Best chinese fonts
#BEST CHINESE FONTS WINDOWS#
DF-KaiSB included in Windows doesn’t suck as much as most others. Most modern regular script typefaces are quite objectionable in that there are too many wrong characters and they are too obvious. Emphasis should be done with emphasis marks, and titles should have 《》 or wavy lines to the left or below.
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Also, in Mainland China this style is called Song (宋體), which is a bad name at best as there is no evidence of this style appearing before the Ming Dynasty. Regular script can be properly carved out of wood. It was not created to compensate for wood grains. The Ming style appeared in the Ming Dynasty as a result of straightening regular script lines.This is what is commonly called imitation Song (仿宋體), although it is still a regular script type style. Compared to most modern regular script typefaces, Song Dynasty regular script typefaces have straighter lines and lower variation in line width. The first moveable type was from the Song Dynasty, using ceramic tiles in regular script.You can read a history of these styles (in Chinese) here. The three most common Chinese type styles are, in chronological order, regular script (楷書體), Ming (明體), and sans-serif (黑體). These terms are being blurred lately, so elsewhere you’ll probably see them all called fonts. Adobe Garamond Bold and Adobe Garamond Bold Italic are two different fonts, but the same typeface. Adobe Garamond and Monotype Garamond are two different typefaces. I’ve written a paper or two, and so I’ll summarize my preferences regarding Chinese typefaces.īTW, in this blog entry “ typeface” refers to a set of glyphs in many variations in weight, width, Italics or Roman, etc. Learn Chinese at advanced levels and you’ll eventually have to write a paper, or design something, with Chinese text.