LXGW ZhenKai GB is a free Kai font for Simplified Chinese by LXGW, on GitHub. It draws 21,445 Chinese characters, and the English alphabet, in one weight (400). 臻楷, a Kai face from LXGW, with the mainland's standard character forms (GB).
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01 / Characters
Characters of everyday words
The characters Chinese readers learn first, set in LXGW ZhenKai GB.
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。
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
- 21,445
- 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
- Yes
- Vertical forms of its own, OpenType’s vert
- Font file
- 16.7 MB
- Its Regular, from its maker’s repository
- Licence
- OFL 1.1
- Free for commercial use
Designed by LXGW and published on GitHub, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
LatinIt draws the English alphabet too, as in its name:LXGW ZhenKai GB
05 / Questions
Questions about LXGW ZhenKai GB
Answered from its licence and its font file
Is LXGW ZhenKai GB free for commercial use?
Yes. LXGW ZhenKai GB 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 ZhenKai GB?
FontKind doesn’t host LXGW ZhenKai GB’s files: it comes free from LXGW’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 LXGW ZhenKai GB Simplified or Traditional Chinese?
Simplified: LXGW ZhenKai GB draws the Simplified forms written in mainland China and Singapore, 21,445 characters in all. For the other set, see the Kai fonts for Traditional Chinese.
How do I use LXGW ZhenKai GB on a website?
LXGW ZhenKai GB’s font file is large for a web page: 16.7 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 LXGW ZhenKai GB set vertical text?
Yes: LXGW ZhenKai GB’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 ZhenKai GB in a game or an app?
Yes. The SIL Open Font License lets you build LXGW ZhenKai GB 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 LXGW ZhenKai GB have?
LXGW ZhenKai GB 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 ZhenKai GB have English letters?
Yes: LXGW ZhenKai GB draws all 52 letters of the English alphabet, so a line that mixes Chinese and English can stay in one font.
Who designed LXGW ZhenKai GB?
LXGW ZhenKai GB was designed by LXGW.
What fonts are similar to LXGW ZhenKai GB?
The most used Simplified Chinese Kai font besides LXGW ZhenKai GB is LXGW WenKai. See every Kai font for Simplified Chinese.