Decolonizing Chinese fonts by probing the past
New article by Brian Ng in Rest of World (9/6/21):
"Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts
Julius Hui, who has done custom work for companies like Tencent, wants to radically rethink Chinese fonts."
I find this article to be curiously counterintuitive: Julius Hui, the font designer, wants to revolutionize Chinese typography by hearkening back to a time before modern (say, the last four or five hundred years) fonts for typesetting. That would be like telling designers of modern fonts for northern European languages to go back to the 4th-century pre-Gothic script of Ulfilas (or Wulfila) to develop a "revolutionary" new script for English or for designers of modern fonts for southern European languages to go back to the uncial majuscule script of roughly the same time period that was used for Greek and Latin.
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