Designers are racing to digitize Hong Kong’s disappearing street typography
U.S. · TECH
July 20, 20223 min read554 words
Published: July 20, 2022  |  3 min read554 words
By Design and architecture reporterPublished July 20, 2022Prior to 1997, nearly all road signs in Hong Kong were . The job entailed cutting Chinese characters by hand, in the absence of an available font for the approximately 13,000 glyphs in the Chinese language.That all changed...
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Fascinating look at developing digital fonts, especially this one based on Chinese prison fonts that use old and modern styling with Chinese characters. The history of this font is interesting and worthy of preservation. This article is worth the time.
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