Chinese Font on Mac

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

on MacOS, as of 2024-10-08.

🛑 WARNING: you need to be on macOS for the fonts to show correctly.

💡 TIP: as of 2024-10-09, even when a font is available on MacOS, e.g. Kaiti SC, but Safari browser wont use it. This is not so in 2020-10-09.

Note: font name containing SC is meant for simplied characters. Font name containing TC is meant for traditional characters. However, today they all contain most traditional characters and simplified characters. They all look the same for vast majority of Chinese characters.

Default Sans-Serif Font for Chinese

PingFang SC, 苹方-简 (simplified chars)
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
font PingFang SC 2024-10-09 syRgX
font PingFang SC 2024-10-09 syRgX
PingFang TC, 蘋方-繁 (traditional chars)
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
PingFang HK, 蘋方-港 (Hong-Kong)
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}

Default Serif Font for Chinese

Songti SC
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
font Songti SC 2024-10-09 8rXfG
font Songti SC 2024-10-09 8rXfG
Songti TC
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
STSong, 华文宋体 (simplified chars)
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}

Other Fonts

Heiti SC
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
font Heiti SC 2024-10-09 vHDHf
font Heiti SC 2024-10-09 vHDHf
Heiti TC, 黑體-繁
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
Hiragino Sans GB, 冬青黑体简体中文 (simplified chars)
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}

MacOS Chinese Fonts as of 2020

Following are fonts on the Mac as of 2020-10-09.

Chinese Font on Mac 2020-10-13 VCm8m
Chinese Font on Mac 2020-10-13

Chinese Font