Cantonese Font – Heritage 傳承字形 / 全套

Description

This product is not intended to be purchased standalone.  By purchasing a Community Pass ($28) to support our Cantonese works, this product and many others can be downloaded for free.

 

Heritage Sung (傳承宋體, Serif) Cantonese Font, with classic LSHK Jyutping (monochrome, superscript, no tone-marks), and heritage font-face from I.Ming.  This font family helps learners bridge from reader-friendly Jyutping+ to other texts using classic Jyutping.

 

 

Each font includes 29,137 characters and their 39,480 readings.  Chinese characters are automatically annotated with Jyutping.  These annotations are contextually adjusted and achieves 99.7% accuracy on modern Traditional Chinese texts (with mix of spoken Cantonese and standard written Chinese).

 

 

Two fonts which shares the same size and shape, and differ only by the presence and absence of Jyutping, are included.  These two fonts permits preparation of text with selective display of Jyutping.  The fonts (and thus the Jyutping display) can be toggled by the cmd-I / ctrl-I keyboard shortcuts, as they are considered Italics of one another.

 

Additional Features

In addition to the core benefit of accurate, instant Jyutping, the font family contains also the following additional features:

• mechanisms to correct suggested pronunciation by accepting word segmentation (all compatible systems), and by direct override (MacOS, iOS, and VectorStyler only)
• Complete reference
  • tagging a word with braces { } to translate.  The built-in dictionary contains 4,000 words and accommodates inflected and conjugated forms.
  • collection of idioms 四字成語 accessed by typing {idiom: 999} (or other numbers).  The collection includes 1,040 idioms that are part of the Hong Kong Chinese education curriculum.
  • collection of sayings 熟語 accessed by typing {saying: 99} (or other numbers).  The collection includes all sayings that are part of the Hong Kong Chinese education curriculum.
  • collection of “sandwich puns” 歇後語 accessed by typing {pun: 333} (or other numbers).  The punchlines are accessed with {pun: 333 ?}.  The collection includes 425 sets of selected sandwich puns.
• Grammar help
  • collection of final particles (喇 啦 啊 喎…) with examples, accessed by typing {final: 44} (and examples by {final: 44 ex}).  The collection of 48 is a comprehensive set.
  • collection of measure/classifier words 量詞, with brief explanations and examples, accessed by typing {measure: 55}, {measure: 55 ?}, and {measure: 55 ex} respectively.  The collection of 130 is arranged in usage, with the most important ones first.
• Teaching assistance
  • numbered, enclosing markers to highlight particular characters, words, or phrases.  These can be accessed by matching {1} and closing {-1}
  • parts-of-speech marker for annotating sentence on a new line
  • standalone tones accessible with {tone: 4}

 

Can I use?

Cantonese Fonts uses advanced font features, which not all operating system / application implements correctly.  Features of the Canto Font has full support in the following software:

MacOS

Full support: Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Notes, VectorStyler, TextEdit, Stickies, ScreenFlow, Pixelmator, Chrome, Godot, MuseScore, Affinity, Rive, QGIS

Partial support (no .jyutping override): Word, OneNote, LibreOffice

Does not support: Adobe applications, Powerpoint, Motion, Final Cut Pro

Windows 11

I have no Windows machine, and this list is reported by users and non-exhaustive.

Full support: VectorStyler

Partial support (no .jyutping override): Word, OneNote, LibreOffice, Chrome

Does not support: Adobe applications, Powerpoint

iOS

All applications supports all features of the Cantonese Fonts.  See installation documentation here.

eReaders

Kindle and Kobo Libra (but not Clara) is supported.

What’s in the Package?

• one monochrome font with Jyutping
• one monochrome font without Jyutping but otherwise share the same size and shape.

Documentation for the project is maintained at  https://docs.visual-fonts.com/

User Forums is found at https://forum.visual-fonts.com/latest

Licensing

All the fonts are licensed as SIL Open Fonts.  This means you can use them for commercial works, perpetually, without needing separate licensing, and you do not need to ask for permission.  You do not even need to attribute this project in your works.