Together, Heiti and Songti are the two leading modern Chinese typefaces. It is also starkly different from the more delicate Songti, or “Song Dynasty-style” typeface preferred by Chinese printers for books, newspapers, and other forms of literature for centuries. Literally “black-style,” Heiti is the dominant family of digital fonts in use on Chinese phones and computers around the world. This type of Chinese font is known as Heiti.
At first glance, their component strokes seem to have a consistent thickness reminiscent of Latin Sans Serif typefaces like Helvetica. Turn on your mobile phone, set the system language to “Chinese,” and watch as the interface instantly converts to Chinese text.
