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Interestingly, the thick vertical strokes and skinny horizontal strokes you see in the Chinese characters in some of those fonts are the result of one individua
by jhedwards 7y ago
Interestingly, the thick vertical strokes and skinny horizontal strokes you see in the Chinese characters in some of those fonts are the result of one individual's[0] personal style being adopted as the standard for non-cursive calligraphy;
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Zhenqing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Zhenqing
- jhanschoo 7y agoThe famous calligraphers' styles were used in early woodblock printing, but the Song/Ming style you see nowadays are more rightly said to be influenced by the constraints of printing. A way to think about this is that Western serif typefaces come from unical script, but their present standard forms are more rightly said to be influenced by the limitations of metal type. file:///home/jhanschoo/Downloads/PJACNS-1(2015)-3-Lin.pdf https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/shotai-printed.html https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/shotai-printed.html
- jhedwards 7y agoThat makes sense, I guess I was focusing in on a particular font in the article that clearly has the mark of Yan Zhenqing's style. I'm talking about whatever font is used in the characters 使使 over the red background. Even the shape of the downward left pie strokes is distinctly Yan's style. Maybe that's just a testament to the distinctiveness of his style that it is still clear even after being adapted to the constraints of printing, or it might also just be that particular font?