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Official WotLK classic is coming with modern typographical technique. The OpenType/TT variant is no longer needed.

War Sans (OpenType/TT)

War Sans, font packs for World of Warcraft and WoW Classic that support all client languages. War Sans is subsetted Nowar Sans.

Character Set

• WoWG (WoW Global)
  • covers all characters allowed in WoW character names;
  • supports commonly used characters in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek scripts, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean languages.
• WoWC (WoW Chinese), subset of WoWG
  • covers all characters allowed in Latin and Cyrillic character names, and almost all characters in Chinese character names (except non-radical characters in URO+);
  • supports commonly used characters in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek scripts, and Chinese, Japanese languages.

Download the Fonts

Latest release at GitHub

Mirrors: Gitee (Release Repo)

War Sans is shipped in 4 weights and 7 regional variants, with several features.

Weights

• 300: Light
• 400: Regular
• 500: Medium
• 700: Bold

Regional Variants

Bliz and Neut are “standard variants” with regional Chinese character orthographies. Character set: WoWG.

	European and 한국어	简体中文	繁體中文	Note
Bliz	Mainland China (UI)	Mainland China	Taiwan	Acts like WoW’s default fallback setting.
Neut	Classical (UI)	Mainland China	Taiwan	Prefers classical orthography on fallback.

CL is the “classical variant” with classical Chinese character orthography (aka Kāngxī Dictionary forms). Character set: WoWG.

	European and 한국어	中文
CL	Classical (UI)	Classical

PSimp and PSimpChat are special variants for 繁體中文 that remap traditional Chinese character to simplified ones. Character set: WoWG.

	Common Fonts	繁體中文 Text, Combat and Tooltip Fonts	繁體中文 Chat Fonts	European, 简体中文 and 한국어
PSimp	Mainland China (UI, Remapped)	Mainland China (Remapped)	Mainland China	N/A
PSimpChat	Mainland China (UI, Remapped)	Mainland China (Remapped)	Mainland China (Remapped)	N/A

GBK and Big5 are “subset variants”, which are designed for 简体中文 and 繁體中文 respectively, and occupy less disk space. Character set: WoWC.

	Common Fonts	简体中文	繁體中文	European and 한국어
GBK	Mainland China (UI)	Mainland China	N/A	N/A
Big5	Taiwan (UI)	N/A	Taiwan	N/A

• European: English, Español (AL), Português, Deutsch, Español (EU), Français, Italiano, and Русский.
• UI: Ambiguous punctations are treated as Western; CJK puctations are half-width.
• Common fonts: FRIZQT__ and ARIALN, which are hard-coded in some addons.

Features

Tag	Name	Description
OSF	Oldstyle	Oldstyle (non-lining), propotional figure.
RP	Roleplaying	丶 (U+4E36) is mapped to the same glyph as · (U+00B7, MIDDLE DOT).
SC	Smallcaps	Small capitals for Latin.

Pre-built feature variants: Bliz,OSF, Bliz,RP, Bliz,SC.

How to Build

Same as Nowar Sans. Note that you don’t need Source Han Sans files (they are already included in the repo).

Credit

Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters are from Noto Sans by Google.

CJK Ideographs, Kana and Hangul are from Source Han Sans by Adobe.

The traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese conversion table is from Open Chinese Convert project.