East Asian typography

His system used ceramic materials; clay type printing continued to be practiced in China until the Qing dynasty (1644–1912).

This method produced characters that were clearer and more closely resembled calligraphic glyphs, and it allowed the types to be made in smaller sizes without reducing quality.

[5][6] In 1869, on his way back to the United States, Gamble stopped over in Japan, where he introduced the electrotype method to Motogi Shōzō [ja].

[4] Starting in the 1960s, the state-owned Shanghai Printing Technology and Research Institute (SPTRI) developed new typefaces for simplified characters in the four primary type families: Fangsong (or "Imitation Song"), sans-serif Gothic, Ming, and Kaiti.

Ming typefaces (Mincho in Japanese; also known as Song when used with simplified Chinese[9]) are characterized by contrasting vertical and horizontal strokes.

Small triangles called uroko (鱗 'fish scales') are nestled into the stroke, and are analogous to serifs in Latin script type.

Fangsong is a class of regular script typeface, and the standard used in official documents produced by the Chinese government,[11] and civil drawings in both China and Taiwan.