About Song style, Kai style, seal script, Liu style, Yan style, Hei style, imitation Song style

To answer your first question, they are related, probably for sure!

From the perspective of the history of writing development, seal script is the earliest font that appeared (seal script includes oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, large seal script, and small seal script). From the history of calligraphy, there are five types of scripts, namely:

Seal script - including oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, large seal script and small seal script

Official script - including bamboo and silk script

True (regular) script - including Wei Stele

Running script - including Xingkai

Cursive script - including Zhangcao, Jincao, Xingcao and Kuangcao

After the Song Dynasty, due to the invention of movable type printing, a special font for printing was produced - Song Dynasty.

In modern times, due to the widespread use of book printing, other printing fonts began to appear, like yours The black fonts mentioned include advertising fonts, variety fonts, amber fonts, etc. that are often used by everyone.

So, there should be calligraphy fonts first, and then printing fonts, and most printing fonts evolved from calligraphy fonts.

2. The Liu style and Yan style you listed above are a type of regular script. They are fonts formed due to the personal style of calligraphers (Wei stele is a font formed during the evolution of writing). Liu style The creator is Liu Gongquan, and the creator of Yan style is Yan Zhenqing. They are both from the Tang Dynasty and belong to the four masters of regular script (the other two are Ouyang Xun and Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty).

From the analysis of the first question, it can be seen that in the history of writing development, seal script was followed by official script, cursive script, running script and regular script, so their emergence is related.

As for Song fonts, Song fonts, and Hei fonts, they all belong to printing fonts. Song fonts appeared first, followed by Song fonts and Heigi fonts.

3. There are cursive fonts in the computer, but there are not many. I have used them before, but I forgot which font library they were in. The name is "Huangcao", and it is very beautiful. You can look for this font online, it should be available.

4. Song style was invented by Qin Hui. This is still controversial in history, because there is no official historical record. It is said among the people that Qin Hui invented Song Ti, which was called Qin Ti at that time. Later generations took advantage of the name and changed it to Song Ti, which is still the name today. But one thing is certain: Song font must have been invented by the Song Dynasty people.

There is also a legend that later generations (some say Qin Hui) created the imitation Song style when imitating Song Huizong's "thin gold style".

Zhuan script (small seal script) is a standardized font created by Li Si, the Prime Minister of Qin, who synthesized fonts from various countries at that time.

In the time of Qin Shihuang, there was a man named Cheng Miao who was studying the improvement of writing in prison. He wanted to make the circles in the seal script even and symmetrical, and make them straight, so as to make writing faster and facilitate the operation of general official documents. So it is called official script.

It is said that Zhang Zhi in the Han Dynasty invented cursive script.

Between regular script and cursive script is running script, which is smooth in writing and flexible in use. It is said to have been made by Liu Desheng in the Han Dynasty.

As for the boldface font, it is a printing font that only appeared in modern times. I have not seen any information recording the inventor.

Except for the improvement of seal script by Li Si, there is no sufficient historical data to prove the others. Only unofficial histories or notes at the time mention it slightly. Some are even folklore. Available for reference.