Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 文鼎科技開發股份有限公司, aka.

: Arphic Technology (文鼎科技)) is a type foundry based in Taiwan (Republic of China), founded in May 1990.

[5] As a partner of C&G Inc., Arphic Technology was one of the designers of kanji in C&G's Meiryo (明瞭) font, intended for Japanese.

The "Arphic Public License" published by Arphic Technology in 1999 was recognized by Free Software Foundation as a copyleft, free software license and incompatible with the GNU General Public License.

[6] The revised Arphic Public License published in 2010 doesn't allow commercial use, thus is non-free.