Peking is based on Chop Suey, a
faux-Asian alphabet by Ross F. George shown in a Speedball
Lettering catalog from 1935 [Fili & Heller via Devroye], with added
lowercase. A film type version is shown by Filmotype and in
Photoscript’s catalog from 1968. Shown in the Solotype catalog as
Hong Kong.
OPTI Peking (Castcraft, 1990–1991, used for sample)
is a digital interpretation. There are various freebie copies of
mixed quality including Orient 1 (A&L / Computer
Support Corporation, 1996), China One (1997),
Konfuzius and Taipeh (Brendel),
Rickshaw (Fantazia), and Bonzai
(anonymous). See also Sunamy (Intellecta Design, 2007,
with faux small More…
Peking is based on Chop Suey, a faux-Asian alphabet by Ross F. George shown in a Speedball Lettering catalog from 1935 [Fili & Heller via Devroye], with added lowercase. A film type version is shown by Filmotype and in Photoscript’s catalog from 1968. Shown in the Solotype catalog as Hong Kong.
OPTI Peking (Castcraft, 1990–1991, used for sample) is a digital interpretation. There are various freebie copies of mixed quality including Orient 1 (A&L / Computer Support Corporation, 1996), China One (1997), Konfuzius and Taipeh (Brendel), Rickshaw (Fantazia), and Bonzai (anonymous). See also Sunamy (Intellecta Design, 2007, with faux small caps and bold and shadow variants. China Doll JNL (Jeff Levine, 2011) is a different commercial interpretation of Chop Suey with lowercase. Chinese Dragon (Vladimir Nikolic, 2019) is a contoured variant.
