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  2. East Asian typography - Wikipedia

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    The characters 明朝体 'Ming dynasty form' set in the Zen Antique font. Ming typefaces (Mincho in Japanese; also known as Song when used with simplified Chinese [8]) are characterized by contrasting vertical and horizontal strokes. Small triangles called uroko (鱗 'fish scales') are nestled into the stroke, and are analogous to serifs in ...

  3. Movable type - Wikipedia

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    The typical example of this kind of bronze movable type embedded copper-block printing is a printed "check" of the Jin dynasty with two square holes for embedding two bronze movable-type characters, each selected from 1,000 different characters, such that each printed paper note has a different combination of markers.

  4. Chinese character IT - Wikipedia

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    The Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) is a 2-byte kernel version of Unicode with 2^16=65,536 code points for important characters of many languages. There are 27,522 characters in the CJKV (China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam) Ideographs Area, including all the simplified and traditional Chinese characters in GB2312 and Big5 traditional.

  5. Font - Wikipedia

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    The Open Type Andika font in a word-processor with two character variants selected. Typefaces may be made in variants for different uses. These may be issued as separate font files, or the different characters may be included in the same font file if the font is a modern format such as OpenType and the application used can support this. [45 ...

  6. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    The uppercase letter J: In Germany, this letter is often written with a long stroke to the left at the top. This is to distinguish it from the capital letter "I". The uppercase letter S: In Japan, this letter is often written with a single serif added to the end of the stroke. The uppercase letter Z: This letter is usually written with three ...

  7. Source Han Serif - Wikipedia

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    The font family includes seven font weights: ExtraLight 100, Light 200, Regular 300, Medium 400, SemiBold 500, Bold 700, and Heavy 900. The font contains 65,535 glyphs (the maximum possible in a TrueType font). Other changes from Source Han Sans v1.004 include: Removal of seven glyphs involved in combining jamo.

  8. Monotype typefaces - Wikipedia

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    The font has disappeared except for the matrices in the possession of various printers. Sample sheets of these fonts are particularly difficult to find and are lacking in many collections. A small number of American letter designs are added to the list, designated by "Am" and their number. American matrices differ from those in England.

  9. Open-source Unicode typefaces - Wikipedia

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    The Free UCS Outline Fonts [1] (also known as freefont) is a font collection project. The project was started by Primož Peterlin and is currently administered by Steve White. The project was started by Primož Peterlin and is currently administered by Steve White.