Traditionally, artistic characters refer to the fonts printed in the Song Dynasty, which are colored with a ruler and framed or written directly with a brush. Mainly used for posters, slogans and other posters for meetings and publicity. After development, bold characters (strokes are the same width) are added.

The so-called artistic figures are much broader, which can be seen in colorful flower-and-bird paintings. Various variants of deformed figures show various images, and there is even a so-called artistic signature that Lian Bi can't understand. Many typical words in the book, such as how to write a blackboard newspaper, are artistic words.

Therefore, calligraphy is based on imitation of Song Dynasty, which has the norms and characteristics of regular script.

Artistic characters are not regular script and have nothing to do with running script. It is a word that is freely developed by the writer's creative thinking, but it has no text.