{"id":2420,"date":"2012-07-04T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2012-09-04T23:20:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T04:20:03","slug":"malaysian-made-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/07\/04\/malaysian-made-fonts","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Made Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking to get some text going and have been paying attention to fonts lately. I was curious to see if I could find Malaysian made\/designed fonts &amp; typefaces. Here are a few resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/luc.devroye.org\/malaysia.html\">Type design in Malaysia<\/a> by Luc Devroye. Brilliant list, very complete. This is the best resource out there from what I gather.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linotype.com\/3234\/ongchongwah.html\">Ong Chong Wah<\/a> is a pretty famous designer. His <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bookman_(typeface)\"><em>Bookman Old Style<\/em>\u00a0typeface<\/a> was even included in Office.<\/li>\n<li>MyFonts has a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/country\/my\/\">Malaysian Typographic People<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Found some interesting work. Conceptual work with things like &#8220;bra-fonts&#8221;. 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