Zhi Mang Xing is a free calligraphy font for Simplified Chinese by Wei Zhimang, on Google Fonts since 2019. It draws 6,763 Chinese characters, and the English alphabet, in one weight (400).
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01 / Characters
Characters of everyday words
The characters Chinese readers learn first, set in Zhi Mang Xing.
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
- 6,763
- 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
- 3.9 MB
- Its Regular: Google serves it in slices
- Licence
- OFL 1.1
- Free for commercial use
Designed by Wei Zhimang. On Google Fonts since 2019, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
LatinIt draws the English alphabet too, as in its name:Zhi Mang Xing
05 / Questions
Questions about Zhi Mang Xing
Answered from its licence and its font file
Is Zhi Mang Xing free for commercial use?
Yes. Zhi Mang Xing 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 Zhi Mang Xing?
FontKind doesn’t host Zhi Mang Xing’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts . On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file: it holds a single font file. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open.
Is Zhi Mang Xing Simplified or Traditional Chinese?
Simplified: Zhi Mang Xing draws the Simplified forms written in mainland China and Singapore, 6,763 characters in all.
How do I use Zhi Mang Xing on a website?
Through Google Fonts: its stylesheet cuts Zhi Mang Xing into about a hundred small files by character, and a browser downloads only those holding the characters a page shows, never the whole 3.9 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, under a name of your own if the font reserves its name.
Can Zhi Mang Xing set vertical text?
Zhi Mang Xing 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 Zhi Mang Xing in a game or an app?
Yes. The SIL Open Font License lets you build Zhi Mang Xing 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 Zhi Mang Xing have?
Zhi Mang Xing comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.
Does Zhi Mang Xing have English letters?
Yes: Zhi Mang Xing draws all 52 letters of the English alphabet, so a line that mixes Chinese and English can stay in one font.
Who designed Zhi Mang Xing?
Zhi Mang Xing was designed by Wei Zhimang. It has been on Google Fonts since March 2019.
What fonts are similar to Zhi Mang Xing?
The most used Simplified Chinese calligraphy fonts besides Zhi Mang Xing are Ma Shan Zheng, Long Cang and Liu Jian Mao Cao. See every Calligraphy font for Simplified Chinese.