Swei Gothic SC is a free rounded font for Simplified Chinese by max32002, on GitHub. It draws 30,020 Chinese characters, and the English alphabet, in 6 weights, 100–900. 獅尾圓體, a rounded face built on Source Han Sans.
天地玄黄 宇宙洪荒
01 / Characters
Characters of everyday words
The characters Chinese readers learn first, set in Swei Gothic 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。
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 / Weights
6 weights
100–900
- Thin · 100天地玄黄 宇宙洪荒
- Light · 300天地玄黄 宇宙洪荒
- Regular · 400天地玄黄 宇宙洪荒
- Medium · 500天地玄黄 宇宙洪荒
- Bold · 700天地玄黄 宇宙洪荒
- Black · 900天地玄黄 宇宙洪荒
04 / Facts
What it covers
- Characters
- 30,020
- More than the 6,763 of GB 2312, the standard set
- Set
- Simplified
- As mainland China and Singapore write
- Weights
- 6
- 100–900
- Vertical text
- Yes
- Vertical forms of its own, OpenType’s vert
- Font file
- 15.6 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:Swei Gothic SC
05 / Questions
Questions about Swei Gothic SC
Answered from its licence and its font file
Is Swei Gothic SC free for commercial use?
Yes. Swei Gothic 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 Swei Gothic SC?
FontKind doesn’t host Swei Gothic SC’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 Swei Gothic SC Simplified or Traditional Chinese?
Simplified: Swei Gothic SC draws the Simplified forms written in mainland China and Singapore, 30,020 characters in all. For the other set, see the Yuan (rounded) fonts for Traditional Chinese.
How do I use Swei Gothic SC on a website?
Swei Gothic SC’s font file is large for a web page: 15.6 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 Swei Gothic SC set vertical text?
Yes: Swei Gothic SC’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 Swei Gothic SC in a game or an app?
Yes. The SIL Open Font License lets you build Swei Gothic 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 Swei Gothic SC have?
Swei Gothic SC comes in six weights, from Thin (100) to Black (900).
Does Swei Gothic SC have English letters?
Yes: Swei Gothic SC draws all 52 letters of the English alphabet, so a line that mixes Chinese and English can stay in one font.
Who designed Swei Gothic SC?
Swei Gothic SC was designed by max32002.