No. From the website you linked: > Unless you’re an American well-versed in typography, tofu will be no more than little squares of bean curd to you, but in f

No. From the website you linked: > Unless you’re an American well-versed in typography, tofu will be no more than little squares of bean curd to you, but in fact it’s a plague that’s affected designers ever since type went digital. Tofu are in fact the little outlined boxes that appear when a character can’t be rendered on screen, usually because nobody has found the time to create a design for the Unicode. I still see tofu for emoticons in text sometimes. (Digital) tofu - not being able to see the characters/emoticon intended - is what is gross.