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Based on Arphic PL Fonts, extended partly to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I. DLCMingMedium DLCMingBold 華康中明體 ， 華康粗明體: TC Microsoft Windows: Font family from which Windows 3.0's default Traditional Chinese font 'Ming Light' is derived. MingLiU 細明體: TC (Taiwan) Microsoft Windows: mingliu.ttc
East Asian typography is the application of typography to the writing systems used for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages. Scripts represented in East Asian typography include Chinese characters, kana, and hangul.
A wonton font (also known as Chinese, chopstick, chop suey, [1] or kung-fu) is a mimicry typeface with a visual style intended to express an East Asian, or more specifically, Chinese typographic sense of aestheticism. Styled to mimic the brush strokes used in Chinese characters, wonton fonts often convey a sense of Orientalism. In modern times ...
In addition to the international measurement system of points, Chinese characters are also measured by size numbers (called zihao, 字号) invented by an American for Chinese printing in 1859. Table 1 is a list of all the font sizes in numbers available on Chinese version MS Word and their equivalent points.
In computing, Chinese character encodings can be used to represent text written in the CJK languages—Chinese, Japanese, Korean—and (rarely) obsolete Vietnamese, all of which use Chinese characters. Several general-purpose character encodings accommodate Chinese characters, and some of them were developed specifically for Chinese.
The Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters are taken from the Source Sans Pro family, [5] and adjusted to fit in with Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) text. For example, in the normal weight Latin and Latin-like characters are scaled to 115% of their original size, hence they appear larger than Source Sans Pro at the same point size.
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Fonts which support a wide range of Unicode scripts and Unicode symbols are sometimes referred to as "pan-Unicode fonts", although as the maximum number of glyphs that can be defined in a TrueType font is restricted to 65,535, it is not possible for a single font to provide individual glyphs for all defined Unicode characters (154,998 ...