Julius Hui’s eclectic Chinese typography Instagram stream

October 23, 2018 by Jason Li

Hong Kong-based typographer Julius Hui has recently started an Instagram account dedicated to Chinese type design with insightful and incisive bilingual commentary. Below we’ve captured our some of our favorites:

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Inspiration_Calligraphers in Qing dynasty are usually not recommended by scholars, they are always being criticised as ‘too rigid’ and ‘too robotic’.…

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Chinese fonts are really, really hard to make

April 8, 2016 by Jason Li

Nikhil Sonnad has penned a great primer on Chinese fonts on Quartz called The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font. Much of the article describes the lengths designers must go to in order to create Chinese font:

The default set for English-language fonts contains about 230 glyphs. A font that covers all of the…

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Primer on Chinese typography

April 7, 2011 by Jason Li

Excerpted from Quora:

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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Julius Hui’s eclectic Chinese typography Instagram stream

Chinese fonts are really, really hard to make

Primer on Chinese typography