Categories that can try to work with traditional Chinese characters

There are several ways to editing traditional Chinese characters from the original characters based on its specific structures, by editing the characters to form some unique, creative and modern characters to fits the market in Hong Kong.

1)Reduce the strokes of traditional Chinese characters
-As most of the original traditional characters are quite difficult to write or look complex. Hence, people tried to reduce the number of strokes by replacing some strokes with geometric shapes having similar shapes.Also, reducing the numbers of strokes made characters look simpler. It is different to English or other latin languages characters, as most strokes in traditional Chinese are straight line so it is easier to use some geometric shapes such as triangle, rectangle or square, etc to replace the strokes.

2)Change the writing order of strokes/writing direction

-As traditional Chinese characters are formed by different strokes, people tried to use other things to replace the strokes. Changing the strokes can make the character look more contemporary. The characters became more flat and not rounded comparing to the standard writing which look more friendly.

3)Classical Chinese characters/calligraphy -Because of the tradition beauty of the calligraphy, it makes the character looks more familiar and more legible. It looks more like a pictogram rather than a word.

4)Breaking down the characters into different sections/parts

-Due to the fact that traditional Chinese characters are formed by different radicals or strokes, therefore, some designers tried to separate the character into different radicals or strokes in order to make it unique. 

-However, it may looks messy once mixed the character into different parts so this categories may only suitable for brands that think the characters on their brands don't need to be readable.

5)Multi languages on the same design -A common combination is joining English and traditional Chinese characters as it showed the inter-connection on both languages, one from east and one from west. -So people usually join a stroke from English and a stroke from traditional Chinese character and then form a word either in English or traditional Chinese.