Japanese fonts tend to have a few Chinese characters in, but they are by far not as complete as needed for typesetting Chinese. (This may be because the language industry attracts such people. 100% of the ethnic-Chinese Singaporeans I've worked with were completely fluent in more than one Chinese language, and were completely competent in both Simplified and Traditional scripts. Or, so I'm told Singapore is not usually one of my target locales. Officially, Singapore (where Chinese is a state language) uses Simplified characters, and that's what is taught in schools. They differ from my amateurish point of view from the complexity of the signs. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapure and some more use Traditional Chinese. Choose one or the other, except for the name, they are the same.Simplified Chinese is used in Peoples Republic. Source Han synchronizes automatically via Typekit, NoTo does not account for your Typekit fonts installed. See here for more information: Noto CJK – Google Noto Fonts and/or google for 'Noto' and/or 'Source Han'. Adobe InDesign) to access language-specific variants other than the default language.

However, you need an application program that can invoke an OpenType locl GSUB feature (e.g.

Note that each language-specific font does support all four languages and includes the complete set of glyphs. Noto Sans CJK SC for Simplifyed Chinese etcĮach font sets one language as the default. The Asian CJK fonts come in different sets. The Google link shows all flavours of the Noto font family. The Typekit Blog | Introducing Source Han Sans: An open source Pan-CJK typeface With Google, the font is called NoTo, Adobe calls it Source Han. The font is great as it contains major Asian character sets (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English) and it is available in 7 weights (SimSun is only available in one weight).

That font is available for free from Google fonts and Adobe. But.there is a much better font available that you may even use on the web if you like. No problem to use that font with Indesign, as it came with your computer and it is embeddable.

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