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Times and Arial are proportional English fonts you may be familiar with. The names of these particular fonts are confusing because two different vendors developed the Simplified and Traditional fonts for Microsoft. Song is the standard Chinese printing typeface, named after the Song dynasty when it may have originated. These are also the standard Chinese system fonts for filenames, menus and other UI text. I am not planning to cover these in detail here.
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Two more tips for you: in many applications you can make other "PRC" fonts your default font instead of SimSun, but you cannot do that with these Traditional fonts. So, you can really only select these fonts after you've typed the characters by going back to highlight them and choosing the font you want. Even if you set that IME to Traditional character mode, if you try to type in these fonts you'll be bumped back into the default font usually SimSun. This can be changed in the current document via your font menu, or permanently in the default settings for each application, however I don't recommend changing the overall default system font.
#CHINESE FONTS FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE WINDOWS 8#
However, Windows 7 and Vista already include the following long list of Chinese fonts, and a few more fonts were introduced in Windows 8 and 10. Insegnare alle persone a essere piĆ¹ autonome Many people arrive here looking for additional fonts, so I'll start by pointing you folks to another page, my Survey of Free and Commercial Third-Party Fonts.