East Asian Gothic typeface

In East Asian writing systems, gothic typefaces (simplified Chinese: 黑体; traditional Chinese: 黑體; pinyin: hēitǐ; Jyutping: haak1 tai2; Japanese: ゴシック体, romanized: goshikku-tai; Korean: 돋움, romanized: dodum, 고딕체 godik-che) are a type style characterized by strokes of even thickness and lack of decorations, akin to sans serif styles in Western typography.

The communist government favored gothic typefaces because they were plain and "represented a break with the past.

Sans serif typefaces, especially for default system fonts, are common in Japanese computing.

Also, many Korean computing environments use Gulim which includes soft curves but is a sans-serif typeface.

Starting in Windows Vista, the default interface typefaces in all regions were changed to sans-serif styles, using Microsoft JhengHei in Traditional Chinese environments and Microsoft YaHei in Simplified Chinese environments.

A passage from the Thousand Character Classic in sans-serif typeface. The rightmost line is the original Chinese. The middle and the left lines are transliterations in Japanese kana and Korean Hangul , respectively.
Round sans style typeface