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High fidelity font synthesis for CJK languages (github.com)
kaonashi-tyc-01 3 hours ago [-]
Hi author here, I was posting on HN this week to get more interests on my recent progress on reviving zi2zi project.

Motivation behind the project is that I feel font generation has made a long way after zi2zi, but feels still not quite live up to my expectation where it can become a practical technology in creating fonts people can use.

zi2zi-JiT is thus created during last Christmas, aiming to create production grade CJK fonts that can be seen/used in everyday life, instead of simply being a research project.

So far, I have created 2 full set Chinese fonts using zi2zi-JiT, each with 6,763 Chinese characters created (GB2312 standard), from ancient Chinese books/caligraphies:

https://github.com/kaonashi-tyc/Zi-QuanHengDuLiang

https://github.com/kaonashi-tyc/Zi-XuanZongTi

All created in matters of 2-3 days, and free for commercial uses.

There are still some issue with current approach, but I am happy to hear you guys feedbacks and improve from here :)

WillAdams 5 hours ago [-]
c.f., "Chinese character synthesis using METAPOST" by Candy L. K. Yiu, Wai Wong

http://ns2.tug.org/TUGboat/tb24-1/yiu.pdf

kaonashi-tyc-01 3 days ago [-]
Follow-up work since the original zi2zi, now with transformer backbone.
5- 6 hours ago [-]
previously (1982): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_dev...

i think this is a dos port of it? http://www.cbflabs.com/down/show.php?id=62

seems to work for me in dosbox

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