Chiron Sung HK
Designed By
Tamcy
12 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Chiron Sung HK · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
12 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Chiron Sung HK ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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A Page In Chiron Sung HK
Chiron Sung HK · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
12 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Bold700
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Extra Bold800
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Black900
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A Chinese serif with italics is unusual, and Chiron Sung HK has 4 of them, Extra Light to Medium, next to 8 upright weights that run from Extra Light at 200 to Black at 900.
Its Chinese name is 昭源宋體. The designer, credited as Tamcy, started from Adobe’s Source Han Serif, the same base Google ships as Noto Serif CJK, and took the Hong Kong version of its Traditional Chinese glyphs as the material to work on. Each glyph shape was reviewed and adjusted so it displays better on screen and in print. The aim was a modern glyph style that doesn’t belong to any 1 region, close to the commercial typefaces people in Traditional Chinese communities meet in daily life, balancing the standard character forms against the stroke habits of printed type.
Is that a small thing? Not if your readers are in Hong Kong. We’d pick it over a plain Source Han build for that audience, since the shapes come closer to the print they already read every day.
The file is huge, 46,907 characters, with kana, hangul and bopomofo along with Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. The Latin side has small caps, old style and tabular figures, a slashed zero and 7 stylistic sets. It reached Google Fonts in May 2025.
Characters & Figures
46,907 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Chiron Sung HK
12 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 165.6 MB ↓- Version
- 1.019
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/chiron-sung-hk/chiron-sung-hk.css">
body {
font-family: 'Chiron Sung HK', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Chiron Sung HK Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.