Wen Quan Yi (Spring of Letters)

A Collaborative Online Foundry

WenQuanYi: May the font be with you!,About us
Homepage: http://wenq.org/

WenQuanYi Micro Hei does not contain the following characters, you can help us to add. Click to draw:
(You need Firefox or Chrome, read tutorial 1 and tutorial 2)

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WenQuanYi Zen Heidoes not contain the following characters, you can help us to add. Click to draw:
(You need Firefox or Chrome, read tutorial 1, tutorial 2)

WenQuanYi Zen Hei v0.8 (Pangu) Released

Pangu, a giant in the ancient Chinese legends, was born when the universe was still in its infancy. There were no sky and land. The entire universe was enclosed by an enormous egg-shell. Chaos and darkness filled the entire cosmic Egg. Pangu woke up with his born-to-have axe. He was irritated by the heat, darkness and the cloudiness. He swinged his axe toward the egg-shell. Kah..., the giant shell cracked! the lighter materials floated up and became the sky; the heavier materials sank down and became the land. Pangu was afraid to see the chaos and darkness coming back, so, he stood in between the sky and land and pushed them further apart. Every day, he grew by ten feet, so was the distance between the sky and land. Many many years passed, Pangu's body became the mountains, his blood became the rivers, his hairs became the trees and grass. People honored him by passing his story from generation to generation.

WenQuanYi Micro Hei: a new Sans Serif CJK font derived from Google "Droid Sans Fallback", now covers the entire GBK code points (20932 Han glyphs), the project continues with CJK Extension A characters, which is 80% complete. (To participage, you need Firefox 3.x, check out Demo 1 & Demo 2 first)

[WqyBmpEN:Unicode_Chart_EN »Create a bitmap glyph]

[WqyBmpEN:Canvas(en) »Create a vector glyph]DemoAdvanced

»Headlines

• [2008/07/19][WqyBmpEN:ZenHei(en) ZenHei]Hanzi standardization&optimization (round 1) completed.
• [2008/06/24]ZenHei(Prayer-0.6.26), [WqyBmpEN:ZenHei_Prayer_ChangeLog was announced], improved 6700+ Hanzi, add Unicode 5.1 support。
• [2008/05/12]Extensively updated "GNU Unifont"(by Paul Hardy) is ready to roll! including all Hanzi glyphs from [[Unibit|WenQuanYi Unibit] and the latest Unicode 5.1 additions. About 2000 char. to go for full BMP coverage.
• [2008/03/29]Zen Hei(Kwafoo-final),is released!：Better coverage, fewer bugs.
• [2008/03/10]Stroke decomposition of HKSCS-2004(4900 Hanzi) and 59 Supplements mission accomplished!
• [2008/02/12]Wen Quan Yi Zen Hei(Kwafoo)beta is released, featuring full-coverage to GBK(CP936).
• [2007/12/14][WqyBmpEN:ZenHei_CP936_Missing All GBK Hanzi] stroke decomposition is done.
• [2007/11/10]CJK Ext. A stroke decomposition complete, WqyBmpEN:Canvas now supports Ext. B Hanzi.
• [2007/11/04]Wen Quan Yi Bitmap Song 1.0(Hero) beta is announced
• [2007/10/31]In the media:Solidot Interview(to be appear on cnetnews)
• [2007/10/27]Happy Birthday! WenQuanYi!
• [2007/09/18]Project Totem complete thanks to tchaikov&wanghong
• [2007/09/15]WenQuanYi -ZenHei (Purple Flute-final)(v0.2.15)public testing

»News

• [2008/09/06]Monospaced Zen Hei(Zen Hei Mono) is online in nightly-build,in ttc format. Thanks to Arne.
• [2008/07/26]Stroke Based Hanzi Search Engine debuts.
• [2008/07/26]WenQuanYi wiki engine(Wiki2) call for developers.
• [2008/07/26]Hanzi radical unification is almost done.
• [2008/06/20]WenQuanYi Zen Hei 0.6.26(Prayer) is now in alpha test, feedback needed.
• [2008/05/22]Project BlueSky is open, let's optimize & standardize WenQuanYi ZenHei.
• [2008/05/10]We will no longer provide bold face for bitmap Song.
• [2008/05/03]WenQuanYi Bitmap Song NB provides options to import Liberation Sans bitmaps.
• [2008/02/04]ZenHei nightly build now support all GBK symbols(22047 in total,20924 Hanzi), full ja-locale support as well.
• [2008/01/29]Wen Quan Yi Facebook,welcome to join.
• [2008/01/27]Bitmap Font New Editor: Pixel
• wqy fonts now in ArchLinux community repo
• [2007/12/26]ZenHei 0.2.20 uploaded to NB with significant style improvements。
• [2007/12/19]Download Handwriting Fonts templates, and make your own open-source perosnal fonts。
• [2007/12/15]xfonts-wqy(0.9.9) updated in Debian Sid used unzipped pcf, solved the long-standing Firefox speed issue.
• [2007/12/14]Start Unencoded Hanzi collection, for folk-Hanzi or personal Hanzi.
• [2007/12/14]HKSCS Hanzi work-list:(CJK Basic: completed,CJK Ext. A has 70+ to go, Ext. B has ~1700), contributor needed!
• [2007/12/09]WenQuanYi Devel Wiki.
• [2007/11/15]Fedora 8 WQY Font Guide
• [2007/11/08]Fedora 8 released,WQY Bitmap Song was the default Chinese desktop font
• [2007/09/29][WqyBmpEN:Canvas(en) Stroke decomposition interface now goes online]
• [2007/09/13]Use Zenhei on PocketPC(Windows Mobile 5)
• [2007/09/09]WenQuanYi Unibit 1.0 Released, including 46000 unicode bitmap glyphs.
• [2007/09/09]Zenhei nightly-build is online
• [2007/05/26]Progress updates for vector font
• [2007/04/15]CERNET mirror site is off to facilitate maintenance.
• [2007/04/07]WenQuanYi Bitmap Songcontinues to accept "Easter-Egg-Glyph" submission,(restricted to members only)Happy Easter!
• [2007/04/07]Bitmap Song 0.8.1 released,with optimized fontconfig configurations
• [2007/03/31]WQY fontconfig configuration file update
• [2007/03/25]Nightly-build of CJK Ext A glyphs, East Yard, is available to download, will cover the entire GB18030 glyphs, development cycle for 1.0 (Hero) is initiated.
• [2007/03/12]Ubuntu Edgy Users: package xfonts-wqy 0.8 can not be installed properly on edgy,please use our official deb package
• [2007/02/04]Bitmap Glyph Standardization Project Initiated (code name: Totem)
• [2006/12/31]2006 Donation Summary
• [2006/12/30]WenQuanYi Bitmap Song v0.8(FirstEmperor)RC1 announced,Change Log,Download Debian Deb Package or RPM Package
• [2006/12/20]WenQuanYi Bitmap Song v0.8(FirstEmperor) betas, download Debian Deb package or RPM package
• [2006/12/09]Algorithmically generated 14pt and 10.5pt bitmaps uploaded to WQY Wiki, total glyph number topping 180,000.
• [2006/10/06]WenQuanYi Bitmap Song 0.8(FirstEmperor) alpha test
• [2006/10/05]CJK basic Stroke Analysis Completed
• [2006/09/09]Ajax Stroke Painter open to public,Flash demo,detailed instructions
• [2006/08/29]Non-CJK glyphs updated in nightly-build动,WenQuanYi Gray Scale Bitmap Font,Gallery
• [2006/08/19]“WQY Gallery” service goes public
• [2006/08/06]FLASH Animation demo,2.0RC3(Win)Download

»Participate

• Design vector CJK fonts
• Website development and maintenance
• Online and offline vector glyph stroke analysis
• Promote WenQuanYi
• Media Report
• Donation