{"id":6397,"date":"2015-09-25T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T06:04:35","slug":"pinyin-font-lobster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2015\/pinyin-font-lobster\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinyin font: Lobster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first looked at Pablo Impallari&#8217;s font Lobster <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2011\/google-web-fonts-and-pinyin-december-2011-update\/\">around the end of 2011<\/a>, it wasn&#8217;t yet capable of handling Pinyin with tone marks. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fonts\/specimen\/Lobster\">Lobster<\/a> has improved since then. <\/p>\n<p>A Pinyin-friendly bold condensed script font that looks good and is free &#8212; that&#8217;s great news.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font.png\" alt=\"lobster_font\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font.png 689w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font-500x83.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can handle Cyrillic too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font_cyrillic.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font_cyrillic.png\" alt=\"lobster_font_cyrillic\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font_cyrillic.png 1398w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font_cyrillic-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font_cyrillic-1024x218.png 1024w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/09\/lobster_font_cyrillic-500x107.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available through Google Fonts. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, its companion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fonts\/specimen\/Lobster+Two\">Lobster Two<\/a>, doesn&#8217;t have the same range and so cannot be used for Hanyu Pinyin with tone marks. But I&#8217;ll check again in a few years, just in case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first looked at Pablo Impallari&#8217;s font Lobster around the end of 2011, it wasn&#8217;t yet capable of handling Pinyin with tone marks. But Lobster has improved since then. A Pinyin-friendly bold condensed script font that looks good and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2015\/pinyin-font-lobster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[54,807],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyrillic","category-pinyin-font-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397","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=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6402,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions\/6402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}