Calligraphic lettering on buildings old and new

May 7, 2012 by Jason Li

Spotted in Shenzhen on the west side of the Nanshan district.

Anyone know how the lettering is made (the old and new instances)?

Primer on Chinese typography

April 7, 2011 by Jason Li

From Dheera Venkatraman, Graduate student at MIT:

Since media is mentioned, I’m assuming this is more about modern typography. Traditionally there are a number of styles of writing, such as 篆書 (seal script), 隸書 (clerical script), 行書 (semi-cursive), 草書 (calligraphic/cursive). As for fonts in modern times, here are some…

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Typography Design

A Chinese font solution at last!?

August 12, 2010 by Jason Li

Neocha EDGE is running a feature on the Beijing-based studio Redesign, who are doing some excellent and elegant work in the Chinese fonts space. Their fonts have appeared in Pizza Hut ads as well as on the cover of Cosmo in China.

Each font for personal use costs…

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Typography Design

Japanese-Chinese typographic bending

May 11, 2010 by Jason Li

Long-time readers will know I have a particular fixation with Chinese typography, so even though the logos below are technically Japanese, many of the characters they’ve used are also Chinese characters.

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