Qianqian Fang
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| Original author(s) | Qianqian Fang |
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| Developer(s) | WenQuanYi Project Contributors |
| Initial release | October 2004 |
| Development status | Active |
| Type | Computer font |
| License | GPL |
| Website | wenq |
WenQuanYi (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: 文泉驛; pinyin: Wénquányì; aka: Spring of Letters) is an open-source project of Chinese computer fonts licensed under GNU General Public License.
WenQuanYi project was started by Qianqian Fang (Screen name: FangQ; Chinese: 房骞骞), a Chinese biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital, in October, 2004.
Now the fonts of WenQuanYi project are included with of Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Magic Linux and CDLinux. Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, ArchLinux and Frugalware offer the sources for WenQuanYi fonts. The fonts are among the Chinese fonts officially supported by .
WenQuanYi's website is using Habitat, a software derived from by Qianqian Fang. It is allowed to create or modify the glyphs online.
WenQuanYi project aims to create high-quality open-source bitmap and outline fonts for all CJK characters. It includes Zen Hei (Regular, Mono and Sharp), Micro Hei (Regular and Mono), Bitmap Song and Unibit font. As of version 0.8.38, the WenQuanYi Zen Hei font covers more than 35,000 glyphs.
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