Exploration and Analysis of the Application of Chinese Etymology in the Chinese Character Font Design

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10.2991/icelaic-15.2016.165How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese etymology; font structure; glyph of aesthetic

Abstract

According to the Chinese etymology, the Chinese character font design is based on the study on information and the origin of Chinese characters in each historical period of the concrete structure form. And under the premise of retaining the original information of Chinese characters, we manage to design Chinese characters. Such as oracle, Chinese bronze inscription and seal character, these three glyphs is reorganized and designed in the hand of the book Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Chinese first official dictionary). The idea of design not only is helpful to know the first origin of Chinese characters change and the meaning of the word in each historical period, also benefit to learn the better form of Chinese characters besides simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese. It’s unfair that people take an indifferent attitude to it and then decide it just history and recorded. I think it is necessary to explore and future design the Chinese characters. And it must show the charm of our national characters after contemporary design in the whole new look.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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