Chinese Designers please help! 2424 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 12 months ago | Thread started: Feb 5, 10, 2:54 a.m.

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• Evin

  Hi Guys,

  I am looking for a Chinese font similar to Gotham or Helvetica. Can anyone advise me on a very clean Simplified Chinese font...

  Thanks a million

  Feb 5, 10, 2:54 a.m. – Permalink

• Evin

  As a side note, does anyone know of a resource/article explaining kerning, leading and general Type rules for Chinese characters?

  • It's tough with Chinese characters– MisterMonk

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 10, 3:01 a.m. – Permalink

• typist

  http://www.linotype.com/110207/d…

  • I was just looking into this as I'm working on a project with Chinese. You can go to DynacomWare's website and buy these for $25 USD.
    – transmission

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 10, 3:14 a.m. – Permalink

• Evin

  Anyone else lads? Im in dire need of a decent font....

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1 a.m. – Permalink

• mydo

  free ones?

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:27 a.m. – Permalink

• mydo

  http://www.fontcool.cn/

  • you promote pirate font in qbn?– typist1/2

    just helping someone google dude.– mydo2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:27 a.m. – Permalink

• mydo

  http://www.sj00.com/soft/2/

  • that's not free, those are pirate copy fonts– typist1/2

    seen any good dvd's recently?– mydo2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:27 a.m. – Permalink

• typist

  http://www.foundertype.com/shows…

  • nice! download links seem broken :(– mydo

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:28 a.m. – Permalink

• Evin

  Real fonts actually. I can buy/torrent them I suppose.

  Basically a very nice clean font that will work with Gotham or Helvetica or some other clean san serif Roman font.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:29 a.m. – Permalink

• mydo

  more!
  http://www.jscode.cn/font/
  http://www.homefont.cn/

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:37 a.m. – Permalink

• typist

  http://store.penpowerchinese.com…

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:38 a.m. – Permalink

• Evin

  Thanks a million, I am based in China but dont read Chinese so its a real pain in the arse. ( I dont have Chinese clients though so it doesnt usually effect me)

  I dont want to be ungrateful here but if there is anyone out there that can reccomend one font that comes in a variety of strenghts that will go with gotham/helvetica. Its just that I cant really navigate my way around these sites...it id be a major help :)

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:40 a.m. – Permalink

• mydo

  http://www.dafont.com/shanghai.f… ?

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:44 a.m. – Permalink

• Evin

  hahahaha...great I think I might change my personal logo and use that Shanghai font....very subtle indeed

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:45 a.m. – Permalink

• typist

  this is it
  http://www.linotype.com/110533/d…

  • is there any other options you know of? i can't think i've seen any font in more than two weights.– mydo1/2

    five weights max for chinese text type– typist2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:48 a.m. – Permalink

• mydo

  i don't think you'll find anything better than typists first link. You could maybe find it for free though if you felt like breaking some copyright laws in China.

  where are you anyways?

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 1:50 a.m. – Permalink

• typist

  @mydo

  you can look into monotype, they have the best text chinese typeface

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 2:04 a.m. – Permalink

• mydo

  nice. monotype seem oddly set up though. they tell you to buy their fonts from http://www.faces.co.uk, where none of their fonts are available.

  right, off to noodle bull.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 2:23 a.m. – Permalink

• Evin

  Im in Shanghai. Its for a business card so Id rather not be breaking laws.

  Ah, Noodle Bull, was next to my old office on Julu lu...

  • jululu?! i was on xinlelu! i worked at MADA s.p.a.m.!– nadanada

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 4:38 a.m. – Permalink

• Alu

  Hi Evin, I'm in Hangzhou, not far from you - I have my own British design company here. How long you been in SH?

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 6:55 a.m. – Permalink

• mydo

  Hello Alu, I think i've heard about you.... do you know Enora? Welcome to QBN!

  

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  Dog-earFeb 8, 10, 7:04 a.m. – Permalink