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Creation of China Daily's Tibetan-style Font

The "China Daily Tibet font" was created as a collaboration between China Daily and Founder Font, Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd at the end of 2015.

Fusing elements of the Tibetan script with English letters, it was specially launched by China Daily's layout design center for the newspaper's report of the 50th anniversary of Tibet autonomous region.

With the guidance of Tian Chi, deputy design director of China Daily's layout design center, the font was chiefly designed by Yang Liu at the design center.

It took over three months to design and develop the font, which required technical support from Founder Font of Beijing Founder Electronics.

Tibetan people use a bamboo pen to write Tibetan from left to right. The horizontal strokes of each Tibetan character have an acute angle towards its right side, while the vertical stroke of each Tibetan character looks thicker in upper half than lower half. Besides, the end of the vertical stroke of each character is stretched downward. Compared with Chinese characters, the overall look of Tibetan characters is longer, narrower around the middle and expanded.