Inspired by an old matchbook which read: "Chop Suey: Finest Chinese and American Cooking". Chop Chop recreates that matchbook printed feel with soft rounded edges on what one would normally expect to be a sharp and pointy typeface.

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One of the many Solotype experiments in developing fonts with an ethnic flavor, this one is a bit less obvious than most. The lowercase seems to work well.

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Meloriac is a pseudo-retro, unicase display font. An obvious tribute to Futura Ultra-Mega-Freakin’-Black and Avant Garde Heavy Heavy Heavy Heavy; Meloriac is ideal for tight headlines and logos. Squish! When we say tight kerning, we mean disco-slacks-tight 1970s kerning . . . track it wider on subheadings. Japanese katakana letters are included so you can grace your designs with pretentious new rave slash J-pop flair.

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Musashi BB is a loose, ink brush-like typeface with all-caps lowercase and enlarged caps uppercase. Named after the legendary Japanese swordsman and author of the Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi. This font contains a samurai-sized compliment of European characters.

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Kanjur was inspired by a page from an 18th century Buddhist book. Used for block text at first glance it has a very striking resemblance to Asian lettering. It is an English reading caps only font with minimal characters ( A-Z 0-9 & £ $ ¢ ! ? , . ).

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As you'll find, these fonts weren't really meant for actual type and document uses. This font was designed with the idea of supplying elements for art and designs.

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Miyama is a faux-Asian display font. The font includes both upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation.

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Hayate (ha-ya-teh) is a pseudohistorical, faux Asian font commissioned for a WWII Pacific Air War videogame.

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Another design inspired by Chinese characters, but with a somewhat less obvious treatment than many.

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Mustang is a powerfully expressive brush font that combines an edgy urban aesthetic with a smooth feminine flow. Some have suggested that Mustang is romantic. Some say it has something to do with speed or freedom. While precisely what Mustang expresses is up to debate, there’s no doubt that it’s expressing it with intensity.

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When I was in high school, I would wreck my notebooks with multiple layers of graffiti tags, which would start in the margins, and then creep in to cover the entire page. I developed a sensibility towards a very fast, expressive use of my hand, which later easily and naturally translated into brush. I used this style typographically on several projects throughout the years, and even turned it into a signature illustration style. Recently, by repeating letters hundreds of times each with brush on paper, this ad-hoc brush style became Streetbrush.

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Designed by the famous English (type designer) Eric Gill, it was created specially for the Silver Jubilee Wedding Anniversary announcement of George VI and Queen Mary.

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A marvelous idea for a font inspired by the stenciled lettering on imported merchandise containers. Chinese Rocks looks like it was made by a hand cut rubber stamp, used about a million times. Uneven line thickness and odd stem widths combined with sharp corners give the effect of having been cut out with a box knife in a hurry. It ain't pretty but it sure gets the message across.

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Experimental lettering Stephen Rapp created in 1999 became the spark that Stephen’s imagination transformed into the Tai Chi design. Tai Chi is a display face but it could also be used as a textured calligraphic script. Its delightful sense of movement distinguishes it from other scripts. Individual characters stand poised in a vertical Zen-like balance while at the same time displaying an inner rhythm that makes them appear to dance along the line. Rich in texture and variation, Tai Chi works very well at medium and large point sizes. The font contains several alternate letters that help maintain a hand-lettered look. Tai Chi includes both upper and lowercase letters but works well in all uppercase settings.

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Kasuga Brush is a contemporary script with eastern influence and authentic brush drawn character.

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Jesus Saves is a font designed by Harry Warren based on the familiar old logo that has “JESUS” hidden within a maze-like set of multi-branched vertical bars.

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Art of Japanese Calligraphy is a Kanji font. This is a collaboration with experienced calligrapher, Shigeru Nomura. Developed directly from the hand-written Kanji (Japanese/Chinese Characters).

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For headlines, text, or anything inbetween; a beautiful readable face with just a touch of the Far East.

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Wide sans serif display fonts are nothing new. The reductive qualities of recent sans serif types aren’t much newer. But how far can a design trend go before running out of steam? Steam power was the last thing Typodermic principal Ray Larabie had in mind when creating Ohitashi. Humanistic stroke contrast combined with organic licks and curls set off by incised detail save this font from the cul de sac endorsed by reductive rivals. Three weight—regular, semi-bold and bold—give Ohitashi practical range.

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Kasuga, Japanese for spring day, is a contemporary script with eastern influence.

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Freak was originally released by The Great Western Type Foundry in 1889.

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Nagomi is a Japanese-style font based on calligraphy by Chikako Suzuki from Nagoya, Japan. In addition to Latin 1 languages, Nagomi contains Japanese katakana and hiragana characters.

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Jade Monkey was inspired by the standard Chinese menu lettering and then taken to the next level.

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Japoneh is a dynamic font set in all bold heavy brushed characters. It practically jumps off the page with the action of these fluid strokes!

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Even the original founder, Barnhart Bros. & Spindler, thought this was a freaky font, and indeed they called it “Freak” when they introduced it in 1889.

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CS are the initials of Carsten Strinkau, a young German graphic and type designer who studied in Hamburg.

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Okaycat proudly presents Little Japan, our new dingbats font full of traditional Japanese icons.

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ALS Tongyin is a bit rough and square-built with a pronounced oriental touch (Chinese word “tongyin” means “bronze molding”).

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Fong Shay Noon JNL is a non-traditional approach to an Oriental-styled font as there are some letter forms with curves and others with straight lines.

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From an early 20th century sign painter’s copy book.

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The entire Headquarters Building of Active Image Comicraft has been ripped from the ground by a giant lizard monster which has unexpectedly risen from the sea! It has the power of bodily transformation! By merely willing it, it can transform its atomic structure into any form and shape. It is completely hostile. It regards our entire island nation as its enemy.

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Chaweng is a coastal region on Ko Samui, an island in the Gulf of Thailand, about 20 miles off the mainland. The design of Chaweng is based on some ‘Latinese’ characters Peter Rosenfeld detected while celebrating Chinese New Years Eve with people from Thailand and China on the beach of Chaweng. Ralph M. Unger took on the idea and developed a completely new typeface, very beautiful, very ‘Latinese’. Chaweng obviously shows some of the typical characteristics of Chinese ideograms, still keeping a high level of legibility. To add something really special, Unger digitized the Chinese signs of the zodiac which change annually, on the occasion of the Chinese New Years Eve.

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Designed by Ernst Lauschke in 1888 and issued by Barnhart Bros. & Spindler foundry in Chicago under the name Dormer.

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BluHead Studio LLC is pleased to announce the release of Churchward Chinatype by New Zealand typeface designer Joseph Churchward.

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Both Hermes DTC and Imperial DTC font families are strongly influenced by Schnebel`s work on Latin characters to fit Japanese Kanjis.

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Geisha Holiday is an urban font with a unique look. The letters express slightly the formalized strokes of kanji characters but the overall tone is relaxation.

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Parabrite arrives as a vision of the future. The future is brite - Parabrite - this is unavoidable now. The composition of Parabrite is found to be based on a set of technical behaviors defined from a set of four sub-glyphs and their interactions, similar to the make up of our D.N.A. (A,C,G,T). Likewise, Parabrite’s block matrix is composed of four units (S,L,I,C). These units are only allowed to group together according to predefined set of mathematical rules, and affect each other symbiotically. The smallcase letters stand five feathers high, while the capitals add an extra two feathers width.

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Linotype Tiger is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the entries of the Linotype-sponsored International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. This fun font was created by German designers G. Jakob and J. Meißner. Like the font Linotype Sunburst, Linotype Tiger is also a typeface without curves, rather, angular and almost aggressive. The forms are reminiscent of splinters of wood arranged to form letters, numerals and punctuation signs. The font contains five weights which can be combined experimentally with each other, even over each other, or combined with more neutral typefaces. With its energetic character, Linotype Tiger is genearlly suitable exclusively for headlines with point sizes of 18 or larger, although the weight Linotype Tiger Tame can also be used for shorter texts.

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