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:
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 :)
c.f., "Chinese character synthesis using METAPOST" by Candy L. K. Yiu, Wai Wong
http://ns2.tug.org/TUGboat/tb24-1/yiu.pdf
Follow-up work since the original zi2zi, now with transformer backbone.
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