# LingDong-/qiji-font

齊伋體 - typeface from Ming Dynasty woodblock printed books

Repository: https://github.com/LingDong-/qiji-font
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/qiji-font
Homepage: https://qiji-font.netlify.com/
Language: Python
License: OFL-1.1
License Family: other
Topics: font, typography, chinese, woodcutting, classical-chinese, typeface, computer-vision
Last push: 2022-12-30T19:38:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2409, "days_push": 1342, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1643, forks 85 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:15.923063+00:00)

## What it is
Qiji-font is an open-source Ming Dynasty typeface extracted from 16th-century woodblock printed books using semi-automatic computer vision and OCR. It is a work in progress intended for Classical Chinese text, including use with the wenyan-lang programming language.

## Use cases
- render classical Chinese text in an authentic Ming Dynasty woodblock style
- find a free open-source Chinese typeface for traditional characters
- extract glyphs from scanned historical books using OCR and computer vision
- use a period-accurate font with the wenyan-lang Classical Chinese programming language
- study how to digitize typefaces from historical printed sources

## When to choose
- you need a Ming-era aesthetic typeface for Classical Chinese or wenyan-lang projects
- you want an OFL-licensed open-source Chinese font
- you are researching glyph extraction from historical woodblock prints

## When to avoid
- you need full coverage of modern simplified Chinese characters
- you need a stable, complete font for production use
- you need a font with many weights or variable font features

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: experimental
- function: ocr, computer-vision, image-processing
- domain: computer-vision, image-processing, education
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: typeface, chinese, classical-chinese, woodblock-printing, typography, open-source-font, ofl, font, localization

## Member repositories
- LingDong-/qiji-font (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:15.923063+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:45:57.827422+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/LingDong-/qiji-font (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:15.923063+00:00, sha 77755cd58877)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.