CTAN update: LXGW-fonts
Date: May 15, 2026 3:41:34 PM CEST
Mingyu Xia submitted an update to the
LXGW-fonts
package.
Version: 1.522C 2026-05-14
License: ofl
Summary description: A CJK font family with a comprehensive character set
Announcement text:
- Updated the Fallback of `Slanted` font, `BoldSlanted` and `BoldSlantedFont` for `\kaishu` - Removed the patch of `\makespa` due to the upstream fix of `ctex-kit`.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/lxgw-fonts The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lxgw-fonts/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
- Updated the Fallback of `Slanted` font, `BoldSlanted` and `BoldSlantedFont` for `\kaishu` - Removed the patch of `\makespa` due to the upstream fix of `ctex-kit`.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/lxgw-fonts The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lxgw-fonts/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
LXGW-fonts – A CJK font family with a comprehensive character set
The LXGW Font Family provides an open-source CJK font family with a comprehensive character set for Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Cantonese, and Japanese. A ‘fontset’ configuration of this font family for the ‘ctex-kit’ is also provided in this package.
| Package | LXGW-fonts |
| Version | 1.522C 2026-05-14 |
| Copyright | 2021–2026 LXGW 2021–2026 TrionesType 2025–2026 Mingyu Xia |
| Maintainer | Mingyu Xia |