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I came here just to talk about how much Chinese and Korean fonts are not nearly as uniform as Japanese. Go into a 7-11 in China or Korea, and the prices are oft

I came here just to talk about how much Chinese and Korean fonts are not nearly as uniform as Japanese. Go into a 7-11 in China or Korea, and the prices are often written by hand. In Japan, they're the same printed font everywhere. In China and Korea, there may be those "On Sale! Only 5 yuan this week!" kind of add-on signs with different colors and fonts/sizes. In Japan, it's just the item name and price, black and white, one size. As a foreign traveler, Japan makes everything uniform and easy; even if things are different (and they often are) they're very approachable. China and Korea do not have the same approachable-ness for a random Westerner.

Morgawr 5y ago
> Go into a 7-11 in China or Korea, and the prices are often written by hand. In Japan, they're the same printed font everywhere. Definitely not. I don't know if you live in Japan or not but the stuff I see walking around my neighborhood has plenty of stylized, varied, and even handwritten fonts and signs. EDIT: Here's an example picture from google maps of a random corner (the first one I found, didn't have to look much): https://upload.i.ng/file/interpolatesdisarrangesocioeconomic/image.png https://upload.i.ng/file/interpolatesdisarrangesocioeconomic...