![]() ![]() Who doesn’t like looking at pretty things? Because Nothing’s That Easy: Traditional vs. ![]() Many of those languages, though they've evolved into something unique and distinct, still include Chinese characters today. As far as anyone knows, Chinese is the world’s oldest in-use writing system, and most of the major East Asian written languages are kind of like GitHub forks of written Chinese. That might be you someday, no?įrom a learner’s perspective, Chinese typography is just flat-out cool. Why You Should Careįrom a practical perspective, I’m getting an increasing number of calls from web and graphic designers who are being asked to produce Chinese-language versions of printed and digital materials. How many glyphs are there in a Chinese font type set? Does Chinese have “serifs” and “sans-serifs”? What is the Helvetica of the Chinese font world? We’ll answer all these questions and more as we cannonball into the deep end of East Asian and Chinese typography.
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