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LXGW Marker Gothic

永: 永 · Yǒng, “eternal”: its strokes are the brush’s eight

LXGW Marker Gothic is a free Hei font for Traditional Chinese by LXGW, on Google Fonts since 2025. It draws 13,170 Chinese characters, and the English alphabet, in one weight (400).

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天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒

The opening of the Thousand Character Classic · Regular 400

01 / Characters

Characters of everyday words

The characters Chinese readers learn first, set in LXGW Marker Gothic.

Traditional characters 漢字

Each with its pinyin and meaning

  1. 永yǒng · eternal
  2. 天tiān · sky
  3. 日rì · sun
  4. 月yuè · moon
  5. 山shān · mountain
  6. 水shuǐ · water
  7. 火huǒ · fire
  8. 木mù · tree
  9. 金jīn · gold
  10. 土tǔ · earth
  11. 風fēng · wind
  12. 雲yún · cloud
  13. 雨yǔ · rain
  14. 花huā · flower
  15. 春chūn · spring
  16. 人rén · person
  17. 心xīn · heart
  18. 愛ài · love
  19. 夢mèng · dream
  20. 龍lóng · dragon
  21. 馬mǎ · horse
  22. 鳥niǎo · bird
  23. 魚yú · fish
  24. 飛fēi · fly
  25. 門mén · gate
  26. 國guó · country
  27. 東dōng · east
  28. 學xué · learn
  29. 書shū · book
  30. 字zì · character

02 / Text

As running text

The opening of Lu Xun’s My Old Home (1921), in Traditional characters.

我冒了嚴寒，回到相隔二千餘里，別了二十餘年的故鄉去。時候既然是深冬；漸近故鄉時，天氣又陰晦了，冷風吹進船艙中，嗚嗚的響，從篷隙向外一望，蒼黃的天底下，遠近橫著幾個蕭索的荒村，沒有一些活氣。

Set large

我冒了嚴寒，回到相隔二千餘里，別了二十餘年的故鄉去。時候既然是深冬；漸近故鄉時，天氣又陰晦了，冷風吹進船艙中，嗚嗚的響，從篷隙向外一望，蒼黃的天底下，遠近橫著幾個蕭索的荒村，沒有一些活氣。

At reading size · 16 px

我冒了嚴寒，回到相隔二千餘里，別了二十餘年的故鄉去。時候既然是深冬；漸近故鄉時，天氣又陰晦了，冷風吹進船艙中，嗚嗚的響，從篷隙向外一望，蒼黃的天底下，遠近橫著幾個蕭索的荒村，沒有一些活氣。

Set vertically

03 / Facts

What it covers

Characters
13,170
More than the 13,053 of Big5, the standard set
Set
Traditional
As Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau write
Weights
1
One weight, Regular (400)
Vertical text
Yes
Vertical forms of its own, OpenType’s vert
Font file
3.0 MB
Its Regular: Google serves it in slices
Licence
OFL 1.1
Free for commercial use

Designed by LXGW. On Google Fonts since 2025, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Get it on Google Fonts Its licence file

LatinIt draws the English alphabet too, as in its name:LXGW Marker GothicFonts with Latin like it →

04 / Hei

More Hei Traditional Chinese fonts

Every Hei font for Traditional Chinese →

All 47 Chinese fonts →The Hei fonts for Simplified Chinese →Japanese, Chinese and Korean fonts →

05 / Questions

Questions about LXGW Marker Gothic

Answered from its licence and its font file, and each app’s own font list

Is LXGW Marker Gothic free for commercial use?

Yes. LXGW Marker Gothic is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale: print, websites, apps, videos and logos, for clients and in products. What it forbids is selling the font file on its own.

How do I download and install LXGW Marker Gothic?

FontKind doesn’t host LXGW Marker Gothic’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts . On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file: it holds a single font file. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open.

Is LXGW Marker Gothic Simplified or Traditional Chinese?

Traditional: LXGW Marker Gothic draws the Traditional forms written in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, 13,170 characters in all. For the other set, see the Hei fonts for Simplified Chinese.

How do I use LXGW Marker Gothic on a website?

Through Google Fonts: its stylesheet cuts LXGW Marker Gothic into about a hundred small files by character, and a browser downloads only those holding the characters a page shows, never the whole 3.0 MB Regular file. To host it yourself, cut it down to the characters your pages use, a step called subsetting, and serve it as WOFF2: the SIL Open Font License allows that, and as LXGW Marker Gothic reserves no name, your copy may keep it.

Can LXGW Marker Gothic set vertical text?

Yes: LXGW Marker Gothic’s file has vertical forms, the OpenType vert feature, so in a vertical line its commas, full stops and brackets turn and move as they should. On a web page, CSS writing-mode: vertical-rl sets a block vertically; Word, InDesign and Illustrator have vertical text of their own.

Can I use LXGW Marker Gothic in a game or an app?

Yes. The SIL Open Font License lets you build LXGW Marker Gothic into a game, an app or an e-book, sold or free, with no separate licence to buy, as many paid fonts require. Ship its licence with the font files, and don’t sell the font on its own.

Is LXGW Marker Gothic in Microsoft Word?

Not until you install it: LXGW Marker Gothic isn’t one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts. Installed, it is in Word’s font menu and PowerPoint’s. For someone who hasn’t installed it, turn on Embed fonts in the file in Word’s save options: its licence allows that.

Is LXGW Marker Gothic in Google Docs?

Most likely. Search for LXGW Marker Gothic under More fonts in the font menu of Docs; added there, it is in Sheets and Slides too.

Is LXGW Marker Gothic in Figma?

Yes: LXGW Marker Gothic is in Figma’s font menu, in the browser and the desktop app, with nothing to install.

How many weights does LXGW Marker Gothic have?

LXGW Marker Gothic comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.

Does LXGW Marker Gothic have English letters?

Yes: LXGW Marker Gothic draws all 52 letters of the English alphabet, so a line that mixes Chinese and English can stay in one font.

Who designed LXGW Marker Gothic?

LXGW Marker Gothic was designed by LXGW. It has been on Google Fonts since May 2025.

What fonts are similar to LXGW Marker Gothic?

The most used Traditional Chinese Hei fonts besides LXGW Marker Gothic are Noto Sans TC, Noto Sans HK and Chocolate Classical Sans. See every Hei font for Traditional Chinese.