Quick case – ALIBABA HEALTH FONT
ALIBABA HEALTH FONT
Alibaba opens its braille phonetic font library to the public free of charge to make health design more accessible
Brief Description
The font library developed by Alibaba Health, the group’s digital healthcare and pharmaceutical e-commerce business, supports inputting Braille with Pinyin, the official romanization system for standard Mandarin Chinese. And they made it open source for more people to use.
Why is it significant?
This initiative aims to make it easier for the general public to include Braille in packaging design and artistic creation. There are about 17.31 million visually impaired people in China.