• sales

    +86-0755-88291180

Ink Screen Font Library Tutorial

The following are examples of Chinese characters. We take the Raspberry Pi demo with a 2.13 V3 ink screen as an explanation, and other demos/fonts are similar.

Add the Chinese Font Library

Here is an example of adding font24CN.c.
Open the Zimo221.7z software and follow the steps below to configure the software.
Choose "Font selection for the text area."

Please select the corresponding font type according to the picture, and click "OK" after completing the configuration.
Font: Microsoft YaHei
Style: Regular
Size: 24
Character set: GB2312


Select "Other options".

Select the corresponding configuration according to the picture, and then click "OK".
Pattern extraction method: Horizontal extraction.
Keep a comma at the end of the reserved byte.
We will use C51 pattern extraction later, so the A51 format can be ignored.

①Input the Chinese characters here, and then press Ctrl + Enter.
②The preview of the inputted Chinese characters is displayed in Location 2.
③Click on the C51 format on the left side for the pattern extraction.
④The corresponding hexadecimal data will be generated afterward.


Open the corresponding file of the demo. The software I am using here is VS Code. Change the format from UTF-8 to GB2312.




To copy and modify the data that has just been extracted to the corresponding file according to the file format:

Open the "EPD_2in13_V3_test.c" file and replace "微雪电子" with "中文字库". Compile and run the demo, you will see that the previous "微雪电子" on the demo has been changed to "中文字库".


Add New Font Library

Here is an example of adding font48CN.c.
Open the Zimo221.7z software and follow the steps below to configure the software.
Choose "Font selection for the text area."

Please select the corresponding font type according to the picture, and click "OK" after completing the configuration.
Font: Microsoft YaHei
Style: Regular
Size: 48
Character set: GB2312

Select "Other options".

Select the corresponding configuration according to the picture, and click "OK" after completing the configuration.
Pattern extraction method: Horizontal extraction.
Keep a comma at the end of the reserved byte.
We will use C51 pattern extraction later, so the A51 format can be ignored.

①Input the Chinese characters here, and then press Ctrl + Enter.
②The preview of the inputted Chinese characters is displayed in Location 2.
③Click on the C51 format on the left side for the pattern extraction.
④The corresponding hexadecimal data will be generated afterward.


Create a new font48CN.c file in the corresponding file directory:

Follow the example of font24CN.c file and add the corresponding data to the font48CN.c file:

Modify font.h file data:


Open the file EPD_2in13_V3_test.c and modify it to the demo shown in the figure:

The display effect is shown below:

TAG: Raspberry Pi OpenWrt Tutorial 2 CSI-to-HDMI Capacitive Touchscreen ESP32 3.5 inch Capacitive TouchScreen LCD Display ST7796 FT6336 320x480 For Arduino/Raspberry Pi/Pico ESP32 1.54 inch E-Paper Smart Watch display Screen 200x200 Ultra-low power For Arduino/Micropython/RTOS For Watchy Wiki Raspberry Pi 5 8mp Camera Raspberry Pi 2inch LCD MPS2.5G Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe to NVME SSD And 2.5G Ethernet RJ45 HAT RTL8125 2280 2242 2230 X1300 X1300-A2 Raspberry Pi 5 HDMI to CSI-2 Shield 1080P@60fps & Audio & Video Also Core3566104032 Code SpotPear Developer Kit DeepSeek ESP32-S3 Voice Chat Robot espHome XiaoZhi Ball ESP32 0.85inch LCD STM32 1.5inch LCD Raspberry Pi CM5 IO BASE A Mini Board a Base Development Platform Compute Module 5 IO Board ESP32-S3 Development Board 4 inch LCD TouchScreen Display 480x480 RS485 /SHT20 /Relay For Arduino LVGL 86 TVbox ESP32 Google Dinosaur game