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Smiley Sans is a commercially available open source Chinese font

Deyi Black Smiley Sans is an open source Chinese font released a few days ago. It is based on the SIL Open Font License v1.1 license and can be used for commercial purposes free of charge without attribution. CCTV has already used this font on the big screen in the 2022 Qatar World Cup video broadcast in recent days.

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2022-11-25

Smiley Sans Deyi Black Beautiful Chinese open source font for commercial use

Black Smiley Sans It is an open source Chinese font released a few days ago, based on SIL Open Font License v1.1 License, free for commercial use, no attribution required. CCTV has used this font on the big screen in the 2022 Qatar World Cup video broadcast in recent days. Commercial open source Chinese font Deyi Black Smiley Sans

Commercially available open source Chinese font Deyi Black Smiley Sans

Now look at the proud black developer @oooooohmygoshWeiboThe masterpiece:

SIL Open Font License v1.1 License

The SIL Open Font License (OFL) is a free, liberal and open source license designed specifically for fonts and related software based on experience in font design and language software engineering.

The main authorizations are as follows:

For commercial use please readOriginal License Agreement.

Smiley Sans

First, let’s take a look at the developer’s video introduction:

Deyi Black is a Chinese boldface that seeks a balance between humanistic perception and geometric features. The overall font is narrow and oblique, and the details incorporate a special shape inspired by hand-painted art fonts. The font supports commonly used simplified Chinese characters (covering the GB 2312 coded character set), Latin letters, Japanese kana, Arabic numerals, and various punctuation marks.

Character set support

Chinese characters (Mainland China)

The font covers all 6763 Chinese characters in the GB 2312 coded character set, and additionally Hello,喰,Look,???? 4 characters, a total of 6767 Chinese characters are supported.

Latin alphabet

In addition to the basic Latin letters, there are 415 characters required to cover various languages in Europe, America, and South Asia. With the addition of necessary variants and localized glyphs, more than 100 languages can be supported, including English, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Vietnamese, etc.

Japanese Kana

A total of 174 Hiragana and Katakana characters are supported.

Numbers and punctuation

Supports Arabic numerals, uppercase and lowercase Roman numerals, and 4 other styles of ordinal numbers 1.,②,⑶ and 4.. There are more than 200 punctuation marks and other symbols.

Precautions

Some of the strokes and structures of this font are processed in an artistic style and do not strictly follow the standard Chinese character writing method in mainland China. Please note this.
Use scenarios:
- Recommended: graphic posters, e-commerce copywriting, video subtitles, book and newspaper titles, game embedding, etc.
- Not recommended: text layout, programming code, mobile phone interface, etc.