Tom Mullaney is a professor of Chinese history of Stanford University, a Guggenheim fellow, and the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress. He is the author or lead editor of six books, including The Chinese Typewriter, Your Computer is on Fire, and the forthcoming The Chinese Computer—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing. (Photo by Lydia Daniller.)
Chinese vector font research predates the personal computing revolution by several decades. Let’s have a look at some of the earliest solutions that were developed.
