Shown here are its forms in (from top to bottom): Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. means it was formerly seen as FOSS but has been involved in a legal controversy. means this font is free and open-source software (FOSS).

Pan-CJK: intended to support the majority of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and not specifically designed for any one of these writing systems.

Pan-Unicode: intended to globally support the majority of Unicode's characters, and not specifically designed for one or a few writing systems (note that Pan-Unicode font ≠ Unicode font ).

Vietnamese: for the Nom script formerly used.

Simplified Chinese will be shortened to SC and Traditional Chinese will be shortened to TC in the following localization table.

Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong, using education standard: List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters, Chinese: 常用字字形表).

Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, using education standard: Standard Form of National Characters, Chinese: 國字標準字體).

Traditional Chinese (General, using printing standard or jiu zixing, Chinese: 舊字形).

This can be subdivided into the following classification:

The fonts are then sorted by their target writing system: In this article, the two first classes are named Ming and sans-serif (gothic) while the 'script' is further divided into several Chinese script styles. These fonts are primarily sorted by their typeface, the main classes being 'with serif', 'without serif' and 'script'. This is a list of notable CJK fonts ( computer fonts which contain a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters).

From left to right: sans-serif (gothic), Ming, regular script, clerical script and seal script Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.35. first four characters of Thousand Character Classic in different typeface styles, script styles and type styles. Yup, I am a vlgothic guy on my Fedora 14 ~]# uname -airvn Yum groupinfo japanese-support |grep font|xargs yum -y install. Yum install (or whatever the lower case name in parentheses is.) You can then install the whole thing (which will probably have a lot that you don't want-I think they still install canna and kinput2, among other things) with Japanese Support ~]# yum grouplist -v |grep -i japanese There is also an entire Japanese package group.

If this is any help, what I usually do, if I'm not happy with the Japanese fonts is search (using yum search font |egrep -i 'sazanami|gothic|mincho' There's a few folks on here who use Japanese, and I don't know if any of the other folks have made note of which fonts they use. I know it seems a simple question, but I don't know the answer.

Sazanami gothic font