However, as a FrontEnd designer you can make use it today. While PingFang (苹方/萍方) is the new default for OS X and iOS UI, Safari still default to Heiti by default, presumably to maintain backward compatibility. Using ttembed-js you can easily achieve that, but this is very likely a violation of font license. Lastly but optionally, if you somehow want to subset PingFang and embed it on webpage, note that you should change its fsType, aka Embedding Protection flag to 0, for it to work on browsers like Internet Explorer.I tried FontForge script with simple Open/ Generate but didn't see a way to set them to use Windows compatible font tables. I would love to see an open source alternative that only require minimal setup to get this conversion done. Now to get Windows compatible TrueType files, use CrossFont, it's a commercial ware but comes with free trial.To unpack TrueType Collection into TrueType files for each font weight, use this ttc2ttf python port.Making font works cross-platform is the Holy Grail of font conversion, particularly for fonts designed with only OS X in mind.īecause OS X and Windows can't agree on a standard for TrueType, There are 2 different ways to set tables for ttf (TrueType/OpenType) and ttc (TrueType Collection), so you need some conversion tools to make PingFang.ttc work on Windows.
PingFang SC/TC, the leading dot signify itself as a system fallback font, thus Font Book is not giving us the preview.īut you can find them under ~/Library/Fonts with manual install, other it's likely under /System/Library/Fonts/ but see apple kb for better explanation. Note that you won't be able to see it appearing in the Font Book, why? Because its actual name is.
Otherwise install the PingFang.ttc via Font Book. If you are on iOS 9 or OS X 10.11, it's already there.
Or you can get PingFang.ttc from your developer friends, though you are probably violating its font license one way or another, but I am not a lawyer so freedom to you.
If you are in Apple Developer Program (costs 99 USD a year), then you can get them now at their developer resource site, otherwise you can wait for their public beta to come out in July or wait for the public release this fall (a free upgrade like previous release). The same font also appear on iOS 9 as the default UI font, though Apple didn't mention it explicitly. OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan, comes with a new system font for Chinese users, named PingFang, it includes 6 weights for both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.