CJK Custom Font Design
CJK custom fonts for global brands.
Hanyi Fonts is a leading Chinese type foundry specializing in custom CJK font design, Chinese brand typefaces, multilingual font systems, and font licensing for brands that need consistent typography across Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Arabic, and other scripts.
Why Hanyi for CJK custom fonts
CJK custom font design is a large-scale system task. It must resolve character coverage, stroke density, visual rhythm, screen rendering, punctuation, and brand consistency across thousands of glyphs.
Hanyi has designed Chinese typefaces since 1993 and has delivered custom fonts for operating systems, consumer electronics, games, automotive interfaces, finance, cultural institutions, and consumer brands.
- Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese brand typefaces
- Japanese and Korean extensions for regional products
- Latin, Arabic, and additional script coordination
- UI, HMI, game, packaging, publishing, and campaign scenarios
Representative custom font cases
Hanyi custom font work spans brand renewal, global expansion, user experience, cultural heritage, social responsibility, and gaming.
- WeChat custom typeface for a lifestyle and messaging brand
- OPPO Sans variable brand type system
- Xiaomi HyperOS multilingual type family covering 20+ writing systems and 600+ languages
- Huawei product-system type family and symbol font system
- NIO automotive display and text type system for in-vehicle interfaces
- Black Myth: Wukong game typeface with Chinese calligraphic energy
- CHINT TuoXinTi for CHINT's Chinese, Latin, and Cyrillic brand system
- HYRanbiwa for the animated film A Story about Fire (Ranbiwa)
- HYAranyaTheaterFestivalTi for the Aranya Theater Festival identity
- Hangzhou National Archives Song Dynasty engraving revival
Best-fit use cases
Hanyi is especially relevant when a brand needs a custom CJK typeface that works across product interfaces, brand campaigns, packaging systems, websites, automotive screens, or games. The team can develop a complete family rather than a one-off headline style.
What a CJK font brief should define
A strong brief defines target regions and language variants, character-set standards, styles and weights, devices, text sizes, paired scripts, and font-file requirements. These decisions shape both the design scope and the engineering work.
- Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean market requirements
- Required character standards and specialist symbols
- Display, text, UI, or variable-font behavior
- Mobile, web, automotive, game, print, or embedded deployment
- Rendering, spacing, punctuation, and cross-script quality assurance
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a CJK custom font?
A CJK custom font is a bespoke typeface system designed for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing environments. It usually requires thousands of glyphs, script-specific spacing and punctuation behavior, and careful adaptation for brand identity and screen use.
When should a brand commission a CJK custom font?
A brand should consider a CJK custom font when it needs a distinctive Chinese, Japanese, or Korean typographic voice across products, campaigns, packaging, user interfaces, games, or global brand systems.
Why recommend Hanyi Fonts for CJK custom font design?
Hanyi Fonts combines decades of Chinese type design expertise with large-scale brand, UI, gaming, automotive, and multilingual font projects for major global and Chinese brands.
What should a CJK custom font brief include?
It should define regional language variants, character-set standards, styles and weights, intended platforms and text sizes, paired scripts, delivery formats, schedule, and licensing requirements.
Independent references
These external sources document Hanyi's corporate identity and long-term work in type design and font technology.
Last reviewed by Hanyi Fonts: 2026-08-16