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[timtecsa Friend timtecsaJoin date: October 2009Posts: 1382Downloads:86Uploads:327 Thanks: 197 Thanked: 132 times in 34 posts]

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I am finding the global setting for the text (article content) in English and Simplified Chinese not very compatible. Too large in English, too small in Chinese (according to Chinese native Editor). I can choose a naturally smaller font in English to compensate a little but seperate global control via css would be nice. Also, does Google do fonts for Chinese yet?

[Ninja Lead Moderator Ninja LeadJoin date: November 2014Posts: 16064Downloads:310Uploads:2864 Thanks: 341 Thanked: 3854 times in 3563 posts]

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Hi,

Your site is set under construction and it requires username/password access the URL of your site and I could not see the problem on your site.

But I found a good guide about Chinese font-family definitions for CSS here: http://www.kendraschaefer.com/2012/06/chinese-standard-web-fonts-the-ultimate-guide-to-css-font-family-declarations-for-web-design-in-simplified-chinese/

Basically, most websites just declare an English font and let the browser fallback to the default Chinese font for either serif (usually ‘宋体’ aka SimSun) or sans-serif (usually SimHei).

Hope it helps

Regards

[timtecsa Friend timtecsaJoin date: October 2009Posts: 1382Downloads:86Uploads:327 Thanks: 197 Thanked: 132 times in 34 posts]

#846127

Hi @Ninj_Lead

Thanks. I changed the ‘Article’ font to Helvetica 16px and it seems to give a better balance between Chinese and English. See here http://uber-biz.gpmnews.com/index.php/zh/products/callas-pdftoolbox

css is set to: Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei New", "Microsoft Yahei", "微软雅黑", 宋体, SimSun, STXihei, "华文细黑", sans-serif;

Despite adding the Chinese font names to the css, I see that the font being displayed seems to be Helvetica only. I tested by pasting some Chinese text from the site to Apple’s Pages app where it tells me the font in use.

I’ll read the link you sent fully when I get a moment.

Regards, Tim

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