Why did you choose Long Imitation Song as the standard font in engineering drawing?

The national standard stipulates that the fonts written in the drawings must be neat, clear, evenly spaced and neatly arranged.

The long imitation song style is in line with this regulation.

Its advantages are:

1, with high recognition and easy identification.

2. The strokes are slender and not abrupt, even if marked on the map, the impact on the pattern is minimal.

3, horizontal and vertical, angular, in line with engineering laws, rigorous tonality.

Imitation of Song Dynasty is an artistic character, not a calligraphy style. Almost everyone can write by studying, even with the help of auxiliary tools such as rulers. It will not be a thousand people, and it is difficult to unify.

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Pine nuts originated in the Song Dynasty, but were established in the Ming Dynasty, so they are still called "Ming style" in Japan. Songti is the most widely used font in the printing industry. According to the different shapes of characters, it can be divided into book songs and newspaper songs. Songti is a printing font, which originated from the Song Dynasty when block printing was popular.

The font is square, the strokes are horizontal and vertical, the thickness is clear, the edges and corners are sharp, rigorous, neat and even, and the strokes are regular, which makes people feel comfortable and eye-catching when reading. In modern printing, it is mainly used for the text of books and periodicals or newspapers.

In the Song Dynasty, "culture and education were promoted, but military affairs were suppressed", and culture showed unprecedented prosperity. In Song Dynasty, the printing and publishing industry entered the golden age, block printing flourished, the book engraving center developed rapidly, and movable type printing was invented.

During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, a large number of Song editions were engraved, and the Song style was established in the Ming Dynasty. Song style is easy to write and engrave, and the font is beautiful and dignified, which adapts to the requirements of industrialized operation of printing and publishing industry and becomes a witness to the perfection of culture in Song Dynasty.

The combination of China's calligraphy and block printing produced Song characters. Therefore, Song Zi not only has the charm of China's calligraphy, but also has the charm of block printing and woodcut.