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LXGW WenKai (霞鹜文楷) is an open-source Chinese font derived from Fontworks' Klee One, a Japanese textbook-style typeface, extended by a solo developer with simplified and traditional Chinese characters.
LXGW WenKai (霞鹜文楷) is an open-source Chinese font derived from Fontworks' Klee One, a Japanese textbook-style typeface, extended by a solo developer with simplified and traditional Chinese characters.Is this one typeface or a whole family of variants?It has grown into a 3-weight family supporting Simplified Chinese, Traditional characters, Japanese kana and Korean hangul, plus separate spin-off releases like WenKai Screen, Lite, GB, TC and KR for different use cases.
It has grown into a 3-weight family supporting Simplified Chinese, Traditional characters, Japanese kana and Korean hangul, plus separate spin-off releases like WenKai Screen, Lite, GB, TC and KR for different use cases.How do I get and install the font?Download the TTF files from the GitHub Releases page or the fonts/TTF folder; on macOS with Homebrew run 'brew install font-lxgw-wenkai', and on Windows with Scoop run 'scoop bucket add nerd-fonts && scoop install LXGWWenKai'.
Download the TTF files from the GitHub Releases page or the fonts/TTF folder; on macOS with Homebrew run 'brew install font-lxgw-wenkai', and on Windows with Scoop run 'scoop bucket add nerd-fonts && scoop install LXGWWenKai'.Can I sell or freely embed this font in my own products?Personal and commercial use, embedding in apps, and bundling with software are all free and don't require notifying the author, but OFL 1.1 forbids selling the font files on their own, and derivative fonts can't use the reserved names '霞鹜/LXGW' without written permission.
Personal and commercial use, embedding in apps, and bundling with software are all free and don't require notifying the author, but OFL 1.1 forbids selling the font files on their own, and derivative fonts can't use the reserved names '霞鹜/LXGW' without written permission.Why is it called 'WenKai' (文楷)?The author originally felt the style suited running text ('文') in a Kai-style ('楷') script, though it later turned out better suited to medium-length text like poetry or annotations than long passages.
The author originally felt the style suited running text ('文') in a Kai-style ('楷') script, though it later turned out better suited to medium-length text like poetry or annotations than long passages.Does the project still accept requests for missing characters?No, character-addition requests are closed because the font file had become too bloated; only glyph-shape fix suggestions are still tracked, via a dedicated GitHub issue.
No, character-addition requests are closed because the font file had become too bloated; only glyph-shape fix suggestions are still tracked, via a dedicated GitHub issue.Is there a Magisk module for flashing this on Android?No, the author stopped providing one to avoid confusion with unofficial Magisk font-module projects; users are pointed to a module template to build their own.
No, the author stopped providing one to avoid confusion with unofficial Magisk font-module projects; users are pointed to a module template to build their own.What Latin font pairs well with LXGW WenKai?The author recommends the Ysabeau family; there's also a pre-merged variant called LXGW Bright (paired with Ysabeau Office) and a monospaced LXGW Bright Code (paired with Monaspace Argon).
The author recommends the Ysabeau family; there's also a pre-merged variant called LXGW Bright (paired with Ysabeau Office) and a monospaced LXGW Bright Code (paired with Monaspace Argon).What are similar projects?source-han-sans, Sarasa-Gothic, smiley-sans, maple-font, Semiconductor_Manufacturing_Introduction, chinese-copywriting-guidelines, plex, Hack
source-han-sans, Sarasa-Gothic, smiley-sans, maple-font, Semiconductor_Manufacturing_Introduction, chinese-copywriting-guidelines, plex, HackWhich topics is it in?chinese-simplified, opentype, typeface, chinese-traditional, cjk, korean, japanese, font, typography, unix, foss, homebrew
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