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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The Hunt for a Chinese Lorem Ipsum

October 7, 2015 by Jason Li

Lorem ipsum according to Wikipedia:

In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is a filler text commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation. Replacing meaningful content with placeholder text allows viewers to focus on graphic aspects such as font,…

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An icon font for Chinese provinces and East Asian countries

April 2, 2015 by Jason Li

From Haoyun Su:

Inspired by ProPublica’s StateFace, EyesAsia is a web font focusing on East Asia. In brief, you type a letter and get a mini map in return (open-sourced on Github). It includes the following shapes:

East Asian countries, such as Japan and…

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Featured Chinese typography: Fever Chu

March 24, 2015 by Jason Li

Endless Learning poster design for US & China Typographic Poster Exchange 2013.

More designs by the talented Fever Chu 朱安邦 on their Behance profile.

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Kendra Schaefer’s Field Guide to Implementing Chinese Fonts in CSS

September 5, 2014 by Jason Li

Beijing-based designer Kendra Schaefer has created an incredibly valuable resource in writing up: Chinese Standard Web Fonts: A Guide to CSS Font Family Declarations for Web Design in Simplified Chinese. While you’d best head to Kendra’s site for the full details, we’ve included some highlights below:

Good Rules for Using Chinese fonts in CSS

Use the Chinese…

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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)?

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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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Chinese fonts are really, really hard to make

The Hunt for a Chinese Lorem Ipsum

An icon font for Chinese provinces and East Asian countries

Featured Chinese typography: Fever Chu

Kendra Schaefer’s Field Guide to Implementing Chinese Fonts in CSS

Good Rules for Using Chinese fonts in CSS

Use the Chinese…

Calligraphic lettering on buildings old and new

Primer on Chinese typography