After sketching out a style with the approaches above, the next step is to make sure that all the visual parameters are consistent, which may include: color, concentration, balance, tension, visual center, contrast, details and overall impression lockup, etc. 1. Color The “color” here refers to overall proportion of the…

There is never only one approach to create a bilingual lettering. Depending on the design object and design intent, solutions can be completely different. Existing type genres can be paired or brand new styles can be created to match each other. The most important thing to keep in mind throughout…

The differences of contour, density and form between Latin & Kanji In Latin script, a word is composed with alphabets arranged from left to right. The contour of a word can be viewed as a horizontal rectangular shape. Most strokes go vertically than horizontally with similar thickness. The negative spaces…

I started a series of Latin-Kanji pairing studies “Bilingual Lettering” in 2016 and built a website for this project. After running the website for 4 years, I decided to move the content to Medium. About the project “Bilingual Lettering” project is a series of Latin-Kanji pairing studies for use in…