For each Chinese character, designers had to make 256 separate decisions, one for each potential pixel in the bitmap. (A bitmap is a way of storing images digitally—whether as a JPEG, GIF, BMP ...

Much of that development took place in Shanghai and the surrounding cities. The exhibition brings together materials from the Shanghai Research Institute of Printing Technology and the Shanghai Font ...

Google Fonts, the company's archive of free, open source fonts, lists more than 800 typographic designs. But Noto Serif CJK, which the company unveiled today, is unique in its utility. It looks ...

Cheng said China needs new font design talents, and he worries that strict regulation will put off young designers who have a passion for font design. But the biggest issue with Chinese font design, ...

Unlike fonts for the Latin alphabet, traditional Chinese font sets are laborious to design because they include thousands of characters with complex strokes.

“Mandarin, originally known as Chinese, is the granddaddy of ‘chop suey’ types,” Shaw wrote in the design magazine, Print. “Neither the food nor the fonts bear any real relation to true ...

Have you ever wondered how the champions in League of Legends would sign their names in Chinese? Probably not. I haven’t either, but one Chinese LOL fan and graphic designer named Ye Xiaojing ...

While Gridmaster may have been a simple program, the task that it would be used to accomplish—creating digital bitmaps of thousands of Chinese characters—posed profound design challenges.