Long story short, after Chairman Mao and the Communists came into power in 1949, Mao decided that he could raise national literacy rates by decreasing the complexity of the language. So he rounded up some linguists and they got busy. Wikipedia<\/a> tells us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe PRC issued its first round of official character simplifications in two documents, the first in 1956 and the second in 1964.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The thing is, Mao wasn\u2019t the boss of Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Macau at the time, so they never made the switch, instead keeping the original, traditional Chinese typography. There were also a bazillion Chinese immigrant communities and Chinatowns that had been established overseas before the new language was released; they also kept the traditional characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where Simplified Chinese font type characters are used:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where Traditional Chinese font type characters are used:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Con-fu-sing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Think about what all that history means for font foundries: to release a pro Chinese typography font, they not only have to create a character set of at least around 20,000 characters, they have to do it twice: once for Simplified and once for Traditional. And that doesn\u2019t even take multiple font weights<\/em> (thicknesses) into account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, many pardons\u2014did I not drop that bomb already? Despite simplification, professional simplified Chinese fonts must include a glyph count approximately 20,000 strong, sometimes a few thousand more, sometimes a few thousand less. That includes the English alphabet, English and Chinese punctuation, and a big ol\u2019 dictionary of Chinese characters. Traditional character sets have been known to run to 30,000 or higher. Non-professional fonts will sometimes squeak by with as few as 2,000 of the most common glyphs, but these shouldn’t be used for base body text, as you’ll inevitably run into a character you need but don’t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It doesn\u2019t. China\u2019s not on the Western language fonts are classified under a few major headings and a pantheon of minor ones. We have serif<\/em> and sans-serif<\/em>. We have blackletter<\/em>, script<\/em>, display<\/em>, slab<\/em>, monospace<\/em>, and a handful of other words that indicate a general typographic style. Though you can\u2019t really place every single font into either a serif or sans-serif category (some fonts, like hand-drawn scripts, don\u2019t really fit under either) these two words are probably the most commonly used font distinctions, bandied about even outside of the design industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this sense, popular Chinese fonts classifications are very similar to our own. In Chinese, the two most commonly used classifications are song ti<\/em> (<\/em>sounds like sawng tee)<\/em>, which you could think of as the Chinese serif, and hei ti<\/em> (<\/em>sounds like hey tee)<\/em>, similar to a sans-serif. The word \u201cti\u201d \u4f53 essentially means \u201cfont\u201d, so you can expect to see that word at the end of many font names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If one type of font had to be chosen to represent Chinese typography, it would be the font songti<\/em>. Early songti<\/em> scripts were in use as far back as the Song Dynasty<\/a> (960-1279 A.D.), when Chinese woodblock printing reached its golden age. Due to the grain of the wood in the woodblocks, which ran horizontally, horizontal lines were easy to produce and could be thinner, but vertical lines, which ran counter to the wood grain, were prone to breakage during carving, and had to be thicker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plus, because the end points of the horizontal lines were easily worn away, flourishes were added to make them thicker and longer-lasting. And so the font songti<\/em>, the Chinese serif typified by perfectly straight horizontal strokes, wider verticals, and classy but regimented flourishes, was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thin, straight horizontals, thick verticals, and flourishes\/\u201cserifs\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The font Zhongyi Songti<\/a> (\u4e2d\u6613\u5b8b\u4f53), better known by its English name SimSun<\/em>, and its predecessor, New Songti (NSimsun<\/em> – \u65b0\u5b8b\u4f53) is the Times New Roman of Simplified Chinese, made popular due to its out-of-the-box inclusion in Windows XP. The Simsun love affair continued until very recently: it was still the default Simplified Chinese input font in Windows 7. Ask a Chinese web designer what makes an interface look \u201cChinese\u201d, and you\u2019ll often get a chuckle and the answer, \u201cSimsun, 12pt\u201d\u2014that’s how ubiquitous this font has been until very recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s SimSun, the oh-so-utilitarian default Chinese songti <\/em>and a good font for Chinese characters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note the classic songti <\/em>thick verticals and straight, thin horizontals in FZCuSong<\/a>, created by famous Chinese foundry FangZheng<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A good example of Chinese modern fonts is the one made by Hong Kong-based typography savant Julius Hui<\/a>. He was commissioned to create the Chinese typeface for the New York Times prior to the launch of its Chinese language site. He chose an ultra-sharp songti <\/em>with endpoints which stylistically match the NYT\u2019s existing logo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n So meta: a songti <\/em>calligraphy book from the 1950s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A songti font was used on the founding seal of the People\u2019s Republic of China for the 1954 signing of the constitution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s another application of Chinese modern fonts: a songti<\/em> font for the featured article title at the bottom of the May 2009 cover of Chinese Marie Claire magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This condensed font in songti<\/em> style appears on a wall plaque. The top line reads, \u201cQuotes from Chairman Mao\u201d, and below, \u201cWe should modestly, cautiously, avoiding pride, avoiding hot-temperedness, serve the Chinese people heart and soul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other major classification for popular Chinese fonts is the heiti<\/em>, which could loosely be translated as \u201csans-serif\u201d. Heiti<\/em> fonts are a relatively modern invention. The exact history of heiti<\/em> is heavily disputed by scholars, but we see it emerge in the commercial press around the early 1900s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Blocky structure, no flourishes<\/p>\n\n\n\n SimHei<\/a> was the standard sans-serif to SimSun\u2019s serif. In recent years, Microsoft Yahei<\/a> has started to replace SimHei as the preferred standard in web layouts, but there are still a couple of compatibility issues: MS YaHei was introduced in Windows Vista, but the number of machines still running XP in China\u2014even now\u2014would blow your mind, so while everyone’s still pretty tired of looking at SimHei, it’s not quite safe to give it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s your basic SimHei in a good font for Chinese characters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the upstart heiti<\/em>, Microsoft Yahei, which I\u2019ve (probably hyperbolically) been calling the Chinese Helvetica, and it’s a fine Chinese typography font:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source Han Sans<\/a> is a lovely heiti<\/em> released by Adobe in 2014, in partnership with Google. You\u2019ll notice the endpoints don\u2019t splay the way they do in SimHei:<\/p>\n\n\n\n An early example of heiti<\/em> used as a title font in a 1913 newspaper\u2014as you can see, it’s a good font for Chinese characters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Noto Sans<\/a> Simplified Chinese is part of Google\u2019s universal language project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently my favorite heiti<\/em> is Yuehei<\/a> by Makefont:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shanghei<\/a>, another excellent\u2014and much more stylized\u2014Chinese modern font by Makefont:<\/p>\n\n\n\n An italicized, design-y heiti <\/em>on a gorgeous package of spearmint gum (traditional Chinese characters) from the 1960s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A kaiti<\/em> font mimics basic brush script lettering\u2014you might loosely translate this as \u201cregular brush\u201d. But a kaiti<\/em> is not a novelty font\u2014it never gets overly flowery, and it\u2019s still constructed within certain parameters and maintains an upright structure. Here\u2019s Adobe Kaiti Standard<\/a>, which comes bundled with Photoshop and some other Adobe products:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Horizontals can be angled; soft, blobbier terminals and natural stroke widths<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we\u2019re going to get crazy accurate here, kai<\/em> doesn\u2019t just mean \u201cbrush script\u201d. It\u2019s actually one of the more clearly written ancient Chinese calligraphy script styles, emerging somewhere between 151\u2013230 AD. There are other calligraphic styles that appear in modern font names, like caoshuti<\/em> (cursive script), lishuti<\/em> (scribe script), and xingshuti<\/em> (running script), but those fonts are much fancier and more stylized, and you see them less in basic typography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to dig into Chinese calligraphy styles, check out this gorgeous letterpress History of Chinese Characters<\/a> project by one of my favorite modern typographers, Archer Zuo<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kaiti <\/em>does have a web standard version for simplified Chinese, simply called \u201cKaiti\u201d (or Biao Kaiti), so yes, you can use a basic kaiti <\/em>in web layouts. I wouldn\u2019t recommend this at small sizes, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Modern kaiti fonts are inspired by calligraphic styles like this kaiti <\/em>poem called \u201cPassing through Duchang County\u201d by Song Dynasty calligrapher Su Dongpo (1037-1101AD):<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this bureaucratic record from around 1300 AD:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kindle Kaiti Bold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And FZKai:<\/p>\n\n\n\n All of the large lettering in this 1925 newspaper is kaiti<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fangsongti<\/em> is a hybrid style, mixing the structure of a font in songti<\/em> style with the hand-lettered visual influence of a kaiti<\/em>. The untrained eye will have a tough time telling the difference between a fangsongti<\/em> and a songti<\/em> at first, but here\u2019s a quick trick for telling them apart: the horizontal lines in a classic songti<\/em> are perfectly straight, whereas in a fangsongti<\/em>, they\u2019re tilted. Plus, the fangsongti<\/em> doesn\u2019t go quite so big with the endpoint flourishes, and the stroke widths don\u2019t vary as much as they can in a songti<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Horizontal lines angled, usually lighter flourishes<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s FangZheng\u2019s take on fangsong<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another big rival foundry, Hanyi<\/a> does a sharper approach in Hanyi Fangsong<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A custom \u201cflyaway\u201d fangsong <\/em>typeface made by this guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an old manuscript:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s another popular Chinese font style. In English, we\u2019d call meishuti <\/em>a \u201cdisplay font\u201d. These are highly stylized font faces that might range from silly to historical to novelty\u2014the word meishu<\/em> actually just means \u201cartistic\u201d, so this covers a great range of lettering types. There are no web standard meishuti<\/em> fonts. To use these online, you\u2019d need to use SVG or PNG methods, or employ extremely experimental Asian font embedding formats like Youziku. Here\u2019s Dingding Hand<\/em>, some swirly-whirl nonsense from Makefont:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s some custom meishuti<\/em> on camera packaging from the 1970s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yuanti<\/em> are typically a sub-class of heiti<\/em> (sans-serif). It\u2019s more of a search tag than a font type\u2014the Chinese word yuan<\/em> means \u201cround\u201d, and that\u2019s exactly what these are: sans-serif fonts with soft curves at the corners. Yuanti is popular in modern corporate collateral and advertising. There are no web-standard fonts here either.\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you may have already surmised, Chinese font names are often prefixed with the name of the foundry. Fonts that begin with \u201cHY\u201d are made by Han Yi<\/a>. Fonts that begin with \u201cFZ\u201d are made by Fangzheng<\/a>. Fonts beginning with \u201cMF\u201d are the work of Makefont<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And yes, they are way, way more expensive than English fonts (and they should be\u2014did I mention 20,000 glyphs already?) But all is not lost: some foundries provide demo versions of the font for personal use with limited character sets, so if you just want to play around, make a logo, or style headings or titles, you should be able to do that with demo fonts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chinese characters are designed on a rigidly square grid, and well-designed characters sit evenly within a square space. Even Chinese punctuation marks typically take up a full square of space, and there\u2019s no need to add additional spaces after periods or commas. I could get into spacing for years, but suffice to say, the square is the basic building block of the written language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not gonna diss your nerd cred: you probably know enough about manga to know that Asian languages can be read right-to-left, up-to-down. These days, in most situations, Chinese text is read left-to-right, same as English. But because of that whole built-on-a-square thing, Chinese works a lot better rendered up-to-down in vertical lines. This means that in arty contexts where blocks of texts are short (book covers, logos, signage) it\u2019s ok to get pretty creative in terms of how you lay out characters without losing too much readability\u2014as long as there\u2019s some semblance of a word order, it can probably be read. For basic reading, however, left-to-right, top-to-bottom (like English) is standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a language with no spaces, how do you know when one word starts and another word begins? And if the text can be written in any direction, how do you know where to begin reading? I\u2019ve been learning Chinese<\/a> for many years now, and oddly, I can\u2019t answer that question. There came a point in my studies where the cadence of the language fell into place, and I didn\u2019t notice the lack of spaces anymore. And apparently, neither does anyone else:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2008, researchers published a study<\/a> in which they looked at the effects of adding word spacing to Chinese on the reading abilities of Tianjin Normal University students. They tried placing spaces between each character and between groups of characters, and concluded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c… the results of the present experiments indicated that inserting spaces between words (or highlighting word boundaries) did not facilitate reading Chinese, at least beyond the level observed for normal unspaced text.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The lack of spacing has several interesting ramifications in terms of typesetting, most notably the fact that there\u2019s no word hyphenation in Chinese\u2014typesetters must know where one word or concept ends and the next one begins in order to line-break properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s put it together, shall we? I have some primo Chinese typography design work here, starting with this poster<\/a> by Tan Ho from Macau. The design consists of four characters, read from top to bottom, illustrating a popular Chinese saying: \u5929\u5929\u5411\u4e0a<\/strong>. \u5929\u5929\u5411\u4e0a literally translates into \u201cevery day upwards\u201d, or \u201cto make an effort to improve oneself on a daily basis\u201d. You\u2019ll see that Tan has turned the characters into arrows pointing towards the sky and surrounded each letter with clouds to illustrate the meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This stunner was created by More Tong<\/a> from Shanghai. This single image contains two characters, broken apart. The characters are \u975e\u5e38, the Chinese name for ad agency Anomaly<\/a>. He actually broke apart the word \u975e and placed each half on either side of the word \u5e38 – can you see it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This poem visualization by Liam Lee<\/a>, Beijing-based typographer, is layered with meaning. He effortlessly weaves the essence of the characters, the words of the poem, the vibe of the poem, and the character visuals together into a storied piece of art. This is read up-down, right-left. Notice how you can find traces of \u201ctrees\u201d, \u201cpeaks\u201d, and \u201crhythm\u201d hidden among the lines and characters, and how the \u201cboundless ocean\u201d breaks the \u201cbounds\u201d of the square character, flowing across the two lines (right column, eighth character down).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this much-shared series<\/a>, designer Mr. Mz creates visual representations of famous people\u2019s names. This one is the Chinese name of Zhang Fei<\/a> \u5f20\u98de, a military general who\u2019s often depicted in popular fiction with a bristling black beard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This work for Disney, done by Ding Yi, the founder of Makefont, was lauded for another reason: the brand identity for Alice In Wonderland was well-preserved across linguistic mediums:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The custom Kong (empty) typeface<\/a>, by Kevin He in Singapore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chinese characters for New York, \u7ebd\u7ea6, turned into a visualization of the Empire State Building \u7ebd next to a hot dog \u7ea6, by Shangchin Ding<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shanghai\u2019s Wang 2Mu<\/a> illustrates another Chinese phrase, \u9006\u6d41\u800c\u4e0a , meaning \u201cto go against the current\u201d (via creative blog NEOCHA<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neat, yeah? Now that you can pick a songti<\/em> out of a lineup, you\u2019re all set to do some further digging into Chinese typography by taking a gander at all the killer Pinterest pins<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here concludes this complete beginner\u2019s guide to Chinese fonts. If you’d like to explore more resources, here we’ve compiled a selection for you. And don’t forget to visit Envato Elements’ huge library of Chinese-inspired fonts<\/a> for your digital projects!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Hallelujah, It\u2019s Raining Glyphs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m Sorry, Did You Say 20,000?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
How Does That Work With @font-face and Web Fonts?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
@font-face<\/code> boat at all\u2014they\u2019re still stuck with their original browser standard fonts and PNG\/SVG for special type. Because Chinese font files contain so many glyphs, they usually run from about 3\u20137 MB per font weight, a size which defies web embedding (and which partially explains why Flash maintained its popularity here for so long). Only recently have some extremely experimental technologies emerged for Chinese non-standard webfont rendering, like Youziku<\/a> and Justfont<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Yoziku\"](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/youziku1.png\")
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Major Classifications of Popular Chinese Fonts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Songti (<\/strong>\u5b8b\u4f53)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWeb Standards<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Font Songti Examples<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
![\"SimSum\"](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/simsun.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"CuSong\"](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/fzcusong.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"NYT](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nyt-tops.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"NYT](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nyt-3.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"songti](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/songti-calligraphy-50s.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"songti-seal\"](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/songti-seal.jpg\")
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"condensed](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/songti-mao-quote.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHeiti (<\/strong>\u9ed1\u4f53)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![\"Heiti](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/heiti.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWeb Standards<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Heiti Examples<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
![\"basic](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/simhei.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Microsoft](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ms-yahei.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Source](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/source-han-sans.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"early](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/heiti-early.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Noto](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/noto-sans-simplified.jpg\")
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Shanghei\"](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shanghei.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"package](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/spearmint-gum-1960s.jpg\")
Kaiti (<\/strong>\u6977\u4f53)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![\"kaiti\"](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kaiti.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nChinese Calligraphy Names in Fonts<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
![\"letterpress](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/history-chinese.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWeb Standards<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Kaiti Examples<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
![\"kaiti](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kaiti-poem.jpg\")
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"FZ](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/fzkaiti.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"newspaper](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kaiti-newspaper.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFangsongti (<\/strong>\u4eff\u5b8b\u4f53)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![\"Fangsongti\"](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Fangsongti.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFangsong Examples<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
![\"FangZheng\u2019s](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/fzfangsong.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Hanyi](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hanyi-fangsong.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"custom](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/fangsong-font-design.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"fangsong](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/fangsong-3.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMeishuti (<\/strong>\u7f8e\u672f\u4f53)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![\"Dingding](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/meishu-makefont.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"custom](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/meishuti-70s.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nYuanti (<\/strong>\u5706\u4f53)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![\"Yuanti](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/yuanzi.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nYou May Have Noticed: Font Name Prefixes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Yes, You Have to License Chinese Fonts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Some Structural Considerations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Squares Everywherez<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nUp, Down, Left, Right: Directionality<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Look Ma, No Spaces<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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A Gallery of Modern Typographic Design in Chinese<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Tan](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/tiantianxiangshang.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"More](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/fei-chang.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Liam](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/liamlee-349x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Chinese](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/zhangfei.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"work](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/preserving-brand-id.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"custom](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kong-typeface.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Chinese](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nue-yue.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"Wang](\"https:\/\/elements.envato.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/chengyu-neocha.jpg\")
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