What are the different types of Chinese character fonts?

First of all, it is necessary to fully understand the various Chinese character fonts. Generally speaking, at present, the fonts of all kinds of Chinese characters can be divided into three major types. The first type is the Song font and the black font (including thick and thin lines) developed from the Song Dynasty movable type printing; the second type is the fonts evolved from the calligraphy, such as the Regular, Imitation Song, Running Script, Clerical, Wei, Shu, Yen, Slim Gold, and the fonts written by fountain pens; the third type belongs to the art fonts, such as Variety, Mei Hei, Amber, and Shuizhu. Other fonts are mostly variations of the above three types of fonts, such as: Song evolved from the large standard Song, small standard Song, Song, Song, Song, Song, Song, Yao, etc.; evolved from the black body of the large black, flat black, thick black, isometric (including thick, medium, thin isometric, and then evolved a thick, quasi-thin rounded), etc.; by the italic, imitation of the evolution of the regular and the imitation of the Song, such as in the evolution of the Regular and thin imitation of the Song, etc.; by the evolution of the black body and the Song of the United States, the evolution of the black; From the scribal evolution of the scribal variant, and so on.

2. Characteristics of Chinese Characters

To use various fonts, first of all, we must understand the structure of various fonts, strokes, character shapes and other characteristics of the body of the current books and newspapers are more commonly used in the Song font (including the Song, Book Song, Newspaper Song, Standard Song, etc.).

Song font square and stable, beautiful and clear, reading eye-catching, is a thousand years in the books and magazines and other applications were selected by the people out of a font, so books and magazines, newspapers, most of the body of this font (books and magazines are generally larger and line spacing is also relatively large, and the use of vertical drawings of a slightly thicker book of Song font, but now some magazines or books are also used in the fine isolette body, and the newspaper due to the (line spacing is denser and smaller font, so more use of the newspaper Song font).

Black type in the word frame absorbed the advantages of the rigorous structure of Song, in the shape of the strokes of the horizontal strokes thickened and the shrug of the Song corner flattened for the iso-linear, the formation of the horizontal and vertical strokes of the same thickness, the change of the Song pointed and thin end and the end of the head and the thickness of the strokes of the square strokes, and therefore unique, giving a strong, solid, serious and dignified, simple and generous feeling.

Regular, Regular, Clerical, Wei, Shu and other fonts are calligraphic fonts. All calligraphic fonts can be written directly with the unique Chinese brush. The Regular Script is elegant, with rounded strokes and a beautiful font. The Regular Script is elegant, with rounded strokes and beautiful fonts. The Regular Script has clear fonts and flexible strokes, with a certain degree of randomness and the upper and lower strokes are connected.

Classical characters are simple, flat, and have a soft and continuous beauty of dance with a twisting and turning of strokes and a silkworm's head and a wild goose's tail.

Wei-Style characters have a strong and powerful font with thick and solid strokes.

Shu Style is a typeface created by Shu Tong, who was honored by Chairman Mao as a "calligrapher of the Red Army", and its font is more lively, with big changes in strokes and greater flexibility and arbitrariness.

Yan Style is based on the calligraphy of Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its font is more similar to Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy, with strong muscles and bones, and the beauty of solemnity.

Steel Pen Style is a font that imitates hard-copy calligraphy, similar to fountain-pen characters, with more lively strokes, such as lotus roots connected, in the uninterrupted beauty.

The variety of art fonts belonging to the body of art, maintaining the characteristics of the black body of thick and solid strokes, bold changes in the structure of the word and strokes, so that it has the beauty of art.

Beauty Hei Si combines the beauty of Song Si and the bold and solid beauty of Hei Si.

Amber font is full and rounded, bold and bold, with a natural overlay