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FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE
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Synthesis of Parametrisable Fonts by Shape Components
Page by Basile Schaeli of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, that studies the breakdown of glyphs in a few basic forms (serifs, rectangles or stems, curved elements). They go on: Using this method, we have developed a prototype of our component based parametrisable font synthesis system. Fonts are characterized by the font independent structure of individual characters, by typeface category information (serif types, junction types, squareness and obliqueness of round parts), by font-dependent global parameters and by further font-dependent parameters, referring either to a group of characters or to a single character. By varying global parameters, derived fonts can be created which vary in width, weight, contrast and shape. Such derived fonts are useful for producing high-quality condensed text, for varying the character weight and for optical scaling. By example, they show thusly parametrized versions of Times, Helvetica and Bodoni. |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |