Many variations of this style of font have been created by typeface designers since its inception.
The first commercial typeface of this style was patented in 1883 by the Cleveland Type Foundry, under the name "Chinese", which became "Mandarin" in the 1950s. In modern times, they are sometimes viewed as culturally insensitive or offensive. Styled to mimic the brush strokes used in Chinese characters, wonton fonts often convey a sense of Orientalism. An early use of a wonton font ("Japanese Tea Gardens") in signage for the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893.Ī wonton font (also known as Chinese, chopstick, chop suey, or kung-fu) is a mimicry typeface with a visual style intended to express an Asian or Chinese aesthetic.
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