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Now if we can get the Chinese factories to replace the nasty old serif font they use for every label…
by zadler 4y ago
Now if we can get the Chinese factories to replace the nasty old serif font they use for every label…
- formerly_proven 4y agoI always assumed that's Times New Roman.
- netsharc 4y agoI'm guessing it's because those were the shapes that were delivered for the Latin characters in one of the earliest CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) fonts, the MingLiU: https://www.pickafont.com/fonts/MingLiU.html https://www.pickafont.com/fonts/MingLiU.html I guess us westerners see it a lot because it was much simpler for the manufacturers to just use 1 font file for all the different locales of the gadgets (either the cheapo MP3-player, or the label printer). It was even there on Windows 3.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_fonts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_fonts