Depends entirely on the font. Would you make that same claim about Dancing Script or Tangerine? Or without getting that extreme - what do you consider serif fon

Depends entirely on the font. Would you make that same claim about Dancing Script or Tangerine? Or without getting that extreme - what do you consider serif fonts to be? They emulate the tapir that writing by hand might have and are generally considered easier to read because of it. I use Meiryo for Chinese/Japanese scripts and everything is simple, geometric shapes with more or less constant thickness for lines [0]. There are 100+ radicals (the name given to often used "parts" of Chinese characters) and so there is a lot more variation than the 26 (52 including capitals) that Latin alphabets use. Korean hangul doesn't have this issue, because hangul is a wonderful, wonderful writing systems. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Meiryo_sample.svg/2000px-Meiryo_sample.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Me...