Pythagoras proposed "the myriad things all count", and Plato constructed his "ideological world" with "numbers", thereafter beauty of "mathematics" was widely reflected in ancient Greek and Roman architecture. By the time of Italian Renaissance, humanists had started to be used to dissect ancient Roman inscriptions with numerical and geometric methods. Western font design is rooted in the great tradition of western civilization, "the mathematicalization of natural world research", which has deeply influenced the world since modern times. Here, the font reflects not only the aesthetic taste, but also the fundamental problem of the western cognition approach to the natural world. So is it possible for Chinese character design to find a path rooted in its own civilization with the changes of artificial intelligence and other technologies in the future? Is there a bridge between the past and the future? We hope to discuss these issues from the perspective of ideological history, so that we can clarify the particularity of Chinese character design and pursue a new possible path of development in the future.