Free Chinaready utility

Google Fonts for China.

Chinaready Google Fonts is a free open-source font CDN mirror for mainland China — a practical alternative when fonts.googleapis.com is slow or blocked. Delivered via gfonts.launchready.cn. Cross-origin use is limited to allowlisted Origins.

105

Font families
Top 100 + extras

2,381

WOFF2 files
unicode-range subsets

56.66

MiB
Current corpus size

8

Allowlisted Origins
Authorized domains

Last synced

Usage

How to use Chinaready Google Fonts

Include the Chinaready-hosted CSS on an allowlisted site.

Access URLs are unchanged

Font CSS, WOFF2 files, and manifest.json continue to be served from https://gfonts.launchready.cn/ exactly as before. Existing embeds keep working without any change — this page only consolidates the documentation on launchready.cn.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://gfonts.launchready.cn/css/inter.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://gfonts.launchready.cn/css/noto-sans-sc.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://gfonts.launchready.cn/css/material-icons.css">

Also available: /css/noto-serif-sc.css, /css/noto-sans-tc.css, /css/material-icons-outlined.css, /css/material-icons-round.css, /css/material-symbols-outlined.css.

The authoritative machine-readable list of font families and paths is the manifest. https://gfonts.launchready.cn/manifest.json

Upstream licenses are unchanged (usually SIL OFL / Apache). Chinaready does not relicense fonts.

To use this service on a new domain, apply for free use. In the Contact form, list every site Origin you need allowlisted (production and staging), for example https://www.example.com. Apply for free use.

If a font family or version you need is not in this corpus, request it through the Contact form. Chinaready will expand the collection as quickly as possible based on real user needs.

Corpus

Current Chinaready font collection

Default Top 100 popular open-source families, plus Noto Sans/Serif SC, Noto Sans TC, and Material Icons / Symbols for China-facing UI.

Popular Top 10

  • Roboto
  • Open Sans
  • Inter
  • Montserrat
  • Arimo
  • Poppins
  • Lato
  • Noto Sans JP
  • Nunito
  • Roboto Condensed

CJK

  • Noto Sans TC
  • Noto Sans SC
  • Noto Serif SC

Icons

  • Material Icons
  • Material Icons Outlined
  • Material Icons Round
  • Material Symbols Outlined

…and 88 more in manifest.json.

FAQ

Chinaready Google Fonts FAQ

Why does this service exist?
Google Fonts is often unreachable or unstable in mainland China. This mirror hosts common open-source fonts on Alibaba Cloud CDN for allowlisted projects.
Who can load the font files?
Only Origins on the allowlist. Apply for free use and state the site domains (Origins) you need in the Contact form.
How often is it updated?
Chinaready's engineering team syncs popular Google fonts weekly. Extra families can be added anytime for customer needs.
Where is the full font inventory?
The authoritative machine-readable list of font families and paths is https://gfonts.launchready.cn/manifest.json.
Can the fonts be used commercially?
Each font keeps its upstream license. This mirror does not grant additional commercial rights — follow the original license for each family.
How does this relate to Chinaready?
It is a free Chinaready infrastructure utility to help China-facing projects use open-source web fonts reliably. For the wider picture, see the China CDN edge landscape guide.

Get Google Fonts on a China-ready path.

Apply for free use and list every production and staging Origin in the Contact form. We review the request and add approved domains to the allowlist.