A Chinese calligraphy font based on handwritten characters from the Qing Dynasty text 《权衡度量实验考》. The font was created by extracting 338 characters from the original book and using zi2zi-JiT to generate the full GB2312 character set (6763 characters).
Below is a sample page from the original 《权衡度量实验考》:
Production
All characters are generated in 256x256 resolution, traced with Potrace then compiled with FontForge. The entire production took approximately 5 days, including model training time.
Samples
沁园春·雪 (Qin Yuan Chun Xue)
Chinese Periodic Table
Rare Characters
Font Files
Font files are located in the data/ directory:
QuanHengDuLiang-v0.1.ttf- TrueType formatQuanHengDuLiang-v0.1.otf- OpenType format
Character Sources
The source/ directory contains 338 individual character images extracted from the original text, each named after its corresponding Chinese character.
Installation
Download the TTF or OTF file from the data/ directory and double-click to install.
Thanks
The original book 《权衡度量实验考》 can be viewed at shuge.org.
License
MIT License - See LICENSE for details.