Perceptually-Tuned Grayscale Characters Based on Parametrisable Component Fonts

Abstract. Our component-based parametrisable font system is a newly developed font description and reproduction technology. It incorporates for each basic character shape a software method responsible for the synthesis of an instance of that character. A given font is synthesized by providing appropriate font parameters to these character synthesis methods. Numerous concrete fonts can be derived by simply varying the parameters. Such variations offer high flexibility for synthesizing derived fonts (variations in condensation, weight and contrast) and enable saving a considerable amount of storage space. This paper shows that with component-based parametrisable fonts, high quality perceptually-tuned grayscale characters can be generated without requiring hinting information. Generating perceptually-tuned grayscale characters with parametrized component-based fonts consists in automatically adapting the phase of some of the character’s parameters in respect to the underlying grid and i...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: DDEP
• Authors: Changyuan Hu, Roger D. Hersch
• Keywords: Component-based Parametrisable Fonts, DDEP 2000, Document Analysis, Font, Perceptually-tuned Grayscale Characters