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862 points · 126 comments · MitPitt

  1. philjohn · · focus · HN ↗
    temu sans is beautifully on point
    1. Sharlin · · focus · HN ↗
      More subtle keming adjustments so that the font looks just slightly "off" would be great too.
      1. shmeeed · · focus · HN ↗
        >keming

        I saw what you did there

        1. tomsmeding · · focus · HN ↗
          It&#x27;s an existing joke: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;keming&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;keming&#x2F;
      2. Asterism · · focus · HN ↗
        Very dean and modem
      3. thenthenthen · · focus · HN ↗
        Love the Temu variation. You can just use a ‘Chinese’ font and type roman text as well. Most of these fonts use a fixed width for Chinese glyphs, as wel as for the western characters, so i,l,f etc all have ‘extra’ white space around them, resulting in the ‘Temu’ effect, it is absolutely everywhere here in China.
        1. tuetuopay · · focus · HN ↗
          Thanks, I always wondered why this was the case with latin text from CJK countries, as they use the same computers and software than the west, they should be able to do kerning right. I guess the original designers of those fonts are to blame for not making the latin characters &quot;properly&quot; monospace so that it still works.
          1. thenthenthen · · focus · HN ↗
            Can give the designers some slack, drawing 5000+ gliphs is not an easy task.
          2. Sharlin · · focus · HN ↗
            The latin part of CJK fonts is often some crappy Times clone that they throw in as an afterthought.
        2. deburo · · focus · HN ↗
          Ah, so that&#x27;s why. Do the big Chinese companies handle this well? Alibaba, perhaps? Huawei, surely? By owning the packaging and shipping?
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