Mike, thanks for the fast answer.
1. First I tried Arphic "AR PL UKai" font. It's free and beautiful. It's a Kaiti font, it looks like brush.
Direct link to the file:
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...ai/ttf-arphic-ukai_0.2.20080216.1.orig.tar.gz
After uncompressing, the font file is called "ukai.ttc".
Source:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/Download/
However some characters weren't rendered correctly (for example 明确).
So I switched to Kaiti_SC font from OS X El Capitan (see below for instructions).
2. copy the .ttc or .ttf file to a folder in the phone. For this, on a Mac, I used 'Android File Transfer' from
https://www.android.com/filetransfer/
3. install the font within Pleco: Settings > Fonts > Custom fonts > Customize Chinese Font
Remarks:
- The Noto fonts from Google are also nice (but they are "heiti" style), especially they include different thicknesses, for example you can take light as "customize chinese font" and regular as "customize chinese bold font". Here the link:
https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-hans
- Here how I exported Kaiti_SC (SC = Simplified Chinese) from OS X (El Capitan):
1. start "Font Book"
2. select a font (for example "Kaiti SC")
3. File > export fonts
4. you get a .ttc file. We need to extract the .ttf files from it, for example the regular, bold and black versions of the Kaiti SC font.
5. download, install and run DFontSplitter from
https://peter.upfold.org.uk/projects/dfontsplitter
6. I get 5 files. I don't know what they all are, but some render 明确 well, while some don't.
Finally I selected file 4 as regular and file 1 as bold (file 0 was rendering well, but too bold for me).
- For information, here a good explanation of the different type of chinese fonts (kaiti, heiti, songti, etc) :
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-chinese-fonts--cms-23444
- @ Mike: as Arphic and Noto fonts are free, could you include them in Pleco as free add-ons, to make it easier to install for the users?