Characteristics of Regular Script Fonts

The Regular Script font is characterized by the following features: precise point drawing, eight methods of permanent characters, and regular knotting.

The Regular Script is also known as Zhengshu, or True Script. Regular script writing has distinctive artistic characteristics, style dignified and beautiful, beautiful and neat characters, strict law, pay attention to the "horizontal and vertical" is typical of the square character. Its basic characteristics are expressed in the following three aspects:

One, the dots and drawings are exquisite

The dots and drawings of the Regular Script are a little, horizontal, vertical, skimming, pressing, picking, hooking, and folding of eight kinds. One of the most famous "yong" word eight from the Regular Script law developed. It is not only the character law, but also the brushwork. All the strokes of the Regular Script are summarized in the Eight Methods.

The Regular Script, compared with the Seal Script and Clerical Script, has the most prepared dots and drawings, and each kind of dots and drawings has standardized requirements. The Regular Script consists of eight kinds of dots and strokes, one for each character, and the other for each stroke is not to be taken at random; the starting and closing strokes are precise, and the center and side strokes are meticulous, so there is a law to follow. The Regular Script is generally thin in the horizontal strokes, thick in the vertical strokes, and straight in the horizontal and vertical strokes. The apostrophe and the downstroke are either thin or thick, the apostrophe gradually lifts the brush out, and the downstroke gradually spreads out the brush and then gradually lifts the brush out. The hook stroke is a special kind of turn, picking up the brush after a pause.

Thirdly, the knotting of characters is regular and correct?

The Regular Script has a square character shape, and although there are few Chinese characters with a strictly square structure, most of them pursue squareness and regularity, which makes the Regular Script distinctly different from the flat character shapes of the Clerical Script. In the square, proportional, regular in the pursuit of font changes, which is the basic characteristics of the structure of the Regular Script.