Chiron Sans HK (昭源黑體) is a sans-serif CJK typeface designed for Traditional Chinese users, especially for those in Hong Kong. It is derived from Source Han Sans, a Pan-CJK typeface jointly developed by Adobe and Google.
Source Han Sans version 2.0 released in late 2018 was a major update to version 1.0 which added a second Traditional Chinese flavor adhering to Hong Kong’s orthography standard. Glyphs in this new HK variant were designed according to the then latest published Reference Glyphs for Chinese Computer Systems in Hong Kong (香港電腦漢字參考字形).
The glyphs depicted in this document are of no doubt more suitable for Hong Kong when compared to the original Traditional Chinese variant of Source Han Sans which followed Taiwan’s orthography standard, reflected in the Standard Typefaces for Chinese Characters or 國字標準字體 documents. That said, its general principle of adopting the stroke types of written form (Kai Style 楷書) for the printed form (usually represented by Song Style 宋體) resulted in some odd-looking character shapes being introduced to typefaces that are designed for print.
Based on the Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) variant of Source Han Sans, Chiron Sans HK took references from successful commercial Traditional Chinese font products (widely used in printed materials in Hong Kong) to provide an orthographic variant that is more aesthetically pleasing, and which Hong Kong people are generally more familiar with.
More information is available in the Chinese website, which is mainly typesetted in the webfont build of Chiron Sans HK.
Installable font resources (OTFs, TTFs) and webfonts can be found under the build directory.
Visit the Release page for the whole font family of 7 weights in a single archive (in .zip or .tar.gz), version histories and PDF documents of character additions, modifications and remappings.
Chiron Sans HK is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. For more information, please refer to LICENSE.txt.