The award ceremony for the 3rd Hanyi Font Star Competition was held in Beijing on April 14. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The award ceremony for the 3rd Hanyi Font Star Competition was held in Beijing on April 14.

The competition, organized by the Chinese font producing company Hanyi Fonts, is a professional font design event.

The competition's evaluation process started on April 10, and brought together top font designers from both China and abroad for a four-day examination of the entries, which were submitted by more than 2,000 font design lovers nationwide over a period of two years.

The competition was divided into three categories - headline Chinese fonts, body text Chinese fonts and Western language fonts groups.

The competition has been held three times since 2012. And some of the previous winning designs have become popular commercially.