Examples of the five major styles of calligraphy:
zhuanshu, lishu, kaishu, xingshu and caoshu as well as two special styles.

Caoshu grass script

Zhuanshu seal script            Xingshu running script

Kaishu regular script                        Lishu clerk script

Slender gold script

Jade tendon seal script

The regular script of this coin became the most popular typeface 
used today: the Song script (D. Ren p. 73). 

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