I have written more about Chinese fonts and character variations in this article:Ĭhinese character variants and fonts for language learners These differences are not because of simplified and traditional characters, that’s a completely different issue. However, there is a fairly large number of characters that look distinctly different depending on which font you use. Now, you might think that font choice is a matter of aesthetics, and you’d be mostly right. This is especially true if you’re going to handwrite characters you read from screen (including from most dictionaries).
If you are already literate in Chinese, which font you use to display characters on screen isn’t very important, but for second language learners, it can be very confusing if you use the wrong font (or if someone else is using the wrong font).
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