Sources
Historical character forms. The oracle-bone, bronze, seal and clerical forms on every Orasinica poster are reproduced from the Xiaoxuetang 小學堂 character-evolution databases of the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica. Glyph images and glyph data obtained through the Xiaoxuetang query interface are released under CC0 1.0. Each poster names the oracle bone, bronze vessel, dictionary, bamboo slip or stele its forms come from.
Modern character. Set in TW-Kai 全字庫正楷體, © Ministry of Digital Affairs (Taiwan), from the CNS11643 全字庫 open-data release, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Paintings. The paintings are AI-generated images (OpenAI image generation), then selected, checked and composed by hand with the verified character forms. Print masters are enlarged with Real-ESRGAN, and the character forms are re-composited from vector sources at print resolution.
Orasinica — from the oracle bones to the Chinese characters written today. A project of Myrikos.