:“Ten years of sharpening a sword: Type designers’ journey to safeguard their rights and fight against infringements to defend justice!”-Font Tutorial免费ppt模版下载-道格办公

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“You should do something about infringement!” A netizen made this hard-core reply to Ding Yi’s rights protection post 7 years ago.

In 9 years, we have independently designed and developed 99 kinds of 136 Chinese character library products. The 10-square-meter workshop records the font designer Ding Yi’s polishing of the square fonts day after day.

As the founder of the rare independent font development agency Zaozigongfang in China, Ding Yi has come all the way from the Chinese market where copyright awareness is weak. In order to protect his rights, he has confronted Hunan Satellite TV and scolded JD.com, claiming that he has zero tolerance for copyright infringement!

When it comes to font design, his eyes immediately soften:

"It would be better to make the font slower than to make it the best."

▲ Ding Yi, founder of Zaozi Studio

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A life changed by an art class

When I was in junior high school, education was still exam-oriented. The main courses were mathematics, physics and chemistry, and there were almost no art classes, but we were given one once.

▲The documentary footage of Ding Yi filmed by BONTV in 2013

Later I went to write store signs for business people, word for word money. Earn money to support yourself through the art of writing artistic calligraphy.

After I got a computer in 1998, I learned about fonts and began to understand different fonts. At that time, I was writing artistic calligraphy while working part-time while studying, and gradually mastered systematic graphic design knowledge.

You must have great interest in doing this, Otherwise, you will really be unable to sit still!

In 2001, I got the opportunity to go to Shanghai to do graphic design "under the banyan tree", and later went to Beijing to work as the design director of a fashion group.

At the end of 2008, with a little savings, I

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