Characteristics of hard pen calligraphy
Hard-pen calligraphy works are usually smaller in layout than brush calligraphy works, but the commonly used styles are roughly the same. The spacing between words, the size of line spacing, the straightness of lines, and the equality of top and bottom sills, especially the font and style of words, should be properly arranged.
Hard pen calligraphy is divided into hard pen calligraphy and practical hard pen calligraphy. The former mainly emphasizes artistry, while the latter emphasizes practicality. The artistry of hard-pen calligraphy mainly expresses the writer's understanding and feeling of calligraphy art through the changes of lines and structures, and it pursues beauty, emotion, interest, artistic conception and individuality. Practical hard pen calligraphy mainly meets the needs of practicality and can be easily written and recognized. The key is to make writing fast and standardized, so practical hard pen calligraphy is mainly running script.