Font Layout Design Experiment Based on the Context of Wooden Elements in Shanxi Ancient Architecture

Abstract

As one of the representative section of Shanxi ancient architecture, the wooden elements of Shanxi ancient architecture are the figurative carriers of humanistic spirit and historical civilisation. It has typical regional characteristics, and its remains are complete and diverse, with a more integral chronological span. Using font layout design as a method of visual transformation to carry out research and analysis based on the wooden elements of ancient architecture in Shanxi, the presentation of the theme is more vivid and novel, with a clear venation.In order to explore the font layout design based on the context of the wooden elements of ancient architecture in Shanxi, the wooden elements has been taken as the research object, the composition and characteristics of these wooden elements are analysed through the inductive method, the literature review method, and the case study method. Then the intrinsic grid system is extracted and condensed. These grid systems are used as the basis, and font layout design is used as the entry point to explore the applicability of font layout design in the context of wooden elements of ancient architecture in Shanxi based on the characteristics of wooden elements.