![]() ![]() So guess who were the first to practice font cancel culture? The Nazi party then embraced Fraktur - it was even used on the cover of Adolf Hitler's manifesto, "Mein Kampf" - before suddenly banning the font in 1941 and categorizing it as Judenlettern ("Jewish letters"). German books were printed in this gothic-style font, despite being hard to read. ![]() In 19th-century Germany, using a calligraphic blackletter typeface called Fraktur was considered as an expression of nationalism. It's easy to not be obsessed by this font concern if you are not a woke SJW looking for reasons to be offended.īut can a font, in itself, truly be racist? Critics believe that using chop suey typefaces is downright racist, particularly when deployed by non-Asian creators. It's hard not to cringe at the Chinese stereotypes bundled up with each font package - specially when seen through the lens of today's heightened vigilance toward discrimination and systemic racism. Is there also a variation on the font known as "Fang Fang?" Perhaps Congressman Eric Swalwell knows the answer to this. Variations on the font are commercially distributed as Wonton, Peking, Buddha, Ginko, Jing Jing, Kanban, Shanghai, China Doll, Fantan, Martial Arts, Rice Bowl, Sunamy, Karate, Chow Fun, Chu Ching San JNL, Ching Chang and Chang Chang. Type designers in the West have since cooked up many of their own versions of chop suey. But this has not prevented the proliferation of chop suey lettering and its close identification with Chinese culture outside of China." "Neither the food nor the fonts bear any real relation to true Chinese cuisine or calligraphy. ![]() "Mandarin, originally known as Chinese, is the granddaddy of 'chop suey' types," Shaw wrote in the design magazine, Print. Apparently there are other fonts out there that offend the sensibilities of the ridiculously woke. "Typochondriac" Anne Quito made the case at CNN.com, doomed to be subject to mockery, last Thursday in "Karate, Wonton, Chow Fun: The end of 'chop suey' fonts." And not just "chop suey" fonts. Yes, did you know that certain fonts can be racist? You just know this is something that will ultimately be satirized at the Babylon Bee but at CNN it is no joke. ![]()
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