[Tex/LaTex] Typeset Chinese Calligraphy Characters

Question

Does LaTeX allow me to typeset Chinese calligraphy – styled characters such as the following? If so, how? Is there a font similar to the one used by this example?

Answer 1

The 4 basic typefaces for typography are 宋 (or 明), 黑, 楷, 仿宋, where 楷 is the calligraphic one.

A set of free OpenType fonts for Simplified Chinese, Fandol fonts, are available in CTAN (TeX Live, MiKTeX).

% !TeX encoding = UTF-8
% !TeX program = xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\newCJKfontfamily\kaishu{FandolKai-Regular.otf}
\newCJKfontfamily\bkai{BKAI00MP.TTF}
\begin{document}
\kaishu 楷书 (FandolKai-Regular)

\bkai 楷書 (AR PL KaitiM Big5)
\end{document}

For Traditional Chinese, 文鼎 (Arphic) published a free 中楷 font (AR PL KaitiM Big5), which is available in most Linux distributions.

There are also a lot of commercial Chinese calligraphic typefaces, but you need to buy the fonts. For example, there is a collection of fonts distributed with Chinese version of Microsoft Office.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\begin{document}
\CJKfontspec{STXingkai} 华文行楷 (STXingkai)

\CJKfontspec{FZShuTi} 方正舒体 (FZShuTi)
\end{document}