Official WotLK classic is coming with modern typographical technique. The OpenType/TT variant is no longer needed.
War Sans, font packs for World of Warcraft and WoW Classic that support all client languages. War Sans is subsetted Nowar Sans.
- WoWG (WoW Global)
- covers all characters allowed in WoW character names;
- supports commonly used characters in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek scripts, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean languages.
- WoWC (WoW Chinese), subset of WoWG
- covers all characters allowed in Latin and Cyrillic character names, and almost all characters in Chinese character names (except non-radical characters in URO+);
- supports commonly used characters in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek scripts, and Chinese, Japanese languages.
Mirrors: Gitee (Release Repo)
War Sans is shipped in 4 weights and 7 regional variants, with several features.
- 300: Light
- 400: Regular
- 500: Medium
- 700: Bold
Bliz and Neut are “standard variants” with regional Chinese character orthographies. Character set: WoWG.
| European and 한국어 | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bliz | Mainland China (UI) | Mainland China | Taiwan | Acts like WoW’s default fallback setting. |
| Neut | Classical (UI) | Mainland China | Taiwan | Prefers classical orthography on fallback. |
CL is the “classical variant” with classical Chinese character orthography (aka Kāngxī Dictionary forms). Character set: WoWG.
| European and 한국어 | 中文 | |
|---|---|---|
| CL | Classical (UI) | Classical |
PSimp and PSimpChat are special variants for 繁體中文 that remap traditional Chinese character to simplified ones. Character set: WoWG.
| Common Fonts | 繁體中文 Text, Combat and Tooltip Fonts | 繁體中文 Chat Fonts | European, 简体中文 and 한국어 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSimp | Mainland China (UI, Remapped) | Mainland China (Remapped) | Mainland China | N/A |
| PSimpChat | Mainland China (UI, Remapped) | Mainland China (Remapped) | Mainland China (Remapped) | N/A |
GBK and Big5 are “subset variants”, which are designed for 简体中文 and 繁體中文 respectively, and occupy less disk space. Character set: WoWC.
| Common Fonts | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | European and 한국어 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GBK | Mainland China (UI) | Mainland China | N/A | N/A |
| Big5 | Taiwan (UI) | N/A | Taiwan | N/A |
- European: English, Español (AL), Português, Deutsch, Español (EU), Français, Italiano, and Русский.
- UI: Ambiguous punctations are treated as Western; CJK puctations are half-width.
- Common fonts:
FRIZQT__andARIALN, which are hard-coded in some addons.
| Tag | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OSF | Oldstyle | Oldstyle (non-lining), propotional figure. |
| RP | Roleplaying | 丶 (U+4E36) is mapped to the same glyph as · (U+00B7, MIDDLE DOT). |
| SC | Smallcaps | Small capitals for Latin. |
Pre-built feature variants: Bliz,OSF, Bliz,RP, Bliz,SC.
Same as Nowar Sans. Note that you don’t need Source Han Sans files (they are already included in the repo).
Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters are from Noto Sans by Google.
CJK Ideographs, Kana and Hangul are from Source Han Sans by Adobe.
The traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese conversion table is from Open Chinese Convert project.