LXGW WenKai Mono TC is a free Kai font for Traditional Chinese by LXGW, on Google Fonts since 2024. It draws 17,885 Chinese characters, and the English alphabet, in 3 weights, 300–700. LXGW WenKai TC with every Latin letter one width, for code.
天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
01 / Characters
Characters of everyday words
The characters Chinese readers learn first, set in LXGW WenKai Mono TC.
Traditional characters 漢字
Each with its pinyin and meaning
- 永yǒng · eternal
- 天tiān · sky
- 日rì · sun
- 月yuè · moon
- 山shān · mountain
- 水shuǐ · water
- 火huǒ · fire
- 木mù · tree
- 金jīn · gold
- 土tǔ · earth
- 風fēng · wind
- 雲yún · cloud
- 雨yǔ · rain
- 花huā · flower
- 春chūn · spring
- 人rén · person
- 心xīn · heart
- 愛ài · love
- 夢mèng · dream
- 龍lóng · dragon
- 馬mǎ · horse
- 鳥niǎo · bird
- 魚yú · fish
- 飛fēi · fly
- 門mén · gate
- 國guó · country
- 東dōng · east
- 學xué · learn
- 書shū · book
- 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。
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。
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。
03 / Weights
3 weights
300–700
- Light · 300天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
- Regular · 400天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
- Bold · 700天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
04 / Facts
What it covers
- Characters
- 17,885
- More than the 13,053 of Big5, the standard set
- Set
- Traditional
- As Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau write
- Weights
- 3
- 300–700
- Vertical text
- Yes
- Vertical forms of its own, OpenType’s vert
- Font file
- 12.5 MB
- Its Regular: Google serves it in slices
- Licence
- OFL 1.1
- Free for commercial use
Designed by LXGW. On Google Fonts since 2024, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
LatinIt draws the English alphabet too, as in its name:LXGW WenKai Mono TCFonts with Latin like it →
06 / Questions
Questions about LXGW WenKai Mono TC
Answered from its licence and its font file, and each app’s own font list
Is LXGW WenKai Mono TC free for commercial use?
Yes. LXGW WenKai Mono TC 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 WenKai Mono TC?
FontKind doesn’t host LXGW WenKai Mono TC’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts . On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file: it holds three font files, one per weight. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open.
Is LXGW WenKai Mono TC Simplified or Traditional Chinese?
Traditional: LXGW WenKai Mono TC draws the Traditional forms written in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, 17,885 characters in all. For the other set, see the Kai fonts for Simplified Chinese.
How do I use LXGW WenKai Mono TC on a website?
Through Google Fonts: its stylesheet cuts LXGW WenKai Mono TC into about a hundred small files by character, and a browser downloads only those holding the characters a page shows, never the whole 12.5 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 WenKai Mono TC reserves no name, your copy may keep it.
Can LXGW WenKai Mono TC set vertical text?
Yes: LXGW WenKai Mono TC’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 WenKai Mono TC in a game or an app?
Yes. The SIL Open Font License lets you build LXGW WenKai Mono TC 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 WenKai Mono TC in Microsoft Word?
Not until you install it: LXGW WenKai Mono TC isn’t one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts. Installed, it is in Word’s font menu and PowerPoint’s. On Windows, its weights beyond Regular and Bold show as fonts of their own, such as LXGW WenKai Mono TC Light. 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 WenKai Mono TC in Google Docs?
Most likely. Search for LXGW WenKai Mono TC under More fonts in the font menu of Docs; added there, it is in Sheets and Slides too.
Is LXGW WenKai Mono TC in Figma?
Yes: LXGW WenKai Mono TC is in Figma’s font menu with all three weights, in the browser and the desktop app, with nothing to install.
How many weights does LXGW WenKai Mono TC have?
LXGW WenKai Mono TC comes in three weights: Light (300), Regular (400) and Bold (700).
Does LXGW WenKai Mono TC have English letters?
Yes: LXGW WenKai Mono TC draws all 52 letters of the English alphabet, so a line that mixes Chinese and English can stay in one font.
Who designed LXGW WenKai Mono TC?
LXGW WenKai Mono TC was designed by LXGW. It has been on Google Fonts since May 2024.
What fonts are similar to LXGW WenKai Mono TC?
The most used Traditional Chinese Kai fonts besides LXGW WenKai Mono TC are LXGW WenKai TC, Iansui and Bpmf Zihi Kai Std. See every Kai font for Traditional Chinese.