Font credits

The Chinese characters on this site are displayed with free fonts. A Chinese font contains thousands of characters, sometimes tens of thousands: behind each one lie years of work. Here are their authors, their licences and their sources.

Site text

• FandolKai (simplified characters): © 2012-2013 the Fandol team (Clerk Ma, Jie Su), GPL v3 licence with font exception. Source: CTAN.
• 全字庫正楷體 TW-Kai (traditional characters): © National Development Council (2018) and Ministry of Digital Affairs (2026), Taiwan, licensed under Open Government Data License Taiwan 1.0. Source: CNS11643.
• Chine-Culture Jiaguwen, Jinwen and Xiaozhuan (ancient scripts): chine-culture.com fonts, OFL 1.1 licence, based on the glyphs of the Wikimedia Commons Ancient Chinese Characters project; the Xiaozhuan is supplemented by 全字庫說文解字 (Open Government Data License Taiwan 1.0).
• 教育部隸書 (隶书): © Ministry of Education, Taiwan (中華民國教育部), CC BY-ND 3.0 TW licence. Source: language.moe.gov.tw.
• Plangothic P2 (rare characters): Plangothic Project, OFL 1.1 licence. Source: GitHub.
• Bootstrap Icons: The Bootstrap Authors, MIT licence. Source: icons.getbootstrap.com.

Calligraphy generator

• 甲骨文: Chine-Culture Jiaguwen (see above), OFL 1.1 licence.
• 小篆: 崇羲篆體, © 中央研究院 Academia Sinica (小學堂), CC BY-ND 3.0 TW licence. Source: xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw.
• 隶书: 教育部隸書 (see above).
• 楷书: AR PL UKai, © Arphic Technology and Arne Goetje, Arphic Public License. Source: CJKUnifonts.
• 颜体: 王漢宗顏楷體, © 王汉宗 Wáng Hànzōng, GPL v2 or later licence. Source: GitHub.
• 行书: Zhi Mang Xing, The ZhiMangXing Project Authors (钟齐), OFL 1.1 licence, source: Google Fonts; and 正風毛筆 MasaFont, © Max Yao, based on 衡山毛筆フォント, OFL 1.1 licence, source: GitHub.
• 草书: Liu Jian Mao Cao, The Liu Jian Mao Cao Project Authors, OFL 1.1 licence. Source: Google Fonts.

Seal generator

崇羲篆體 (see above).

Writing-grid generator

• 楷书: FandolKai and TW-Kai (see above).
• 硬笔楷书: 猫啃硬笔楷书 (猫啃网), OFL 1.1 licence, source: GitHub; and 隨峰體 The Peak Font (阿坤 and cjkFonts), OFL 1.1 licence, source: cjkfonts.io.
• 硬笔行书: 瑞美加张清平硬笔行书, © 瑞美加 Ramega, based on the handwriting of 张清平 Zhāng Qīngpíng, free of charge for commercial use, but not under a free licence. Source: maoken.com.

Data

• Conversion between simplified and traditional characters: based on OpenCC (Carbo Kuo and contributors, Apache 2.0 licence).
• Decomposition and stroke order: based on Make Me a Hanzi (Shaunak Kishore, Arphic Public License and LGPL).
• Stroke-order animations: Hanzi Writer (David Chanin, MIT licence).

The full licence texts accompany the files: see LICENCES.txt.

If you are the author of one of these fonts and any information is inaccurate, write to me: I will correct it.