From the design point of view, English fonts can be roughly divided into four categories according to their morphological characteristics and design expressions: isobars and glyphs are almost all composed of isobars; Calligraphy styles and glyphs are characterized by liveliness, freedom and individuality; Decorative body, decorative design and treatment of various fonts, to achieve eye-catching and infectious artistic effects; Optical body is printed by photography stunt and network distortion technology.
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Font design needs to pay more attention to extensive readability, identifiability, unity and popularization. In the design of China font library, more than 6,700 kinds of fonts can meet the basic application requirements, and the design of such a set of fine fonts often takes more than half a year, or even one or two years. Obviously, font design needs huge and systematic teamwork, and not all independent designers can try their own homework.
The fonts in the font library are mostly used in sentences and short paragraphs, which is difficult to meet the personalized design requirements. At this time, it is necessary to formulate a font design, which is different from the font library design. Font design is an artistically processed and sublimated font. Compared with the uniform and stable fonts in the font library, the font design shows the unique and personalized charm of Chinese character structure and graphics.
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