A Simplified Chinese + English font that actually looks good

[macroexp]

Hey all. I share my PRS-505 with my wife, who reads Chinese books. I've never been happy with the english characters in the Chinese fonts though, so I merged a couple fonts into one. The english glyphs come from Bitstream Vera Serif, which I think is easier to read than the stock Dutch. The Chinese glyphs come from FangSong, which my wife says is the most readable Simplified font. The fixed-width latin glyphs (commonly used in Chinese text) are copies of the base Vera Serif glyphs, but bumped out to fixed-width.

It's big, around 15mb. I convert everything to ePubs and use the css trick to point to this font which I put in the /fonts directory. There are instructions elsewhere on how to do this - I could just never find a worthwhile font to do it with!

Please - this is the first time I've ever even looked inside a font, so if I did something horribly wrong or missed something, let me know.

http://rapidshare.com/files/39086178...f-Fangsong.zip

[thawk]

Thank you for your work. I'll have a try :-)

[charlessmith]

Many thanks.
seems you love your wife very much. ^_^

[jessie102]

how do you merge the two fonts together?

[Mark Nord]

Presumably by using a font-editing software like highlogics fontcreator

[macroexp]

Originally Posted by jessie102

how do you merge the two fonts together?

I used fontforge (open source). I tried using a trial of a commercial font editor, but the workflow was much clunkier. In fontforge I opened both fonts and pasted the English glyphs into the Chinese font. I have some notes I took on the specifics of using fontforge - if it'd be helpful I could find them and post.