Naikai Font is a free Kai font for Traditional Chinese by max32002, on GitHub. It draws 28,643 Chinese characters, and the English alphabet, in 5 weights, 200–700. 內海字體, in Taiwan's character forms.
天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
01 / Characters
Characters of everyday words
The characters Chinese readers learn first, set in Naikai Font.
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。
03 / Weights
5 weights
200–700
- ExtraLight · 200天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
- Light · 300天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
- Regular · 400天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
- SemiBold · 600天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
- Bold · 700天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒
04 / Facts
What it covers
- Characters
- 28,643
- More than the 13,053 of Big5, the standard set
- Set
- Traditional
- As Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau write
- Weights
- 5
- 200–700
- Vertical text
- No
- No vertical forms: its marks stay where lines across put them
- Font file
- 25.0 MB
- Its Regular, from its maker’s repository
- Licence
- OFL 1.1
- Free for commercial use
Designed by max32002 and published on GitHub, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
LatinIt draws the English alphabet too, as in its name:Naikai Font
- LXGW WenKai TC17,885 characters3 weights
- LXGW WenKai Mono TC17,885 characters3 weights
- Iansui10,342 characters1 weight (400)
- Bpmf Zihi Kai Std13,436 characters1 weight (400)
- Bpmf Iansui8,371 characters1 weight (400)
All 47 Chinese fonts →The Kai fonts for Simplified Chinese →Japanese, Chinese and Korean fonts →
06 / Questions
Questions about Naikai Font
Answered from its licence and its font file
Is Naikai Font free for commercial use?
Yes. Naikai Font 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 Naikai Font?
FontKind doesn’t host Naikai Font’s files: it comes free from max32002’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open.
Is Naikai Font Simplified or Traditional Chinese?
Traditional: Naikai Font draws the Traditional forms written in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, 28,643 characters in all. For the other set, see the Kai fonts for Simplified Chinese.
How do I use Naikai Font on a website?
Naikai Font’s font file is large for a web page: 25.0 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 Naikai Font set vertical text?
Naikai Font 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. For vertical text, these fonts of its style have them: LXGW WenKai TC, LXGW WenKai Mono TC and Iansui.
Can I use Naikai Font in a game or an app?
Yes. The SIL Open Font License lets you build Naikai Font 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 Naikai Font have?
Naikai Font comes in five weights: ExtraLight (200), Light (300), Regular (400), SemiBold (600) and Bold (700).
Does Naikai Font have English letters?
Yes: Naikai Font draws all 52 letters of the English alphabet, so a line that mixes Chinese and English can stay in one font.
Who designed Naikai Font?
Naikai Font was designed by max32002.
What fonts are similar to Naikai Font?
The most used Traditional Chinese Kai fonts besides Naikai Font are LXGW WenKai TC, LXGW WenKai Mono TC and Iansui. See every Kai font for Traditional Chinese.