We’re doing everything we can to fight racism, but will it ever be enough?
I hope I delivered those words in a very virtuous font.
But judging by a new CNN op-ed, I may not have.
The article begins with a test:
Here’s a thought experiment: Close your eyes and imagine the font you’d use to depict the word “Chinese.”
So how’d it look? Did you envision an alphabet rife with “the swingy, wedge-shaped strokes you’ve seen on restaurant signs, menus, take-away boxes and kung-fu movie posters?”
If so, well,
That type of writing — the piece poses — has been a “typographical shortcut for ‘Asianness.'”