Free Open Type font to embed Chinese characters

rewyn · 01-21-2016, 04:51 PM

Greetings members,

I recently am converting a book which has Eastern language within it particularly Chinese. Does anyone know an Open Type font which I could embed in the CSS to code the kanji correctly?

Thanks in advance for looking.

theducks · 01-21-2016, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rewyn

Greetings members,

I recently am converting a book which has Eastern language within it particularly Chinese. Does anyone know an Open Type font which I could embed in the CSS to code the kanji correctly?

Thanks in advance for looking.

I believe Ubuntu and many other Linux distros come with fonts for all (common

) languages.

Kill 2 birds with on OS

Learn Linux and do your book (Calibre and Sigil also run on Linux)

Doitsu · 01-22-2016, 09:30 AM

This Wikipedia entry has long list of free Japanese fonts.

rewyn · 01-25-2016, 09:25 AM

Thanks for viewing and responding, but Ubuntu, does not have Chinese characters. Thanks Doitsu, that's somewhere to start.

GrannyGrump · 01-26-2016, 03:10 AM

@rewyn --- does it have to be Open Type Font (.otf) ?
Jellby found me this batch of Chinese fonts, but they are all True Type (ttf). Worked fine for the project I was doing.

Give a look at the Wang Fonts page (zip contains over 30 fonts, different weights and styles, average 6 ~ 9 mb each)
https://code.google.com/archive/p/wangfonts/
I used HanWang_002.

The fonts are quite large, but most Asian fonts seem to be huge --- subsetting can save some file-size. (in Calibre, or with Toxaris' "Epub Optimizer" plugin for Sigil https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=252010)

01-21-2016, 04:51 PM	#1
rewyn Miskatonic U. Class of 97 Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Ethersphere Device: iPad, Kindle, Nook,	Free Open Type font to embed Chinese characters Greetings members, I recently am converting a book which has Eastern language within it particularly Chinese. Does anyone know an Open Type font which I could embed in the CSS to code the kanji correctly? Thanks in advance for looking.

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01-22-2016, 09:30 AM	#3
Doitsu Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,680 Karma: 23983815 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW2	This Wikipedia entry has long list of free Japanese fonts.

01-25-2016, 09:25 AM	#4
rewyn Miskatonic U. Class of 97 Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Ethersphere Device: iPad, Kindle, Nook,	Thanks for viewing and responding, but Ubuntu, does not have Chinese characters. Thanks Doitsu, that's somewhere to start.

01-26-2016, 03:10 AM	#5
GrannyGrump Obsessively Dedicated... Posts: 3,202 Karma: 34984330 Join Date: May 2011 Location: JAPAN (US expatriate) Device: Sony PRS-T2, ADE on PC	@rewyn --- does it have to be Open Type Font (.otf) ? Jellby found me this batch of Chinese fonts, but they are all True Type (ttf). Worked fine for the project I was doing. Give a look at the Wang Fonts page (zip contains over 30 fonts, different weights and styles, average 6 ~ 9 mb each) https://code.google.com/archive/p/wangfonts/ I used HanWang_002. The fonts are quite large, but most Asian fonts seem to be huge --- subsetting can save some file-size. (in Calibre, or with Toxaris' "Epub Optimizer" plugin for Sigil https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=252010)

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