One thing noteworthy is that no matter what English fonts you have specified with font-family, such as ‘Arial’, the typeface will always fall back on ‘宋体’ by default if there’s any Chinese characters inside the selector. Even the design agencies you see above use 宋体 for almost all of its Chinese characters (search their css file under GBK encoding for ‘宋体’). Unlike English websites who have a relatively wide array of available typographical options, due to a lack of good common typefaces, Chinese web designers are doomed with a very limited number of fonts in which, 宋体 is undoubtedly used for more than 95% of the texts on any Chinese website. Might get what you need in their portfolio section. That’s the reason it takes so much time and effort to create a Chinese font, and it’s also why Chinese fonts rarely have a. A typical Chinese font file is usually at least 5MB in size and some of them can be over 20MB, which is problematic if you need it loaded on a website. – Currently the largest community for Web design in mainland China. The smallest standard Chinese font contains 6763 characters. – A Nanjing based web design company focusing primarily on SMB and enterprise internet marketing services. – A Beijing based big design studio who has designed fairly a few national government websites. Well, let me give you a few renowned web design agencies and communities in mainland China if you don’t know any of them yet:ġ. The 4 characters is Shakespeare in Chinese in the right column with the name of the font in the left Rutter – Glad helped out. I have also made a screenshot of how these fonts look in real Chinese characters in FF2, with normal, bold and italic states for each typeface.
微软雅黑, the new Chinese character font introduced in Vista and with IE7, though not that safe compared with the former 4 in that it’s not automatically included in the Chinese localized version of Windows XP, it’s generally accepted as the most elegant and beautiful of the Mandarin Chinese web safe fonts by Chinese web designers.隶书, renaissance of a rather traditional Chinese brush writing dating thousands of years back, generally modest and conservative with an ancient style yet powerful from within.幼圆, slender touches and rounded corners, pearl’s way.黑体, works out well in either headings or paragraphs.宋体, mostly used for large chunks of paragraphs in small font sizes.If you are making a design for or in Mandarin Chinese, especially Simplified Chinese, beside those common English web safe fonts such as Arial and Verdana shipped in MS Windows by default that 95% mainlander Chinese rely on, you can specify font-family in CSS by the following typefaces for Chinese characters, they are almost totally safe across all Chinese browsers: As I’m a mainlander Chinese, I can only speak for those computers and browsers who live in central P.R.China.