When Roy Chan Ching-hin noticed how Hong Kong staples, namely bamboo theatres and dim sum trolleys, were slowly disappearing, he feared the city’s traditional Chinese characters and Cantonese ...

Currently, most of the characters that we see are not handwritten characters, but rather the typeface data that is printed on paper or displayed on the computer screenfont"is. There are many kinds of ...

Designer Kit Man want to create Kick Ass Type, a font set of 6,000 Traditional Chinese characters incorporating Cantonese words. He’s trying to crowdfund $650,000 for the project, which he describes ...

Adobe and Google today announced the launch of a new open-source font for Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) languages that covers 65,535 glyphs, making it one — if not the — largest font to cover ...

The story of Chinese characters begins with, of all things, turtle bellies. The kings of the Shang Dynasty—which ruled from the 16th to the 11th centuries BC—had questions. Questions about what the ...