Actor Xu's handwritten font was included in Fangzheng font library, which was all the rage on the Internet. Digital technology has accelerated font design. Essentially, a computer with a western keyboard is no different from a typewriter. It is almost impossible to put tens of thousands of Chinese characters on the keyboard and input them directly into the computer. "In the computer age, hieroglyphics have no future." Many people think so. The emergence of a series of Chinese character coding technologies, such as Chinese character internal code, Chinese character exchange code, Chinese character input code, Chinese character dot matrix code and Chinese character font control code, has solved the problem of inputting Chinese character information into the computer. Professor Wang Xuan invented the technology of high-resolution glyph information compression and high-speed restoration, which made Chinese characters bid farewell to the lead fire era and keep pace with pinyin characters in the information age. "In the era of type, the font design of Chinese characters was very slow because of a series of complicated processes such as complex fonts, many characters, lettering and casting. Often you can only write five or six words a day, and it takes several years to design a set of fonts. " Zhu Zhiwei, a senior font designer at Founder Electronics, said, "Digital technology has greatly accelerated the process of font design. From 199 1 to now, Founder has designed more than 30 new fonts. " The second prize of the 4th Founder Award China Font and Poster Design Competition recently ended: Hongyan Style. Technological progress has promoted the evolution of Chinese characters. People often look at the evolution of Chinese characters from an artistic point of view, and behind its evolution is also an evolutionary history of technology. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's fonts have obvious descriptive characteristics. This is closely related to the material of its carrier-Oracle Bone Inscriptions. When the seal script is written in a long body, because the bamboo slips are long and narrow, the glyph cannot be spread horizontally. Some characters representing four-hoofed animals were turned over on slender bamboo slips and written in the shape of head, tail and left four-hoof. The invention of paper completely broke the shackles of bamboo slips. The writers kept moving pens on wide paper, which gave birth to the emergence of new fonts such as running script and cursive script, and paper became the important technical basis of China's calligraphy. Woodblock printing and movable type printing are the most typical cases in which technology affects characters, which makes China fonts produce an unprecedented new category-printing. Through Chinese fonts, people have seen such a profound technical imprint. What kind of tomorrow will the technological leap in the computer age bring to Chinese characters? Diversification and individualization are the trends of "diversification, individualization and letting a hundred flowers blossom". Zhang Shuangru, executive vice president of China Printing Association, and Kobayashi Zhang, Japanese font director, all agree with this trend. At present, there are tens of thousands of fonts in English, more than 3,000 fonts in Japanese and more than 900 fonts in Chinese mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan Province. "Chinese fonts still have a lot of room for development." Zhang Shuangru said. "There are hundreds of Chinese characters in the font now, and few of them may satisfy users." Zhu Zhiwei, a senior font designer at Founder Electronics, said. With the continuous development of computer technology, the traditional font design technology is seriously lagging behind, some font design offices have closed down, the older generation of font design experts are getting old, and there is a shortage of font research and design personnel ... Zhang Shuangru is worried that "font design has become a dying process". How to make Chinese characters more beautiful? Kobayashi's answer is: "Use your eyes more and do more things." Today, with the decline of writing habits, the tradition of calligraphy cannot be lost. Jin Daiqiang, the most famous graphic designer in Hong Kong, replied: "Creativity." Without imagination and innovative spirit, the development of Chinese characters will lose momentum. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Information Industry will continue to do a good job in the formulation, experimental verification and application promotion of national standards for Chinese character input on digital keyboards. In view of the problem that foreign mobile phone manufacturers do not implement the national standards related to character sets at present, we will carry out the standard compliance certification of Chinese character input method for digital keyboard and announce the certification results to the public. People's Livelihood Appeal At the end of the "Rising" World Chinese Characters, the annual World Chinese Characters Awards became popular on the portal website.