Chinese Fonts
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- MrAbominable0
thanks, that's an easier price point for the project.
this thread is all sorts of win.
- typist0
low budget chinese fonts
- typist0
hei = sans serif
sung or ming = serif
- MrAbominable0
awesome. thanks for the rec', typist. It's a tad ::coff:: steep for a self project but looks pretty. i know zero about Asian type sets and there isn't any history on this M Hei HK trad set. Other than "trad" in the title can you tell me something of why this is period or more appropriate for my project.
also any suggestions more budget friendly will be gladly considered.
- typist0
mandarin all the way
and this type family is what you need
http://www.linotype.com/286813/M…let me know if you need a helping hand. : )
- MrAbominable0
cantonese/mandarin.
as a westerner, if i were to create a comic that that had a English/*Chinese bilingual component that wasn't specifically grounded in a north/south China setting: which language would have the widest/most appropriate appeal. [i'm couching this in the obvious disclaimer that i would have to dismiss some aspect of the culture.]
also, from a typography perspective, do either of you have any recommendations for a character set or sets that might be 1960s appropriate. A sort of Helvetica bent on the characters as it were?
- typist0
cantonese for hong kong and southern part of china
mandarin for northern part of china and taiwan
- MrAbominable0
that makes sense. thanks mydo.
if you were doing business in asia is there a form or dialect that benefits as a touchstone (lingua franca) or are things fairly culturally divided?
- mydo0
i don't think you derailed anything! printed chinese is kind of universal.
traditional chinese characters are used in honk kong, japan and taiwan (japan have 2 more alphabets). simplified chinese is used for the rest of china and where the chinese have spread through asia. Irrelevant of dialect or language the characters are the same. There are thousands of spoken dialects but few are written. When written they often use characters that have the same sound but different meaning. this is now common in modern slang, which means you can't translate chinese twitter unless you're fluent.spoken not written!
- MrAbominable0
don't mean to derail the thread from it's current ip ethical bent... but there are a handful of chinese dialects. do the characters/typeface differ between them or is printed chinese somewhat universal?
- ThePublics0
Which brings up another question, did chinese/japanese people have typewriters?
- ThePublics0
this thread brings up a really interesting question - how much typography is there in the non-latin-alphabet world?
I can't imagine much going on in Japanese/Chinese given the the number of characters. But Arabic seems quite active.
- Definitely seen some good Japanese stuff before. Probably more so than Arabicfresnobob
- yes but kanji? or hiragana?ThePublics
- Ambushstudio0
Much respect to Typist, I'm new around and the few times I've seen him interacting is only to help and spread the love for type.
I hereby name Typist man of the day.
- darrenlamb0
@Typist, Thanks man! Very nice of you.
- typist0
what is your email?
- darrenlamb0
I got one a couple of months ago and I honestly nearly run someone over every day!
- i saw a fat blonde lady on an orange vespa crash today. she wasn't hurt, was kinda funny.mydo
- mydo0
I just bought a motor bike. you should try that. you just ride around expecting everyone to walkout in front of you. it kinda works.
- are you honestly suggesting that you've paid for every font you've ever used?liveforever
- Who are you aiming that question at? I certainly haven't!darrenlamb
- mydoliveforever
- you obviously missed the IPR thread a few weeks ago.mydo
- darrenlamb0
Exactly...believe me...I am not having an effect by leading by example...i look both ways before crossing the road here and last time I checked people are still just blindly walking into the middle of the road with out so much as acknowledging that its there...which is actually something someone might explain to me...why the hell don't people look before crossing the road in this country!? Even mothers with babies just waltz into the middle of the road!
- mydo0
You could always lead by example... it's a bit like not swearing at a football match though.
- darrenlamb0
I absolutley agree with you man but you know how it is, clients dont give a shit about fonts...they are barely willing to pay for design, not to mind fonts...I mean I see your comparison to building a house but it doesnt really apply at all, theoretically yes but in the real world no.
Amicus, I agree with you too but, 500 is cheap for so many characters but again, try telling that to a client! As far as China goes, the motto of this country should be "if you can get away with it you should"...speaking of buildings...just wait until they start falling down...the trains are already crashing...when you cant beat them join them...free for all steal and rip off fest!