I put together a list of links for you to find, explore and learn more about Chinese fonts, and of course some free fonts as well. They deserve to be. You need a team of people to draw a font of thousands of characters without a way to short-cut the design work.
Of course, there are other kind of categories, but I think these 6 are the most relevant to start. Figma lists Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Noto fonts in shorthand. Usually based on Sans Serif but with rounded edges. Youll need to update the font style in Figma to match: Image showing the solid. Though the characters are related to each other.Īnother kind of Chinese fonts are the Yuanti, the Chinese counterpart of rounded fonts in the western design sphere. They also reduced the number of characters used in common writing by using the same characters for different words.ĭue to this change in the writing style of Chinese characters, it’s important for you to remember that many mainland Chinese cannot read traditional characters and people for, for example Hong Kong, can’t read simplified. This was done by reducing the amount of strokes or elements in each character to make them easier to write. Firstly, they invented Pinyin which is a phonetic interpretation of mandarin that uses the roman alphabet, additionally they also simplified the Chinese characters, hence the name simplified. In the 50’s and 60’ the communist party of China wanted to reform the Chinese writing system.
The difference between them is the usage of Simplified and Traditional Chinese. This includes Mainland China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. There are several different countries in the world that use Chinese Characters.
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