Guest realmayo Posted October 10, 2016 at 09:19 AM Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 at 09:19 AM Does anyone know a font which: 1. Displays nice Chinese characters -- nothing special, just not horrid. For instance, Arial makes certain characters thick-blocky and unpleasant to read. 2. Displays Pinyin properly -- i.e. has no problems with tone marks. Unlike, say, this: tōngzhàng 3. Displays non-characters proportionally, rather than mono-spaced: i.e. 'iiiiii"' should be shorter than "wwwwww" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwq Posted October 10, 2016 at 10:57 AM Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 at 10:57 AM What platform / application? If you can only use a single typeface for both English and Chinese, try Microsoft JhengHei or Microsoft YaHei (微軟正黑體 or 微軟雅黑體). Notepad on Microsoft Windows 7: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelove Posted October 11, 2016 at 02:32 PM Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 at 02:32 PM Adobe Source Han Sans (https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans) is a free open-source font that should cover all your bases: attractive proportional English font, full Pinyin support, decent-looking Chinese characters (not as attractive as other modern 黑体's like 信黑体 or 旗黑 or 苹方 or 兰亭黑 but not terrible) with excellent character set coverage + support for simplified/traditional stylistic differences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest realmayo Posted October 12, 2016 at 12:38 PM Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 at 12:38 PM Microsoft YaHei works okay, thanks dwq. I can't get the tone marks to display nicely with the JhengHei though. Mike, thanks too, I've downloaded hmm over a gigabyte worth of files, will try to work out how to make windows install the font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingfa Posted October 12, 2016 at 01:35 PM Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 at 01:35 PM I like KaiTi myself. I use chrome extension Force Custom Fonts to display everything in KaiTi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
889 Posted October 12, 2016 at 08:14 PM Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 at 08:14 PM Google's developed a typeface which is designed "to support all languages with a harmonious look and feel." It's called Noto, and you can downloand the fonts here: https://www.google.com/get/noto/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelove Posted October 13, 2016 at 02:48 PM Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 at 02:48 PM @realmayo - sorry, pointed you to the source folder instead of the release folder https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/tree/release (which has regular old OTF files). @889 - that's actually identical to Source Han Sans for Chinese, Google + Adobe developed it jointly. The difference is that Source Han Sans' Roman (English) character set is derived from Adobe Source Sans Pro (also the font we use for English/Pinyin in Pleco) while Noto Sans CJK's Roman character set is derived from Google's Droid fonts. So you can choose between them based on which one you like better for English :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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