More than 40 years ago, designers drew and edited thousands of characters by hand to make it possible to type and print in Chinese. Bruce Rosenblum switched on his Apple II, which rang out a high F ...

As a boy, Gary Yau would cruise around Hong Kong in the back seat of his parents’ car. What caught his eye was not a toy shop or playground, but road signs. After he got home, the four-year-old would ...

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 ...

I was in China a few weeks ago and, while there I purchased a program that (said it would) translate fbetween English and Chinese. However, I have one major problem - all the text displayed when the ...

Arphic Types, a leading font company based in Taiwan, joined the Morisawa Group in 2022. Its typefaces are widely used across Chinese-speaking regions. In 2024, Morisawa Fonts released 35 typeface ...

Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects — digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars. It's a company that doesn't shy away from ...

Chinese authorities are calling for companies to stop using weird fonts in books, posters, and packaging. The National Press and Publication Administration and the National Radio and Television ...