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London-based graphic designer. He created a custom Taiwanese display face. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Taipei, Taiwan, who created the multiline Latin display typeface Path in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the 3d Latin typeface Space (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Arne Götje
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It sells the UniFonts 2000 package, as well as an XPDF font pack. Many of the free Chinese fonts on the web originate from Arphic. For example, here, one could download these fonts from 1998: Arphic-Mingti2-Light-BIG5, HerSin-Medium, InnMing-Bold, InnMing-Extra, InnMing-Heavy, InnMing-Medium, InnMing-Ultra, MaokaiEG-Bold-Big5, MaokaiEG-Extra-Big5, MaokaiEG-Heavy-Big5, NewGothic-Bold, NewGothic-Extra, NewGothic-Heavy, NewGothic-Light, NewGothic-Medium, OvlapRound_Outline-Ultra, PensinkaiEG-Light-Big5, PensinkaiEG-Medium-Big5, Pop1-Bold, Pop2EG-Bold-Big5, Pop3EG-Extra-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big565329, ShanHeiSun-Light, ShanheisunEG-Bold-Big5, ShanheisunEG-Medium-Big5, SingkaiEG-Bold-Big5, SingkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdKai-Medium, StdMing-Medium, StdkaiEG-Bold-Big5, StdkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdsungEG-Bold-Big5, StdsungEG-Heavy-Big5, StdsungEG-Light-Big5, TankuinEG-Bold-Big5, YankaiEG-Heavy-Big5, YankaiEG-Ultra-Big5, YenRound-Bold, YenRound-Extra, YenRound-Heavy, YenRound-Light, YenRound-Medium, YenRound-Ultra, ZuinnEG-Medium-Big5. Their Japanese fonts are sold by Dex Web. FireFly, a Taiwanese company, maintains the free font AR PL New Sung (2004), which was originally an Arphic font. Monotype sells many fonts, such as the sake barrel font Arphic PKanteiryu JIS. Alternate URL. In 2018, they published the multilingual (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and many other languages) font Jing Xi Hei (+Hair, +Thin, very nice weights), AR DC Qing Yuan, AR DC HY Jian Wei, AR Fang Xin Shu. Typefaces from 2019: AR Shu Yuan Song. People presently involved with Arphic include Teresa Mou (senior font designer), Jeff Wu (Genral manager), Grace Yang, Judy Lee (senior font designer), Edwina Lee (strategic cooperation manager), August Lan (head of Font Wizard), and Kaku Kuo (team leader and font designer). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Four high-quality Chinese TrueType fonts generously provided by Arphic Technology (Taipei, Taiwan) to the Free Software community under the "Arphic Public License". The four free Chinese truetype fonts are about 10MB each: ZenKai-Medium, BousungEG-Light-GB, GBZenKai-Medium, ShanHeiSun-Light. Alternate URL. One more site. Yet another URL. This site has a file called fireflysung, which has the full Chinese font AR PL New Sung (1994-1999). CTAN download site. The license states: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is forbidden. So I am hosting the fonts on my site: Download these fonts: AR-PL-KaitiM-Big5, AR-PL-KaitiM-GB, AR-PL-Mingti2L-Big5, AR-PL-SungtiL-GB. A large zip file with these fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Director of Font Experience Lab of Arphic (Taipei, Taiwan). He joined Arphic in 2004. From 2014 to 2017, August was in charge of the Design Department of Arphic. He was Project Manager for Arphic's typefaces JingXiHei, JingXuKai, and JingCaiHei. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, B.Q. Huang designed the decorative Animal Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of Albra (2019), Albra Sans (2020), Albra Text (2020: a low-contrast serif), Albra Display (2020), Gaba (2019: a geometric sans; by Yang Lu) and Rae Low (2019, by Yang Lu and Raimei Lu). Most of their fonts have variable opentype styles. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Free utility for 1Kx1K bitmap conversion to a truetype font. The program was written in 1994 by Lin YawJen in Taiwan. Alternate site. Yet another site where the source code may be found as well. See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cheng Yi-Fang (Taipei) created a connect-the-dots Latin typeface in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwanese graphic designer who created Birds New Roman (2015)---a set of birds all composed of glyphs taken from Times New Roman. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chenying Wang was born in Taiwan and studied at Shih Chien University. Now based in Tokyo, he designed the decorative alphabet Perfume (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chiachi Chao is a type and graphic designer from Taipei. While studying at ECAL (Lausanne, Switzerland), he designed the dynamic script typeface Hemon (2020), which was inspired by the abstract paintings of Dutch artist Sedje Hémon. In 2021, he published the art nouveau typeface Bezier at ECAL Typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of a bilined hexagonal display typeface in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chun Lin Yeh
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Taiwanese type designer who won the People's Choice award for Ruitai in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual designer in Hsunchu, Taiwan. Creator of a Latin display typeface in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based creator of a colorful typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CJK Unifonts
| Arne Götje, a German who lives in Taiwan, works on a project to provide CJK unicode fonts. His work is based on the Arphic fonts AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni and AR PL ZenKai Uni. He added the Chinese dialect phonetic symbols. Furthermore, he merged the embedded Firefly Sung bitmap font into CJKUnifonts. In 2005, the work of the Hong Kong freefonts project (OAKA group) was also merged into CJK Unifonts. Additional URL. Free high quality Chinese truetype Unicode fonts under the Arphic license (Arphic is based in Taiwan). They contain almost 22000 characters (!!!) and contain glyphs for Big 5 Chinese, GB2312-80 Chinese, ISO8859-1,2,3,4,7,9,10,13,14,15 and Bopomofo extended for Minnan and Hakka (Taiwan). The missing glyphs for Japanese, Korean and HKSCS are under development. The fonts are Uming (Mingti, or printed) and Ukai (Kaiti, or brush stroke). They are gorgeous and reproduce well at small screen sizes. Subprojects include modules for typing the Taiwanese styles Minnan and Hakka. Colloborators: Aaron Cheung, Akar Chen, Alex Ho, Chow Lok Yuen, CP Tung, Eric (EC-graphic), Eric Chan Chi Shing, Firefly, Ga Ming, Jack Tse, John Ma, Kevin Tse, K.M. Lau, Kong, Kwok Wun Yung, Lam Wai Tung, Munkwui Ho, Qianqian Fang, Simon Wong, Shiu Kau Wong, Willy Yuen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Chinese fonts UMing TW (ShanHeiSun-Uni) and UKai TW (ZenKai-Uni). These are reworked fonts from the Arphic type foundry in Taiwan. The Simplified Chinese versions are called UMingCN and UKaiCN. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwanese archive with about one hundred free Chinese truetype fonts in the public domain. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CMs (Classical Mongolian script)
| Three great Mongol truetype fonts by Peter Cheung (aka dEgi, Taiwan) in 1998: CMs Ulaanbaatar, CMs Huree, CMs Urga. Free. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Taiwanese site. The zip files have 18 full Chinese fonts, including a handwritten one. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Information on viewing Chinese characters for all platforms, with appropriate font links. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CWTTF
| Some Taiwanese Free Software Foundation supporters designed a number of free Chinese truetype fonts under the guidance of Edward J. Lee between 1999 and 2005. People involved include Tsong-Min Wu and Tsong-Huey Wu. As of 2005, the fonts are cwTeXFangSong, cwTeXHeiBold, cwTeXKai, cwTeXMing, cwTeXYen. All fonts cover Chinese, Korean and Latin as well. The project is part of CLE (Chinese GNU/Linux Extensions) located in Taiwan. The fonts are especially useful with cwTeX. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang
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Linotype sells these (incomplete list): DF Brush Japanese Font Family, DF Bu Ding Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Bun Cho Min Japanese Font Family, DF Cai Dai Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Craft Japanese Font Family, DF Dan Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF En En Japanese Font Family, DF En Kai Japanese Font Family, DF Fang Yuan Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ga Gei Japanese Font Family, DF Gan Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gang Bi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Glide Japanese Font Family, DF Go Hitu Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gyo Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF H G Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Hai Bao Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Hei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Hibi Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Hibi Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Horror Japanese Font Family, DF Jin Wen Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF K Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Ka Gei Japanese Font Family, DF Kai Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Kaku Pop Japanese Font Family, DF Kaku Tai Hi Japanese Font Family, DF Kann Tei Ryu Japanese Font Family, DF Kann Ting Liu Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ken Ryu Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Ki Sou Kyu Japanese Font Family, DF Kin Bun Japanese Font Family, DF Ko Tai O Hi Japanese Font Family, DF Kyo Geki Japanese Font Family, DF Kyo Sui Japanese Font Family, DF Lei Ga So Japanese Font Family, DF Li Jin Hei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Long Men Simplified Chinese Font Family, DFK Mincho Korean, DF Naughty Japanese Font Family, DF Neko Maru Japanese Font Family, DF PenJi Japanese Font Family, DF POP 1 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP 2 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP 3 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP Mix Japanese Font Family, DF Ren Ren Japanese Font Family, DF Renga Japanese Font Family, DF Ribon Japanese Font Family, DF Script Li Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Miao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Er Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Hsiu Traditional Chinese Font Family, Liu Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Tsai Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Ya Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Yun Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Chu Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Mo Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Pao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Tou Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Qiao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Shao Nv Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Shi Yi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Shou Jin Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF So Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Song Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF SP Lei Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Star Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Std Kai Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Std Song Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Stick Japanese Font Family, DF Tan Li Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Taru Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Tegaki Warabe Japanese Font Family, DF Toge Pop Japanese Font Family, DF Wa Wa Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Wie Bei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ya Song Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF YaYi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Yu Ga So Japanese Font Family, DF Yuan Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Zong Yi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Zou Kei Japanese Font Family. | |
This Chinese font archive carries part of the DynaComware collection. See also here and here. The latter link has these DynaComware fonts: DFBangShuStd-W8, DFBiaoKaiShuStd-W5, DFBiaoSongStd-W4, DFCaiDaiStd-W7, DFDouDouStd-W3, DFDouDouStd-W5, DFFangSongStd-W2, DFFangSongStd-W4, DFFangSongStd-W6, DFFangYuanStd-W7, DFGangBiStd-W2, DFGirlStd-W3, DFGirlStd-W5, DFGirlStd-W7, DFGuYinStd-W5, DFHaiBaoStd-W12, DFHaiBaoStd-W9, DFHeiStd-W12, DFHeiStd-W3, DFHeiStd-W5, DFHeiStd-W7, DFHeiStd-W9, DFHuaZongStd-W5, DFHuiZongStd-W5, DFJinWenStd-W3, DFKaiShuStd-W3, DFKaiShuStd-W5, DFKaiShuStd-W7, DFKaiShuStd-W9, DFKanTingLiuStd-W9, DFKangKaiStd-W5, DFKuoTaiBeiStd-W4, DFLiHeiStd-W3, DFLiHeiStd-W5, DFLiHeiStd-W7, DFLiKaiShuStd-W5, DFLiKingHeiStd-W8, DFLiShuStd-W3, DFLiShuStd-W5, DFLiShuStd-W7, DFLiSongStd-W3, DFLiSongStd-W5, DFLiSongStd-W7, DFLiYuanStd-W7, DFLiYuanStd-W8, DFLianLianStd-W2, DFLianLianStd-W4, DFLiuLiStd-W5, DFLiuLiStd-W7, DFLiuXianStd-W3, DFLiuYeStd-W3, DFLungMenStd-W9, DFMingStd-W12, DFMingStd-W3, DFMingStd-W5, DFMingStd-W7, DFMingStd-W9, DFMoStd-W9, DFNewChuanStd-W5, DFOYangXunStd-W5, DFPOP1Std-W5, DFPOP1Std-W7, DFPOP1Std-W9, DFPOP2Std-W9, DFPOP3Std-W12, DFPuDingStd-W12, DFPuDingStd-W7, DFShiYiStd-W5, DFSoZingStd-W3, DFSuMoStd-W12, DFTanKaiStd-W5, DFTanLiStd-W5, DFTanLiStd-W7, DFTieXianStd-W3, DFTongTongStd-W3, DFWZMingStd-W4, DFWaWaStd-W5, DFWaWaStd-W7, DFWeiBeiStd-W7, DFXingKaiStd-W5, DFXingShuStd-W5, DFYaYiStd-W6, DFYanKaiStd-W5, DFYanKaiStd-W7, DFYanKaiStd-W9, DFYeaSongStd-W9, DFYingHeiStd-W7, DFYuanStd-W12, DFYuanStd-W3, DFYuanStd-W5, DFYuanStd-W7, DFYuanStd-W8, DFYuanStd-W9, DFYuanYuanStd-W2, DFYuanYuanStd-W4, DFZongKaiStd-W7, DFZongYiStd-W5, DFZongYiStd-W7, DFZongYiStd-W9. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
EBS Design is located in Taipei, Taiwan. Their monospaced typeface Earlybirds (2012) was designed on a grid. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Developer in Taiwan of the free GNU-license font family Wang (2004), which contains a number of full Chinese fonts in all formats: HanWangWCL01, HanWangWCL02, HanWangWCL03, HanWangWCL04, HanWangWCL05, HanWangWCL06, HanWangWCL07, HanWangWCL08, HanWangWCL09, HanWangWCL10, HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangKaiMediumChuIn, HanWangMingMediumPoIn1, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn1, HanWangMingMediumPoIn2, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn2, HanWangMingMediumPoIn3, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn3, HanWangMingLight, HanWangMingMedium, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangYenLight, HanWangYenHeavy, HanWangHeiLight, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangLiSuMedium, HanWangFangSongMedium, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangZonYi, HanWangYanKai, HanWangShinSuMedium, HanWangCC02, HanWangCC15, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangGB06, HanWang-KaiBold-Gb5, HanWang-WeiBeiMedium-Gb5, HanWang-FangSongMedium-Gb5, HanWang-SinSongThin-Gb5. All these fonts were originally created by Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang of HtWang Graphics Laboratory. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Edward G.J. Lee
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Edwina Lee works for the Taiwanese foundry Arphic Technologies. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam How to find or develop matched Chinese typefaces for existing Latin typefaces. She also spoke at ATypI 2017 in Montreal and at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, where together with Jeff Wu of Arphic she pointed out the challenges of designing variable Chinese fonts. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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In 2004, a Taiwanese OSS writer, Firefly, completed a new set of 12x16 bitmap fonts based on the four public domain Arphic fonts. He merged Traditional and Simplified Chinese glyphs and embedded the manually optimized bitmap fonts into a single TTF, which is known as fireflysung.ttf. It consists of 16976 glyphs. Download. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based graphic designer and tattoo artist. His quest for an appropriate squarish tattoo font led him to design Lu (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei City, Taiwan-based designer of the compass-and-ruler typeface Ink Pad in 2019. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer at Arphic of the Chinese fountain pen script typeface AR DCHXY Pen Li Kai Ti (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the Latin typeface Nomnom (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
HTL Ryan
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HtWang Graphics Laboratory
| Free Chinese fonts made by Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang from 2002 until 2004. The CLE project run by "Seventeen" and Edward G. J. Lee (Taiwan) has resulted in a number of free Chinese truetype and type 1 fonts, listed below, with corresponding PostScript names: wt001 (HanWangMingLight), wt002 (HanWangMingMedium), wt003 (HanWangMingBold), wt004 (HanWangMingHeavy), wt005 (HanWangMingBlack), wt006 (HanWangYenLight), wt009 (HanWangYenHeavy), wt011 (HanWangHeiLight), wt014 (HanWangHeiHeavy), wt021 (HanWangLiSuMedium), wt024 (HanWangFangSongMedium), wt028 (HanWangKanDaYan), wt034 (HanWangKanTan), wt040 (HanWangZonYi), wt064 (HanWangYanKai), wt071 (HanWangShinSuMedium), wtcc02 (HanWangCC02), wtcc15 (HanWangCC15), wthc06 (HanWangGB06), wtg-06cut1 (HanWangGSolid06cut1), wp010-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn), wp110-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn1), wp210-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn2), wp310-05 (HanWangMingMediumChuIn3), wp010-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn), wp110-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn1), wp210-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn2), wp310-08 (HanWangKaiMediumChuIn3), wts11 (HanWang KaiBold-Gb5), wts43 (HanWang WeiBeiMedium-Gb5), wts47 (HanWang FangSongMedium-Gb5 wts47 wts55 (HanWang SinSongThin-Gb5), WCL-01 (HanWangWCL01), WCL-02 (HanWangWCL02), WCL-03 (HanWangWCL03), WCL-04 (HanWangWCL04), WCL-05 (HanWangWCL05), WCL-06 (HanWangWCL06), WCL-07 (HanWangWCL07), WCL-08 (HanWangWCL08), WCL-09 (HanWangWCL09), WCL-10 (HanWangWCL10). This archive has HanWangCC02, HanWangCC15, HanWangFangSongMedium, HanWangGB06, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangHeiLight, HanWangKaiMediumChuIn, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangLiSuMedium, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingLight, HanWangMingMedium, HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangShinSuMedium, HanWangWCL01, HanWangWCL02, HanWangWCL03, HanWangWCL04, HanWangWCL05, HanWangWCL06, HanWangWCL07, HanWangWCL08, HanWangWCL09, HanWangWCL10, HanWangYanKai, HanWangYenHeavy, HanWangYenLight, HanWangZonYi. Some of the WCL fonts are also here and here. Comments. HanWangShinSuMedium is a nice brush script. HanWangFangSongMedium is a clean script. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Free Chinese truetype fonts (the "Wang collection"): the WCL 1 through 10 fonts from 2003, as well as TSC FMing S TT (TwinBridge Software Corp. 1993-1998), and CCWTEX-BB, CWTEX-F, CWTEX-K, CWTEX-M and CWTEX-R, all by cwTeX Developement Group, 2003. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chinese font archive that includes DFTT-H6, FZCaiYun-M09T (Founder Corporation, 1997), dfft-s5, dftt-f5, dftt-k5, dftt-r7, tt1, tt10, tt11, tt12, tt14, tt16, tt17, tt18, tt19, tt21, tt22, tt31, tt36, tt42, tt43, tt45, tt47, tt50, tt9. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, a company that sells Chinese (Big5) fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwanese company, where you can download four Chinese truetype fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of a Latin techno typeface in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Taiwan, Iris Wu obtained a Bachelor's degree in Communication Design from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2010. She now lives in Toronto. She created an unnamed fluid typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chiayi City, Taiwan-based designer of the geometric solid typeface Letters (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan, Jacky Kuo (b. 1994) redesigned ER Bukinist 1251 in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jamie Chang
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Jeff Wu is the General Manager of Arphic Technology. He has led Arphic R&D Division for more than 20 years. His specialties are development of font technology and products. Also, he is familiar with font design and application in versatile devices. He worked as a Software Engineer and Manager of Software department in Mitac Internationl Corp. before Arphic. He received his B.S and M.S degrees in computer science from National Chiao-Tung University of Taiwan. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on Chinese font design: There are about twenty-eight thousand Chinese characters that need to be designed. The average number of strokes in a Chinese character is 12. In Arphic JingXi Hei, for example, the average number of control points for each stroke is about 100. Therefore, there are about 33,600,000 control points to deal with when developing a Chinese typeface. When creating a Variable Font, the control points of every pole of every axis need to correspond, so it is a huge work to design, test the transfer to a Variable Font, and fix the design and control points. In this talk Jeff Wu shares the problems he met in developing Chinese Variable Fonts and how he overcame them: 1) The traps that must be avoided when designing strokes. 2) How many axes are proper for Chinese typefaces? 3) When transfering to Variable Fonts, how to set up the parameters of each table. 4) How to avoid different results when setting up the same parameter on different platforms (OS, browser, applications).. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwan-born and Baltimore, MD-based creator of Eggtart (2013), a lively script typeface family, which was designed during her studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Behance family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Taiwanese designer of many FontStruct fonts, including the piano key typeface Azul (2019), FontStruct link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he graduated from the TypeMedia program at KABK, Den Haag. Wafflu was his graduation project. During his studies with Paul van der Laan at Type & Media in the KABK in Den Haag, Joe Chang created a revival of a 1927 typeface by Sjoerd H. de Roos called Meidoorn (2012). For this, he used printed material as well as original punches. In 2012, for Peter Verheul's course at the KABK, he created the sturdy text typeface Mayweather. Before his studies at KABK, he created the Latin typeface Rubbery (2009). Principal of Typetrix. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist and animation expert Joy Wu (Taipei, Taiwan) created a stringy L:atin display typeface called Playful Pipe (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Senior font designer at Arphic Technology in New Taipei, Taiwan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Justfont
| Taiwanese type foundry located in Taipei. One of its personalities is Chun Lin Yeh. Fonts offered by them include
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Chief font designer at Arphic Technology in New Taipei, Taiwan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic Designer, born 1980 in Taiwan. Living and working in Tainan, Taiwan. His lettering can be seen, e.g., on the logo of the Japon Kabob Bar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of Meteorological Alphabet (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
LGJ Font Notes
| Taiwanese type designer Edward Lee has some font information pages (in Chinese). He has useful technical discussions on Metafont, OpenType, Truetype and type 1. Downloadable full CJK fonts include cwHBMono (2008, Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu and Edward G.J. Lee). This archive contains about 30 free full Chinese fonts in the WT, WTS, WP, and WCL series created in 2004 by Taiwanese type designer Edward G. J. Lee. The font names are: HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangKaiMediumChuIn, HanWangMingMediumPoIn1, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn1, HanWangMingMediumPoIn2, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn2, HanWangMingMediumPoIn3, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn3, HanWangMingLight, HanWangMingMedium, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangYenLight, HanWangYenHeavy, HanWangHeiLight, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangLiSuMedium, HanWangFangSongMedium, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangZonYi, HanWangYanKai, HanWangShinSuMedium, HanWangCC02, HanWangCC15, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangGB06, HanWang-KaiBold-Gb5, HanWang-WeiBeiMedium-Gb5, HanWang-FangSongMedium-Gb5, HanWang-SinSongThin-Gb5. All fonts are copyright Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang, 2002-2004. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Taiwanese designer who studied at Fu Jen Catholic University (calss of 2016) and Arizona State University (Master of Visual Communication Design, class of 2019). At Type Cooper 2021, she developed the whimsical casual typeface Azure. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the Latin typeface Water Drop (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Louis Chiu
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Manic Type
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Graduate of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020. His graduation typeface was Cleft (Text, Twinline). Earlier, he studied at York University in Toronto. At Canada Type in Toronto, he released the uncial / blackletter hybrid Tumba (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Together with Wendy Garcia, Nancy Martinez and Cindy Tan, Taiwanese designer Man-Ping Wu (New York City) created the Peignotian all caps typeface 3E in 2016 for a school project. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Max Everyday
| Taiwanese developer of many free and open source CJK fonts. TAs of 2020, these include Swei Bow Sans, Swei Bow Leg, Swei Bat Sans, Swei Toothpaste, Swei 3T Sans, Swei Nut Leg, Swei Nut Sans, Swei B2 Leg (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei B2 Sans (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei Gothic Leg, Swei Rainbow Leg, Swei XD Pearl (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei D Lucy (derived from Noto Sans CJK), Swei Gothic (derived from Noto Sans CJK), TaiwanPearl, Swei Gothic, Swei Sans, Swei B2 Serif, Swei Meatball (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei Spring (derived from Noto Serif CJK), B2 Hana, Hana Meatball, Naikai (derived from Seto), Bakudai, Massa (a brush script), Fake Pearl, Yu Pearl (derived from Huninn), JasonHandWriting. Github link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Max Yao
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Millie Tien-Hui Lin is an art director and graphic designer who has worked in New York City, and in Taiwan (as art director of Ogilvy Action Taipei, since 2010). Her design studio is called From M. Creator of Chinese English Typeface (2012), an oriental simulation font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan-based designer of a wavy Latin typeface in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chinese font archive: From Arphic, we find LinGothic and STDSunEG-Heavy (Big 5). Also, U2030. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zhubei City, Taiwan-based designer of Backhander Font (2017), which emulates writing on skin. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwanese site with a few Chinese font collections, including the Arphic fonts, several truetype fonts, and a number of PCF (X-Windows) fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Two Chinese TrueType fonts: DFFT-S5.TTF, DFTT-L5.TTF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graduate of Academy Of Art University, who grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. San Francisco, CA-based designer of the rounded stencil typeface tube (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
NTU Chinese Truetype Fonts
| The catalog of the true type fonts by the National Taiwan University was compiled by Thian-Huat Ong in 1999. The fonts, called NTU, are here and here. The creator of the (free) NTU fonts is Lin Yaw-Jen (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei). The fonts were derived ca. 1993 from bitmap fonts provided by Dynafont by a bitmap to truetype program developed in-house. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Peter Cheung
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Frenchman living in Taipei, Taiwan. Designer of the modular typeface Banano (2016) and Asian Food Icons (2016). In 2018, he added Dumdum Sans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwan-based designer of the high-contrast typeface family Rae Low (2019, with Yang Lu). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei City, Taiwan-based designer of the handcrafted Latin typeface Blasé (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwan-based designer of a Mandarin phonetic symbol font (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2020, he designed the free rounded monolinear industrialist sans typeface Kalmansk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taichang, Taiwan-based designer of a geometric display typeface in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The 42 fonts are designed for small devices, and thus, the glyphs are monolinear and simple. Each font weight in the family has a total of 65,535 glyphs (the maximum number of characters supported in the OpenType format), and the entire family contains just under half a million total glyphs. Adobe sought expertise from foundries such as Iwata Corp to expand the Japanese glyph selection, Sandoll Communication, designer of Korean Hangul and Changzhou SinoType, Adobe's longtime collaborator in China. On the Google side of the project, where the fonts are added to the Noto Sans and Noto Serif (which covers all major languages of the world and many others, including European, African, Middle Eastern, Indic, South and Southeast Asian, Central Asian, American, and East Asian languages, and, since the joint release with Adobe in 2014, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and minority languages related to them), users can download all Noto fonts freely in a 43 MB file. References: Ken Lunde (Adobe) on the design and development of Pan-CJK fonts (2010). Inside the fonts, we find these credits: Ken Lunde (project architect, glyph set definition & overall production), Masataka Hattori (production & ideograph elements), Ryoko Nishizuka (kana & ideographs), Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang & Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters & syllables). At ATypI 2014 in Barcelona, the project was explained by product managers Stuart Gill of Google and Caleb Belohlavek of Adobe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Source Han Serif is the serif-style typeface family companion to Source Han Sans. This free superfamily covers Chinese (traditional (both Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. This project, based on designs originally due to Ryoko Nishizuka, a senior Adobe designer in Tokyo, started in 2010. The designers of Source Han Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Source Han serif Japanese and Korean are Frank Griesshammer, Ryoko Nishizuka, Soohyun Park, Wenlong Zhang and Yejin We. The Chinese glyphs, both simplified and traditional, were designed by partner type foundry Changzhou SinoType. The Korean glyphs were designed by partner type foundry Sandoll Communications. Source han Serif won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwan-based designer of the free display typeface Fulgent (2021). Github link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio Aqua
| Tainan City, Taiwan-based designer of the vintage spurred typeface Karte A (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan and/or Berlin-based designer of the blackletter typeface Blak (2016, +Blak Extra). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwanese archive with Latin and Chinese truetype fonts. From Arphic Technologies, we have these Chinese fonts: Arphic-Mingti2-Light-BIG5, HerSin-Medium, InnMing-Bold, InnMing-Extra, InnMing-Heavy, InnMing-Medium, InnMing-Ultra, MaokaiEG-Bold-Big5, MaokaiEG-Extra-Big5, MaokaiEG-Heavy-Big5, NewGothic-Bold, NewGothic-Extra, NewGothic-Heavy, NewGothic-Light, NewGothic-Medium, OvlapRound_Outline-Ultra, PensinkaiEG-Light-Big5, PensinkaiEG-Medium-Big5, Pop1-Bold, Pop2EG-Bold-Big5, Pop3EG-Extra-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big56955, ShanHeiSun-Light, ShanheisunEG-Bold-Big5, ShanheisunEG-Medium-Big5, SingkaiEG-Bold-Big5, SingkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdKai-Medium, StdMing-Medium, StdkaiEG-Bold-Big5, StdkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdsungEG-Bold-Big5, StdsungEG-Heavy-Big5, StdsungEG-Light-Big5, TankuinEG-Bold-Big5, YankaiEG-Heavy-Big5, YankaiEG-Ultra-Big5, YenRound-Bold, YenRound-Extra, YenRound-Heavy, YenRound-Light, YenRound-Medium, YenRound-Ultra, ZuinnEG-Medium-Big5. The Latin fonts are from Microsoft, Letraset and Bitstream. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Senior font designer at Arphic Technology in New Taipei, Taiwan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Taipei City, Taiwan-based designer of the Chinese typeface Mei Ling (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thian-Huat Ong
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Tien-Min Liao
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Born in Taiwan, Tinghao Hu has lived in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Ottawa. Shenzhen, China-based designer of the free pixel typeface SH Pinscher (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tofutype
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In 2018, he addded the calligraphic oriental emulation font Goalthink and the modular typeface CubeFarm Latin (to accompany his Chinese font CubeFarm). Typefaces from 2019: Typori (a rounded sans). Dafont link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the Latin display typeface Sarsi (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tsong-Min Wu
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Taichung City, Taiwan-based designer of Moon Font (2015, circle-based and experimental Latin font) and an untitled Chinese font (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Small Taiwanese archive. Two Chinese shareware fonts! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typeji
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In 2021, she released Eliptico (a bold wedge serif family with diagonal stress). Future Fonts link. In 2022, she added Fig Grotesk, a 4-style playful sans. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tzu-yuan "Erik" Yin
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Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the artsy typeface Lines & Circles (2014, a school project). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2014, he used Futura as a basis for World Lab Font, which was designed for the short film Taiwan Excellence IDENT 2014: World Lab. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taoyuan, Taiwan-based co-designer, with fellow Taiwanese Jou-Wei Wang, Chih-Ching Lee and Yan-Ting Ding, of the Chinese font Ethereal Sans (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wei-Hsiang Su is one of the cofounders of justfont, a Taiwan-based foundry known for its Jin Xuan font family. In 2015, Jin Xuan became the world's first successfully crowdfunded East Asian ideographic typeface. A specialist in digital marketing and advertising, Su leads branding and marketing at justfont. Su coauthored A Chinese Font Walk, Taiwan's first book on Chinese fonts. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Taiwanese designer who is studying in Beijing. At Type Cooper 2021, he designed the art deco typeface Impression. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Taichang, Taiwan, who created the monoline sans typeface Tunnel in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwan-based designer of the high-contrast typeface family Rae Low (2019, with Raimei Lu) and the 25-style low contrast large x-height sans family Gaba (2019: the smiling g in Gaba Ultra is especially pleasing). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwanese designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yaw-Jen Lin (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan) and Tzao-Lin Lee made these truetype versions of the Computer Modern family in the 1990s: CM_Dunhill-Regular, CM_Fibonacci-Regular, CM_Funny-Italic, CM_Funny-Regular, CM_Math-Extension, CM_Math-Italic, CM_Math-ItalicBold, CM_MathSymbol-Bold, CM_MathSymbol-Regular, CM_Roman-Bold, CM_Roman-BoldSlantedExt, CM_Roman-Regular, CM_Roman-Slanted, CM_RomanCaps-Regular, CM_RomanExt-Bold, CM_SansSerif-BoldExt, CM_SansSerif-Regular, CM_SansSerif-Slanted, CM_SansSerifCondensed-DemiBold, CM_SansSerifQuotation-Italic, CM_SansSerifQuotation-Regular, CM_SlantedTypewriter-Regular, CM_TeX_Extanded-Regular, CM_Text-BoldItalicExt, CM_Text-Italic, CM_Typewriter-Italic, CM_Typewriter-Regular, CM_TypewriterCaps-Regular, CM_Unslanted-Italic, CM_VariableWidthTypewriter-Regular. Lin reports that he has written a free utility for converting metafont fonts into truetype fonts, but I could not locate that software anywhere. Earlier, ca. 1993, he made eight Chinese fonts in the so-called NTU series. These fonts can be downloaded here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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In 2019, Ying-Hao Chen (Taiching, Taiwan) and Jia-Zhen Zang designed the intestine-themed Chinese / Latin typeface Long Intestinal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taiwanese designer of the blackletter typeface Lyric Poetry (2016) and the free sans typeface Arvin (2017). In 2017, she published the monoline geometric sans typeface family Lois George Cafe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the Latin display typefaces HC (2015) and RA (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Kaohsiung, Taiwan-based designer of a Latin display sans typeface (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the oblique techno (Latin) typeface Flow (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Taipei. During her studies at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, Julie designed Juju Sans (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zenmurai
| Taipei, Taiwan-based type foundry run by HTL Ryan. In 2019, they published the all caps techno typeface Chaos and the organc minimalist typeface family Simpo Sans. Typefaces from 2020: Neo Phalanx (dystopian, Trumpian). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
During his graphic design studies in Taipei, Taiwan, Anthony Fook created the decorative caps set called Scientific Alphabet (2016). 
Taiwanese font company in Taipei. In 1999, they donated four TrueType fonts to the Open Source community under the Arphic public license. These four fonts consist of two Sung type typefaces and two Kai type typefaces, each for traditional and simplified Chinese: 
Graphic designer in Taipei, who created Alfabeto de Dali (2014). [
Taiwan-based foundry involved in the production of both Chinese and Japanese fonts, est. 1987 as DynaLab. It now has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei. 
Taipei, Taiwan-based type designer, who won an award in the kanji category at the 
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the Chinese typeface Wind (2016). 
Taiwan-born designer in New York City, who created the display caps typeface 
Taiwanese graphic designer Joe (Hsuan-Hao) Chang (Taipei) has 
Julius Hui (Chinese name Hon Man Hui) is a type designer in Hong Kong who studied at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the late 2000s. He worked for some time at the Hong Kong branch of Dalton Maag and at Monotype Hong Kong as type designer. When COVID broke out, he started his own foundry in Hong Kong. He designed these typefaces: 
Taipei, Taiwan-based graphic designer and professor at Taiwan Tech. Mentored by the Japanese design master Shigeo Fukuda, Lee established his studio in 1996. He made some interestinf typographic posyers in 2013 for a New York Type Directors Club exhibition (with Chun-Ying Lin) and in 2015 and 2016 for the Taiwan OTOP Product Design Awards. [
Graduate of the National Taiwan University of Science & Technology. During his Masters studoes at Taiwan Tech, Tapiei, Taiwan-based Lee Chieh-Ting designed the great Chinese typeface Wen Xin Song (2019). [
Toronto-based designer originally from Canada / Taiwan. Creator of 
Taiwan-based designer of the 
Taipai, Taiwan (was: Beijing, China, and Tokyo, Japan)-based designer (b. Finland) of the 
In July 2014, Adobe and Google jointly announced the publication of the free Asian typeface family Source Han Sans for Chinese (traditional (both Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. This project, based on designs originally due to Ryoko Nishizuka, a senior Adobe designer in Tokyo, started in 2010. The fonts and original code are downloadable from 
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Erik Yin (b. 1988) lives in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Creator of the gridded rhombic typeface 
New York City-based designer (originally from Taiwan) who created Ribaasu (2019: a reverse contrast typeface for Latin, Japanese and Chinese that won awards at the 22nd Annual TDC Typeface Design Competition and---in the kanji category---the 2019 Morisawa Type Design Competition) and Min Sans (2019: a modern high-contrast sans serif typeface with sharp and clean cuts, useful for fashion mags). 
Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the experimental Latin typeface Sang (2020). This scribbled font is based on the shape of the human body and represents negative emotions such as decadence, pessimism, and despair. [
Arcadia, CA-based designer of the Peignotian typeface Never (2014). Ying grew up in Taiwan. 
Tainan city, Taiwan-based designer of the exquisite decorative caps typeface Mushroom Garden (2020). [
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