB2312?FangSong_GB2312	?????STFangsong
??_GB2312?KaiTi_GB2312
??????Microsoft YaHei [as of Win7]

Good Rules for Using Chinese fonts in CSS

Use the Chinese characters, and also spell out the font name

When declaring a Chinese font family, it’s typically a good idea to type out the romanization of the font (for example, “SimHei”) and declare the Chinese characters as a separate font in the same declaration. What this does is help reference the font file regardless of weather it’s been stored in the local system under its Chinese or western name – you’re covering all your bases here.

Example:

font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, 'Microsoft Yahei','????', STXihei, '????', sans-serif;

Declare English target fonts before Chinese target fonts

I’m sure someone’s come up with a standardized rule on this, but I’ve never seen one, so here’s mine: always declare all your target English fonts first. Why? Because English language fonts do not contain the glyphs for Chinese characters, but Chinese fonts do contain a-z characters. What that means is that if you declare your Chinese fonts before your English fonts, any English-language computer that has the standard Chinese font faces installed will display English characters using Chinese fonts, and let’s be honest, English letters in Chinese font families are fugly.

On the other hand, if you declare your English fonts first, Roman characters will be rendered in the first font, and Chinese characters will be displayed using the fall-back (Chinese) font. This should apply even if your site is mostly in Chinese or is targeting a wholly Chinese audience, because English characters will pop up in Chinese language sites as a matter of course – in usernames, for example.

Code example:

font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Microsoft YaHei', '????', STXihei, '????', serif;

Declare the Microsoft font and the Mac font

Just like with English-language fonts, you should declare at least one Chinese font for Windows and one Chinese font for Mac (as with the Arial / Helvetica nonsense). Which one you declare first should depend first on the platform you’re targeting.

Do I have to put quotes around Chinese fonts in font declarations?

No. I asked for input on this and a few readers have responded. You do not need to do this:

font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Microsoft YaHei', '????', STXihei, '????', serif;

You can do this:

font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Microsoft YaHei', ????, STXihei, ????, serif;

A look at the major Chinese fonts

??12? – SimSun 12pt font

??, or SimSun, is by far the most commonly used base body font in Chinese web design. Personally, I dislike SimSun, in the same way many designers dislike Arial. It’s a bit heavy on the aggressively utilitarian boringness. But if what you’re looking for is the de-facto, big-uncool-websites-all-use-it Chinese font, you’ve found it. It looks like this:

Example site: Chinese video sharing site http://www.tudou.com uses SimSun as base body font.

Declare that shit:
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, tahoma, verdana, ??, SimSun, ????, STXihei, sans-serif;

???? – Microsoft YaHei

Microsoft YaHei is in my opinion, the Helvetica of the Chinese font world – it looks nice in most sizes (the Mac font equivalent is probably STXihei, the “light” version of STHeiTi). I find it’s modern, fresh and clean, and like a Rubenesque lady, is thick in all the right bits. It looks like this:

Example site: This very nice Baidu blog users MS Yahei as base body font. Astute Chinese reader and web developer DaiJie (check out his Chinese language blog, if you’re so inclined) points out that SimSun is the fall-back font for Microsoft YaHei, which was introduced as of Windows 7, and Yahei doesn’t display on older machines. He says:

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“Yahei is installed on Windows7, but still 68% of Chinese (os.data.cnzz.com) users using WinXP. We fallback to SimHei usually, but it is not as good as Microsoft YaHei. SimHei and Yahei both look good at a large font size, but are not clear enough when the font size is below 16px. When font size is large than 16 px, SimSun looks ugly. So, [we commonly use] YaHei for the title font and SimSun for the body font.”

Declare that shit (updated to add Simsun fallback):

font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, 'Microsoft YaHei New', 'Microsoft Yahei', '????', ??, SimSun, STXihei, '????', sans-serif;

?? – FangSong

FangSong is a relaxed, vaguely scripty font – maybe you could equate it to a Chinese serif. I feel that, like with many script fonts, it really does need a 14px base font size or above. It looks like this:

Declare that shit:

font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'FangSong', '??', STFangSong, '????', serif;

?? – KaiTi

Kaiti is another script font that’s a little roomier than FangSong with slightly more shapely strokes (very slightly), and the character spacing is just a little bit wider. I find that Kaiti doesn’t do well below 14pt. It looks like this:

Declare that shit:

font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'KaiTi', '??', STKaiti, '????', serif;

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What’s the deal with Chinese characters and @font-face?

Considering that most Chinese font files are kinda ginormous and typically include at least 3000 base glyphs, Chinese doesn’t lend itself very well to @font-face embedding. Many of my non-standard Chinese fonts run upwards of 5MB, and the @font-face gener

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