Tomsima 1,257 Report post Posted January 30, 2018 I recently purchased a new font from foundertype, 方正硬笔行书, 简繁扩展(GBK), which has the character for 發 and its simplified form 发. My question relates to the designers choice for the written form of the traditional 發 (see image below). It appears he uses an alternative form as listed here, to the right of 发, www.914998.com:9813/ytz.php?id=a02720 using the components 业+丨+夂+、 All characters in this font that use 發 as a component also use this combination of components (except for 醱, which retains the standard traditional 癶+弓+殳). First question is, am I right in judging the character to be that listed at the website above. Second question is, why is this character chosen? Is this a common choice of 異體字 in cursive? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hofmann 682 Report post Posted January 30, 2018 1. Yes. 2. It's up to the type designer. 3. Adding that last dot is rather uncommon. Without it would more resemble the most common cursive variant, which features 冫 instead of 丨. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tomsima 1,257 Report post Posted January 30, 2018 Thanks for the helpful reply. I spent the last hour or so going through a frequency list of 3000 characters and found 3-4 more of these kinds of designer choices, actually really interesting. One I thought was particularly interesting was the choice of providing 膂, but no 呂 (perhaps as 吕 is already included), as well as 燬 (that is with 土 not 工 if your phone/computer isn't displaying the right character), no 毀 but does have 毁 (probably same reasoning as above). I also learnt of foundertype from an earlier post of yours, thanks @Hofmann Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites