And I have no idea if these fonts are authorized or not. Availability of Chinese fonts is rather poor and if you want to find a font that reminds some specific style - usually it's on the edge of impossibility.įun fact: in the Chinese market you cannot use any bitmap font that is not authorized by the Chinese government. Traditional Chinese characters maintain their forms in which they existed before the introduction of Simplified Chinese in the People’s Republic of China in the 1950s. For detailed instructions select the operating system youre using from the drop-down box below. Once the font is properly installed in the operating system Microsoft Office will be able to see and use it. Once youve downloaded the font you want to install you need to install it in the operating system. I'm afraid there's no easier solution than that. Install a custom font you have downloaded. Photoshop) while preserving hard edges for pixelized looks. Your best bet is using one of small-size fonts and artificially up-scale it in post processing (eg. In small sizes they might resemble what you need.īut, as far as I'm aware - there is no font containing Chinese characters that will give you pixelized, arcade-alike image right from the box. So when making stylish text with unicode weve got a huge number of different characters, symbols and accents (diacritics) that we can use to create text and decorate it.

SimSun, NSimSun, SimHei, PMingLiU and MingLiU are only web-safe chinese fonts. In case youre curious, Unicode is the big sister of ASCII.ASCII defines only 256 characters in its extended set, and Unicode defines over 100,000 text symbols.

You should be able to convert these to a web format and use on your website quite easily. WenQuanYi Bitmap Song CJK (at 9pt it's just 12x12px, so should be perfect for your needs, especially if you artificially upscale it while preserving hard edges) Traditional Chinese fonts are typically used in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and most overseas Chinese communities.

Name of old style chinese font