What types of fonts are there for Chinese characters?

The fonts of Chinese characters are: 1. Song style Song style originated from the Song Dynasty, but Song style was established in the Ming Dynasty, so even today in Japan, Song style is still called "Ming Dynasty style".

Song font is the most widely used font in the printing industry. According to the different shapes of the characters, it is divided into writing for the Song Dynasty and reporting for the Song Dynasty.

Songti is a printing font that originated from the woodblock printing in the Song Dynasty.

Song font has a square shape, horizontal and vertical strokes, thin horizontal and thick vertical strokes, sharp edges and corners, rigorous structure, neat and even, and strong regularity of strokes, which makes people feel comfortable and eye-catching when reading.

In modern printing, it is mainly used for the text part of books or newspapers.

2. Yan Shu Yan Shu is a new style of Chinese calligraphy.

Yan Shu, Yan style, Yan style is a new style of Chinese calligraphy.

Calligraphy Yan's calligraphy begins with the stroke showing the edge, then closes the stroke to reveal the edge, with the pen in the center and the momentum in the lower right. It not only inherits traditional calligraphy, but is also different from traditional calligraphy, presenting a distinctive new calligraphy style.

3. Regular script Regular script is also called Zhengkai, Zhenshu, and Zhengshu.

It gradually evolved from the official script founded by Cheng Miao, becoming more simplified, horizontal and vertical.

"Cihai" explains that it "has a square shape and straight strokes, which can be used as a model." Hence the name regular script.

It began in the late Han Dynasty and has been popular ever since.

The emergence of regular script closely followed the rules and regulations of the Han Dynasty, and pursued the further development of physical beauty. At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the writing of Chinese characters gradually changed into waves, hesitation, and twists and turns, and there were "side" (dot), "side" and "dot".

Strokes such as "plunder" (long strokes), "peck" (short strokes), and "lift" (straight hooks) make the structure more rigorous.

4. Cursive script is a font created for the convenience of writing.

It began in the early Han Dynasty.

What was commonly used at that time was "Cao Li", that is, scrawled official script. Later, it gradually developed into a kind of "Zhang Cao" with artistic value.

In the late Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi changed "Zhangcao" to "Jincao", forming the style of the characters in one stroke.

In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed "Kang Cao" with continuous and convoluted strokes and numerous changes in glyphs.

5. Official script Official script is also called "official script" and "ancient script".

It is a font based on seal script and produced to meet the needs of convenient writing.

Simplify the small seal script, and change the evenly rounded lines of the small seal script into straight and square strokes, making it easier to write.

It was a font that was created in prison.

It is divided into "Qin Li" (also called "Ancient Li") and "Han Li" (also called "Modern Li"). The emergence of official script is a major change in ancient writing and calligraphy.

6. Running Script Running Script is a calligraphy style between regular script and cursive script. It appeared around the late Western Han Dynasty and the early Eastern Han Dynasty.

It was created to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty of legibility of cursive script.

The writing style is not as sloppy as cursive script, nor is it required to be as straight as regular script.

Those with more regular script than cursive script are called "Xingkai".

Those with more cursive than regular script are called "Xingcao".

Running script began in the late Han Dynasty.

7. The historical product of blackbody machine printing.

For at least a hundred years, bold Chinese characters have erased all traces of the artifacts of handwriting and the origins of its creation, without the beginning and end of writing; it geometrically establishes the basic structure of Chinese characters (it is constructive rather than

written), the width of its strokes and the uniformity of its strokes and arcs show a steady, machine-like eternity.

and synchronization features.