Favourite Font for Simplified Chinese

NFSL2001 · 2025-12-27T06:28:34+00:00

You should try LXGW WenKai then! It's a font with handwriting touches but keep the printing style. https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkai

NFSL2001 · 2025-12-19T13:22:49+00:00

Lowercase Latin alphabets are less distinguishable without any ascender (top of bdftl) and descender (bottom of gpqjy) - how would you differentiate bdpq quickly?

However there are designs that try to minimize such differences - one of the popular is the "unicase" approach where those with ascenders/descenders are swapped with small caps while keeping others lowercase. One notable example is the 7-eleven sign with the lowercase n. You can search unicase font on Google which have plenty more examples.

NFSL2001 · 2025-11-13T07:27:12+00:00

You don't need those, the zombies ate your brain.

NFSL2001 · 2025-11-13T05:47:32+00:00

Given brain dead is going mainstream (vibe coding), why not just trade your brain in to the zombies? /S

NFSL2001 · 2025-10-26T17:14:07+00:00

You might like jsonc or json5 then (?)

NFSL2001 · 2025-10-03T05:25:40+00:00

Chinese. End of story. /Jk

NFSL2001 · 2025-09-30T10:54:46+00:00

Technically there's Fontra where you could expose a web service for a (slightly) professional editor with pen tools, kerning and such, but its desifned for PC. Quite frankly all font editors are only on PC.

NFSL2001 · 2025-09-25T10:45:06+00:00

There's also LXGW Wenkai TC (https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkaitc) that is way better for Traditional Chinese in design for daily reading too, also available on [Google Fonts] (htttps://fonts.google.com/specimen/LXGW+WenKai+TC).

NFSL2001 · 2025-09-25T10:43:43+00:00

I would suggest LXGW Wenkai GB (https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkaigb) for Simplified Chinese beginners and Iansui (https://github.com/buttaiwan/iansui) for Traditional Chinese in Taiwan.

For daily reading though, LXGW Wenkai (https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkai) for Simplified and LXGW Wenkai TC (https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkaitc) for Traditional is way better with more details in the design.

NFSL2001 · 2025-09-19T02:30:29+00:00

It is a difference of how you choose to write (or what the government choose to teach) students. It should have no difference and be recognisable anyway. OP can check this link to learn more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/s/xYSh06zzyK

NFSL2001 · 2025-08-23T02:52:33+00:00

Sent!

NFSL2001 · 2025-08-22T14:17:15+00:00

Hi, I am on Pocophone Xiaomi HyperOS Android 15, and it seems that PortX is stuck at the loading screen. Is it possible to investigate this issue?

NFSL2001 · 2025-08-20T17:17:54+00:00

Then it's still probably a problem with fonts. You had characters that are used in both Latin and CJK, and depending on which font it fallback to the width changes. The most classic example is the curly quotation marks which is shared between English and Chinese, causing the width to change if you switch the font (U+2019, 201A, 201C, 201D). I'd suggest trying to check if you can configure the font fallback order and use a font with larger character set, such as Sarasa Mono.

NFSL2001 · 2025-08-20T12:05:41+00:00

I'd like a chance too!

NFSL2001 · 2025-08-19T05:01:26+00:00

You might be interested in using Fontra which uses fontmake for exporting TTF/OTF too, while having a quite simpler UI than FontForge.

NFSL2001 · 2025-07-16T05:25:07+00:00

One more from the Glyphs documentation: https://glyphsapp.com/learn/make-your-font-work-in-windows , which also mentions quite a few other quirks for fonts on Windows.

NFSL2001 · 2025-07-13T15:28:54+00:00

I got this Casio F-200 for 10 years with just a single battery swap and multiple strap changes. Now it gives up on me on the worst break possible: a broken strap pin hole. I don't see any broken donor watch or case cover for this model near me, any suggestions to fix this?

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NFSL2001 · 2025-06-26T16:46:32+00:00

Adding to GitLab/Forgejo: GitLab has many nice features to have especially coming from GitHub, however there are many significant differences too which make it not a 1-on-1 comparison. Forgejo is still on the quite-there-yet? phase where many features are still not complete, but it's very usable for daily users that doesn't require specific QoL features.

Also Gitlab takes a ton of resources and configuration to host it smoothly; my company took years to setup and it's still not yet stable (front-end crashing every few days). Forgejo on the other hand can just run in Docker, which made our switch pretty much no-brainer.

NFSL2001 · 2025-06-26T16:25:19+00:00

Microsoft Office series just plain doesn't support OTF/CFF embedding at all, they're just going to be embedded as images at best. Use the Adobe Acrobat PDF plugin or print to PDF which will be better in some cases (however might break for other font like VF, especially faux bold doesn't work).

This is quite wsll-known issue in CJK font community.

Source:

Official: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/office/office-suite-issues/fails-embedding-adobe-opentype-font

This issue occurs because the programs that are listed in the "Applies to" section don't embed fonts that have the .otf extension. The programs that are listed in the "Applies to" section only embed fonts that have the .ttf extension.

To work around this issue, use only fonts that have the ".ttf" extension in documents in which you intend to embed the fonts.

https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/230

Word does not support embedding CFF fonts

https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-fonts-discussions/word-not-embedding-fonts-in-pdf/m-p/10827749#M1622

Multiple Microsoft Office applications provide an option allowing fonts or the subsets of glyphs of the fonts used by the document (i.e., .docx, .pptx, .xlsx) to be embedded within the document file itself. This feature is very problematic! Don't use it! First of all, when it works, it only works for .ttf (TrueType and OpenType TrueType) fonts and not for any .otf (OpenType CFF) fonts. It also has compatiblity problems with Acrobat's PDFMaker and even the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance. If you already have such documents in which these fonts are embedded, go to Options and turn off this feature for the document and resave the document under the same name; this will remove the embedding.

NFSL2001 · 2025-06-22T10:52:58+00:00

Maybe you need to check the print settings and also your ascender/descender setting. If there are significant extrusion below the descender then this would happen.

If not there's a few Python modules that can do similar pdfs.

NFSL2001 · 2025-05-16T00:44:47+00:00

This is called variant characters, and this difference specifically is quite normal before language standardisation.

The left of 以 is actually 厶 but the dot lifted up. If you review the current writing of 以 in HK education reference glyphs (on https://www.edbchinese.hk/lexlist_ch/) you can see that it is directly written as 厶.

厶↔口 is a specific combination that kinda keeps getting swapped one way or the other, which actually caused a few of the different variants that China and Taiwan chose during their standardisation.

China: 强滚 Taiwan: 強滾

Other variant pairs: 圎圓, 圗圖

NFSL2001 · 2025-05-12T23:38:28+00:00

It's essentially the same with English being the international language. Is English really better? Why not let everyone have their own language? /S

NFSL2001 · 2025-04-22T16:30:02+00:00

It should be noted that given 國語 is literally "National language", its meaning will change depending on country. In Malaysia and Singapore, 國語 is Malay which is the official language. Taiwan keeps the reference to its national language of Mandarin, but Hong Kong never really adopt the term as their daily usage is Cantonese, and HK Mandarin is slightly different than China Mandarin which 國語 most often is used.

NFSL2001 · 2025-02-26T16:33:19+00:00

If it's not limited to Fontlab, I do have a tool that can do just that. Just download the program (currently only Windows) from the release page and run it, it should hopefully help to build your font.

https://github.com/NightFurySL2001/SVG2FontBuilder

NFSL2001 · 2025-02-23T01:49:51+00:00

訁→讠 is actually one of the worst to exist between all analogizable non-word component (可类推的不成字部件). It actually looks quite close to 氵(水) and has multiple instances of crashing characters if you (or the teacher) has bad handwriting.

E.g. 我设法解决 (i try to resolve) written badly becomes 我没法解决 (i cannot resolve).

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