[Typography] The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font

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85,568 characters. One has to have infinite patience in order to design a balanced font with that many characters.

Quartz offers a great post on fonts here, including a brief history and the painstaking methods used to make a proper Chinese font.

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