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Q: I would like to use Yuanti SC font for my web development project. However, my developer is not able to use .ttc file that I have extracted from the font library and .ttf, .otf .woff formats are not available anywhere on the web.

I would like to use Yuanti SC font for my web development project. However, my developer is not able to use .ttc file that I have extracted from the font library and .ttf, .otf .woff formats are not available anywhere on the web. Please, let me know how I can use this font for my project.

 

Thank you,

Anton

Posted on Sep 7, 2016 1:51 PM

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  • by Kurt Lang,Solvedanswer

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Sep 7, 2016 4:22 PM in response to antonshkurat
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    Sep 7, 2016 4:22 PM in response to antonshkurat

    Unless the site you're developing is for the Asian market, I'm not sure why you want to use this particular font. The basic alphabet, numerical and standard punctuation glyphs have sans serif, Roman characters, but the rest is thousands of Kanji characters. While you can serve up .ttf and .otf fonts as web fonts, it would be very unusual to use one so large. Pages should load quickly, and 78 MB worth of faces to download for those with slow Internet connections is not quick.

     

    I would pick a different sans serif font. There are literally thousands that look similar, or nearly identical to Yuanti.

     

    131 free, high quality sans serif fonts to pick from here. I'm sure you can find one you'd like.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Sep 7, 2016 4:22 PM in response to antonshkurat
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    Sep 7, 2016 4:22 PM in response to antonshkurat

    In general it is a bad idea to use a font intended for Chinese or some other non-Latin script for Latin text.  Like Kurt suggested, best choose another one.

  • by antonshkurat,

    antonshkurat antonshkurat Sep 7, 2016 4:22 PM in response to Kurt Lang
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    Sep 7, 2016 4:22 PM in response to Kurt Lang

    Thank you for your help! I will choose another font then.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Sep 7, 2016 7:06 PM in response to antonshkurat
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    Sep 7, 2016 7:06 PM in response to antonshkurat

    You're welcome.