A Study of the Font Development and Design of Ouyang Xun’s 'Jiucheng Palace' Calligraphic Style

• Main Authors: LIOU, JIE-YU, 劉婕妤
• Other Authors: HU, WEN-YUAN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2x6b4x

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 視覺傳達設計系 === 106 === The historical materials of traditional Chinese characters are rich in esoteric knowledge of the texts and are usually reference sources for the creation of words. Based on the comparison between DynaFont Xun Ouyang and the original regular script of Xun Ouyang in the “Stele in the Jiucheng Palace,” there are still many differences. Therefore, this study selected the regular script of Xun Ouyang’s Stele in the Jiucheng Palace as the research object and selected the rubbed copy and restored characters as the research materials. The main purpose is to extract the structure of characters, re-implant the strokes according to Sato Keinosuke’s descriptions about the relationship between typography and structure of characters, and develop a font development tool taking into account both the sense of modernity and charm of script. Firstly, this study investigated the correlation between number of strokes and area ratio of characters for 3 typefaces - regular script of Xun Ouyang’s Stele in the Jiucheng Palace, DynaFont Xun Ouyang （control group）, and Arphic standard kai - and analyzed a total of 1,048 characters. The analysis results confirmed the correlation between number of strokes and area ratio of characters. Moreover, this study referred to the descriptions about Xun Ouyang’s regular script in various books to explain the relationship of character changes. The regression equations generated by the linear model were obtained in the research results. The size of all these 3 fonts can be estimated according to the number of strokes. For the structures of characters, after the characters that are difficult to be identified in the rubbed copy and the repeated characters were excluded, this study extracted a total of 625 structures of characters and re-implanted the strokes to develop experimental fonts. This study used heuristics evaluation where 2 experts, Julius Hui, who is a designer at Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc. Hong Kong, and Kuo-jung Tseng, who is a designer at Justfont Font Design Company, performed the evaluation. The fonts were amended according to the suggestions from the experts. Afterwards, two new fonts, a font with a modified stroke and shape and a bold font, were developed. The experts’ evaluation results of these fonts were between acceptable and good. However, there are still many problems required to be overcome in the direct extraction of the structure of characters as font development tools: （1） a special writing pattern must be standardized; （2） the center of gravity must be reset to adapt to a horizontal editing environment; （3） the issues of stroke stickiness and uneven gray scale derived from Zhonggong narrowing must be resolved by adjusting strokes and font weight. The missing characters can be reconstructed based on Xun Ouyang’s regular script in books other than Stele in the Jiucheng Palace.