Chinese Fonts
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- 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.
- 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
hei = sans serif
sung or ming = serif
- typist0
low budget chinese fonts
- 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.
- MrAbominable0
thanks, that's an easier price point for the project.
this thread is all sorts of win.
- 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
- ThePublics0
Which brings up another question, did chinese/japanese people have typewriters?
- Alu0
I'm also a western designer based in China, which city are you in?
- 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?
- 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!
- Alu0
give me a shout, I can throw some your way
- darrenlamb0
Any takers?
- typist0
MSungGoldHKS-Black 简宋金黑
- darrenlamb0
Thank you!
I know this is cheeky but do you happen to have that font by any chance?
- typist0
yes, i have
- mydo0
typist, i haven't seen you here for ages! nothing like a chinese font thread to bring you out of hiding!
I don't think there are plenty of bad fonts in china. There are about 10 - 20 distinct styles of fonts and their varying weights. You just gota design with them. They're also about 6MB each so best not to have too many!
- mydo0
Ah, and Alu.... You are James? our paths have crossed in this country before! didn't know you were on QBN.
- darrenlamb0
Would you mind sharing that particular family with me? It would be a great help...