字体设计意为对文字按视觉设计规律加以整体的精心安排。字体设计具有两大基本功能:信息传播与视觉审美。它随着时代和科学技术的进步而不断地变化着。汉字和拉丁字母文字都是起源于图形符号,经过各自几千年的演化发展,最终形成了各具特色的文字体系,在平面设计中发挥重要作用。 Font design means that the text according to the law of visual design as a whole to the careful arrangement. Font design has two basic functions: information dissemination and visual aesthetic. It is constantly changing with the progress of the times and science and technology. Chinese characters and Latin alphabet are originated from the graphic symbols. After several thousand years of evolution, they eventually formed their own distinctive writing system and played an important role in graphic design.