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. Film type versions named Peking are shown
by Filmotype [1966
catalog] and by Photoscript. [Photoscript 1968] Shown by Solotype as Hong Kong, with a stencil
variant named Beijing. [Solo 1992]
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 (both by Brendel,
1994), 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
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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. Film type versions named Peking are shown by Filmotype [1966 catalog] and by Photoscript. [Photoscript 1968] Shown by Solotype as Hong Kong, with a stencil variant named Beijing. [Solo 1992]
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 (both by Brendel, 1994), 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.
