Chinese Fonts on Mac
on MacOS, as of 2026-03-29.
🛑 WARNING: you need to be on macOS for the fonts to show correctly.
🟢 TIP: as of 2024-10-09,
even when a font is available on MacOS,
e.g. Kaiti SC,
but Safari browser wont use it.
This is not so in 2020-10-09.
Note:
font name containing SC is meant for simplied characters.
Font name containing TC is meant for traditional characters.
However, today they all contain most traditional characters and simplified characters.
They all look the same for vast majority of Chinese characters.
Default Sans-Serif Font for Chinese
PingFang SC, 苹方-简 (simplified chars)-
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
chinese font PingFang SC 2026-03 15.35 PingFang TC, 蘋方-繁 (traditional chars)-
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
chinese font PingFang TC 2026-03 15.52 PingFang HK, 蘋方-港 (Hong-Kong)-
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
chinese font PingFang HK 2026-03 16.21
Default Serif Font for Chinese
Songti SC-
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
chinese font Songti SC 2026-03 16.51 Songti TC-
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
chinese font Songti TC 2026-03 17.17 STSong, 华文宋体 (simplified chars)-
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
chinese font STSong 2026-03 18.20
Other Fonts
Heiti SC-
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
chinese font Heiti SC 2026-03 19.24 Heiti TC, 黑體-繁-
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
chinese font Heiti TC 2026-03 19.43 Hiragino Sans GB, 冬青黑体简体中文 (simplified chars)-
書斷風雲絕緊 书断风云绝紧 {α=f(x)-5*6+li[10]}
chinese font Hiragino Sans GB 2026-03 20.10
MacOS Chinese Fonts as of 2020
Following are fonts on the Mac as of 2020-10-09.
- SC means Simplified Chinese.
- TC means Traditional Chinese.
CSS Font
- CSS: Font. Index
- CSS: font-family
- CSS: Common Web Fonts
- CSS: font size
- CSS: Meaning of Font Size
- CSS: Font Weight, Bold
- CSS: font shorthand
- Emoji Font from Google, Apple, Microsoft
- Metrically Compatible Fonts
- Google Webfont Tutorial
- CSS: Chinese Font Guide 黑體 宋體
- Chinese Fonts on Windows
- Chinese Fonts on Mac