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Kyle Berezin
Kyle Berezin

Reputation: 649

Windows 10 Default System Fonts

Windows 10 uses Segoe UI as the default system font, but Segoe UI does not have symbols for Chinese characters. To display Chinese, the system uses the SimSun font.

My question is what system fonts does Windows use and for which characters does it use them?

I have been unable to find any exhaustive lists on this topic.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7141

Answers (1)

Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans
Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans

Reputation: 53598

By default windows 10 always uses Segoe UI, but when a language is required that is not supported by it, Windows will fall through a prespecified fallback font stack for Segoe UI, which is stored in the Windows NT part of the registry (not the standard Windows part), at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink

For Segoe UI, the font stack is:

TAHOMA.TTF,Tahoma
MEIRYO.TTC,Meiryo UI,128,96
MEIRYO.TTC,Meiryo UI
MSGOTHIC.TTC,MS UI Gothic
MSJH.TTC,Microsoft JhengHei UI,128,96
MSJH.TTC,Microsoft JhengHei UI
MSYH.TTC,Microsoft YaHei UI,128,96
MSYH.TTC,Microsoft YaHei UI
MALGUN.TTF,Malgun Gothic,128,96
MALGUN.TTF,Malgun Gothic
MINGLIU.TTC,PMingLiU
SIMSUN.TTC,SimSun
GULIM.TTC,Gulim
YUGOTHM.TTC,Yu Gothic UI,128,96
YUGOTHM.TTC,Yu Gothic UI
SEGUISYM.TTF,Segoe UI Symbol

So simsun isn't even the first font it will fall through to: it's the 11th.

Upvotes: 8

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