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Xuan Zhang

Xuan Zhang is a type designer at Hanyi Fonts. He is a graduate in graphic design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Zhang joined Hanyi Fonts in 2014, and so far has taken charge of non-Chinese design and has customized type projects for Hanyi.

At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Xuan Zhang, Huaijing Leng and Shensheng Wen propose a parametric type design model for the Chinese script. The abstract of their talk: The Chinese script, as an ideographic writing system, is used by a large proportion of the world's population. Over the centuries, its large character set has been the biggest issue facing type makers. In this presentation, different historical methods of production of Chinese type will be covered. ATypI Antwerp is the right moment to introduce the latest progress on a parameterized design model for Chinese. Various methods of Chinese type casting have been attempted. This talk will therefore consist of three main parts: 1) Designing with Components: the Six Writing theory of Chinese classification illustrates the simple logic behind the complicated shapes of Chinese characters, which gives out the possibility of speeding up the type casting process, either in physical form or in digital type; 2) Designing with Handwriting: Research on handwriting recognition and auto-generation will be mentioned, though it is not a main workflow; 3) Designing with a Parametric Model (Prototype): Inspired by MetaFont, but developed into a practical production stage with detailed control methods for the Chinese character skeleton, strokes, and structural-adjustment algorithm.

Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo.

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