I noticed that many Chinese sites e.g. from Huawei use Serif fonts for certain elements where this is very uncommon for US sites. Does anyone else notice this? Is it because it’s not noticeable when text is written in symbols?
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Interesting, I never knew what that strange monospaced font was
I knew what it was called but never made the connection that Chinese characters are (nearly) square, so a monospace western typeface would work better than a proportional one when mixing the two, especially vertically.
And the serifs would seem to fill the square space better than san-serifs. Especially narrow characters like I and lowercase L.
Thank you. I have noticed this for years but never understood why.
Correct, and I came to a similar albeit much less rigorously researched conclusion in, for example, this review.
Is that you, AvE?
No, as it turns out I’m not a COVID denier. I know how to open a box correctly, too.
If anything, I’m more of a Big Clive.
Haha, fair enough. I parted ways with AvE when he went all in on the Canadian Convoy.
CJK (East Asian) fonts include Latin characters, but they’re often an afterthought (or placeholders from the font design template). You may just be seeing these placeholder characters that are part of the site’s main CJK font.
Font as font. What’s wrong with it?
Oh so you hate waffles?
What?
Oh so you hate waffles?
What?
Something being wrong was entirely your invention. Don’t pretend that people said things when they didn’t.
