CANG-JIE input method ( Cangjie Method 倉頡)Ĭangjie is shape-based. The scim (Smart Common Input Method) platform provides the following Input Method Editors for Traditional Chinese.Īmong the most popular for Traditional Chinese are Cangjie and Zhuyin-Hanzi conversion. Several hundred input methods for Chinese have been developed. The everyday nightly build can be d/l from here: Since this is a cooperated work, glyphs style and marginals need to be further fine tuned and unified. Now this font has already more than 36K glyphs. Also, 10x10, 13x13 and 16x16 sized fonts are currently under heavy developing.Ī new TrueType font, called WQY Zhen-Hei (文泉驿正黑体), is under development with the same approach. Based on the work of Firefly bitmap font, this work extends the coverage of 11x11, 12x12, 14x14, 15x16 pixel sized bitmapt fonts to include the Unicode CJK 20,902 unified characters and ext. This is a new wiki based font developing initiated by FangQ (房骞骞). This font will covers the whole Unicode glyphs which is about 70K. In 2005, the work of Hong Kong freefonts project (by OAKA group) is also included.Īrne is currently working on a new font project that using a component based font database to create a set of font that matches each CJK regional variants. As later the firefly sung released, he merged the embedded bitmap fonts into CJKUnifonts. In spite of the original Arphic font glyphs, he further add the Chinese dialect phonetic symbols. His work is also based on the Arphic fonts: 文鼎PL新宋/新宋 Mono (AR PL New Sung Protional/Mono)Ī German, Arne Götje, who lives in Taiwan works on a project to provide CJK unicode fonts. This new version now covers Big5(正體中文)、GB2312(簡體中文)、JISX0208(日文) encodings and re-named as OpenDesktop Font. 
About 1222 new glyphs are added and 7332 new bitmap updated. CJKUnifont and Wen-Quan-Yi font.įirefly keeps updating this work and in 2007 he released a significant new version which consists of both mono spaced and proportional width styles. This tremendous hard work has also merged into several free font projects in Chinese Linux community, ex. He merged Traditional and Simplified Chinese glyphs and embedded the manually optimized bitmap fonts into a single TTF, which is known as fireflysung.ttf, which consists of 16976 glyphs.įirefly bitmap fonts (best for low-resolution display) covers Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese and Japanese in the latest version. In 2004, a Taiwanese OSS writer, Firefly, completed a new set of 12~16 bitmap font based on the above four Arphic fonts.
But the available Chinese bitmap fonts are of only 16x16 and 24x24 pixels. An easy solution would be using a bitmap embedded font. Later as anti-alias widely used, people start getting trouble reading small sized characters due to the complicated strokes of Chinese. These four fonts consist of two Sung type face (宋體) and two Kai type face (楷體) each for Traditional (正體) and Simplified (簡體) Chinese.įilename Font Family Font Family # of glyphsīkai00mp.ttf AR PL KaitiM Big5 文鼎ＰＬ中楷ěig5 (14148)īsmi00lp.ttf AR PL Mingti2L Big5 文鼎ＰＬ細上海宋ěig5 (14148) In 1999, a Taiwan font company, Arphic technology, donated four TrueType fonts to the Open Source community under the Arphic public license. Free Chinese Font Arphic PL Font (文鼎ＰＬ字型)
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