Adobe and Google debut open-source typeface family spanning Chinese, Japanese and Korean to serve one-quarter of the world’s population

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by Sindy Cator on July 15, 2014 at 10:00 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

Adobe has joined forces with Google to release a new set of Asian OpenType fonts that span the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. The Adobe font, named Source Han Sans, is a new open source offering for the company’s Pan-CJK typeface family. Google is simultaneously releasing its own version of this font under the name Noto Sans CJK as part of a plan to build out its Noto Pan-Unicode font family. Both sets, developed in collaboration, are identical except for the name and will serve 1.5 billion people — roughly a quarter of the world’s population. The new typeface family is available in seven weights,…