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Never allow typesetters to use fake bold type: although applications like MS Word and even Adobe InDesign can produce such type using a crude algorithm, the characters look positively dreadful, and many Chinese characters actually become unrecognisable and thereby illegible because they get more or less 'clogged up' in the process.
Fake bold Chinese characters | Real bold Chinese characters |
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Enlarged from a 600 dpi scan made of an actual Brill publication which was itself produced using a 600 dpi POD process. The right-hand character (originally typeset using PMingLiU, and artificially 'bolded') is illegible. | From a screen dump made in MS Word and downsampled to the same 600 dpi resolution as the scan in the fake bold sample. Font: STZhongsong. |
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