Speaker Zhiqian Li
Li Zhiqian is a typography researcher, writer, translator, curator, and designer. Zhiqian is the research lead of Shanghai Type and contributor of TheType. In 2017, Zhiqian co-founded 3type, a typical and atypical type foundry based in Shanghai. Zhiqian is a distinguished research fellow at Type Lab in the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. Zhiqian is a featured speaker at TypePro, and also gave a speech about Chinese type history in an online TypeLab session about typographics in 2020.
Hanzi Cooker
Notions around Chinese type design tend to be elusive and lacking in sense. Inspired by Erik van Blokland’s TypeCooker project, we analyzed and located the crucial parameters in Chinese type design and created a TypeCooker for Hanzi or Chinese characters. Hanzi shares a few parameters with Latin: width, weight, contrast, and decorative parts. But to… Continue reading Hanzi Cooker