Can you recommend any Chinese font (Big5, Traditional) that would be a good match for the Proxima Nova font on TypeKit?
typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova
I am planning to change the webfonts we are using on Forumosa to Proxima, and it would be nice if the Chinese titles below our names used a font that seemed to be “related”
I think most 宋體 would do.
I think the non-bold versions of 華康超明體 or 華康超特明體 (DFPMingSU) would look pretty good.
Really Big5, not Unicode?
Thanks for the suggestions
@Cranky - you are right. UTF-8 is definitely better than simply Big5. My head is stuck in the '90’s!
Can anyone recommend some relatively standard high quality fonts?
I want something in the style of the old MingLiU, up until Win XP (not the new one from Vista onwards). Also, I would like a Heiti font. Both fonts with some different thicknesses, too. And concerning the glyphs, I’d like something with two dots on the 道 radical. And nothing like the new fonts, which looks like handwritten and simplified fonts.
Nothing really special, just a nice font for headlines (Heiti) and the full text (Mingti) in books. Basically what they use in Taiwanese books.
[quote=“Hellstorm”]Can anyone recommend some relatively standard high quality fonts?
I want something in the style of the old MingLiU, up until Win XP (not the new one from Vista onwards). Also, I would like a Heiti font. Both fonts with some different thicknesses, too. And concerning the glyphs, I’d like something with two dots on the 道 radical. And nothing like the new fonts, which looks like handwritten and simplified fonts.
Nothing really special, just a nice font for headlines (Heiti) and the full text (Mingti) in books. Basically what they use in Taiwanese books.[/quote]
There are several free opensource and high quality fonts.
One is from 文泉驛. WngQ has high quality 宋體 which is similar to MingLiU (明體). It also has a great 正黑體 for your Heiti needs. don’t download the bitmap version unless there’s a need to.
wenq.org/wqy2/index.cgi?Download
The other one is 全字庫 which basically is the Taiwanese government. They have a great 正宋體.
cns11643.gov.tw/AIDB/downloa … B%E8%BC%89
Hello,
thanks for the reply, and sorry for my late one.
I checked the last one, 正宋體, but I really don’t like it. First, there is absolutely no hinting in it (at least not on my PC), so that I cannot read the font in a smaller grade. Also, it uses the new font style (especially apparant for example in the radicals of 電, 絲, 室 or 道). The 正楷體 is basically the same as DFKai-SB from Windows, although with worse hinting. I have never seen a book using these fonts…
The fonts from 文泉驛 are the ones from Android, right? That’s basically fine, but it is a simplified font… Also, I don’t quite understand the website 
I guess I have to switch over to commercial fonts. Is Arphic good? I’d also like something with different thicknesses. CJK fonts afaik do not have bold font styles, but there are different thicknesses (e.g. for using in captions). For Japanese, the font from Adobe (Kozuka Mincho Pro) has 6 thicknesses, ranging from Extra Light over Regular to Bold. I’m looking for something similar for Chinese.
I’m less familiar with Arphic, but 華康(dynacw) has many fonts with different thickness. DF fonts have W3 W4 W5 W6 and B5 variations.
You can browse a whole lot of traditional Chinese fonts here:
linotype.com/search/Keywords … 2618bf728b
Although these are all pretty expensive.