
The non-free font "Microsoft YaHei" commissioned for Windows Vista was extremely well "hinted" for use at many small pixel sizes (9px+) and is also completely scalable. Wenquanyi Bitmap Song)-these display well at the specific pixel sizes they were designed for, but look bad at other sizes (and if you want to get a modern Web browser to do the rendering then you might find it refuses to load bitmap fonts and you have to use the -render options of Web Adjuster or something).Īndroid users might think the Noto CJK font works well, but that's only if your device has a high DPI and won't carry over to an image file of limited size that also aims for compatibility with low-DPI devices.

or use blurry anti-aliasing (if your output device or format even supports shading),.or putting up with bad placement of the strokes (causing, for example, end-of-sentence Chinese stops to appear lop-sided instead of circular, and baselines to be uneven),.getting CJK-LaTeX to render Arphic PL fonts at low DPI, and substituting variants for any Chinese characters not in the original GB2312/Big5 set-this might be an awkward setup for your application.In general, you must choose between either:

Most free Chinese fonts are not well suited to being displayed at small pixel sizes on low- DPI devices.

Loophole in Microsoft YaHei font license?
