Creation of China Daily's Tibetan-style font
The Tibetan-style English font used in the headline of infographics introducing Tibet autonomous region. [Photo/China Daily]
The "China Daily Tibet font" was created as a collaboration between China Daily and Founder Font, Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd at the end of 2015.
Fusing elements of the Tibetan script with English letters, it was specially launched by China Daily's layout design center for the newspaper's report of the 50th anniversary of Tibet autonomous region.
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The Tibetan-style English font used in the headline of infographics introducing Tibet autonomous region. [Photo/China Daily]
With the guidance of Tian Chi, deputy design director of China Daily's layout design center, the font was chiefly designed by Yang Liu at the design center.
It took over three months to design and develop the font, which required technical support from Founder Font of Beijing Founder Electronics.
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Tibetan people use a bamboo pen to write Tibetan from left to right. The horizontal strokes of each Tibetan character have an acute angle towards its right side, while the vertical stroke of each Tibetan character looks thicker in upper half than lower half. Besides, the end of the vertical stroke of each character is stretched downward. Compared with Chinese characters, the overall look of Tibetan characters is longer, narrower around the middle and expanded. [Photo/China Daily]
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Initial drafts of the Tibetan-style English font. [Photo/China Daily]
The design is further improved so the English letters look more like Tibetan letters. [Photo/China Daily]
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The change of the English letters was standardized as all rounded angles were replaced with sharp angles and the angle of inclination of the numbers were adjusted as well. The amendment was made based upon advice offered by Qiu Yin, design director of Founder Font, Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. [Photo/China Daily]
The finalized draft of the China Daily Tibet font, which was already formally released thanks to Founder Font. [Photo/China Daily]
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The finalized draft of the China Daily Tibet font, which was already formally released thanks to Founder Font. [Photo/China Daily]