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Design consistency of the CN glyphs #29

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hfhchan opened this issue Apr 9, 2017 · 7 comments
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Design consistency of the CN glyphs #29

hfhchan opened this issue Apr 9, 2017 · 7 comments

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hfhchan commented Apr 9, 2017

In the separate CN glyphs produced by Sinotype, the 日 component is nearly consistently too long in the Light weight.

Below are examples of characters where the CN glyph (red) is overlaid with the JP glyph (white). Some of them have different glyphs for CN and some of them share the same glyph between CN and JP. When the glyphs are not shared, CN's 日 is usually too long.

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This leads to all other weights except Black being affected. The difference may seen subtle when characters are isolated but affects the rhythm of reading and causes whole blocks of text to look unbalanced.

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hfhchan commented Apr 9, 2017

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Some other examples with line drawn for illustration.

@hfhchan hfhchan changed the title Design consistency of the 日 component in the CN glyphs Design consistency of the CN glyphs Apr 10, 2017
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hfhchan commented Apr 10, 2017

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The CN glyph for U+4FFC looks like it belongs to a different font compared to the JP glyph.


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Simulated Adjustment to harmonize the glyphs.

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hfhchan commented Apr 10, 2017

The CN/TW glyph for U+500F has overly enlarged counters. JP glyph included for reference:

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Bottom is a simulated version where the counter of the top component is harmonized with other glyphs.

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hfhchan commented Apr 10, 2017

Moved from #27 (comment)

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The glyph for 夂 in the CN glyph is so wide compared to JP that it looks awkward and out of place compared to other characters in SHSerif.

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hfhchan commented Apr 10, 2017

Moved from #27 (comment)

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The glyph for 夊 in the TW glyphs are horribly wide compared to JP that it looks awkward and out of place compared to other characters in SHSerif. The top two dots are also too far apart in the CN/TW version of U+5914. The stroke thickness of the CN/TW version is also too thin comapred to the JP/KR version.

@kenlunde kenlunde self-assigned this Apr 11, 2017
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hfhchan commented Apr 11, 2017

(comment removed for posting to wrong issue)

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Consolidated with Issue #36.

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