The Calligraphy Influence On Chinese Character Design

The calligraphy is Chinese writing art the treasure, is one kind ofnational spirit symbol. The calligraphy semantics is very broad, itsupports of insight reads with the esthetic two big main functions.The calligraphy is takes the written object by the Chinese characterart. The Chinese character is the calligraphy creation foundation.Chinese typeface design is an overall concept, it has contains therich content and the ever changing design manifestation. Chinesetypeface design is refers to the people to carry on the artisticdesign to the Chinese character the activity and the process. Lookedfrom the historical development angle that, Chinese typeface designexperienced the ancient times writing art design, the traditional finearts character has designed the modern Chinese typeface design thedevelopment evolution, this process production, the inheritance andthe development fully have manifested the Chinese writing art designcreativity and is esthetic. Ancient times the writing design engravedincluding the earthenware draws the mark, the bronze engravedinscription, the insect bird article,竹木简文,八体书,瓦当文, the money article, the blackboard writing, thepaper-cut character, the copper washes the character, the Indiawriting, the vulture version Song typeface and so on;The traditional fine arts character production is take practical as afoundation, writes is simple is the principle, with industrial arttheory frame close correlation. It including each kind of Songtypeface fine arts character, blackbody fine arts character,handwritten form fine arts character as well as take design formprinciple as modelling basis anomalous form fine arts character and soon. The modern Chinese typeface design is take the traditional finearts character design as a foundation, launches by the modern planedesign theory and the method, take modern vision transmission languageas an instruction new typeface design form. In the design, itemphasizes the design foundation the training and the design thoughtraise. The calligraphy and Chinese typeface design has the same carrier -Chinese character. Although two development directions different, themanifestation different, the esthetic interest is different, but theachievement has the together design main body two kind of artisticshape, has the extremely close mutual relation, the calligraphyesthetic form has had the significant influence to Chinese typefacedesign. Mainly displayed in the bronze engraved inscription, the birdseal script,瓦当文center, carves the version block letter - "theSong typeface" and so on each kind of ancient times article design,each traditional fine arts character and in modern Chinese typefacedesign design process. The calligraphy development impelled Chinesetypeface design advancement. If the Chinese character culture has likea deep-rooted and flourishing big tree, the calligraphy and Chinesetypeface design then is the green leaf, the flowers, the fruit whichon this tree grows comes out. They to the Chinese character take themain body together, through unceasing vision digging, mutuallyaffects, mutually seeped, has facilitated two kind of cultural contentextremely high artistic form.This article from the traditional calligraphy study, art study angleresearch Chinese typeface design, in detail elaborated the ancienttimes writing art design, the traditional fine arts character and themodern Chinese character art design calligraphy performance, explainedthe calligraphy by the concrete example to these three influences.Then expounds Chinese character signifying in the design and theinformation; We may obtain from the calligraphy formal language andthe esthetic language, display it rich to change the evolution, thestructure type and lots forms; We can take Chinese character artprocessing as the turning point, launches the national style thediscussion and the experiment, causes this research to obtain the truevalue.