Visible Fonts – Kind Good Footage

Pronunciation at your fingertips. Intuitive tones. Broaden your vocabulary.

Conventional Chinese language characters accompanied by Jyutping romanization. Indispensible assist for studying Cantonese, just a few faucets away in your keyboard / track-pads. Use offline in your selection of appropriate apps, together with Microsoft Workplace, Apple iWork, LibreOffice, Sketch, and Chrome.

Out there for MacOS / Ubuntu (Kinetic Kudu+)

What & How

Visible Fonts are fonts with colours and picture, straightforward to make use of as your on a regular basis emojis ????: no prior information is required.

We use this that will help you study & train Cantonese. Kind, write, converse, or copy-paste the Chinese language. Change the font to “Visible Fonts – Cantonese”, and the textual content is now displayed with the pronunciation — in your selection of software, even when offline.

Options & Advantages

Complete scope

About 3,000 characters are utilized in day by day life. The Cantonese Font consists of pronunciation for over 8,000 characters, together with particular characters used solely in vernacular Cantonese.

In sensible phrases, this implies you may learn the complete 唐詩三百首 (300 Tang dynasty poems) and 四書 (the 4 Classics) with full protection. The font grows with you out of your first step to a sophisticated reader.

Maintain your pronunciation True

Pronunciation is tough for learners when one character will be learn a number of methods.

Pronunciation within the Cantonese Font adapts to the context. Based mostly on what comes earlier than or after, the Jyutping romanization adjustments to the precise one. The magic behind it is a cautious curation from 100,000 contexts the place the pronunciation differs from the standalone character.

Testing in opposition to day-to-day prose and dialog transcripts confirmed an accuracy averaging > 99%. This exceeds what a local speaker can do.

Considerate, Visible Romanization

We begin with Jyutping, the fashionable Cantonese romanization system. Then we make it even simpler to study with good design: area and colours, topped with a tone-hint system that frees you from desperately making an attempt to recall whether or not “4” is excessive or low. Now you simply intuit the sound.

Study at your personal tempo

Don’t know methods to write, kind, converse or copy “buddy”? Simply kind buddy in English and watch it flip into 朋友. The font turns into a mini-dictionary too, with a vocabulary measurement of over 1,500.

For our pals in Hong Kong, the font perceive each MTR station and different locations in Hong Kong. Impress the locals by saying gam1 zung1 as a substitute of Admiralty.

Wish to inform native audio system the place you’re from? With 250+ nations and 250+ world cities, we received you lined.

Wish to train or study associated phrases? Use a syntax like emotion(1), emotion(2)… to entry vocabulary thematic method.

* Learner’s Version in Spanish and different Latin-Greek-Cyrillic characters could also be accessible sooner or later.

What’s included

Find out how to assist this work

Continued growth of the challenge depends on consumer assist. You possibly can:

• As a person,
  • pay for the font,
  • purchase a few of our different Visible Fonts when they’re accessible,
  • write a assessment, and
  • assist unfold the phrase;
• As a company,
  • fund explicit extensions, or
  • offering recurring funding within the type of schemes and grants
• For designers & publishers, we will present bespoke, customized design to your model or challenge

Members of our workforce can be found for consulting. Our experience from within the font initiatives embody establishing automation pipelines (Elixir, Python, and Javascript), typesetting (LaTeX), and vector graphic design (Illustrator). We additionally know a factor or two about font engineering and Cantonese linguistics.

The Cantonese Font is a bit of tradition funded from our financial savings, and from income from our dance studio in Causeway Bay. If you’re in Hong Kong, come be a part of our enjoyable, pleasant, finest Argentine Tango courses for all ranges at www.eli.dance ????

What our customers say

Cantonese Visible Fonts is a game-changer for anybody studying Cantonese and exploring conventional characters. The added Jyutping pronunciations on high of the characters make it extremely handy to make use of every day to learn. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Deep Dives

Versioning, Changelog, and Roadmap

Versioning

The font software program adopts semantic versioning. The model quantity has three components: x.y.z, standing for:

x: main model. That is reserved for an entire font re-build, the place unknowable variety of pronunciation adjustments could occur. If this occurs, the final main model will nonetheless be accessible so customers that desire the earlier model can at all times obtain the earlier model.

y: minor model. This increments when important new options are added or modified. Examples embody complete new class of classes within the Phrasebook, or new language availability for the Phrasebook.

z: patches. This increments with bug-fixes, added chars, added phrases, or added classes and phrases within the Phrasebook.

I personally dislike getting subscription emails, so patches are positively not introduced anyplace besides within the changelog.

Changelog

1.1.2

First public launch.

Roadmap

Cantonese Font is feature-complete and secure. The next is my wishlist / todo-list (not in any order) round this challenge:

1. PDF handbook. This might be bi-lingual, together with screenshot/directions for utilizing the font. Directions would come with (0) authoritative compatibilities, (1) set up/uninstall on completely different platforms, (2) StyleBot/Chrome setup for web-browsing on completely different OS, (3) mixing with Latin / Zh fonts, (4) enabling ligatures in apps that doesn’t activate by default (Workplace, I believe), and (5) itemizing of chars and Phrasebook phrases/classes.
2. Cantonese linguistic classes. Utilizing a syntax of Canto.___(n), exhaustively tally linguistic elements of Cantonese. An instance is Canto.measure(n) which exhibits all of the measure phrases (個, 隻, 支, …); one other instance is Canto.particles(n) for 啦, 喎, 啩. These ought to be useful for systematic research or lecturers getting ready educating materials.
3. 100% conventional characters protection. CJK (Chinese language-Japanese-Korean) characters are difficult of their encoding and utilization in several variant. On the first steps of this challenge, I began with generally used characters (to make sure they’re pronunciable Zh-T entries) and expanded by patching upwards. A complementary strategy is to run by way of the total record of Unicode CJK codepoints, filter out for what’s Zh-T and have a number of Cantonese pronunciations. This requires quick entry to UniHan and Rime, and should look ahead to the completion of the Elixir libraries UniHan (Kip Cole) and ExCantonese.
4. Re-compute pronunciations. v1 of the font was constructed after I knew far much less in regards to the idiosyncracies of Cantonese NLP. Realizing what I do know, I believe there are higher approaches as soon as we will have consumer suggestions.
5. Web site revamp. The WordPress touchdown web page would get replaced by an Elixir-Phoenix-Ash setup. This opens up prospects for rather more attention-grabbing real-time interactive experiences, which are uncovered by UniHan / ExCantonese. (Just a little teaser: with these libraries, we’re capable of reply questions like, “which jyutping have probably the most characters mapping to it?”, “what number of characters are there for every radical?”, or “what characters have an onset of f and a tone of two?”) The text-editor workflow would additionally means much less barrier to writing about Canto / font weblog posts. (To not go away you hanging: the sound that maps to probably the most character is “jyu4”, with over 30 characters. There may be a substantial amount of low-usage characters that comprises 俞 with completely different radicals.) It could even be attainable to allow dynamic processing / SVG technology, utilizing user-supplied kinds.
6. Chinese language / Spanish / Italian web site internationalization. Awaits new web site structure.