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The two images below compare specific vowels with combined diacritics, in the three fonts, Lucida Grande, Vu Phu Tho and Verajja, described above. The Freefont authors have received detailed feedback on their font, so we can look forward to it displaying Vietnamese much better in the future. Currently, Freefont is also being tested for release with Debian, and this screenshot of mixed-up text, even at 16pt, also shows the diacritics above the vowel merging into the previous line. For example, a character with combined circumflex and grave shows the grave lying along the right-hand half of the circumflex, and combined diacritics are of equal weight. Combined diacritics are not just added, but designed to complement each other.Despite our language being written in a basically Roman alphabet, its conceptual base is the same as Chinese, so reading is less a matter of adding words to build an idea, as of identifying parts of an idea and having it blooming suddenly in your mind, like a flower. People reading Vietnamese become accustomed to identifying each accented vowel separately as we read.
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This is actually contrary to the design of most prose fonts, which lead the eye through the words. This type of design leads the eye back into the vowel and its diacritics, establishing the distinct identity of the vowel in the reader's mind before the eye moves on to the next character. For example, the acute accent is shorter and more solid and triangular, the hook above is more of a spiral with a centred tail, and the hook on the side has a thin stem and rounded, curving-back top.
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Although it has the same problems with placement and spacing of diacritics as Verajja (unsurprisingly ) ), it's a very clear font, and its Book variant promises well as a general-purpose Unicode font. Verajja, other fonts supporting Vietnamese (including Gentium Alt) and fonts designed for Indic languages are available freely from here. Dejavu will be packaged with major distributions such as Debian (soon to be released with support for Vietnamese, for the very first time!).
#Vietnamese fonts for mac free#
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(Please contact me if you can't find them, and I may be able to send them to you.). It's one of a group of beautiful "designed-for-Vietnamese" Unicode fonts which I can't find anymore on vn.net.
#Vietnamese fonts for mac mac#
#Vietnamese fonts for mac mac osx#
Comparing Unicode fonts for Vietnamese Việt ngữĬlick on each font-name link to see font samples of several Unicode fonts, shown in the Font Book application from Mac OSX (it makes it really easy to manage your fonts).