Calligraphy Fonts

What are the Fonts of Calligraphy

What are the Fonts of Calligraphy

What are the Fonts of Calligraphy

What are the Fonts of Calligraphy

The calligraphy fonts can be divided into five major categories according to the traditional classification: Running Script, Cursive Script, Official Script, Seal Script, and Seal Script.

Calligraphy fonts can be divided into five categories according to the traditional classification: Running Script, Cursive Script, Clerical Script, Seal Script, and Regular Script, and in each of these categories, there are a number of smaller categories, such as Seal Script is divided into Big Seal Script and Small Seal Script according to the small categories of the carving, Regular Script has the division of the Wei-Bei and Tang Regular Scripts, and Cursive Script is divided into Chapter Cursive, Imago Cursive, and Berserk Cursive, etc.

Cursive script is the most important form of calligraphy.

Running Script:

Running Script is a general term for calligraphy, which is divided into two types: Regular Script and Cursive Script. It originated from the development of the Regular Script, a typeface between the Regular Script and the Cursive Script, and was created to compensate for the slow writing speed of the Regular Script and the difficulty of recognizing the Cursive Script. "Xing" means "walking", so it is not as scribbly as cursive, nor as upright as regular script.

In essence, it is the cursiveization of the regular script or the regularization of the cursive script. The regular script is more than the cursive script is called "Xing Kai", and the cursive script is more than the regular script is called "Xing Cao". Running script is high in practicality and artistry, while regular script is a symbol of words, high in practicality and effort; in contrast, cursive script is high in artistry, but relatively low in practicality.

Cursive Script:

Cursive Script, as a specific typeface, was formed in the Han Dynasty, and evolved on the basis of Clerical Script for the sake of writing simplicity. From the point of view of the development of cursive writing: the development of cursive writing can be divided into three major stages: early cursive writing, Zhangcao and present cursive.

Early Cursive Script is a parallel style to the official script, generally known as the official cursive, but in fact mixed with some of the form of seal script. The early cursive, breaking the rules of the official script square rigorous, is a rash writing style. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Cao further "grass", stripped of the Clerical Script brush strokes, the upper and lower strokes between the words linked together, the radicals have been simplified and borrowed from each other, known as "today's grass".

Li Shu：

Li Shu, Qin Li, Han Li, etc., is generally considered to have developed from the seal script, the character shape is broad and flat, the horizontal painting is long, but the vertical painting is short, the Li Shu is developed from the seal script, the Li Shu is the seal script of the complexity of the simplified, the round for the square, and the arc for the straight.

Seal Script:

Seal Script is the collective name for the Big Seal Script and the Small Seal Script. The Big Seal Script refers to the Golden Script, Preliminary Script, and Six Kingdoms Script, which preserve the distinctive features of ancient hieroglyphic scripts. The Small Seal Script, also known as "Qin Seal Script", is a simplified version of the Big Seal Script, which was the common script of the Qin Dynasty. It is characterized by its uniformity and neatness, and its script is easier to write than that of the Preliminary Script.

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I. What are the fonts of brush calligraphy

Brush Calligraphy is now a *** there are six kinds of calligraphy, namely, running script, cursive script, clerical script, seal script, regular script, and six kinds of calligraphy of the horse.

1, according to the writing tool: hard calligraphy, soft than calligraphy

2, according to the font: oracle bone script, small seal script, big seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script, running script, running script, running cursive

3, according to the calligrapher: Ou Shi, Yan Shi, Zhao Shi, Liu Shi, thin gold body ......

How to practice calligraphy? strong> Second, how to practice good calligraphy

Copying is the most basic method of learning calligraphy, not only the first calligraphy to copy, is a certain foundation still need to copy. The study of the regular script need to copy, learn the seal, official, line, cursive each body of the book still need to copy. Calligrapher's life is spent in copying, in copying to learn, in copying to think, in copying to create.

Copying post, that is, with a thin paper masked in the post above, and then the pen with the shadow to go, according to the revealed handwriting to write, also known as "imitation shadow" or top writing. Facsimile also has a method called "tracing red", that is, printed with double hooks on the red line to fill in the word.

The method of copying the post: the first step first tracing red. That is, from a post selected clear, complete word, with transparent and impermeable ink on thin paper, such as typing paper, glossy paper, tracing paper, etc., masked in the post, according to the outline of the word, with a very fine line hooked into the hollow word, which is called "double hook". Then hooked the word as a tracing book, fill in with red ink, and then fill in with blue ink, and finally fill in with ink, so that not only deepen the memory of writing, but also save paper.

Mimic post should pay attention to the pen with the post to go, do not lose shape, to see the accurate strokes. The ins and outs of the strokes, speculate on its penmanship and structural form. Copy post with "write" intention, will be written into a stroke, full and refined, do not follow the gourd to fill in the smear.

Pro post, that is, on the basis of copying the post, the post of the word of the brush, after a basic understanding of the law of the word, to the post to write. There are three ways to do this: by the face, by the frame, and by the back.

The Pro, that is, the post on the opposite side of the post frame according to write, this is the most convenient, the most commonly used Pro post method.

Grid Pro, that is, with transparent paper to play a good grid (Tianzigue, Mizigue, nine grid, etc.) according to the type of pro writing. Mainly used to grasp the structure of the word parts.

Practice brush calligraphy font is a need to adhere to the process, just copy everyone's font will need to copy for a long time, and, copy to a certain period of time, in order to slowly form their own font style. At the same time, because the brush calligraphy has a lot of different fonts, so we can copy their favorite fonts.