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Requirements for Chinese Text Layout
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Script styles and typefaces? #275

Open xfq opened 4 years ago

xfq commented 4 years ago

https://w3c.github.io/clreq/#four_commonly_used_typefaces_for_chinese_composition :

There are four main typefaces in use for Chinese characters:

I think Song, Kai, Hei, and Fangsong are more like script styles than typefaces, because each of them contains many variations, and each of these variations is a typeface (see https://w3c.github.io/clreq/#fig-song for example).

r12a commented 4 years ago

fwiw, alreq these days refers to this kind of thing as 'writing styles' (see https://w3c.github.io/alreq/#h_writing_styles)

ryukeikun commented 4 years ago

correct, those should not be called as "typefaces". "Writing styles" is good for me.

c933103 commented 4 years ago

But wasn't Fangsong a specific type of type face following the characteristic of certain calligraphist from ancient time that follow the writing style of his time?

xfq commented 1 year ago

https://www.w3.org/International/articles/typography/fontstyles.en.html uses the term "font styles".

r12a commented 1 year ago

Just a note on that. Alreq continues to use the term 'writing styles', but it seemed to me when i wrote the article that 'font styles' felt more intuitive, so i used that term. It does, of course, need to be distinguished from the CSS concept of 'font-style', but i thought it still worked OK. I'm not aware of any industry terminology that is widespread. Titus and i had a similar discussion before settling on 'writing style' for alreq (some years ago, now).

c933103 commented 1 year ago

I think "Writing style" in arabic writing is more similar to the like of Big Seal Script in CJK from various nations in warring state period, instead of the different writing types of Fangsong and such.