This style is marked by strokes of differing thickness with distinctive Serif-like decorative marks at their ends, sometimes known as “little triangles” in Chinese. Indeed, somewhat confusingly, what is now known as Songti is actually a product of the Ming Dynasty (1369-1644), when engravers and printers developed elements of earlier Song Dynasty (960-1279) printed characters into a full-fledged script style. Songti is by far the older of the two, though it’s not quite as old as the name suggests. Together, Heiti and Songti are the two leading modern Chinese typefaces. It is also starkly different from the more delicate Songti, or “Song Dynasty-style” typeface preferred by Chinese printers for books, newspapers, and other forms of literature for centuries. Literally “black-style,” Heiti is the dominant family of digital fonts in use on Chinese phones and computers around the world. This type of Chinese font is known as Heiti. At first glance, their component strokes seem to have a consistent thickness reminiscent of Latin Sans Serif typefaces like Helvetica. Get this free Chinese calligraphy app onto your iPhone or iPad from the App Store here.Turn on your mobile phone, set the system language to “Chinese,” and watch as the interface instantly converts to Chinese text.

Learn and improve Chinese penmanship using this free Yunzhang Chinese Calligraphy app on iPhone iPad.

Multi-language support: Support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English.

So many calligraphers and examples of calligraphy styles for each character.

Raster image library: A HD images library of Chinese calligraphy font, it retains more detail than vector library.

Vector image library: A vector images library of Chinese calligraphy font, it has a small size and no distortion at zoom.English dictionary: You can search Chinese characters by English words.Stroke index: You can search Chinese characters by first stroke and strokes count of it.Simplified conversion: Automatic identification input simplified and traditional Chinese characters, the query results are automatically merged simplified and traditional characters.Yunzhang Chinese Calligraphy app features:

Yunzhang calligraphy dictionary contains Seal script(篆书), Clerical script(隶书), Regular script(楷书), Semi-cursive script(行书), Cursive script(草书) five kinds of calligraphy fonts, more than one hundred thousand calligraphy images, authors include Wang Xizhi(王羲之), Wang Xianzhi(王献之), Yan Zhenqing(颜真卿), Liu Gongquan(柳公权), Ouyang Xun(欧阳询), Mi Fu(米芾), Chu Suiliang(褚遂良), Zhao Mengfu(赵孟頫), Zhi Yong(智永), Huai Su(怀素) and so on.

Chinese style calligraphy font