Influence Of Calligraphy Aesthetics On Chinese Font Design

With the historical changes of Chinese civilization of five thousand years, traditional Chinese calligraphy come a long historical process. Along the path of time, traditional art of calligraphy develops and evolutes gradually, its emergence and development is inseparable from the Chinese character itself. In a sense, calligraphy generates with the Chinese character, also progresses with it.The arrival of the digital age makes computer technology available more widely. Once the images and text which need a long time to process, now can be quickly complete with new technology. Advances in technology development bring a bright future for Chinese font design. However a good design concept you want to pass need to start from the nature of traditional culture. After the invention of woodblock printing, Times New Roman word for printing comes more mature in practice and summary.In recent years, with the development of information technology, communication of design community and sharing of design resources, foreign language font design continue to penetrate into the Chinese font design. Besides it makes the Chinese font more abundant, it also reminds the native font designer, what exactly does Chinese character lacks for? Nowadays, most of the domestic design draw lesson from others, the works they get are not only monotonous but also are lack of the deity of Chinese traditional culture. Very few people can experience the cultural foundation of Chinese font consciously. Thus the works which are just learning western design ideas are lacking for connotations and abundance in font type. To solve this problem, research is needed on the basis of Chinese traditional culture.The prototype of Chinese character, Oracle, is ancient hieroglyphics, as time goes on, the structure of the system of Chinese characters more sophisticated and refined. If the character is a dense tree, Chinese calligraphy font and font design are the two main branches of the tree. They have a common subject, Chinese characters. Although they have different expression, different direction of development, different standards of beauty, they are closely connected for the link between them,"Chinese characters". Calligraphy aesthetic awareness of Chinese font design will produce subtle influence. Calligraphy aesthetic consciousness is consciousness of aesthetic. Cultural connotations in the book’s calligraphic works perfectly embodies through calligraphic aesthetics, it can absorb nutrients from traditional calligraphy, so that today’s Chinese font design comes more flourish.This project seeks to reflect the aesthetic sense of the calligraphy art, and to find the perfect matched point with the Chinese font design, to excavate the aesthetic consciousness of traditional calligraphy art and re-apply it. Learn the specific performance of calligraphy aesthetics, use it to the modern design, and integrate the essence of calligraphy aesthetic into modern Chinese font design.Start from the same spot of calligraphy fonts and font design, find the aesthetic sense of Chinese font design which can be applied to facilitate the development of modern Chinese font design. Simply put, the present study is to investigate from the perspective "seeking common ground" which is based on the aesthetic consciousness of them. Through research, to highlight the importance of Chinese traditional culture inheritance, improve the added value of Chinese font design, enrich form and content of art and design, inherit and develop the Chinese traditional culture.