Font landscape: China

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Useful to investigate:

• the major foundries providing fonts
• the existing licensing terms for print, web, other (ebook, PDF, app)
• the range of typefaces available

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2020 Web Almanac results show China with the lowest median font size, 2.97kb. Likely for Latin fonts?

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FYI - I spent some time to do a test today and found that there are some Chinese websites using Web Fonts, although not many:

Website	Type	Using Web Font(s)?	Web Font Used	Test Page
sina.com.cn	Web portal	N	N/A	http://slide.news.sina.com.cn/slide_1_86058_529840.html#p=1
tmall.com	Online shopping	N	N/A	https://www.tmall.com/
qq.com	Web portal	N	N/A	https://www.qq.com/
sohu.com	Web portal	N	N/A	https://www.sohu.com/
taobao.com	Online shopping	N	N/A	https://www.taobao.com/
360.com	Information security	Y	Founder Lanting Black	https://www.360.com/
jd.com	Online shopping	N	N/A	https://www.jd.com/
weibo.com	Social networking service	N	N/A	https://weibo.com/
xinhuanet.com	Media	N	N/A	http://www.xinhuanet.com/
amazon.cn	Online shopping	N	N/A	https://www.amazon.cn/
zh.wikipedia.org	Online encyclopedia	N	N/A	https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E6%B3%A2%E7%BD%977%E5%8F%B7
cmbchina.com	Online banking	Y	Founder Lanting Black	https://www.cmbchina.com/
home.miui.com	Android ROM	Y	MI Lan Pro	https://home.miui.com/

(I only counted Chinese fonts, not Latin or icon fonts.)