The founder of Song typeface is Qin Hui.
Song style characters did not appear until after the Ming Dynasty. The culture of the Song Dynasty was at its peak. The Song engravings were exquisite and grand, and had high collection value. Ming Dynasty literati, especially book collectors, highly praised the "Song engravings". Therefore, the Ming Dynasty The publishing industry often reproduces Song blockbuster editions, but for convenience and to reduce costs, these imitation Song editions of the Ming Dynasty often only engraved "Fuguo characters" instead of the original Song characters with strong regularity.
The result was a font specifically designed for printing. In the twelfth year of Kangxi (AD 1673), the court officials ordered the court officials to stipulate in the preface to the supplementary publication of Jing'an's "Wenwen Tongkao": "From now on, all engraved books will be called Song style characters, and all regular scripts will be called Ruan characters." This is where the name "Song Style" comes from.
Introduction:
Before the Southern Song Dynasty, people mostly used handwriting in cultural exchange activities. Many ancient calligraphy classics that have survived today are mostly letters. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the development of Buddhism, a large number of Buddhist scriptures entered cultural exchange activities. In order to meet the needs of Buddhist believers, people had to increase the speed of copying Buddhist scriptures, and a calligraphy style that adapted to the needs of fast copying was produced - sutra copying style.
In the Tang Dynasty, people invented woodblock printing. The fonts used in woodblock printing are mainly scriptural. In the Song Dynasty, with the continuous development of economy and society, woodblock printing truly ushered in the "golden age" and was used on a large scale - movable type printing, which was just invented, was not widely used - many books were printed.