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Add Chiron Sans HK (Traditional Chinese) #1842

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@tamcy

Website: https://tamcy.github.io/chiron-sans-hk/
Github repo: https://github.com/tamcy/chiron-sans-hk

Chiron Sans HK is a Source Han Sans HC/Noto Sans CJK HK dervied font. I am the author of this font.

The glyphs in Noto Sans CJK HK mostly adheres what are defined in Reference Glyphs for Chinese Computer Systems in Hong Kong. However, some character forms defined in Reference Glyphs are different from the well-established, widespread forms commonly seen in commercially successful font products in HK.

I feel there is a demand for a font adopting such de-facto forms be provided to the community. Hence the development of Chiron Sans HK, which takes a page from commercially successful font products and chooses the forms that resembles closer to what people actually see in our daily lives.

As of version 2.021 (released 27 Jan 2020), >3,500 glyphs have been remapped or redesgined.

Despite the name, I believe the font is benefitial to Traditional Chinese users not limited to Hong Kong.

In addition, a webfont build is also avaliable here (Specimen). I followed the approach in Noto Sans HK to slice the font and prepare the CSS files. I have added some more HK characters to my subset build.

For what it's worth, Chiron Sans HK is the successor of CYanHeiHK/Chiu Yuen Sans HK which I proposed to add to Google Font two years ago.

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