Inspired to post this based on the typography article just posted. It's one of the most interesting design articles I've ever read, and I still find myself thinking about it every so often, even...
Inspired to post this based on the typography article just posted. It's one of the most interesting design articles I've ever read, and I still find myself thinking about it every so often, even though I'm not into typography at all. As a native English speaker who uses a set alphabet, it had never occured to me before this article the difficulties in creating new fonts for a language like Mandarin.
The default set for English-language fonts contains about 230 glyphs. A font that covers all of the Latin scripts—that’s over 100 languages plus extra symbols—contains 840 glyphs, according to Březina. The simplified version of Chinese, used primarily in mainland China, requires nearly 7,000 glyphs. For traditional Chinese, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the number of glyphs is 13,053.
You might enjoy this video on how the Chinese computer keyboard was developed. Goes through the history and challenges faced because of those thousands upon thousands of glyphs....
You might enjoy this video on how the Chinese computer keyboard was developed. Goes through the history and challenges faced because of those thousands upon thousands of glyphs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBDwXipHykQ
It's really funny to me, as someone who grew up in the west speaking both English and Chinese fluently, that I never thought about this either. I studied traditional characters (standard for my...
It's really funny to me, as someone who grew up in the west speaking both English and Chinese fluently, that I never thought about this either. I studied traditional characters (standard for my motherland of Taiwan) and I always hated how much I had to memorize.
Now I kinda wanna look up what the Lorem Ipsum in Chinese.
Inspired to post this based on the typography article just posted. It's one of the most interesting design articles I've ever read, and I still find myself thinking about it every so often, even though I'm not into typography at all. As a native English speaker who uses a set alphabet, it had never occured to me before this article the difficulties in creating new fonts for a language like Mandarin.
You might enjoy this video on how the Chinese computer keyboard was developed. Goes through the history and challenges faced because of those thousands upon thousands of glyphs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBDwXipHykQ
It's really funny to me, as someone who grew up in the west speaking both English and Chinese fluently, that I never thought about this either. I studied traditional characters (standard for my motherland of Taiwan) and I always hated how much I had to memorize.
Now I kinda wanna look up what the Lorem Ipsum in Chinese.