Type design in China
I found the results on the 4th Founder Award Competition in Chinese type design from Jongseong’s blog post on Typophile.
Mr. Akira Kobayashi of Linotype joined this competition as a jury last year, and he introduced it on his blog. Since I’d read it, I’ve been looking for the results of the competition.
The resultc of The 4TH “Founder Award” Competition on Chinese font Design and Poster Design
Some photos on Jury
The outline of the competition in English
The 4TH “Founder Award” Competition on Chinese font Design and Poster Design
I was surprised that some of winning designs have gray tone! It reminds me of a Sumi-e, means Ink-and-wash painting. Usually, we should design letters without gray scale tone for digital fonts, but if these design could be used for Flash movies or on monitors, designing letters without gray tone might be nonsense. It seems like these strokes with ink bleed and blur express time goes by. Indeed, we can use gray scale or color to make fonts using BitFonter.
You can also see the results of the past three competitions.
I’m always thinking about how I should design Latin characters when I saw Japanese characters. I enjoyed I imagined how I should design Latin characters looking at these winning designs.
I don’t know well the situation on Type design in neighboring countries China and Korea. Now Arabic type designs are very interesting. I hope I’ll be able to show you a topic on CJKV fonts and typography.
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