{"id":16816,"date":"2024-01-07T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=16816"},"modified":"2024-01-07T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T17:04:43","slug":"that-chinese-instruction-manual-font%c2%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/07\/that-chinese-instruction-manual-font%c2%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c\u2026 that Chinese instruction manual font\u201d\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>(this is an old post from 2021 that got caught in my drafts somehow)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike asked:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@mhoye\/106551539252277918\/embed\" class=\"mastodon-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/embed.js\" async=\"async\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>To which I suggested:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pr-MOESongUN.png\" alt=\"English text in MOESongUN monospaced serif font&quot;\n&quot;You mean this one?\nThis is MOESongUN from Taiwan&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-16817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pr-MOESongUN.png 800w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pr-MOESongUN-320x55.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pr-MOESongUN-160x27.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pr-MOESongUN-768x132.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not very helpful links, more of a thought-dump:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/87263\/Why-does-Chinese-printing-of-Latin-characters-always-use-the-same-font\">Why does Chinese printing of Latin characters always use the same font? &#8211; writing fonts curiosity | Ask MetaFilter<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8555327\">The Roman typefaces used in Chinese and Japanese text | Hacker News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First PostScript font<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_CJK_fonts#Chinese\">STSong<\/a> (\u534e\u6587\u5b8b\u4f53) was released in 1991, making it the first PostScript font by a Chinese foundry [ref: Typekit blog \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.typekit.com\/2014\/09\/18\/pan-cjk-partner-profile-sinotype\/\">Pan-CJK Partner Profile: SinoType<\/a>]. But STSong looks like Garamond(ish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"877\" height=\"459\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-07-11-44-09.png\" alt=\"A table of the latin characters @, A-Z, [, \\, ], ^, _, `, a-z and { in STSong half-width latin, taken from fontforge\" class=\"wp-image-17488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-07-11-44-09.png 877w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-07-11-44-09-320x167.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-07-11-44-09-160x84.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-07-11-44-09-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Maybe<\/em> source<\/strong>: GB 5007.1-85 <em>24&#215;24 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_font#Bitmap_fonts\">Bitmap<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Font\">Font<\/a> Set of Chinese Characters for Information Exchange<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gb-t-5007.1-1985\/page\/n3\/mode\/2up\">Originally from 1985<\/a>, this is a more recent version: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/GB5007.1-2010\/\">GB 5007.1-2010: Information technology\u2014Chinese ideogram coded character set (basic set)\u201424 dot matrix font<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gb5007-1_halfwidthlatin-1024x331.jpg\" alt=\"half-width Latin text table from Chinese standard GB 5007.1-85\" class=\"wp-image-17492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gb5007-1_halfwidthlatin-1024x331.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gb5007-1_halfwidthlatin-320x104.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gb5007-1_halfwidthlatin-160x52.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gb5007-1_halfwidthlatin-768x248.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gb5007-1_halfwidthlatin.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(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: First PostScript font: STSong (\u534e\u6587\u5b8b\u4f53) was released in 1991, making it the first PostScript font by a Chinese foundry [ref: Typekit blog \u2014 Pan-CJK Partner Profile: SinoType]. 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