Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts] The Cursive = Chinese Kaiti equivalent (#4606)

As an example to the "great variety of fonts in China" mentioned in document, I have checked website of various Chinese font vendors and main types of fonts I have seen are:

Main families: 黑体: Hei (=Gothic), 宋体: Song (=Ming), 仿宋: FangSong, 楷体: Kai, 圆体: Yuen (=MaruGothic)
See https://www.w3.org/TR/clreq/#commonly_used_chinese_typefaces for description and example of the first four, and Yuen is like a version of Hei with rounded corners, which I think it can be considered as a rounded font.

Main calligraphy style: 行书: Hsin (=Semi-Cursive), 隶书: Li (=Clerical), 草书: Tsao (=Cursive), 篆书: Zuan (=Seal)
See http://www.art-virtue.com/styles/ for description and example of these styles. Actually 楷体: Kai (=Regular script in this context) mentioned above is also one of these calligraphy style but it's used frequent enough in modern day Chinese typesetting to be count as one of the main font family, according to my understanding. Functionally they are probably similar to e.g. Roman and Blackletter for Latin characters

And then there are also 手写: Handwriting for handwriting fonts written with a ball pen/ink pen that doesn't fit into any of the aforementioned traditional calligraphy style.

Among these calligraphy styles, there are also some smaller font families like 魏碑: Wei Bei, 欧楷: Ou Kai, 颜楷: Yan Kai and some others that are more specific styles of those calligraphy styles listed above. They are generally font styles that are developed based on historical antique writing samples written during a specific time or by a specific person, reflecting characteristics of those samples. The 仿宋: FangSong style mentioned as one of the main family above is also one example of such, but it's used frequent enough in modern day Chinese typesetting to be count as one of the main font family.

And then there are also various creative/artistic/decorative fonts, like 娃娃体 baby fonts, 卡通体 cartoon/comic fonts, 综艺体 variety show font, POP体 POP font, 古印体 ancient seal font, 少女体 young girl font, 勘亭流体 kanteiryu font, or other functional fonts like fonts with integrated zhuyin/pinyin ruby or font that have mapped most common simplified/traditional glyphs to corresponding glyph in counterpart's system, which are all established styles across different Chinese font vendors.

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