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April 4, 2017 10:21 am GMT
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Google's new font is a beautiful typeface for East Asian languages
Adobe and Google have partnered to launch the second leg of an open-source project which aims at providing a unified typeface for the 1.5 billion people in East Asia.
Adobe calls the new font Source Han Serif, while Google calls it Noto Serif CJK which stands for Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
The two companies worked with local foundries in China, Japan and Korea to design all the 65,535 glyphs in each of the seven weights, to make a staggering total of 458,745 glyphs. The average Latin script contains just dozens. Read more...
More about Korea, China, Japan, East Asia, and AdobeOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/bq-Oe8iWpQc/
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