A Traditional Chinese bitmap font remade from X.org's taipei16.bdf and taipei24.bdf, in two sizes.

Variant size table

Variants Nominal size Han ink box Max ink extents
Taipei16 15 px 15×14 16×15
Taipei24 24 px 24×24 24×24
Presets
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Metrics

Nominal size 15 px
Han ink box 15×14
Cap height 12
x-height 8
Max ink extents 16×15
Ascent / Descent 13 / 2
Font bounding box 16, 16, 0, -2
Spacing Monospaced
Advance width distribution 8px×96 16px×13455
Nominal box 15×15 Han ink (median) 15×14 Max ink 16×15

Character coverage

Overview

Encoded characters 13,551 / 297,264 4.56%
BMP 13,551 / 62,089 21.83%
Compatibility Ideographs * 3 / 1002 0.30%

General & international

International Ideographs Core (IICore) 7,091 / 9,810 72.28%
Unihan Core 2020 13,062 / 20,720 63.04%
Windows Glyph List 4 203 / 650 31.23%
Basic Latin 95 / 95 100% ✓ Complete
Latin-1 Supplement 9 / 96 9.38%
Latin Extended-A 0 / 128 0.00%
Latin Extended-B 0 / 208 0.00%
Cyrillic Everyday Characters 0 / 97 0.00%
Greek Everyday Characters 48 / 72 66.67%
Arabic Everyday Characters 0 / 92 0.00%
Thai Everyday Characters 0 / 87 0.00%
Vietnamese Latin 52 / 186 27.96%
IBM Code Page 437 149 / 255 58.43%
Box Drawing 22 / 128 17.19%
Block Elements 17 / 32 53.13%
Powerline Symbols 0 / 41 0.00%
Braille Patterns 0 / 256 0.00%

CJK character map

CJK unified ideographs Unicode 17 13,061 / 101,996
Selected CJK, without duplicates 11,476 / 26,28143.7%
CJK character map Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han: 11,140 / 11,151; Mainland China · General Simplified Han: 5,146 / 8,105; Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1: 2,517 / 2,965; Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han: 4,348 / 4,620. Simp Trad Shared: 4,896 / 4,899. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han 11,140 / 11,151 99.9% Common 4,807 / 4,808 Mainland China · General Simplified Han 5,146 / 8,105 63.5% Level 1 2,371 / 3,500 Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han Simp Trad Shared 4,896 / 4,899 Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1 2,517 / 2,965 Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han 4,348 / 4,620 94.1%
Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han11,140 / 11,151 99.9% Common 4,807 / 4,808
Mainland China · General Simplified Han5,146 / 8,105 63.5% Level 1 2,371 / 3,500
Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 12,517 / 2,965 84.9%
Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han4,348 / 4,620 94.1%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han4,896 / 4,899
Hiragana & Katakana 0 / 171 0% Other kana 1 / 408
Hangul syllables 0 / 11,172 0% KS X 1001 syllables 0 / 2,350
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 0 / 451
Basic Bopomofo 37 / 37 100% Other Bopomofo 0 / 38
Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts.
Explore the counts & definitions

The selected CJK total combines the four Han tables, the JIS hiragana and katakana with ー・, Hangul syllables and basic Bopomofo, counting each code point once. Jamo, compatibility Han, other kana and other Bopomofo are listed separately.

“Simp Trad Shared” counts Unicode code points shared by the Simplified and Traditional Han reference sets. Shared code points can still have different regional glyph shapes, for example through OpenType locl; coverage does not imply identical glyphs.

Unicode 17. Counts use exact code points, with no variant-form or compatibility normalization. The Han map includes the 12 unified ideographs in the compatibility block; other compatibility ideographs are listed separately. “Only” means absent from the other three reference sets.

Taiwan: the 4,808 common and 6,343 less-common character tables. Mainland China: the 8,105 standard characters in three levels. Japan: the 2,965 JIS X 0208 Level 1 kanji. Korea: the unified Han subset of KS X 1001. The small lines under Taiwan and Mainland China show the common table (4,808) and Level 1 (3,500), which the Traditional and Simplified Chinese labels are judged on. The kana figure is the 83 hiragana and 86 katakana of JIS X 0208 plus ー and ・; rare, historical, extended and halfwidth kana are listed as other kana. Basic Bopomofo is the 37 letters U+3105–3129; dialect letters and the extended block are listed as other Bopomofo.

Shared & unique characters
Shared & unique charactersCovered / total
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han 4,896 / 4,89999.9%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Traditional Han 2,495 / 2,495100%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Simplified Han 1,780 / 1,90493.5%
Korean Han ∩ Traditional Han 4,294 / 4,294100%
Korean Han ∩ Simplified Han 2,748 / 2,79998.2%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji 1,771 / 1,771100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Korean Han 2,733 / 2,733100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji ∩ Korean Han 1,698 / 1,698100%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han 11,390 / 14,35779.3%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji 11,403 / 14,69477.6%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Korean Han 11,429 / 14,61778.2%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji ∪ Korean Han 11,439 / 14,90176.8%
Traditional Han only 4,630 / 4,63899.8%
Simplified Han only 230 / 3,0287.6%
Japanese Kanji only 10 / 2843.5%
Korean Han only 36 / 20717.4%

Reference tables: Unicode 17 · FontPixel

CJK character totals

CJK unified ideographs 13,061 / 101,996 12.81%
Selected CJK, without duplicates 11,476 / 26,281 43.67%

Simplified Chinese · National standards

GB/T 2312 Hanzi 4,383 / 6,763 64.81%
GB/T 2312 Level 1 Hanzi 2,551 / 3,755 67.94%
GB/T 2312 Level 2 Hanzi 1,832 / 3,008 60.90%
GBK Hanzi 13,063 / 20,923 62.43%
GB/T 12345 Traditional Hanzi 6,403 / 6,866 93.26%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 3 13,061 / 88,115 14.82%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 2 13,061 / 27,780 47.02%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 1 13,061 / 27,584 47.35%

Simplified Chinese · Language standards

Table of General Standard Chinese Characters 5,146 / 8,105 63.49%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 1 2,371 / 3,500 67.74%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 2 1,889 / 3,000 62.97%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 3 886 / 1,605 55.20%
List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese 2,363 / 3,500 67.51%
Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (2500) 1,665 / 2,500 66.60%
Less Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (1000) 698 / 1,000 69.80%
List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese 4,529 / 7,000 64.70%
Compulsory Education Chinese Character List 2,371 / 3,500 67.74%
Standard Glyph Forms for Ancient Book Printing 10,818 / 14,250 75.92%
Kangxi Radicals 0 / 214 0.00%
CJK Radicals Supplement 0 / 115 0.00%
Hanyi Simplified & Traditional Set 6,534 / 9,169 71.26%
FounderType Simplified & Traditional Set 6,841 / 9,664 70.79%

Traditional Chinese · Taiwan

Taiwan common and less-common Han (total) 11,140 / 11,151 99.90%
Standard Forms of Common National Characters 4,807 / 4,808 99.98%
Standard Forms of Less-Common National Characters 6,333 / 6,343 99.84%
Big5 All Hanzi 13,053 / 13,053 100% ✓ Complete
Big5 Frequently Used Hanzi 5,401 / 5,401 100% ✓ Complete
Big5 Less Frequently Used Hanzi 7,652 / 7,652 100% ✓ Complete
Basic Bopomofo 37 / 37 100% ✓ Complete
Other Bopomofo 0 / 38 0.00%

Traditional Chinese · Hong Kong

List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters 4,730 / 4,762 99.33%
Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set Hanzi 0 / 4,603 0.00%
Hong Kong Supplementary Characters in Common Use 0 / 1,102 0.00%

Japanese

JIS X 0208 Non-Kanji 212 / 524 40.46%
JIS X 0208 Level 1 Kanji 2,517 / 2,965 84.89%
JIS X 0208 Level 2 Kanji 2,801 / 3,390 82.63%
JIS X 0213 Level 3 Kanji 892 / 1,260 70.79%
JIS X 0213 Level 4 Kanji 1,367 / 2,397 57.03%
Joyo Kanji 1,813 / 2,136 84.88%
Kyoiku Kanji 880 / 1,026 85.77%
Jinmeiyo Kanji 733 / 864 84.84%
Hiragana & Katakana (JIS X 0208, with ー・) 0 / 171 0.00%
Hiragana 0 / 83 0.00%
Katakana 0 / 86 0.00%
Other kana 1 / 408 0.25%
Other Hiragana and Katakana block characters 0 / 18 0.00%
Kana extensions 0 / 327 0.00%
Halfwidth Katakana 1 / 63 1.59%
JIS X 0201 96 / 158 60.76%

Korean

Hangul Syllables (All Modern) 0 / 11,172 0.00%
KS X 1001 Hangul Syllables 0 / 2,350 0.00%
KS X 1001 Han (total) 4,348 / 4,888 88.95%
KS X 1001 unified Han 4,348 / 4,620 94.11%
KS X 1001 compatibility Han 0 / 268 0.00%
KS X 1001 Symbols 235 / 987 23.81%
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 0 / 451 0.00%
Hangul Compatibility Jamo 0 / 94 0.00%
Hangul Jamo · base block 0 / 256 0.00%
Hangul Jamo extensions A and B 0 / 101 0.00%
Unicode blocks(22)
Basic Latin 96 / 128 75.00%
Latin-1 Supplement 9 / 128 7.03%
Spacing Modifier Letters 5 / 80 6.25%
Greek and Coptic 48 / 134 35.82%
General Punctuation 13 / 111 11.71%
Letterlike Symbols 3 / 80 3.75%
Number Forms 10 / 60 16.67%
Arrows 8 / 112 7.14%
Mathematical Operators 20 / 256 7.81%
Box Drawing 22 / 128 17.19%
Block Elements 17 / 32 53.13%
Geometric Shapes 15 / 96 15.63%
Miscellaneous Symbols 6 / 256 2.34%
CJK Symbols and Punctuation 28 / 64 43.75%
Bopomofo 37 / 43 86.05%
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months 1 / 255 0.39%
CJK Compatibility 11 / 256 4.30%
CJK Unified Ideographs 13,061 / 20,992 62.22%
CJK Compatibility Ideographs 3 / 472 0.64%
CJK Compatibility Forms 27 / 32 84.38%
Small Form Variants 23 / 26 88.46%
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 88 / 225 39.11%

Glyph overview

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Downloads

Taipei16 BDF 410.5 KB PCF 412.2 KB
Taipei24 BDF 797.5 KB PCF 746.7 KB
Full family BDF ZIP taipei-pixel.zip 1.21 MB
Bitmap TTF taipei-pixel.ttf 1.58 MB
Vector TTF (square) taipei-pixel-24px-square.ttf 4.66 MB
Vector TTF (round) taipei-pixel-24px-round.ttf 21.16 MB
Web font (square) taipei-pixel-24px-square.woff2 1.10 MB
Web font (round) taipei-pixel-24px-round.woff2 1.21 MB

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