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WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographics 4. This font provides full coverage to the required code points for zhcn, zhsg, zhtw, zhhk and zhmo locales. Generated by fontinfo 2020121, fontconfig 2.13.1, libpng 1.6.37, freetype 2.10.1, harfbuzz 2.6.4 on 2020-01-21. Contact pgajdos at suse in case of any issues or proposals. Use WenQuanYi Zen Hei Sharp instead of WenQuanYi Bitmap Song. The former is a TrueType font with embedded dotted font, and have better compatibility. Submitted by: intron 31 Jul 2016 18:08036,1: jbeich: x11-fonts/wqy: bump PORTREVISION after r419067: 25 Jul 2016 21:08035,1: jbeich. 50 Professional Tsc F Hei L5 Tt Fonts to Download Please note: If you want to create professional printout, you should consider a commercial font. Free fonts often have not all characters and signs, and have no kerning pairs (Avenue ↔ A venue, Tea ↔ T ea). WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a Hei-Ti style (sans-serif type) Chinese outline font. It is designed for general purpose text formatting and on-screen display of Chinese characters and symbols from many other languages. The embolden strokes of the font glyphs produces enhanced screen contrast, making it easier to read recognize.
Original author(s) | Qianqian Fang |
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Developer(s) | WenQuanYi Project Contributors |
Initial release | October 2004; 16 years ago |
Type | Computer font |
License | GPL |
Website | wenq.org |
WenQuanYi (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: 文泉驛; pinyin: Wénquányì; aka: Spring of Letters) is an open-source project of Chinese computer fonts licensed under GNU General Public License.
General[edit]
WenQuanYi project was started by Qianqian Fang (Screen name: FangQ; Chinese: 房骞骞), a Chinese biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital, in October, 2004.[1][2][3]
The fonts of the WenQuanYi project are now included with the Linux distributionsUbuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Magic Linux and CDLinux. Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch Linux and Frugalware offer the sources for WenQuanYi fonts.[4] The fonts are among the Chinese fonts officially supported by Wikimedia.[5]
WenQuanYi's website is using Habitat, a Wikisoftware derived from UseModWiki by Qianqian Fang. It is allowed to create or modify the glyphs online.
Fonts[edit]
WenQuanYi project aims to create high-quality open-source bitmap and outline fonts for all CJK characters.[6][7] It includes Zen Hei (Regular, Mono and Sharp), Micro Hei (Regular and Mono), Bitmap Song and Unibit font.[4] As of version 0.8.38, the WenQuanYi Zen Hei font covers more than 35,000 glyphs.[8]
Font family | Initial release | Latest stable release | Serif? | Bitmap? | Monospace? | License | Chars | Glyphs | Format | Page | Sample |
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Zen Hei | September 15, 2007; 13 years ago | 0.9.45 (Fighting-state RC1) (March 12, 2010; 10 years ago[9]) [±] | Sans | No | No | GPL 2 | TTC | [1] | |||
Zen Hei Mono | No | Yes | |||||||||
Zen Hei Sharp | No[note 1] | No | [note 1] | ||||||||
Micro Hei | May 25, 2009; 11 years ago | 0.2.0 beta (BigBang)[note 2] (May 25, 2009; 11 years ago[9]) [±] | Sans | No | No | Apache 2 / GPL 3 | TTC | [2] | |||
Micro Hei Mono | No | Yes | |||||||||
Bitmap Song | June 25, 2005; 15 years ago | 0.9.9 (Hero) (November 4, 2007; 13 years ago[9]) [±] | Serif (Ming) | Yes (only 11-16px) | No | GPL 2 | Multi-strike Bitmap Font | [3] | |||
Unibit | May 25, 2009; 11 years ago | 1.1.0 (September 14, 2007; 13 years ago[9]) [±] | Sans | Yes | Yes | GPL 2 | Multi-strike Bitmap Font | [4] |
Zen Hei[edit]
WenQuanYi Zen Hei (文泉驿正黑), WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono (文泉驿等宽正黑) and WenQuanYi Zen Hei Sharp (文泉驿点阵正黑) co-exist in a single TTC file. They are also with embedded bitmaps. The Latin/Hangul characters are derived from UnDotum, Bopomofo are from cwTeX, mono-spaced Latin are from M+ M2 Light. These fonts have full CJK coverage. The font package is included with Fedora and Ubuntu.
Micro Hei[edit]
WenQuanYi Micro Hei (文泉驿微米黑), WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono (文泉驿等宽微米黑) are derived from the Droid Sans font (merged with Droid Sans Fallback) and readable in compact sizes. The primitive motivation of this project was to extend Droid Sans Fallback's glyph coverage. Since the GB 18030 compatible Droid Sans Fallback font's release, the Micro Hei project has been de facto inactive.
Bitmap Song[edit]
WenQuanYi Bitmap Song (文泉驿点阵宋体) has full coverage to GB 18030 Hanzi at 11-16px (9pt-12pt) font sizes.
Unibit[edit]
WenQuanYi Unibit (文泉驿Unibit) adopted the GNU Unifont's scheme of 8x16 and 16x16 glyphs. Then the contributors added 10,000 more glyphs. The improvements done by WenQuanYi Unibit has been merged back to GNU Unifont.[7]
Glyph[edit]
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The glyph of traditional characters included in WenQuanYi is the new character form of the Mainland China. The glyph comes from G-Source (character source from Mainland China) of Unicode and the standard of a character list from the 1988 List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese and the 2009 List of General Standardized Chinese (通用规范汉字表).
The glyph is not from T-Source (character source from Taiwan) and H-Source (character source from Hong Kong). It does not conform with the standardized traditional character writing behavior of writers from Taiwan and Hong Kong. In other words, it does not support the traditional Chinese character set. (For more information, see Han unification.)
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Some examples of characters with different glyph are: 別, 吳, 骨, 角, 過, 這, 草, 放, etc.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ abUsing Bitmap Song for 11-16px; using Zen Hei for other font size.
- ^Only beta versions available for WenQuanYi Micro Hei.
References[edit]
- ^开源汉字的领军人物——房骞骞. 电脑报 (in Chinese). 电脑报. 17th. 2006-05-01.
- ^自由的汉字!对话文泉驿项目创始人房骞骞. faif (in Chinese). Solidot. 2007-10-31. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^'Chinese fonts'. Luc Devroye. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^ ab'WenQuanYi Homepage in English'. WenQuanYi Project. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^'SVG fonts'. Wikimedia. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^'About 'Wen Quan Yi' Project'. WenQuanYi Project. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^ ab'GNU Unifont Glyphs'. Unifoundry.com. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^'East Asian Unicode fonts for Windows computers'. Alan Wood. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^ abcd'WenQuanYi Project at SourceForge.net'. WenQuanYi & SourceForge.
External links[edit]
- Official website (Official site in English)
- WenQuanYi on SourceForge.net
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WenQuanYi&oldid=983384789'
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WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a Hei-Ti style (sans-serif type) Chinese outline font. It is designed for general purpose text formatting and on-screen display of Chinese characters and symbols from many other languages. WenQuanYi Zen Hei provides a rather complete coverage of Chinese Hanzi glyphs, including both simplified and traditional forms. The total glyph number in this font is over 35,000, including over 21,000 Chinese Hanzi. This font has full coverage of the GBK (CP936) charset, CJK Unified Ideographs, as well as the code-points needed for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk, zh_mo, ja (Japanese) and ko (Korean) locales for
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- Website: http://wenq.org/wqy2/
- License: GPL 2
- Package source: fonts.scm
- Patches: None
- Builds: x86_64-linux, i686-linux, armhf-linux, aarch64-linux, i586-gnu