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 ...

It’s worth noting that, in 1930s America, some Chinese immigrants themselves used chop suey fonts on their restaurant signs, menus, and advertisements, as a way to heighten the exotic appeal of ...

Demand for Chinese fonts has steadily increased as the number of Internet users in China increases, and in the cloud funding that JustFont did when creating a new font, against the target of ...

To achieve comparable, bare-minimum legibility for Chinese characters, the 5-by-7 grid was far too small. When designing a bitmap font for Chinese, engineers had no choice but to increase the size ...

Hanzi Modern: The Past, Present, and Future of Chinese Fonts will be held from Aug. 16 to Sept. 28 on the B1 level of Zikawei Library, 158 Caoxi North Rd., Shanghai. The exhibition is free to members ...

Everyone knows how to change fonts in Microsoft Word, right? You select your text, then click the Font pull-down menu, scroll to the one you want, and then click it. Just one thing: If you have a ...

At the advent of computing and word processing in the West, engineers and designers determined that a low-resolution digital font for English could be built upon a 5-by-7 bitmap grid—requiring ...