![]() Traditional character sets have been known to run to 30,000 or higher. That includes the English alphabet, English and Chinese punctuation, and a big ol’ dictionary of Chinese characters. Oh, many pardons-did I not drop that bomb already? Despite simplification, professional simplified Chinese fonts must include a glyph count approximately 20,000 strong, sometimes a few thousand more, sometimes a few thousand less. And that doesn’t even take multiple font weights (thicknesses) into account. Think about what all that history means for font foundries: to release a pro Chinese typography font, they not only have to create a character set of at least around 20,000 characters, they have to do it twice: once for Simplified and once for Traditional. Incorporated into languages which forked off Chinese before the simplification, like Japanese, Korean, and retro Vietnamese.Ĭon-fu-sing! Hallelujah, It’s Raining Glyphs.In extremely formal usage in Mainland China, like official place names or titles.On antique documents written in Mainland China prior to 1954.In Chinatowns established outside of China. ![]()
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