The overall feeling of the picture is related to many factors, such as color, small details and so on. These are all important factors that affect the feeling of the picture. There have been many articles about the creation of atmosphere, so I won't say much here. This time, let's take a look at the magic of variant calligraphy design.
Next, let's take a look at the wonders of variant calligraphy. First, let's look at the early font classification. The earliest fonts were divided into two categories: movable type fonts and art fonts. Movable type font is the earliest printing font, and art font is all fonts (including bold, song style, calligraphy style and variants) that we are exposed to at present.
Variant calligraphy is a kind of fine arts fonts, which is derived from basic fonts such as Songti, Bold and Calligraphy. It can be bold, song style, calligraphy, or a combination of two or three of them.
With the development of fonts, there are many fonts for variant characters. For example, specialized font design companies such as Typework Workshop, Founder, Hanyi, Wen Ding, Mona, etc. already have many fonts for variant characters.
Note: Calligraphy requires high cultural background, and few people really master it. It often appears in the form of copying someone's calligraphy style. There are three mountains for us to climb in variant calligraphy, namely, categories, basic strokes and modeling, creation and transformation. Whether you want to know or create variant artistic figures, this is the most basic tool to open the door of variant artistic figures.
From the above, we know that variant artistic characters come from basic fonts such as Song, Bold and Calligraphy, so its categories naturally come from these basic fonts, which can be roughly divided into four categories: Bold Variant, Song Variant, Mixed Variant and Calligraphy Variant.
Stroke is the smallest unit of a person, and it is also the core of variant design. We start with the basic strokes and strokes of Chinese characters to understand variant characters.