First of all, we must fully understand all kinds of Chinese fonts. Generally speaking, at present, all kinds of Chinese fonts can be divided into three types. The first category is Song Style and Bold Style (including thick and thin lines) developed from movable type printing in Song Dynasty. The second category is the fonts evolved from calligraphy, such as regular script, imitation song style, running script, official script, Wei Ti, Shu style, Yan style, thin gold style and pen-written fonts. The third category belongs to fine arts fonts, such as variety, tanning, amber, water column and so on. Most other fonts belong to the variation of the above three types of fonts, such as: big standard song, small standard song, newspaper song, long song, middle song, Yao style and so on; Big black, flat black, rough black, isobar (including thick, medium and thin isobar, and then evolved into thick, quasi and thin round) and so on; From regular script, imitation of Song Dynasty, etc., middle script and fine imitation of Song Dynasty, etc.; The beauty and black evolved from black body and song style; Li bian style evolved from Li style, etc.
2. Characteristics of Chinese characters
To use various fonts well, we must first understand the characteristics of various fonts, such as their structures, strokes, glyphs, etc. At present, Songti (including the Song Dynasty, Book Song, Newspaper Song, Standard Song, etc.) is widely used in books and newspapers.
The font of Song typeface is stable, beautiful, clear and eye-catching, and it has been preferred by people in books and periodicals for thousands of years. Therefore, most books and newspapers use this font (books and periodicals generally have a larger font and a relatively larger line spacing, and more books and songs with a slightly thicker vertical picture are used, but now some magazines and books also use fine lines, while newspapers use the Song font because of the dense line spacing and smaller font.
The bold font absorbs the advantages of the strict structure of the Song typeface on the font frame. In the shape of the strokes, the horizontal strokes are bold and the shrug angles of the Song typeface are flattened to be equal lines, so that the horizontal and vertical strokes are uniform in thickness, and the strokes with different tips and thin tails and different head and tail thicknesses of the Song typeface are changed into square strokes, which is unique and gives people a feeling of being rough, strong, serious, solemn and simple and generous.
regular script, running script, official script, Wei Ti and Shu script are calligraphy fonts. All calligraphy fonts can be written directly with China's unique brush. Regular script characters have elegant fonts, rounded strokes and beautiful fonts. The font of running script is delicate, the strokes are flexible, and there is a certain randomness, and the upper and lower strokes are connected.
Li-style characters are simple in font, flat in font, full of twists and turns in strokes, and have the soft and continuous beauty of dancing.
The font of Wei Ti is vigorous and powerful, and the strokes are thick and solid.
Shuti is a kind of font created by Shu Tong, who is praised by Chairman Mao as "the calligrapher of the Red Army". Its font is lively, the strokes change greatly, and it is flexible and random.
Yan Ti was created on the basis of the calligraphy of Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. Its font is similar to that of Yan Zhenqing, and it has a strong and solemn beauty.
Pen body is a kind of font that imitates hard pen calligraphy. It is similar to pen writing, and the strokes are lively, just like the beauty of lotus roots connected and uninterrupted.
is a comprehensive body of fine arts fonts, which keeps the bold and powerful features of bold strokes, and makes bold changes in the structure and strokes of characters, making it artistic.
The beautiful black body combines the beauty of Song style with the rough beauty of black body.
The font of amber characters is full and round, thick and bold, and naturally superimposed.