Brief introduction to the replacement of hanging needle seal

The inspiration for the design comes from the book Tianfa Shenbei written by Xiang, Emperor of Soochow in the Three Kingdoms period: the official style of seal script is effective, leaving a legacy of seal script. His book is magnificent, powerful, powerful and picturesque. The brushstroke is sharp, the knot is dense on the top and neglected on the bottom, and the font is slender and sharp, like a steel needle hanging down. It is called "hanging needle body" which is quite distinctive, ornamental and aesthetic. It is the creative intention of this font to transform it into a font and make it a variant with seal script style and simplified readability.

Since it is a variant of calligraphy, it should be reformed. In style, it emphasizes roundness, weakens the characteristics of strokes and the sense of irregularity and standardization of handwriting. Seal script is very complicated and difficult to read and use. This font is called the variant of seal script, which is intended to retain the charm of hanging, symmetry and regularity of seal script, and at the same time integrate the stroke characteristics of official script and regular script into one furnace, which is actually a three-in-one system. Combine traditional calligraphy art with modern vocabulary, pursue decorative and artistic beauty, dignified and beautiful, open and spacious, elegant and generous, retro but easy to read. Mainly suitable for advertisements, video games, ancient books and other books that need classical decoration style.

As a variant of seal script, the style of seal script should be preserved to the greatest extent, and its main characteristics are suspension and symmetry. As the name implies, hanging is a needle-hanging pen shape from top to bottom and from thick to thin, showing an elegant state. In order to reflect the characteristics of symmetry, the left and right parts with similar structures are mirrored, and their identifiability is retained on the basis of font innovation, which makes them look dignified as a whole. In addition, Tianfa Oracle Bone Inscriptions Monument is based on official script, and its horizontal painting has obvious official script meaning. Therefore, the horizontal painting of this font is taken from the silkworm head dovetail of Lishu, and the four waters are also taken from the writing method of Lishu. This font is thin and tall, but the official script is flat and not suitable for all strokes. Therefore, referring to regular script, the strokes are unified, and the oblique potential is enhanced. The strokes start from left to right, and the thick strokes start, and the fine strokes start, so as to correspond to the whole sag, such as vertical, left, point, convex and angle.