Ku Mincho is a Mingti typeface, based on Ming dynasty calligraphy. “There’s no emotion behind them,” Hui told Rest of World. Most of the fonts on the market have gone through a process of convergent evolution to become blocky and conventional. Hui, who previously designed the New York Times’ Chinese logo and a custom typeface for tech giant Tencent, believes that Chinese type design has become stagnant and unoriginal. Now, forced to head home by the pandemic after only six months, he found himself with little paid work, but finally able pursue a passion project that he’d been sitting on for more than six years: Ku Mincho, a radical rethinking of Chinese type. The previous year, he’d quit his “too comfortable and steady” job at Monotype, one of the world’s largest type foundries, and moved to Munich. Select the font that has the correct zhuyin you are looking for.In 2020, type designer Julius Hui flew back to his native Hong Kong. When available, the font will have multiple variants. How to change the Zhuyin for different pronunciationsĬhinese characters that have different pronunciations are called 破音 (Pò yīn) and will have different zyuyin for each pronunciation. Zhuyin is also known as Bopomofo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) and originated in Taiwan as a transliteration system to teach Taiwanese Mandarin, known as Guóyǔ (國語) and Taiwanese Hokkien, Tái yǔ (台語).
Zhuyin (注音) is a set of phonetic symbols most commonly used alongside Traditional Chinese characters.
If your web browser allows, right-click on your mouse and select “translate to English”. Once the external link opens, translate the page to find the download button. *Download from the original sites at your own discretion using the external links below. With these fonts, you can create your own worksheets, flashcards, and other learning materials. I have selected these fonts because they are easy to read and phonetic characters (Pinyin and Zhuyin) are not too big compared to the Chinese characters. In many of our children’s books, the text is printed too small or the publisher has chosen a font that is very hard to read, especially if you are learning Chinese.
Looking for free Chinese fonts with Pinyin or free fonts with Zhuyin or Bopomofo? Here is a collection of fonts that are free for personal and commercial use.
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