What is the difference between Song-style and Kai-style?

1. Different fonts

The Song Dynasty style is a relatively elegant and straight font that uses the Song style structure and regular script strokes. The strokes are even in thickness horizontally and vertically. It is often used to type subtitles and short poems. , annotations, citations, etc., are also used to type the text in some readers.

Kail style, also known as living style, is a font that imitates handwriting habits. It has straight and even strokes and regular fonts. It is widely used in student textbooks, popular books, annotations, etc.

2. Different strokes

The strokes of the imitation Song font are of equal thickness, unlike the Song font which is horizontally thin and straight and thick.

The focus of regular script is on stipple, structure, and whitening, so that the stipple is accurate and precise, and the structure is dense and dense.

Extended information:

Song typeface is the most widely used font in the printing industry. According to the different shapes of the characters, it is divided into writing the Song Dynasty and reporting the Song Dynasty. Songti is a printing font that originated from the woodblock printing in the Song Dynasty. The Song font has a square shape, horizontal and vertical strokes, thin horizontal and thick vertical strokes, clear 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.

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.

Clerical script is a font based on seal script 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. Official script is a common solemn font in Chinese characters. The writing effect is slightly wide and flat, with long horizontal strokes and short straight strokes. It pays attention to "silkworm head and swallow tail" and "twists and turns".

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