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    Hi,

    I'd be grateful if someone could suggest a Chinese typeface (or typefaces – I need both Traditional and Simplified) to pair with the regular weight of Helvetica.

    Many thanks in advance,

    Paul
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    • Posts: 58
      Dalton Maag Aktiv Grotesk Chinese
      https://www.daltonmaag.com/library/aktiv-grotesk-chinese-japanese
    • Posts: 6
      Thank you.

      P
    • Posts: 739
      That is funny
    • Posts: 1,433
      Would would you use, David? :)
    • Posts: 40
      Malcolm, is Aktiv Grotesk Chinese a renamed version of an existing chinese typeface or a new design?
    • Posts: 1,747
      edited May 2015
      Perhaps David is amused by the irony that Aktiv Grotesk was specifically developed and marketed as an alternative to Helvetica.
    • Posts: 209
      edited May 2015
      Goran, iirc it is renamed (and I think scaled etc. to fit Aktiv G) – they partneered with a chinese foundry.
    • Posts: 14
      More information on the collaboration here:

      http://blog.daltonmaag.com/dalton-maag-and-arphic-technologies-collaborate-on-latin-chinese-japanese-font-matching/
    • Posts: 13
      How about XinGothic?

      http://en.justfont.com/fontdetail/44
    • Posts: 739
      edited May 2015
      I don't remember typing that.

      Mr. Simonson is close! It's funny 'peculiar', to me at least, because so many default (Latin) fonts have been made weight-compatible with he. reg. and by and by so many default fonts for Chinese have come to be weight compatible with he. reg. one'd think this wasn't a problem to find, but rather that some other issues that have arisen from the helvetization of non-Latin would be. Which brings me the funny 'ha-ha' part, of my thinking I didn't think I typed, which is that one seeking a unique appearance in such a Latin and Chinese stylistic pairing is, perhaps, in my opinion, though this particular user might only be seeking a license and no more, in for a steep climb.
    • Posts: 22
      I recommend Source Han Sans, just for the sake of weight matching (and also the fact that it was basically a modified Kozuka Gothic).

      XinGothic could also work; I’m just concerned it’s too expensive.

      And for you, Mr. Berlow, Apple Watch’s Chinese typeface is still STHeiti with its characteristically unnecessary stroke weight compensation – the same as OS X and iOS 8.
    • Posts: 739
      "...[Apple OS etc. ...] with its characteristically unnecessary stroke weight compensation –"

      ...sounds like someone else's words. Typophile will open soon enough, and that thread can be finished.
    • Posts: 269
      We in China often use:
      • Foundertype You Hei (方正悠黑)
      • Hanyi Qi Hei (汉仪旗黑)

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