Well, very ordinary, very ordinary, very pure English fonts, no matter how beautiful they are written. It's really ingenious, exquisite and clear pronunciation and mellow voice. This is a variant and French. I copied it from a French mobile salesman: it's still in English font, but the black line is a little thicker, thicker and deeper, and the symmetry is broken, you will see. Style requires different tastes, but as long as it is well written and well proportioned, it will be unparalleled and even lovable.
* The above text is:
Art is not only a beautiful painting hanging on the wall, but also an elaborate Roman sculpture. Art is a vital part of our daily life.
(Thanks to @steelver)
In ancient philology, the evolution of Latin fonts can be divided into six stages:
First, during the Roman period, the Roman Empire spread Latin to all parts of Europe during its expansion, and the Roman style remained popular until the 4th century. With the demise of the Western Roman Empire (AD 476), Europe entered the Middle Ages.
In the 5th-8th century, with the gradual awakening of national consciousness, characters began to diversify, and many varieties evolved from standard Ansel (semi-Ansel), such as English Insular, German Runes or Futhark, and French Merovingian characters. Spanish visigothic lowercase, etc. This paragraph is called former Caroline;
Charlemagne achieved the prosperity of Caroline Dynasty in the 8th century. During this period, Alku invented the famous Caroline lowercase letters, and formally distinguished the case of letters. This beautiful and clear set of words spread rapidly in Europe. Although the kingdom declined rapidly after Charlie's death, this font has been affecting the Renaissance hundreds of years later.
The Eastern Frankish Kingdom split from Charlemagne Empire developed into a holy Roman Empire in the 1 1 century, which dominated the situation in Europe. As a result, Gothic fonts, a special font used by Gothic descendants in religious sacrifices, became popular, but this decorative font was not suitable for writing and reading, so many variants appeared, such as Anglicana (because it was widely used in Britain,
/kloc-in the 4th century, the Renaissance, which started in Italy, swept across Europe, and the humanistic characters adopted by humanists became the mainstream, although the characters based on Caroline's lowercase still had some Gothic styles. 1450 After the invention of letterpress printing in Gutenberg, Germany, the old-fashioned black characters were not suitable for this new technology. Italian publishers printed a large number of works with their local popular fonts and became famous for their Italian style. Germany has also absorbed some advantages of humanistic writing, formed a variant of Gothic writing, that is, cursive writing, which is used for printing, and also produced its own handwriting Kurrent in daily writing, and its modern version of German writing is commonly known as "cursive writing";
In modern times, there are many printing fonts, artistic fonts and advertising fonts, such as English round hands used for copperplate printing, Suetterlin fonts developed by German designer Suetterlin and so on.
Having said that, in fact, I often write in Italian, which is gaudy and round. This technique, which uses the rotation of the flat-headed pen tip to produce changes in line thickness, is quite different from the writing tradition of Chinese characters (somewhat similar to Jinnong's lacquer book). Because there are only 26 letters, it is easy to use, but because of the lack of changes in fonts, it often appears dull. At this time, the layout of the composition is particularly important.
Finally, several websites are introduced: IAMPETH, the website of the International English Calligraphy Federation, which provides a series of free resources such as many members' works, scanned PDF books, online courses and even demonstration videos, which is very helpful. In addition, English Handwriting in Cambridge 1500- 1700: An online course provides an older material and provides a glimpse of English in that year. For the study of Italian style, you can refer to "Opina" by Arrighi,16th century pamphlet, which provides an excellent model and is distributed free of charge.
Note: This paper refers to Kenny Kan's Origin and Development of Latin Fonts in the 2nd issue of Packaging and Design in 2004.