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Description

Source Han Serif is a modern Mincho-style typeface family, which is a counterpart to Source Han Sans. The family has seven weights. It covers a wide range of usage from composition of body texts to display lines. Each of the Source Han Serif TW fonts have approximately 21,000 glyphs needed for Traditional Chinese. If you need to use glyphs for the other East Asian languages, please use the separate set: Source Han Serif - Pan-CJK Traditional Chinese instead.

Version: 2.002
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

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Adobe Originals

The Adobe Originals program started in 1989 as an in-house type foundry at Adobe, brought together to create original typefaces of exemplary design quality, technical fidelity, and aesthetic longevity.

Today the Type team’s mission is to make sophisticated and even experimental typefaces that explore the possibilities of design and technology. Typefaces released as Adobe Originals are the result of years of work and study, regarded as industry standards for the ambition and quality of their development.

Open source details

Source Han Serif - Traditional Chinese Subset 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 Serif - Traditional Chinese Subset, see copyright and license details for Source Han Serif TW ExtraLight, Source Han Serif TW Light, Source Han Serif TW Regular, Source Han Serif TW Medium, Source Han Serif TW SemiBold, Source Han Serif TW Bold, and Source Han Serif TW Heavy.

Licensing Information
The full Adobe Fonts library is cleared for both personal and commercial use.

As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for:

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How to Use

You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.

Desktop

In application font menus, this font will display:

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Web

To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:


font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
        

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