The fonts of calligraphy are roughly divided into five types: seal script, official script, cursive script, running script, and regular script. Their respective characteristics are:
Seal script: Seal script is the collective name for large seal script and small seal script. The brushwork is thin, strong and straight, with many straight lines. There are square pens, round pens, and pointed pens, and there are many "hanging needles" in the handwriting. Dazhuan refers to bronze inscriptions, Zhou inscriptions and Six Kingdoms inscriptions, which preserve the obvious characteristics of ancient hieroglyphs. Xiaozhuan, also known as "Qin Zhuan", is the common script of the Qin Dynasty. It is a simplified font of Dazhuan. It is characterized by wide and flat shape, stretching left and right, balance, symmetry, neatness and uniformity.
Official script: Official script developed from seal script. Official script simplifies seal script, turns circles into squares, and arcs into straight lines. Its structural characteristics are that the character shape is flat and square, spreading out left and right, starting from silkworm head and closing down from dovetail to dovetail, turning circles into squares and arcs into straight lines, changing drawings into dots, connections and breaks, and strengthening the changes in the thickness of the stroke
3. Cursive script: Cursive script was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. It is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes.
4. Running script: Running script is a font between regular script and cursive script. It was created to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty of identifying cursive script. It is characterized by being both neat and clear, yet lively and lively.
5. Regular script: Regular script is also called Zhengkai, Zhenshu, and Zhengshu. It gradually evolved from the official script and became more simplified, horizontal and vertical. The font is square and well-organized.