Embedded fonts

UI/UX design must prioritize text legibility and readability for users whether on embedded devices with low-resolution displays or high-resolution LCD screens. Arphic iFont® products provide the ideal solution for your needs.

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Mobile Font®

Mobile Font® is a font and engine solution developed specifically for embedded systems. Provides compact font size, fast execution speed, high quality, multi-language support, and scalable fonts, making it the optimal choice for embedded system fonts.

 Key Features

  1. Multi-language support with scalable font rendering
  2. Font cache functionality for faster font generation
  3. iHint font adjustment module for enhanced rendering quality
  4. Various font styling effects including outline, italic, bold, 3D, rotation, and more
Applications

Control panels, automotive displays, wearable device displays, printers, digital TVs, and more

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Layout Engine

With the rise of emerging markets in Thailand, India, Arabic regions, Cambodia, and Myanmar, hardware developers face challenges with complex writing systems like Thai, Hindi, and Arabic scripts. These scripts require a specialized text layout engine for character arrangement and font rendering. Arphic Layout Engine, developed specifically for embedded systems and complex script typography, is the result of extensive research and collaboration with typography consultants from various countries. Over the years, both its aesthetic quality and textual accuracy have earned recognition from clients and users.

Compact Size, Powerful Features

  1. Depending on the number of supported languages and CPU types, Arphic Layout Engine's program code size ranges from 45 to 190KB.
  2. Supports left-to-right text layout (Thai, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Sinhala, etc.), right-to-left text layout (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.), and bi-directional text mixing.
  3. High processing performance suitable for embedded system products such as printers, automotive electronics, wearable devices, media players, and more.

User-Friendly Implementation

  1. Simply provide Unicode strings and bitmap buffer - Arphic Layout Engine automatically handles various complex composition rules.
  2. Provides relative position of each Unicode character in the buffer for cursor display and character editing in applications.

Standard ANSI C Design

Product Features
Text Rotation

Supports text rotation for both TrueType and Mobile Font, applicable for map navigation.

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TrueType Font

Optimized for display fonts of Smart Phones, DTVs, Tablets, eReaders, Car Navigation systems, and Digital Signage. Features clear, legible fonts with aesthetic design, ideal for reading on medium to high-resolution screens and printing.

Standard TrueType Fonts

The most widely used TrueType fonts supporting embedded systems including Android, iOS, Linux, and others. Provides global language support and character sets:

  • Traditional Chinese: Big-5/HKSCS
  • Simplified Chinese: GB-2312/GB18030
  • Japanese: JIS X 0208 / 0213 / ARIB special characters
  • Korean: KS X 1001/1005
  • Western Languages: ISO 8859/WGL4
  • Complex Script Character Sets
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TrueType Compressed Fonts

  • Arphic RTT fonts utilize radical-based technology, where radicals (character components) can be reused, significantly reducing font data size through RTT font development.
  • Featuring dramatically reduced font data size of less than 2.5MB for a complete set of GB18030 Kai and Gothic fonts.
  • Minimized system resource requirements.
  • Superior font display quality.

Japanese ARIB Special Characters

The ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) is special character set designed for use in TVs, automotive systems, and set-top boxes, includes commonly used Japanese characters beyond the JIS X 0208 standard with the latest specification ARIB STD-B62.

  • Arphic offers multiple font formats, including Bitmap, Mobile Font, and TrueType Font, supporting both ARIB STD-B24 and B62 standards.
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Global Font

Global Language Integrated Font Set

Arphic Technology has successfully developed an integrated TTF font set that combines CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character sets, ISO 8859/WGL4 Western language sets, and Complex Script Fonts into a comprehensive global language solution. It can be selectively paired with text layout engines such as Arphic Layout Engine, UniScribe, or harfbuzz for complex script composition (some limitations or variations may exist in layout engine rendering).
Features of the Global Language Integrated TTF fonts.

  • This Global Language Integrated TTF Fonts are provides 5 weights from Regular to Heavy.
  • Font content can be customized with different language sets based on client requirements.

Supports multiple language sets combined into one set of Global Language Integrated fonts, the Arphic Global Font.

    Supported Character Sets:
  • CJK Sets: GB-2312, GB18030, Big-5, HKSCS, JIS, KSX.
  • Western Language Sets: ISO 8859, WGL4, including Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, and more.
  • Complex Script Sets: Thai, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Hebrew, and more.

WGL4 Character Set

WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) encompasses ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, and 16, supporting text and symbols from Western Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, Greece, Turkey, the Americas, and parts of Africa and Asia.
Arphic WGL4 character set contains 692 characters with Unicode encoding presenting AR Dori Sans and AR New Hebe Sans. Each style provides 9 weights from Light, Regular, Demibold, Bold, Extrabold, Heavy, Extraheavy, Black, and to Ultrablack.

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Bitmap Font

Low Power Display Solution

Bitmap Font is ideal for devices with basic fixed sized font display requirements. It's perfectly suited for devices with low-resolution LCD displays such as mobile phones, Bluetooth headsets, control panels, traffic signs/utility vehicle displays, handheld devices, MP3 players, as well as various wearable devices where power-efficient display is essential.

Product Features

  • Supported font sizes: 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24, 32, 40, and 48
  • Offers over 800 global language bitmap fonts, including Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Western languages, Vietnamese, Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Arabic, and Farsi
  • Custom font sizes and language sets available upon client request.
  • For sizes 16 and below, Bitmap Fonts prioritize clarity with single-line strokes without stylistic variations.
  • For sizes 20 and above, Bitmap Fonts are available in various styles: Ming, Kai, Gothic, and Round styled fonts.