Author's note

Chinyen by Neale Davidson is a free Chinese-inspired display font with broad, forceful forms, clipped geometry, and strokes that shift suddenly between heavy slabs and tapered points. The silhouette is dense, jagged, and deliberately uneven.

Martial arts posters and game title cards draw on its aggressive angles, whereas restaurant packaging and festival branding can use the broad forms as a strong cultural cue. In either setting, the broken crossbars and sweeping diagonal cuts can become recurring brand elements across signs, labels, promotional artwork, and other parts of a coordinated identity.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Chinyen © (Neale Davidson). 2011-2015. All Rights Reserved
Font family
Chinyen
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Chinyen:Version 1.50
Full font name
Chinyen
Name table version
Version 1.50 February 12, 2015
Postscript font name
Chinyen
Manufacturer name
Pixel Sagas
Designer
Neale Davidson

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2015-02-12
Revision1
Glyph count239
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classScripts
WeightExtra-bold
WidthSemi-expanded
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs
Pattern natureBold
PitchNot monospaced
Complete pack contains 3 font weights listed below:
Chinyen.otf
Chinyen.ttf
Chinyen Hollow.otf