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Pinyin Fonts Online
Below are what a little bit of surfing turned up in the way of Pinyin Fonts. I became interested in Pinyin fonts after agreeing to host and create Macintosh versions of the freeware fonts by James E. Dew. The existence of other pinyin fonts and quite a variety of input methods led me to create this table and The Fool's Workshop Pinyin Font Converter.
I have included here only what information I have found through searching major search engines. If you are the developer of one of these fonts and do not wish your web page, font information, or email address displayed here, don't hesitate to contact me and I will remove the information. As a courtesy to the various authors mentioned here the email addresses included on this page have all had their @ mark replaced with #. This is so that evil email address harvesting bots will not pick up the addresses.
If anyone out there is aware of other pinyin fonts that they wish added to this list, send me a note with the web info and I'll post it. Here is another excellent site describing a unicode alternative to using Pinyin fonts run by Helmer Aslaksen in Singapore and, of course, the mecca of information in this field at Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks page. Thanks to Zsigri Gyula who not only provided me with info on new fonts, but has his own site on CJK input. The Chinese Macintosh FAQ also has its own section on Pinyin Fonts and I have never found a better source of information on Chinese for Mac users.
| EasyTone
Fonts Mac and Windows Times and Courier PFC |
Developer:
James E. Dew WWW: http://www.foolsworkshop.com/easytone/ Email: jamesdew#home.com |
Method: < + character = 1st tone > + character = 2nd tone [ + character = 3rd tone ] + character = 4th tone Courier font also available for post-vocalic entering of tone marks. |
| Pintone
Fonts Windows Truetype PFC |
Developer:
Teng Shou-hsin WWW: Email: steng#cc.ntnu.edu.tw Notes: Pintone tone fonts and progams. Simple font for the Mac (distributed over the numerical row) and complete conversion programs and 3 fonts for the PC. |
Method: Replace the numbers and shift + numbers with tone marked characters |
| Chinese
Pinyin Mac and Windows PFC |
Developer:
Chin-Chuan Cheng WWW: http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/chinese/reading/tools/ Email: c-cheng1#uiuc.edu |
Method: Replace the numbers and shift + numbers with tone marked characters |
| STEDT
Font Macintosh PFC |
Developer:
Stephen P. Baron and the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project WWW: http://stedt.berkeley.edu/stedtfont/stedtfont.html Email: stedt#socrates.berkeley.edu Note: The STEDT font was designed as a comprehensive phonetic symbol font and does not clearly display tones over the umlaut-u. |
Method: pre-vocalic entry of tone marks: 1st Tone: option-shift-\ 2nd Tone | 3rd Tone: option-\ 4th Tone: \ ü = umlaut-Y + u |
| AddTones
Font Macintosh PFC |
Developer:
Patrick Edwin Moran WWW: http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/MacHanyu.html Email: moran#wfu.edu |
Method: - / ^ ` replaced with tones1-4 Note: These tones do not appear above the letters. Only one size (12) |
| Hanyu
Pinyin Font Windows TrueType |
Developer:
Bryan Wagner WWW: http://members.xoom.com/jianada/pinyin/ Email: jianada#xoommail.com |
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- 5: Tones 1 through 5 lower case non-"i" |
| Pinyin
Font Windows TrueType |
Developer: WWW: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~chud/font/pinyinfont.html Email: chud#acs.ucalgary.ca Cost: |
Set yourself? With Alt key combinations? NOT FREE! Demo available |
| Pinyin
Okay Font Windows Truetype |
Developer:
Jeroen Wiedenhof |
Method: Vowels with " = 1st tone Vowels with ' = 2nd tone Vowels with ^ = 3rd tone Vowels with ` = 4th tone |
| New
Pinyin Font TrueType PFC |
Developer:
DS Computer, Inc. (John Huang) WWW: http://corallus.com/dscomputer/index.html Email: john.huang#worldnet.att.net Cost: $5 (students $2) |
Method: v = ü Uppercase letters replaced with tones Note: No capital letters? |
| The
TimesPinyin Font Macintosh PFC |
Developer:
Zev Handel WWW: http://www.oz.net/~jnamkung/zev/TimesPinyin.html Email: zev_web#namkung.com |
Method: First tone: option-u + vowel Second tone: option-e + vowel Third tone: option-i + vowel Fourth tone: option-` + vowel |
| Rich's
PinYin Fonts Mac and Windows PFC |
Developer:
Rich's World Industries (Rich Dellinger) Homepage: http://www.richd.com/pinyin/ Email: rich#richd.com Cost: $10 (or email with comments and suggestions) |
Method: option-a, then 1-4 option-e, then 1-5 option-i, then 1-4 option-o, then 1-4 option-u, then 1-9 |
PFC = Font can be freely converted in the Fool's Workshop Pinyin Font Converter application for Macintosh. If there is a font listed here not included in the Pinyin Font Converter that you would like to see added, send your request here. Besides the fonts that are listed here, a future version of Pinyin Font Converter will also convert from/to any font which places the tones as numbers at the end of each syllable.
| Software, web design, and other foolishness by Konrad Mitchell Lawson. |
Updated: May 26, 2001
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