Why is the Univers Font all over China?

While the West kept reinventing Helvetica, China somehow settled with printing almost everything in Univers. After exploring one of its provinces, I’m here to find out why.

Four advertising stickers pasted on a wall in Hainan. All of them features skewed Chinese Gothics with numerals resembling the typeface Univers. // Not a member? Read this article for free here.

I forgot how Hainan treats decibels as if it doesn’t exist.