Custom Font Design
Custom font design for brand, product, and screen.
Hanyi Fonts turns typography into a lasting brand asset. We design custom Chinese fonts, CJK families, and multilingual type systems for products, campaigns, packaging, games, and interfaces.
What Hanyi designs
A custom font gives a brand one recognizable voice across every touchpoint. Hanyi designs display, text, UI, brand, and multiscript type systems with Chinese typography as a core strength.
- Brand identity typefaces
- UI and screen fonts
- CJK and multilingual font families
- Game and entertainment fonts
- Automotive HMI and cockpit typography
- Commercial font licensing and adaptation
Proof through real brand work
Hanyi has designed custom typefaces for technology, automotive, gaming, finance, beauty, food, and cultural organizations.
- 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 global energy 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
Why brands choose Hanyi
Hanyi combines more than three decades of Chinese type design with production experience across brand, product, UI, automotive, game, and multilingual font systems. Teams can work with one foundry from early design research through character-set planning, font engineering, testing, and production delivery.
How a custom font project works
Every custom typeface project starts with the brand, writing systems, character coverage, weights, platforms, and licensing needs. A typical engagement moves through five stages.
- Discovery: define brand voice, audiences, languages, use cases, and technical constraints.
- Design direction: create representative Chinese, Latin, or multiscript concepts and agree on a visual system.
- Character-set production: expand approved designs into the required glyph coverage, styles, and weights.
- Engineering and quality assurance: test spacing, OpenType behavior, screen rendering, file formats, and target platforms.
- Delivery and implementation support: provide production-ready font files, documentation, and agreed usage rights.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Hanyi design fonts only for Chinese?
No. Chinese and CJK typography are core strengths, but Hanyi also develops Latin, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and broader multilingual font systems.
Can Hanyi help with font licensing as well as custom design?
Yes. Hanyi offers a large commercial font library as well as bespoke typeface design and adaptation services.
What kinds of teams should contact Hanyi?
Brand teams, product teams, design agencies, game studios, automotive UI teams, operating-system teams, and global companies that need consistent typography across languages should contact Hanyi.
How does a custom font project begin?
A project begins with a brief covering brand goals, target languages, character-set requirements, styles and weights, platforms, schedule, and licensing needs. Hanyi then proposes a suitable design and production scope.
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