chinese fonts?

I posted your question on a website forum I found in the web links that works with Chinese characters, dynalab.com., and this is the reply I received,

Hi George,

It is not true that changing the thickness of a line in a Chinese character will change the whole meaning of the character. In English, there are only 26 letters. In Chinese, you might have more than 20,000 characters. As a result, a foreigner might feel that many Chinese characters have the same looking except the thickness of some lines. Actually, there might be more than 100 type faces (fonts) of Chinese characters from a single font vendor. You could have a look on this sample page http://www.dynalab.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=3548&Lang=en-US which is showing the same sentence using various Chinese fonts. You could also see some more samples in the "Dyna Shop" web page http://www.dynalab.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=3866&Lang=en-US.

 

thanks!

 

Here's another link that was provided, they have some answers under Chinese FAQ:

http://zhongwen.com/