Chinese Typography & Hand Lettering

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Writing Drawing Writing What is Hand Lettering / 手寫 / 手写?

Hand lettering is essentially drawing letters. It's different from calligraphy, where we use basic strokes to form letters and words. With hand lettering, each letter is carefully thought. ... The letters from a hand-lettered alphabet are usually illustrated and each one is meant to be a completely different piece. What is Hand Lettering / 手寫 / 手写?

Hand lettering is essentially drawing letters. It's different from calligraphy, where we use basic strokes to form letters and words. With hand lettering, each letter is carefully thought. ... The letters from a hand-lettered alphabet are usually illustrated and each one is meant to be a completely different piece.

English cursives yong zi ba hua What is Typography / 活版印刷/?

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, and adjusting the space between pairs of letters. A text is a sequence of words. A text stays the same no matter how it's rendered. It is a style and appearance of printed matter. What is Typography / 活版印刷/?

West vs. East, who invented first?

Johannes Gutenberg invented mechanical printing Typography with movable type was invented in in about 1440, of modern movable type printing 11th-century China by Bi Sheng (990–1051) during the from individually cast, reusable letters set together Song Dynasty. His movable type system was in a form (frame or chase). manufactured from ceramic materials, and clay type printing continued to be practiced in China until the Qing Dynasty. What is Typography / 活版印刷/?

Typography industrialization: Introduced in 1914, fully automated 20th-century presses, such as the Kluge and "Original" Heidelberg Platen (the "Windmill"), incorporated pneumatic sheet feed and delivery. What is Typography / 活版印刷/?

Typography modernization. What is Typography / 活版印刷/?

Typography then and now NOW did you get it?

What is the historical significance of Hand lettering and Typography?

What can we learn from these printing invention?

How can we seeking the innovation, but keeping the tradition at the same time?