{"id":5434,"date":"2012-01-02T20:57:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2012-01-22T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T09:31:11","slug":"pinyin-font-flexion-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2012\/pinyin-font-flexion-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinyin font: Flexion Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’d like to introduce a highly individualistic font family that supports Hanyu Pinyin: Flexion Pro<\/a>. This one, however, isn’t free. <\/p>\n

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Flexion was originally designed for the movie The DaVinci Code<\/em>, which is apt, given how the main character, Robert Langdon, was named after Flexion’s designer (and ambigram specialist) John Langdon<\/a>. Hal Taylor<\/a> completed the font.<\/p>\n

Here’s part of Taylor’s description: <\/p>\n

Flexion is possibly the only symmetrical type design currently available. In keeping with John’s well-know propensity for ambigrams, many of the characters are mirrored to become other characters; the B is a reversed E, the C is reversed to become a D, G is a mirrored P, the K is a reversed N, and so on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, some of the tone marks will complicate making this work for ambigrams. But since Chinese-English bilingual ambigrams<\/a> are possible, making Pinyin ambigrams, even with tone marks, shouldn’t be out of the question. <\/p>\n

Flexion comes in four weights.
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Today I’d like to introduce a highly individualistic font family that supports Hanyu Pinyin: Flexion Pro. This one, however, isn’t free. Flexion was originally designed for the movie The DaVinci Code, which is apt, given how the main character, Robert … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41,106,32,20,807,105],"tags":[798,796,795,762,797,871],"class_list":["post-5434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-hanyu","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-pinyin-font-misc","category-tone-marks","tag-ambigram","tag-flexion-font","tag-flexion-pro","tag-pinyin-font","tag-robert-langdon","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5781,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}