Source Han Sans is a new open source typeface supporting Japanese, Chinese and Korean, as well as Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. As such it provides designers and content developers for international audiences one uniform font to use in print and Web files.
The font has been developed in collaboration with Adobe key partner Google and contracted foundry partners across East Asia (Changzhou SinoType, Iwata Corporation, and Sandoll Communication).
While the Japanese kanji, Chinese hanzi and Korean hanja characters share historical derivation, the typefaces have typically been individually created to support each language, with separate sets for Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Source Han Sans marks the first open source font family to support each of the languages, as well as regional variants, within the same font family, supporting languages spoken by 1.5 billion people.