As we all know, Nothing dot fonts (Ndot55 & Ndot57) are ones of the iconic features of Nothing. However, Nothing dot cannot display Traditional Chinese and is replaced by another font. This is understandable because designing Chinese fonts is much more difficult than for other languages. But I still tried to design the Traditional Chinese version of Nothing dot, Ndot11 (Traditional Chinese).

The prototype of this font comes from the Traditional Chinese font used on the early iPod. This font surprised me when I first saw it because I thought it would be very difficult to display Chinese (especially Traditional Chinese) on a low-pixel screen. Yes, I admire Apple’s font designers for being able to do this.

↓Here are some practical application scenarios.

I’m not a professional font designer, so I didn’t create a practical font file for this font.

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4 months later

I want to ask what do you think about Ndot 77 JP Extended. It is announced as Japanese font but contains some Chinese and Korean glyphs (and so on)

You can see it at community-project channel in discord, download at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14yiPvYacgDMJj7Sh_-f22Pk7qf2HKaj-

or try at

https://memo.shibadogcap.com/wallpapermaker.html

I’m not familiar with Chinese, it may not be what you want…

    shibadogcap I have seen this font when Nothing released Ear and Ear a in Japan a while ago. This font which is follows the original Ndot77 ratio, which can maintain consistency with English fonts. However, the complexity of Chinese (especially traditional Chinese) is much higher than that of Japanese, so this font using a 7×7 ratio may not be practical. Some complex characters will be difficult to read or even impossible to produce.

    • SYL replied to this.
        5 months later
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        LEPE
        That’s possible if you only consider the font license (NdotJP’s license is the SIL Open Font License).

        However, the design of the English part of NdotJP is based on Nothing’s Ndot57. You may need to consider the license of the original Ndot.