Writing and Printing

East Asian Gothic typeface

In East Asian typography, gothic typefaces or "black script" (simplified Chinese: 黑体; traditional Chinese: 黑體; pinyin: hēitǐ; Jyutping: haak1 tai2; Japanese: ゴシック体, romanized: goshikku-tai; Korean: 돋움, romanized: dodum, 고딕체 godik-che) are a style of typeface/font characterized by even thickness of strokes and lack of serif decorations, akin to sans serif styles in Western (Latin and Cyrillic) typography. The most prominent example of East Asian gothic typefaces is the one used for printing the Chinese family of scripts, which include Chinese characters and their borrowed relatives such as kanji, hanja and the radical-derived katakana. It is one of the four most commonly seen typeface styles used in modern written Chinese (along with the Song, Fangsong and regular typefaces) and is the standard Guobiao typeface used on road signs in China.

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