Traditional Chinese Font HeiTi TC in Snow Leopard

The new system font for traditional Chinese is the new font Heiti TC, and looks very bad compared to the one (LiHei Pro) used in previous OS versions. This font is used when browsing Chinese websites, or viewing Chinese names in Finder, or everywhere if you’re using the OS in Chinese. This has been a topic of discussion in various forums in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and are mostly in Chinese. In fact, there is now a utility called TCFail that will change the font back to LiHei Pro used in Leopard—see the link below for further background on this topic.

http://zonble.github.com/tcfail/en.html

There is also a Wikipedia page (Chinese only) that talks about this font:

http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/黑體-繁

As I haven’t seen any discussion on Apple’s site so far, I am writing here to see if anyone of you also dislike this new font, and to ask if there’re any other ways to change the system font for Traditional Chinese (or any other language for that matter). Thanks.

Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Sep 9, 2009 12:46 PM

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Traditional Chinese Font HeiTi TC in Snow Leopard

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