There is a strong connection between China's calligraphy art and font design. Calligraphy itself can be regarded as the artistic creation of fonts. It is precisely because calligraphers pursue simplicity and fluency that words are gradually simplified. Calligraphy fonts are traditionally divided into five types: seal script font, regular script font, official script font, running script font and cursive script font, also known as the five major fonts of calligraphy. In each category, it is subdivided into several sub-categories. For example, seal script can be divided into big seal script and small seal script, regular script can be divided into Weibei and Tang Kai, and cursive script can be divided into Cao Zhang, Cao Jin and Crazy Grass.
Seal script, official script, strict style, regular script, cursive script, song style, imitation song style, bold type, etc. It is a collection of many fonts of a similar style (also called "calligraphy style"), not a font. The regular script written by two calligraphers can be called two fonts; There are fonts such as Zhong Yi Songti and Xin Xiaoming on the computer.
Around the 1990s, the font stored on the computer was gradually called "computer font" by English users, although the original meaning of "font" in printing and calligraphy was not quite consistent with that used here. As for "computer font", Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province have different translations, namely "computer font" and "computer font". With the appearance of scalable vector computer fonts, the boundary between "fonts" and "fonts" is gradually blurred.