I've compiled a few random screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/S5PyL<p>I've always wondered this. Sometimes the font is Times New Roman (perhaps a default in Chinese operating systems?) and sometimes it is this iconic font (https://i.imgur.com/2OX6RgY.png) that is not to be found in the west.<p>It is so prevalent that Shenzhen I/O, an assembly programming game used same fonts in their mock datasheets: https://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/10/10/shenzhen-io-manual/preview/page/30/
The font is SimSun. It is the default font in Windows XP simplified Chinese version and is ubiquitously used in China.<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中易宋体" rel="nofollow">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中易宋体</a>
I've wondered about this for years! Japanese tends to have similar class of fonts, e.g. plain/old school looking serif fonts. Metafilter seems to have pretty good answers [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://ask.metafilter.com/87263/Why-does-Chinese-printing-of-Latin-characters-always-use-the-same-font" rel="nofollow">https://ask.metafilter.com/87263/Why-does-Chinese-printing-o...</a>
because times new roman doesn't support Chinese characters. there are other Chinese fonts do support english characters. you are probably looking at the english characters rendered by a default Chinese font.