摘要
西夏王朝同其璀璨的西夏文化和一种新构造的文字——西夏文——相互关联。这种文字随西夏的消亡逐渐被弃用,其历史与文化也逐渐被淡忘。19世纪末20世纪初,黑水城等地出土的大量西夏文文献,涵盖史学、艺术、法律、译著,成为西夏学建立与发展的重要基础。为承载西夏学信息化研究工作,中外专家基本完成了西夏文字的编码和西夏字体的设计开发工作。在信息化的今天,西夏字体作为西夏文化的载体,其字形正确性和字符完整性显得尤为重要。本文的研究源于初版Noto西夏宋体字体。该字体由谷歌公司于2019年发布,随即引致海内外专家的关注批评。进而笔者的设计团队承担起Noto西夏宋体的再设计项目,对原设计进行整体修改和升级,即在原有现代设计风格不变的前提下,努力体现西夏文字特有的美学特征,建构完整的西夏文字符集并纠正其中的错误,以使其适用于长文本、小字号阅读和光学识别。本文围绕Noto西夏宋体的再设计工作,总结出字体通用设计和西夏字体本地化的设计方法。
The Tangut dynasty left behind a brilliant Tangut culture and a new script,the Tangut script,which faded from the world’s memories and history and culture.In the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries,a large number of Tangut texts unearthed in Blackwater City and other places were excavated.Those texts covering history,art,law,and translation became the research basis of Tangutology.In order to do a better job of research and statistics on Tangutology,the experts from China and other countries completed the coding task of Tangut script as well as the design and the development of Tangut typefaces.In this information era,the correctness and completeness of the Tangut typeface have become very important as it is the carrier of Tangut culture.The study in this paper originated from the typeface design of the first version of Noto Serif Tangu,which Google released in 2019.The Noto Serif Tangu brought about the widespread attention and criticism of Tangutology exper ts of the world.The author’s design team undertook the redesign project,revising and updating the original design,keeping the modern style of the typeface and trying to make it ref lect the unique aesthetic characteristics of Tangut,designing a correct and complete character set,and developing a modern font suitable for long texts,small size reading and OCR(Optical Character Recognition).This article focuses on the redesign of Noto Serif Tangut and summarization of the universal type design method and the localization method of Tangut typeface.
作者
刘钊
杨翕丞
Zhao Liu;Xicheng Yang(Central Academy of Fine Arts,China;Chinese Division of the GRANSHAN Type Design Competition;University of Reading,UK)
关键词
西夏字体
Noto西夏宋体
字体设计方法
泛汉字字体
Tangut typeface
Noto Serif Tangut
type design method
generalized Han character typeface
