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Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts - Rest of World

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Julius Hui, who has done custom work for companies like Tencent, wants to radically rethink Chinese fonts.

Courtesy of Ku MinCho Project. Graphic Design: TingAn Ho, Yi-Hsuan Li (Rebranding Lab, Taiwan) By Brian Ng 6 September 2021 In 2020, type designer Julius Hui flew back to his native Hong Kong. The previous year, he’d quit his “too comfortable and steady” job at Monotype, one of the world’s largest type foundries, and moved to Munich. Now, forced to head home by the pandemic after only six months, he found himself with little paid work, but finally able pursue a passion project that he’d been sitting on for more than six years: Ku Mincho, a radical rethinking of Chinese type. Hui, who previousl

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