樂
Symbols Virtues
optimism
觀
ㄌㄜˋ ㄍㄨㄢ lè guān
Two versions of the same picture, and both are free with no account and no watermark. The first has no background at all, which is the one to send your artist — but a phone or computer photo viewer set to dark will show black strokes on dark grey and it can look like nothing downloaded. If that happens, use the second one: identical characters on a plain white background. Either way you get the characters on their own — the square and the faint guide lines you see above are not in the file. Each character is 1000px, so a two-character download is 2000×1000, and the script and layout are the ones you picked.
Script
Characters
Same in both
Layout
Rubbing mode: white on black, as a stone rubbing. The download is unaffected.
Expecting things to work out, and acting on that expectation.
Before you commit
Choose with care樂 has two readings: le for joy and yue for music. The character alone is ambiguous, and 樂觀 is what actually says optimism.
Japanese樂 appears in Japanese in its simplified form 楽, so the traditional glyph reads as Chinese or as deliberately old-style Japanese.
At small sizes樂 is fifteen strokes with fine detail on both shoulders; those small strokes merge badly below about two centimetres.
Meaning
Optimistic; inclined to see the favourable outcome.
The exact word for optimism, literally viewing things joyfully.
Other characters for “optimism”
What to do next
Pick the script and layout you want above, download the PNG, and send that file to your artist. Ask them to work from the file rather than redrawing the character freehand — that is where strokes go missing.
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