How many fonts are there in China's calligraphy?

The eight fonts of China's calligraphy are Song Style, Regular Script, Cursive Script, Official Script, Running Script, Bold Style and Imitation of Song Dynasty.

1, run the script

Running script is developed on the basis of regular script, which is a font between regular script and cursive script. In order to make up for the shortcomings of slow writing speed of regular script and illegible cursive script. "Go" means "go", so it is not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script.

2, cursive script

Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. It is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes.

3. Official script

Li Shu, including Qin Li and Han Li, is generally considered to be developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and paying attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns".

4. Yan Shu

Calligraphy, Yan Shu, Lu Feng, Shou Feng, center pen, from the bottom right, not only inherited the traditional calligraphy, but also different from the traditional calligraphy, showing a distinctive new style of calligraphy.

5. Song Ti

A Chinese font that seems suitable for printing. The strokes vary in thickness, generally thin and thick, with decorative parts at the end, and the strokes such as dots, strokes, strokes and hooks have sharp points, which belong to serif fonts and are often used for text typesetting of books, magazines and newspapers.

6. Regular script

A font of Chinese characters, also known as regular script, regular script, real script and official script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. The book Ci Hai is interpreted as "square in shape and straight in brushwork, which can be used as a model".

7. bold

Also known as square or Gothic, there is no serif decoration, the font is correct, the strokes are horizontal and vertical, and the handwriting is the same thickness. After modern printing was introduced to the East, Chinese characters in black body were created according to the western sans-serif black body.

8. Imitation of Song Dynasty

Imitation of Song Dynasty is a kind of printing font, which is modeled after the font carved in the Song Dynasty. The strokes are even in thickness, with three bodies: long, square and flat. Imitation of Song dynasty has the flavor of regular script, and the strokes are horizontal and vertical. The horizontal stroke is determined by the left, lower, right and upper oblique, with a height of about 3 degrees. It has a stroke of beginning, end and turn, and the point, stroke, hook and tip are elongated.