https://www.scmp.com/rss/330482/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Designing a font from scratch is incredibly time-consuming. It takes a couple of months to produce a complete Western font set with just over 500 glyphs. For Chinese typefaces, which have over 13,000 characters, it can take up to four years. At least, that’s how long it took to develop Jinxuan, the world’s first crowd-funded traditional Chinese typeface. Jinxuan is the brainchild of Justfont, a typography company in Taipei that specializes in traditional Chinese characters, which are still used... https://www.scmp.com/culture/these-guys-spent-4-years-making-chinese-font-tea-leaves/article/3000199?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/these-guys-spent-4-years-making-chinese-font-tea-leaves/article/3000199?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:45:22 +0000