Here is an article in English on this topic, it is worth at least skimming, to see if there is something you could use. So if you want your English text to be set in Roboto and your Chinese in PMingLiu use: The reason is that most Chinese fonts have support for Latin characters, but those Latin glyphs usually do not look very nice. If you are planning to use English (Latin character text) and Chinese, make sure that you put the English (Latin character) font to the front of you font stack, otherwise you will end up with those fonts not displaying at all. If you plan to design a website that uses Chinese text, you should prefer sans-serif fonts over serif fonts, as the latter ones do not look nice when the font-size is small.

On Linux, even if your system is not in Chinese, you most likely have a fallback font that support CJK characters, on my Ubuntu in Firefox it's Droid Sans Fallback that the browser uses, as my computer currently has almost no CJK fonts installed. If not, Chinese language OS-s (whether Windows, OSX or Linux) will typically have at least one font that supports CJK glyphs, so their browser has a fallback font in case none of the listed font-family values can be mapped to a system font. and the web designer can 'safely' assume that the visitor will have support for at least one of the fonts (installed on their system). The key here is that the visitors of these websites come from HK or Taiwan, etc. YaHei', 'Verdana', 'Arial', 'PMingLiU', 'sans-serif' įont-family: 'Microsoft YaHei','微软雅黑','黑体','宋体' įont: 12px/1 Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,'宋体',sans-serif Īs you can see, most sites (at least news sites) rely on system fonts. ISO10646)ExtB', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif I have checked a few random news sites from HK and Taiwan, here are some examples of defining the font or font-family property:įont-family: PMingLiu, mingliu, '細明體_HKSCS-ExtB', 'Ming(for

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