LXGW Marker Gothic
LXGW Marker Gothic (霞鹜漫黑) is a free Chinese font that resembles handwriting with a flat tip marker pen. It was based on an open-sourced Japanese font called “Tanugo” by Tanuki font. The author took the original font that supports Japanese language writing system, and modified it to support simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Not only that, this font also supports other languages including Greek and Russian. You may check the font file for the language support.
The letter design style of LXGW Marker Gothic is quite distinctive. Other that the marker pen handwriting style, the letters are mainly constructed in straight lines with minimal curved strokes. It is like the straight lines are used whenever possible without compromising the legibility of the characters. The author also mentioned that the Chinese characters are designed to be conforming to the original style as much as possible rather than strictly following the construction of Chinese characters. But I can say, they are pretty recognisable.
LXGW Marker Gothic comes with one weight, and it’s free to download and use on personal and commercial projects, as it is released under SIL Open Font License. It has a total of 13,000 characters including simplified and traditional Chinese, so this font is pretty much got you covered for the common Chinese language usages support.
Usage Permission
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Released under SIL Open Font License 1.1
Download
LXGW Marker Gothic font homepage and download
To download, visit the page above and click on the green “Code” button to open up a popover. Then click on the “Download Zip” to download the repository. Once unzipped the file, you should be able to find the font under the folder “fonts”. The font should appear as “LXGW Marker Gothic” in your design or writing tool of your choice.
