DynaFont RareBook Fonts: DFRareBook-Willow

With the call from the Emperor,
The souls that have slept for hundreds of thousands of years awaken…
Mounting on their horses from all corners of the earth,
Transcribing the glamour of the time when they built this empire.
Ancient books style entering the Oscars of the eastern design award

As we open the yellowed ancient texts, the characters and sentences all carry the weight of knowledge in an elegant manner. In a world before computers, literati document their talents and emotions with words, while craftsmen spread knowledge with engravings. All forms of communication were created through the warmth of the hands. The designers wish to apply the classic method and reproduce the image of ancient texts using the font technology of today.
The ancient text fonts are born from the limited edition ancient books from National Palace Museum and those collected from the common people. Five sets of books with beautiful, classic, and elegant texts were selected, namely the Siku Quanshu, Yuanfeng Leigao, Tang baijia Shixuan, Tiangong Kaiwu, and Fan Bozi Shiji. The DynaFont team spent six and conquered various difficulties, finally creating fonts that were rich in cultural depth. The font's perfect embodying of historical values through design won the Japan good Design Award in 2014, adding a classic and vintage style into the “Oscars of the eastern design world.”
The Story of the DFRareBook-Willow starts with The Qianlong Emperor

Qianlong Emperor often pondered ways to make the glory of his kingdom known to others and figured “soft power” to be a good tactic, since it displayed the magnanimity of a large empire while also satisfying his love for art and literature. Therefore, in the year 1773, the Qianlong Emperor announced to collect books from across the empire, from which more than 3,000 valuable books were selected to be rearranged, collated, and transcribed in a standard format. The famous Ji Xiaolan was one of the chief editors. It took nearly a decade to finally complete the extensive collection of Siku Quanshu.

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Thousands of handwritings, each a challenge for the designer

Finally, with many years of experience and patience, the designers chose suitable fonts from the sea of texts, analyzing and picking brushstrokes one by one. With the help of modern technology, the Chinese characters of Siku Quanshu were transformed into modern font products that allow contemporaries a taste of the mellow aesthetics of ancient texts.
The characteristics of DFRareBook-Willow

▼Example of DyanFont RareBook-Willow:

Usage
The swaying lines of DFRareBook-Willow make it suitable in texts that stress a handwritten style, such as collections of poems or articles. It can also be used in titles to express a classical image.
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