https://www.scmp.com/rss/330484/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Last December, Sotheby’s Hong Kong announced the launch of its inaugural Puer tea online auction with 20-plus lots, spanning from century-old antiques to modern day tipples. The highest bid of US$71,600 (HK$562,500) went to a 1950 Blue Label tea cake weighing around 330 grams – a lot celebrated not just for its antiquity, but because it is from a rare batch made during the municipalisation of tea production in China. One of the oldest forms of tea, Puer is a variety of fermented black tea... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3177579/why-old-chinese-tea-can-be-worth-more-wine-or-whisky?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3177579/why-old-chinese-tea-can-be-worth-more-wine-or-whisky?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 May 2022 08:00:17 +0000 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