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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

1 - 5: Tones 1 through 5 lower case non-"i"
6 - 0: Tones 1 through 5 for lower case "i"
! - %: Tones 1 through 5 for upper case non-"i" characters ^ - ): Tones 1 through 5 for upper case "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
WWW: http://www.wiedenhof.nl/ul/pyok-eng.htm
Email: jeroen#wiedenhof.nl

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.

 

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Updated: May 26, 2001
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