

Chinese characters are formed with a varied number of strokes (dot stroke,horizontal stroke, vertical stroke, left-falling stroke, right-falling stroke,etc.).otf files that may reach 115M with 9 different font weights (hinted), each of them is nearly 16M, the loading speed can be affected and is likely to be far slower than a 26 character English font (the ‘Noto Sans’ for Latin script has a file size of about 200K for each font weight.) For example, a full version of ‘Noto Sans CJK’ of Simplified Chinese has. A full version of Chinese font has at least 3500 characters for common use, this means the font files will be huge.


Put simply: Chinese webfonts can be a pain in the ass. Fonts may make up the biggest part of the Chinese reading experience, but the particularity of Chinese characters causes the formation of Chinese webfonts to be complex and complicated.
