(this is an old post from 2021 that got caught in my drafts somehow)
Mike asked:
To which I suggested:
Not very helpful links, more of a thought-dump:
- Why does Chinese printing of Latin characters always use the same font? – writing fonts curiosity | Ask MetaFilter
- The Roman typefaces used in Chinese and Japanese text | Hacker News
First PostScript font: STSong (华文宋体) was released in 1991, making it the first PostScript font by a Chinese foundry [ref: Typekit blog — Pan-CJK Partner Profile: SinoType]. But STSong looks like Garamond(ish).
![A table of the latin characters @, A-Z, [, \, ], ^, _, `, a-z and { in STSong half-width latin, taken from fontforge](https://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenshot-from-2024-01-07-11-44-09.png)
Maybe source: GB 5007.1-85 24×24 Bitmap Font Set of Chinese Characters for Information Exchange. Originally from 1985, this is a more recent version: GB 5007.1-2010: Information technology—Chinese ideogram coded character set (basic set)—24 dot matrix font.
