Apple: Please fix Heiti TC.

What Happened

Snow Leopard comes with Heiti TC (“STHeiti TC”, “Hei TC”), a traditional Chinese typeface that replaced LiHei Pro. It has a number of errors, inconsistencies and imbalances, voiding professional use.

iPhone OS 3.× also comes with this erroneous typeface.

We ask Apple to rework the typeface so that it adheres to the high standards that Apple represents.

Heiti TC contains erroneous glyphs, inconsistent radical forms, and is not hinted well.

Heiti TC glyphs have inconsistent radical parts.

Glyphs in Heiti TC, either styled as they were several decades ago or in a more modern form, suffer from apparent inconsistency between their shared radical parts.

Heiti TC does not blend well.

European glyphs that came with Heiti TC are enormous; they also did not match their Chinese siblings.

Heiti TC is not hinted well.

Heiti TC glyphs are more detailed but also more poorly-hinted, apparent at smaller point sizes.

Heiti TC is also on any 3.× iPod touch or iPhone.

Our Pledge

As a company that has lead digital typography for decades with one of its founders’ solid acclaim as a calligraphy connoisseur, we believe that Apple has the ability to right the wrong.