Changzhou SinoType Co., Ltd., Iwata Corporation and Sandoll Communications Inc. took part in the design and finished the work on Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional), Japanese and Korean glyphs.

[3] The kana characters were designed by Ryoko Nishizuka of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Frank Grießhammer of Adobe Systems Incorporated provided additional Source Serif glyphs.

Design work for Source Han Serif began in late 2014, with 6 prereleases between 2015 and 2017.

Traditional Chinese fonts support Big5, Taiwan Ministry of Education glyph standard.