An introduction to CJK fonts

The font studio Typotheque has released a new collection of CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) fonts.

And in doing so they also provided a wonderful overview of the challenges of designing font families for languages that may share similar characters but display them quite differently.

Here’s one visual which I particularly love:

You can read more here.

And here’s a fine overview of CJK typesetting.

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