This adds 6 individual Sarasa font packages (region-specific) using the same file as SarasaGothic. The difference is that these regional-specific packages only extracts a part of the font family instead of all of them.
The original SarasaGothic package contains 6 different sets of SarasaGothic, which represents different regional standards for glyphs. (SC: China mainland, TC: Taiwan, HK: Hong Kong, J: Japan, K: Korea, CL: Classic/16th century China)
There are only slight differences in pen strokes between those standards. The picture below shows the difference of glyphs from Taiwan, HK, China, Japan and Korea.
Users only need one of those SarasaGothic to show all the supported glyphs. That is, if you only installed SarasaGothic TC(Taiwan), The font can still be applied on characters that only appears in Japanese. The only difference is that the pen strokes will be in Taiwanese style.
Therefore, users will only need one of the 6 regional sets, except for some rare cases. Seperate them into 6 packages can avoid unnessarily long font list (of 6 regions 6 styles 4 font weights = 144 fonts!).
(By the way, someone has sent an issue about whether the fonts can be downloaded seperately, but the developer tend not to do that due to file size issues.)
matthewjberger
commented
4 years ago
This adds 6 individual Sarasa font packages (region-specific) using the same file as
SarasaGothic. The difference is that these regional-specific packages only extracts a part of the font family instead of all of them.The original SarasaGothic package contains 6 different sets of SarasaGothic, which represents different regional standards for glyphs. (SC: China mainland, TC: Taiwan, HK: Hong Kong, J: Japan, K: Korea, CL: Classic/16th century China)
There are only slight differences in pen strokes between those standards. The picture below shows the difference of glyphs from Taiwan, HK, China, Japan and Korea.
Users only need one of those
SarasaGothicto show all the supported glyphs. That is, if you only installedSarasaGothic TC(Taiwan), The font can still be applied on characters that only appears in Japanese. The only difference is that the pen strokes will be in Taiwanese style.Therefore, users will only need one of the 6 regional sets, except for some rare cases. Seperate them into 6 packages can avoid unnessarily long font list (of 6 regions 6 styles 4 font weights = 144 fonts!).
(By the way, someone has sent an issue about whether the fonts can be downloaded seperately, but the developer tend not to do that due to file size issues.)