Chinese Fonts for the Computer??

Everytime someone asks this I forget the url.

http://pinyin.sogou.com/

While we're on this, what's the best software to use to type pinyin into Chinese characters?

i heard that if you install chinese language on your pc, if you go on Word, you will have nice fonts. I tried it out but the chinese had to be uininstalled and I kept the fonts

bennyboyk, I'm not sure the best software for a PC, but if you or anyone has a Mac, QIM is by far the best software I've found. It's fast and super intuitive.... QIM for Mac

Personally I think this one is the best: http://www.unispim.com/

I got the GOOGLE one... it's awesome and easy to use and it's in English. Thanks for the help with the fonts... now I got a bunch of good ones... BAZZA it makes your 500 common words look nice.

@bazza this unispim site...is there an english version? or, actually, just how do I get it to download and work without killing my comp/ myself? @clarsen I did a search for Google chinese fonts and I don't think I found what you found. what exactly was it called? it sounds really nice! also, sometimes it seems like I have trouble getting anyting other than simsun (I think I have a few fonts...I have Windows Vista) I have to work with my input thingy...is there a reason for this? I promise I am not as computer illiterate as I sound...I just have issues with certain things like this!

Don't think there is a English version, no. You'll need to set your non-unicode language to Chinese for it to work probably I think.

Just found a QQ one, gonna give it a try. :) http://im.qq.com/qqpinyin/index.shtml

That's the one: www.font.com.cn

Everyone should give this QQ IME a try, it's easily the best one I've tried. You can set your own shortcut for switching between simplified and traditional, it even has customizable skins.

I installed the QQ IME. Interestingly it looks almost the same as the google IME http://www.google.com/support/pinyin/

TT (Tencent Traveler) is nice Chinese browser as well. http://im.qq.com/tt/

For Chinese Fonts: I have been using them since I started typing Chinese in 2001. The easiest way to find fonts, and free, is to search for "fonts" by the Chinese word for fonts rather than English: First, "fonts" in Chinese is: 字体 (zìtǐ lit: character-body) Then go to Google and type: "字体" (or "中文字体" to be more exact) and pretty much any of the results have fonts. (another tip is to do an image search for ""字体" at images.google.com... when you see the sample image of a font you like, click it, then go to the containing page of that image, and download the font)

thanks bazza. very useful.

I've been trying to work out how to enter letters with the pinyin tones in windows XP. Anyone know?

joannah, this seems to be the best tool for that: http://www.chinese-forums.com/pinyinput-install.zip

Thanks. works well

Ok, I think I have a new favourite. :)