It aims to be more legible than its SimSun predecessor when used with ClearType. Microsoft YaHei has been distributed with Windows since Windows Vista, and is the default user interface font when the language is set to Simplified Chinese. OpenType features include vertical writing. The font family originally includes two fonts in regular and bold weights: named MSYH.TTF and 'Microsoft YaHei Bold' in a separate file, MSYHBD.TTF. Changes to the prototype fonts include redesigning the hook stroke with a longer end, the addition of 'foot' ending stroke terminal, readjusting the black and white proportions of glyphs, the introduction of dents in stroke path outlines that intersect other stroke path outlines, and flattening the diagonal dot stroke top at the top of the glyph. The ideographs in YaHei were based on a previous sans-serif font family the same designer had made in the early 1990s which, like YaHei, did not feature flared stroke terminals. for a ClearType font for use in the simplified Chinese version of Windows Vista as default font. Founder Electronics, Monotype Imaging (hinting)ĭevelopment began in 2004 when Microsoft commissioned Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd.
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