Source Han Sans, designed by Ryoko Nishizuka (西塚涼子), is the companion sans serif–style Pan-CJK typeface family to Source Han Serif, and is offered in seven weights—ExtraLight, Light, Normal, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Heavy—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 by the Source Han typeface families, are intended to support and render the most important characters for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Version: 2.005
Simplified Chinese: All GB 18030 hanzi, all 8,105 hanzi of Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzìbiǎo (通用规范汉字表), 199 of which are outside of GB 18030
Traditional Chinese — Taiwan: All Big Five hanzi (aka CNS 11643 Planes 1 and 2), all HKSCS-2016 hanzi (the glyphs may or may not adhere to the Taiwan MOE glyph standard), seven ETen hanzi, 15 additional hanzi
Traditional Chinese — Hong Kong: All Big Five hanzi (aka CNS 11643 Planes 1 and 2),all HKSCS-2016 hanzi, seven ETen hanzi, 15 additional hanzi
Japanese: All Adobe-Japan1-6 kanji (a superset of those in JIS X 0208, JIS X 0213 & JIS X 0212)
Korean: All contemporary (11,172) and 500 high-frequency archaic hangul syllables, conjoining hangul jamo (with full archaic hangul support), all KS X 1001 and KS X 1002 hanja (7,476), 466 additional hanja
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Open source details
Source Han Sans - Pan-CJK Simplified Chinese is available via an open source license. You're free to use it with your Adobe Fonts account just as you would any other font in the Adobe Fonts library. For information regarding other uses of Source Han Sans - Pan-CJK Simplified Chinese, see copyright and license details for Source Han Sans SC ExtraLight, Source Han Sans SC Light, Source Han Sans SC Normal, Source Han Sans SC Regular, Source Han Sans SC Medium, Source Han Sans SC Bold, and Source Han Sans SC Heavy.
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font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
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