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Chinese font style

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Here is a comparison of MS Yi-Bai Ti, BiauKai and FangSong (Mac library). If by 'font' you mean printing typefaces then afaiac, the reason of the differences between fonts and handwritten forms is the former mostly need to have the same height and width, so the artistic aspect of Chn. On the above website if you click on 行书 or 行楷 you'll get the semi-cursive fonts. In terms of cursive writing, everyone's is obviously different, and most people will write in varying degrees of semi-cursive (because full cursive is literally unreadable). you'd want to be looking for the pen writing ones.

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If you want actual handwriting fonts to look at is a site full of them - note the differences between brush and pen writing. also woodblock-printy but in a different style to Song fonts. Akin to times.įangsong 防宋: 'imitation Song' font, i.e. Based off the woodblock print typeface of the aforementioned two dynasties.

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Songti/Mingti 宋体/明体: Closest counterpart to serif fonts (they're called Song in China, and Ming in Japan).

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Heiti 黑体: sans-serif fonts with consistent line width, like arial, etc. Kaiti 楷体: standard 'handwriting script' font, the thing if anything to use as a standard.

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