The year of the Horse is coming so here's a demo of what the character for Horse Radical 187 looks like in various fonts ranging from near calligraphic to super heavy bold.
A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
Showing posts with label chinese typography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chinese typography. Show all posts
Friday, 24 January 2014
15 Horses
The year of the Horse is coming so here's a demo of what the character for Horse Radical 187 looks like in various fonts ranging from near calligraphic to super heavy bold.
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Rough Love
A little experiment in using filters to suggest ink splashs and stroke on a rough absorbent paper
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| Copyright Julie Vaux 2013 |
Monday, 18 November 2013
CICADA
The Cicadas are starting to sing of summer despite the fires and rain
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Copyright Julie Vaux 2013 |
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Cloudy Dai again
See previous cloudy Dai post for more details.
I'm tried to make the character colors and a pattern that was cloud like but I'm not quite there yet!
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| copyright julie vaux 2013 |
I'm tried to make the character colors and a pattern that was cloud like but I'm not quite there yet!
Saturday, 27 October 2012
Eroded Wei
"Negating" WEI with a Filter combo that produces an eroded effect.
ENJOY this and other Technozi experiments
Why not follow me?
Monday, 22 October 2012
Blue FEI
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Chinese Typographic design the stroke problem ... and solution?
Chinese Typographic Design
the Stroke Problem ...
is also the solution.
I've been reading a few recent blogs on chinese typography and thinking about the problems of designing and using a font for such a large character set.
SVG filters may be a solution of short sections of text and titles but ... did I just type SVG?
Calligraphy texts claim most chinese characters can be reduced to variants of 6 - 8 basic strokes.
You may have seen a diagram based on the YUNG character used to illustrate that claim?
the Stroke Problem ...
is also the solution.
I've been reading a few recent blogs on chinese typography and thinking about the problems of designing and using a font for such a large character set.
SVG filters may be a solution of short sections of text and titles but ... did I just type SVG?
Calligraphy texts claim most chinese characters can be reduced to variants of 6 - 8 basic strokes.
You may have seen a diagram based on the YUNG character used to illustrate that claim?
Now what if Chinese text entry used a SVG based method of moving and joining a limited set of basic strokes into simple and complicated characters.
a Point click and drag with the mouse or a finger or stylus method that could work on tablets phones or other computers?
Could Scaleable Vector Graphics be the answer?
Thursday, 11 October 2012
Golden Gao
GOLDEN GAO
Want to do a metallic effect?
I applied Inkscape filters over a unihan generated svg.
You try it too!
Look up the unicode or unihan for a character then use text and control u
with that character and once you have your svg add any filter you like!
Friday, 5 October 2012
Purple Rainbow ZI
How did I get this image! READ ON!
Inkscape's latest version includes three different rainbow effect filter!
Start by generating a SVG file by entering the Unihan code for this or any other character using text and then control U type the code and hit enter.
Got your SVG? Up to the filters menu and then down to textures.
You might also want to add drop shadow at a very low setting plus 1 or use stroke as well?
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