[a FounderType specimen book from 2014 or 2015]

So sayeth Google Translate: “Founder Electronics is the earliest professional manufacturer engaged in the development of Chinese fonts in China, and is also the largest supplier of Chinese font products. It currently has 255 Chinese fonts, 84 ethnic fonts, 66 GBK fonts containing 21,003 Chinese characters, 15 GB18030-2000 fonts containing 27,533 Chinese characters, and 5 super-large fonts containing 70,244 Chinese characters. As an important part of the world-renowned Founder Chinese electronic publishing system, Founder fonts have always enjoyed a high reputation in the professional publishing and printing fields for their rich fonts, excellent quality, wide application, and ability to quickly meet customer needs.”

Now, that largely reads like a bunch of boring b.s. Sorry to make you read it. Here’s what we see: Tons and tons and tons of Chinese types. And some Arabic. But the part that’s most interesting to us are those pages that pair Chinese with a Latin counterpart. Very interesting. And even more so if you can read Chinese. Kāishǐ gōngzuò!