Talk:East Asian Gothic typeface

message: I heard that Japanese name 'Gothic' is rooted to a word 'Alternative Gothic'. The word was used by Benton, I also heard. Kzhr 11:17, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hei (黑, Black) is in contrast to Bai (白, White), another way of describing serif faces. For "Gothic", see all the "Grotesque" stuff. --Artoria2e5 contrib 06:07, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of word

message: This page should probably be changed to reflect the Chinese and Korean contents. How about "CJK gothic typeface", or is there a better idea? DannyWilde 05:26, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of page and language categories

message: What is the difference between "MS PGothic" and "MS UI Gothic"? --84.61.62.65 13:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: MS UI Gothic is more narrowly spaced than PGothic, and is used in the Windows user interface.--Ryoske 07:21, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "MS PGothic" and "MS UI Gothic" 

message: Since I cannot find the Graphicat (my original source that is at least 20 years old) in HK any more, I will be quoting instead from the English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications ():
:“Early gothics are better known as Black letters. Contemporary gothics are plain, sans serif type-face [sic] with lines of unvarying thickness. [My emphasis]” (p.138).
This confirms the usage of the word "Gothic" as a synonym of “sans-serif” as being tradional also in Chinese typesetting.–Gniw (Wing) 18:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  C in CJK 

message: Considering Gothic is stated as another way of saying sans-serif, and like the Latin-based sans-serif fonts, use unified stroke width and designed to be readable at small font sizes, it will be a logical arrangement to catergorize it as sans-serif. Besides, the title 'Japanese gothic typeface' really isn't just about Japanese characters and fonts, and the main sans-serif article is short anyway. - Jacob Poon 18:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging into sans-serif

message: As noted above under category: typography, "Contrary to what the article might say, Gothic is not a typeface, but a whole category of typefaces." I am going through and fixing this. Thomas Phinney (talk) 12:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Next time be bold and just do it.Asoer (talk) 12:22, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Gothic is not "a typeface"

message: When were these invented?  When did they become popular? -- Beland (talk) 04:47, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: There are three columns in that picture: Korean, Kana, Kanji. The last column includes Chinese characters, but they are not Hanzi, they are Kanji. Japanese standardized forms are used. You can clearly see that the second stroke in 天 is longer than the first one, which is would be absolutely wrong in Chinese. Morever 玄 has five strokes in Chinese, but it's impossible to achieve that in Japanese because the stroke direction is different. Compare the Chinese and Japanese versions on Wiktionary: 天, 玄. Your browser may display the Chinese and Japanese characters with different fonts, but the gothic typeface is compatible with Chinese standardized forms. --2.246.16.88 (talk) 22:03, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Strong case of Dunning-Kruger here. The Chinese characters follow the Kangxi standard. Is that Chinese enough? But even if the Kangxi dictionary never existed, these characters have been written this way before. You're welcome to search around any 書法字典.71.219.50.221 (talk) 21:27, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Strong case of someone who likes to insult people online. You are mixing up calligraphy and rendering of characters on computer. This font goes against all traditions in calligraphy anyway, but that's not the problem here. Of course, these are Chinese characters, but it's rather a digital issue here. It's about if the font displayed here is Chinese. The creator of the photo clearly used only one gothic typeface for all three columns. So you cannot say the third one shows the "original Chinese". Chinese SimHei, Japanese Meiryo and Korean Gulim are all gothic typefaces, but they are different, they each correspond to their national standards. --2.245.161.112 (talk) 15:17, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is no Chinese in the picture.