zenjia fonts

Jingjia character

The purpose of the ZenJia Fonts project is to match or produce free Chinese fonts with high quality and style that match the common preset free Western fonts on Linux.

The concept of Jingjia is "jing" and "jia", and I hope it can continue for a long time and make good things silently. However, due to personal lack of time and energy, it is no longer maintained.

In the past, major Linux distribution versions all suffered from poor settings and decision-making problems, resulting in different Chinese and Western styles of sans-serif, serif, and monospace, which failed to match the fonts, making the reading experience depressed and lacked coordination. In order to solve this serious problem, this special project was born.

Common terrible combinations such as fedora In the traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese) environment, the Cantarell used by the GNOME project will be matched with AR PL UMing display, preset sans-serif DejaVu Sans with AR PL UMing, preset monospace DejaVu Sans Mono with AR PL UMing; and f21 sans serif, serif, and monospace fonts will be completely replaced with Source Han Sans TW.

The initial project of this project is aimed at Cantarell used by GNOME. After a series of comparisons of the free Chinese fonts we have seen, it summarized the best match with it, and then started with bold. In the future, other items such as DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Sans Mono, Raleway, etc. will be included in the Ming body, monobloc bold body, etc. However, given that this project is currently an independent individual project, and there are not many free Chinese characters in existing styles, the style may be difficult to match, so it may not be true in a short period of time, and time will prove everything.

Main principles

• Since Source Han Sans has completed the support and fill all the characters in the codes of each region in China, Japan and South Korea, supporting standardized writing in any region is not a priority.
• Priority is given to supporting all characters in the Taiwan code.
• First, ask for good, then ask for something.
• Experiment with advanced font technology.
• Improve the existing reading experience of Chinese and Western languages.
• If DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif, and DejaVu Sans Mono in the future, these characters will start to make Chinese matching fonts, then each time you pull the characters, you will create three styles and make a sample text or idiom simultaneously.

Current project

ZenJia Hei

It is composed of Cantarell and cwTeX Q Hei, and the style is quite matching and is authorized by OFL. Due to lack of time and energy, it is no longer maintained.

ZenJia Bopomo

It only contains phonetic notes in Mandarin, authorized by Apache v2, suitable for the application and modification of new sans serif free font projects.

Future Outlook

Short-range

Medium and remote

Raleway thin body (probably paired with Source Han Sans thin body)

DejaVu series

other

Online character group + public character drawing

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the copyright owners of the cwttf project Wu Conghui, Wu Congmin, Li Guozheng, and Chen-Pan Liao, the copyright owner of the cwtex-q-fonts project, for agreeing to my proposal to grant the original authorization of the book, and be able to create a new font with Cantarell.