Switch From Adobe Typekit to Google Fonts!

[hifocus]

Google Fonts had been supporting Chinese fonts for two months. Both Noto Sans and Noto Serif is supported. Please see https://fonts.google.com/?subset=chinese-simplified.

We all know that Google Fonts (Beijing & Shanghai BGP Datacenters) or its mirror site fonts.loli.net (Aliyun CDN) behave rather excellent in both China Mainland and other regions. But Adobe Typekit uses Akamai CDN which is not optimised in China and furthermore it does have multiple restrictions for free users.

So I would consider loading the Noto Serif that "Sakura" uses from Google Fonts (especially from fonts.loli.net will be a better solution). In addition, it does not require the users to register an Adobe ID to get the limited access to Typekit anymore!

[mashirozx]

Thanks for letting me know, looking forward to Google Fonts' supporting for Source Han Serif.

[hifocus]

Source Han Serif = Noto Serif

It seems that two companies are using different names, but the thing is Google Fonts is currently supporting Chinese Simplified.

That is the point for this issue. I would consider submitting several changes as a Pull Request. It's currently in progress.

[mashirozx]

@hifocus https://source.typekit.com/source-han-serif/cn/

[hifocus]

Please refer to https://free.com.tw/google-fonts-noto-sans-tc/ , they are the same

In Adobe's Blog, https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2017/04/source-han-serif-history-development.html,

The Adobe-branded Source Han Serif (named 源ノ明朝 in Japanese, 본명조 in Korean, 思源宋体 in Simplified Chinese, and 思源宋體 in Traditional Chinese) and Google-branded Noto Serif CJK open source Pan-CJK typeface families, which represent the serif-style counterparts to the similarly-named and also open source Source Han Sans and Noto Sans CJK Pan-CJK typeface families, were released on 2017-04-03. You can read more about the Source Han Serif release here (日本語—한국어—简体中文—繁體中文), which includes a six-minute promotional video.

[hifocus]

Furthermore, I use both services to display both Noto Serif SC and Source Hans Serif SC. They are surely the same.

[hifocus]

Thanks for taking my point.