As for me one of the most interesting and inspirational events of this ICOGRADA congress was an exhibition of the best fonts of Chinese Type Design Competition. I’m sure that even people who are not got used to Chinese characters can appreciate the beauty of this fonts and find inspiration there. And I feel that basic rules and principles are the same for Latin and Chinese type design.
To showcase the font designers use chosen poem with all different characters. They do not make all existing characters for the competition. Well, this is not just 26 letters of alphabet and obviously would take one person years and years to design font with thousands of characters. Usually this is a project for a design team.
Well, this are just a few fonts I liked. But much more images you may find at Flickr set.
Tags: Beijing, China, competition, exhibition, hanzi, ICOGRADA, type design, typography
December 4th, 2009 at 22:16
beautiful! i’m in love with fingerprint typeface. is it readable?
December 4th, 2009 at 22:23
hardly=) may be only if you know the meaning, know what character it is supposed to be. but I need to ask Chinese, check for legibility. This is a big question.