Artistic calligraphy classification of artistic calligraphy

It can be divided into three categories: Song font, Helvetica and variant.

Chinese artistic calligraphy

1. Song style (also divided into Old Song Dynasty, Imitation Song Dynasty and Long Song Dynasty)

A. Old Song Dynasty is based on the calligraphy fonts of the Northern Song Dynasty developed.

Characteristics: The characters are square in shape, thin and thick horizontally, like a knife, dotted like melon seeds, and pressed like a sweep. (Stroke demonstration omitted)

Style: elegant and neat, serious and generous.

Applicable to: announcements, regulations and some solemn written content.

B. Imitation Song Dynasty is a font that imitates Song Dynasty blackboard writing.

Characteristics: The body of the character is slightly long, even in thickness, with a pause in the rising and falling strokes, the horizontal strokes are tilted to the upper right, and the sword edge is lengthened. (Stroke demonstration omitted)

Style: tall and beautiful.

Applicable to: annotations, instructions, subtitles and hard-pen calligraphy.

C. The Chang Song Dynasty was formed by combining the characteristics of the Old Song Dynasty and the Imitation Song Dynasty.

Characteristics: longer than the old Song Dynasty, similar in thickness horizontally and vertically. (Stroke demonstration omitted)

Style: both solemn and generous, yet lively and beautiful.

Applicable to: slogans, conference venues, books and magazines, product decoration, blackboard newspapers, etc.

2. Black body (can be divided into black body and long black body)

A. Black body is named after "the font is thicker and the square is black".

Characteristics: The thickness is consistent horizontally and vertically, with a square head and square tail, so it is also called a "square body".

Style: powerful, simple and generous, fascinating.

Applicable to: titles, slogans, etc. In addition, it is emphasized that boldface characters have a rigorous structure and simple strokes, making them the most suitable font for beginners to practice artistic calligraphy.

Although the horizontal and vertical stroke widths of boldface characters are the same, they cannot be absolute. They must be determined according to the number of horizontal and vertical strokes of the characters and cannot be the same. Chinese characters generally have more horizontal strokes and fewer vertical strokes. Some words with too many strokes feel swamped when writing and cannot be written down; while words with few strokes feel too empty even with the same width. Therefore, appropriate adjustments should be made between length and short, horizontal and vertical, thick and thin strokes, to achieve an overall uniform and coordinated effect. In addition, when writing boldface characters, the two ends of the strokes and the sharp end should be appropriately enhanced to make them appear thicker and more powerful.

B. Long Meitan is a new typeface produced after liberation.

Characteristics: It not only adopts the characteristics of black body's horizontal and vertical strokes, no strokes, square head and square tail, but also absorbs the characteristics of dot, apostrophe, stroke and hook of the long-shaped characters of the Chang Song Dynasty. (Stroke demonstration omitted)

Style: solemn and eye-catching, novel and generous.

Applicable to: titles of newspapers, magazines and other printed matter.

3. Variant art characters

There are many types of variant art characters, including pictographic, deformed, three-dimensional, shadow, and slightly beautified and decorated bold and Song fonts. , there are also some who slightly change the art of calligraphy.

A. Pictographic art characters. Including adding images (such as adding "red cross" to the word "sanitation"), stroke images (the strokes of the word "fight" are replaced by the image of explosion; individual strokes of "thunder" are replaced by the image of lightning), overall image ( For example, "Arctic Ocean" uses the shape of ice and snowflakes, and "Ocean" uses the shape of waves), marking images (such as "Great Wall" can add the mark of the Great Wall, and the "forever" bicycle logo can combine the "forever" and "jiu"). Change to the two round wheels of a bicycle) and so on.

B. Three-dimensional artistic characters. Including parallel perspective, focused perspective, angled perspective, body perspective, etc. (Stereoscopic perspective demonstration omitted)

C. Shadow art calligraphy. There are shadows, projections, reflections, etc. (Shading demonstration omitted)

D. Decorative art calligraphy. Including decorative body, decorative background, connection shape of words, folding shape of words, overlap of words and so on. (Demonstration omitted)

E. Calligraphy and artistic calligraphy. That is to use artistic calligraphy to write calligraphy. Combine the artistic characteristics of calligraphy with slight changes (writing pens, pens, oil paint pens, and brushes can all be used).

However, there are also patterns to be found in the scope of changes, which are nothing more than three major changes: First, changes in appearance.

Change the font into long, flat, oblique, trapezoidal, rhombus, circle, triangular parallelogram, wavy and other shapes (examples of shape changes are omitted); the second is to change the strokes. That is to say, on the basis of the main horizontal and vertical strokes remaining unchanged, the secondary strokes such as dot, left, stroke, pick, hook and so on are changed (the demonstration of stroke changes is omitted); the third is the structural change. This means exaggerating or reducing part of the strokes, shifting or changing the center of gravity of the font, or adding or subtracting strokes without losing the original shape of the text (demonstration of structural changes is omitted).

Foreign art calligraphy

There are many fonts for English letters and Arabic numerals. Common foreign art calligraphy are:

1. Old Roman font and modern Roman font.

It was a popular font during the Classicism and Renaissance periods of fifteenth-century Europe. It is basically similar to the Song style of Chinese artistic characters.

2. Modern free body.

It is a font popular after the French Revolution and Enlightenment in the 18th century. It is basically similar to the black body of Chinese artistic characters.