This type of Chinese font is known as Heiti. Literally “black-style,” Heiti is the dominant family of digital fonts in use on Chinese phones and computers around the world. It is also starkly ...

This was “Gridmaster,” a program Bruce had cooked up in the programming language BASIC to build one of the world’s first Chinese digital fonts. He was developing the font for an experimental ...

Here’s a thought experiment: Close your eyes and imagine the font you’d use to depict the word “Chinese.” There’s a good chance you pictured letters made from the swingy, wedge-shaped ...

From Aug. 16 to Sept. 28, Sixth Tone will present Hanzi Modern: The Past, Present, and Future of Chinese Fonts, an exhibition dedicated to this history at the Zikawei Library in Shanghai. The ...

Prison Gothic font digitises Chinese characters on Hong Kong’s pre-1997 road signs, handmade by inmates “The font aims to infuse a rich cultural ambience into the landscape and atmosphere of ...