Fusion Pixel 12px SC
Fusion Pixel 12px SC is a free pixel font for Simplified Chinese by TakWolf, on GitHub. It draws 21,943 Chinese characters, and the English alphabet, in one weight (400). A 12-pixel face for every CJK language, fused from Ark Pixel and other open pixel fonts.
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01 / Characters
Characters of everyday words
The characters Chinese readers learn first, set in Fusion Pixel 12px SC.
Simplified characters 汉字
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
- 风fēng · wind
- 云yún · cloud
- 雨yǔ · rain
- 花huā · flower
- 春chūn · spring
- 人rén · person
- 心xīn · heart
- 爱ài · love
- 梦mèng · dream
- 龙lóng · dragon
- 马mǎ · horse
- 鸟niǎo · bird
- 鱼yú · fish
- 飞fēi · fly
- 门mén · gate
- 国guó · country
- 东dōng · east
- 学xué · learn
- 书shū · book
- 字zì · character
02 / Text
As running text
The opening of Lu Xun’s My Old Home (1921).
我冒了严寒，回到相隔二千余里，别了二十余年的故乡去。时候既然是深冬；渐近故乡时，天气又阴晦了，冷风吹进船舱中，呜呜的响，从篷隙向外一望，苍黄的天底下，远近横着几个萧索的荒村，没有一些活气。
我冒了严寒，回到相隔二千余里，别了二十余年的故乡去。时候既然是深冬；渐近故乡时，天气又阴晦了，冷风吹进船舱中，呜呜的响，从篷隙向外一望，苍黄的天底下，远近横着几个萧索的荒村，没有一些活气。
03 / Facts
What it covers
- Characters
- 21,943
- More than the 6,763 of GB 2312, the standard set
- Set
- Simplified
- As mainland China and Singapore write
- Weights
- 1
- One weight, Regular (400)
- Vertical text
- No
- No vertical forms: its marks stay where lines across put them
- Font file
- 6.7 MB
- Its Regular, from its maker’s repository
- Licence
- OFL 1.1
- Free for commercial use
Designed by TakWolf and published on GitHub, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
LatinIt draws the English alphabet too, as in its name:Fusion Pixel 12px SC
04 / Questions
Questions about Fusion Pixel 12px SC
Answered from its licence and its font file
Is Fusion Pixel 12px SC free for commercial use?
Yes. Fusion Pixel 12px SC 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 Fusion Pixel 12px SC?
FontKind doesn’t host Fusion Pixel 12px SC’s files: it comes free from TakWolf’s repository on GitHub . Open its release there and download the font files. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open.
Is Fusion Pixel 12px SC Simplified or Traditional Chinese?
Simplified: Fusion Pixel 12px SC draws the Simplified forms written in mainland China and Singapore, 21,943 characters in all. For the other set, see the Pixel fonts for Traditional Chinese.
How do I use Fusion Pixel 12px SC on a website?
Fusion Pixel 12px SC’s font file is large for a web page: 6.7 MB for the Regular file alone. So 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, under a name of your own if the font reserves its name.
Can Fusion Pixel 12px SC set vertical text?
Fusion Pixel 12px SC can, but without vertical forms: its file has no OpenType vert feature, so set vertically, its commas and full stops stay where horizontal text puts them. A browser turns its brackets itself.
Can I use Fusion Pixel 12px SC in a game or an app?
Yes. The SIL Open Font License lets you build Fusion Pixel 12px SC 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.
How many weights does Fusion Pixel 12px SC have?
Fusion Pixel 12px SC comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.
Does Fusion Pixel 12px SC have English letters?
Yes: Fusion Pixel 12px SC draws all 52 letters of the English alphabet, so a line that mixes Chinese and English can stay in one font.
Who designed Fusion Pixel 12px SC?
Fusion Pixel 12px SC was designed by TakWolf.