Wonton font

The Korean War Memorial in Veterans Memorial Park, Auburn, New York, uses wonton font to imitate brush strokes.
An early use of a wonton font ("Japanese Tea Gardens") in signage for the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893.

A wonton font (also known as Chinese, chopstick, chop suey, or kung-fu) is a mimicry typeface with a visual style intended to express an East Asian, or more specifically, Chinese typographic sense of aestheticism.

Styled to mimic the brush strokes used in Chinese characters, wonton fonts often convey a sense of Orientalism. In modern times, they are sometimes viewed by those in the East Asian diaspora as culturally insensitive or offensive.

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