Licensing & Commercial Use Summary
About This Font
Source Han Serif CN is a comprehensive serif typeface designed by Ryoko NISHIZUKA, Frank Grießhammer, and a team of international experts. Released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), this open-source font supports Simplified Chinese (zh-CN), Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean, and English scripts. With its elegant, classic serif structure, it is ideal for long-form reading, editorial design, and print materials that require a refined, traditional appearance. The font is available in Bold and Regular weights, packaged as TTF files for easy installation.
Key Features
- OFL-licensed open-source font, free for personal and commercial use
- Supports Simplified Chinese, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean, and English
- Classic serif design with high readability for body text and headings
- Includes Regular and Bold weights for versatile typographic hierarchy
- Designed by a global team of type experts from Adobe and Sandoll Communications
Recommended Use Cases
Font Information
- Font Family
- Source Han Serif CN
- Font Type
- Serif
- Designer
- Ryoko NISHIZUKA 西塚涼子 (kana & ideographs); Frank Grießhammer (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic); Wenlong ZHANG 张文龙 (bopomofo); Sandoll Communications 산돌커뮤니케이션, Soohyun PARK 박수현, Yejin WE 위예진 & Donghoon HAN 한동훈 (hangul elements, letters & syllables)
- Foundry
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
- License
- OFL
- File Formats
- TTF
- Font Weights
- Bold, Regular
- File Size
- 13.82 MB
- Release Date
- 2025-06-18
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-13
Copyright
Copyright © 2017 Adobe Systems Incorporated (http://www.adobe.com/), with Reserved Font Name 'Source'. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This Font Software is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the SIL Open Font License for the specific language, permissions and limitations governing your use of this Font Software.