When I put up my first post on Google Web fonts (Google Web fonts and Hanyu Pinyin), that site offered 252 font families, 29 of which cover at least parts of Latin Extended. Now, some three months later, the total has grown to 342 font families, with 70 of those covering at least parts of Latin Extended.
Only two of the new families, however, support Hanyu Pinyin with tone marks: Ubuntu Condensed and Ubuntu Mono. That brings the total to eight Google Web fonts that support Hanyu Pinyin: four serifs and four sans serifs.
Serif
- EB Garamond
- Gentium Basic
- Gentium Book Basic
- Neuton
Sans Serif
- Andika
- Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Condensed
- Ubuntu Mono
Here’s what the two new families, Ubuntu Condensed and Ubuntu Mono, look like next to the earlier Ubuntu.
For reference, here’s the total list of Latin Extended, with Pinyin-compliant fonts in bold.
Serif Faces
- Bitter
- Cardo
- Caudex
- EB Garamond
- Enriqueta
- Gentium Basic
- Gentium Book Basic
- Neuton
- Playfair Display
- Radley
- Sorts Mill Goudy
Sans Serif Faces
- Andika
- Anonymous Pro
- Anton
- Chango
- Didact Gothic
- Francois One
- Fresca
- Istok Web
- Jockey One
- Jura
- Marmelad
- Open Sans Condensed
- Open Sans
- Play
- Signika Negative
- Signika
- Tenor Sans
- Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Condensed
- Ubuntu Mono
- Varela
- Viga
Display Faces (all fail)
- Abril Fatface
- Arbutus
- Bubblegum Sans
- Butcherman Caps
- Chicle
- Eater Caps
- Forum
- Kelly Slab
- Knewave
- Lobster
- MedievalSharp
- Modern Antiqua
- Nosifer Caps
- Piedra
- Passion One
- Plaster
- Rammetto One
- Ribeye Marrow
- Ribeye
- Righteous
- Ruslan Display
- Stint Ultra Condensed
Handwriting Faces (all fail)
- Aguafina Script
- Aladin
- Devonshire
- Dr Sugiyama
- Fondamento
- Herr Von Muellerhoff
- Marck Script
- Miss Fajardos
- Miss Saint Delafield
- Monsieur La Doulaise
- Mr Bedford
- Mr Dafoe
- Mr De Haviland
- Mrs Sheppards
- Niconne
- Patrick Hand
Thanks for a great blog. Out of curiosity, is the “昨天我帮女儿…” sentence the pinyin equivalent of “The quick brown fox …”, with the aim of showing all key pinyin tones, etc.? If so, what’s the rest of the sentence?
Thanks!
Yes, it’s a pangram — though this one is for all of the letters used in Pinyin rather than all of the combinations of diacritics and letters. (You can click on the image above and see the whole thing.) I wrote about it in a previous post.
Ahhh, got it. Can’t believe I missed that earlier post!
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