In Japan, for example, middle school children fulfill a minimum two years of practice in class. Calligraphy is a part of the primary school experience for many students. 3 In countries that have developed their own calligraphy traditions such as Japan, Taiwan, and Korea, it not only represents an artistic practice but a philosophy embedded in thriving communities that have developed unique approaches to character design. Today as in the past, calligraphy is enjoyed as a form of meditation, relaxation, and mind-body practice. Today Huai Su’s writing is used as a classical example for calligraphers around the world who wish to deepen their understanding of this style. 江嶺之間。 From the Long River to the Five Mountain Ranges 積有歲時。 Collecting many years of experience, 精心草聖。 A dedicated sage of the cursive style.

小宗伯張正言。 and the minor ritual official Zhang Zheng Yan 1 In the 25-foot-long scroll, he describes his many exploits and achievements with monk-like humility:

He eventually impressed important officials of his age and gained fame for an especially gestural abstracted form of Chinese hand writing called tsao-shu (草書), which literally means “grass writing.” His autobiography is one of the only surviving examples of his writing left. Born in Changsha, he traveled to the western capital in search of knowledge and advanced calligraphy training. For information regarding other uses of Source Han Sans Traditional Chinese, see copyright and license details for Source Han Sans TW ExtraLight, Source Han Sans TW Light, Source Han Sans TW Normal, Source Han Sans TW Regular, Source Han Sans TW Medium, Source Han Sans TW Bold, and Source Han Sans TW Heavy.The monk Huai Su (懷素, 737-799 CE) grew 10,000 banana trees outside his home so he could use the leaves for calligraphy practice in place of rice paper which was rare and expensive in Tang dynasty China (618-907 AD). You're free to use it with your Adobe Fonts account just as you would any other font in the Adobe Fonts library. Source Han Sans Traditional Chinese is available via an open source license. Typefaces released as Adobe Originals are the result of years of work and study, regarded as industry standards for the ambition and quality of their development.

Today the Type team’s mission is to make sophisticated and even experimental typefaces that explore the possibilities of design and technology. The Adobe Originals program started in 1989 as an in-house type foundry at Adobe, brought together to create original typefaces of exemplary design quality, technical fidelity, and aesthetic longevity.

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