News:The writing skill of Chinese character printing and writing is a skill with a long history, popular among the people, hand-designed and standardized production. It inherits the ancient Chinese lettering skills and is an original manual skill before the formation of printed characters.
Calligraphy, with a long history and profound knowledge, is an artistic expression of the beauty of Chinese characters. There are five major categories of traditional calligraphy fonts: Xing, Cao, Li, Zhuan, and Kai. Each category is subdivided into several subcategories. The calligraphy style evolves and changes, covering everything.
The invention of printing has greatly improved the speed and quality of the dissemination of Chinese characters, enabling more people to read the same characters and enjoy classics together, which has promoted the exchange and inheritance of civilization. In the Song Dynasty, when printing was highly developed, block printing was widely used, and a new type of calligraphy was born - Song Ti printing fonts. The printing of Chinese characters has gradually formed a special field that is not only different from calligraphy aesthetics but also closely related to it.
In the early 1960s, in order to effectively protect and inherit the printed characters of Chinese characters, based on the Shanghai Institute of Printing Technology, it gathered Shanghai’s three-in-one talents with creative skills in art, proficiency in writing block letters, and experience in engraving characters. Developing and implementing the "Specifications for the Design of Chinese Character Printing Fonts", which lasted about 5 years, and successively completed the design and creation of four commonly used printing fonts: Song, Hei, Kai, and Fang, with a total of 80,000 characters.
The original manuscripts of Song, Hei, Kai, and Fang, four new Chinese characters printed with new fonts, are not only the result of the innovation of traditional font writing skills, but also combined with modern digital information technology, becoming the original matrix of the invention of "Chinese character information processing laser phototypesetting technology". At the same time, it has been widely used in Chinese character databases at home and abroad, and has been derived and recreated with various styles and characteristics of the descendant Song, Hei, Kai and imitation Song fonts, which are widely used by various media. It has greatly enriched the treasure house of Chinese characters and made the growth of characters more vigorous.
In the printing fonts that we are familiar with and widely used, each character has been carefully designed and presented according to a strict writing process.
Chinese character printing movable type design
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01. Pencil draft Use a pencil to outline the outline of the manuscript on the special manuscript paper.
02. Scribing Lines The horizontal and vertical strokes of the pencil sketches are drawn, and ink lines are drawn with a straight line pen.
03. Hook the line Use a brush to draw a clear outline of the curved part of the font.
04. Fill the ink to fill the gap with ink.
05. White paint is used to finely process the characters.