Perceptually tuned generation of grayscale fonts

A new approach to grayscale font generation improves on the fuzzy characters produced by existing methods by incorporating the expertise of type designers into rules for character-outline weight and phase control. The method we propose for synthesizing high-contrast grayscale characters relies on th...

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Published inIEEE computer graphics and applications Vol. 15; no. 6; pp. 78 - 89
Main Authors Hersch, R.D., Betrisey, C., Bur, J., Gurtler, A.
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY IEEE 01.11.1995
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Character generation
Computer displays
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
Fitting
Fuzzy control
Gray-scale
Humans
Nonlinear filters
Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry
Phase control
Production
Smoothing methods
Graphics
Gray scale
Smoothing
Phase control
Computer graphics
Spacing
Printed character
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Summary:A new approach to grayscale font generation improves on the fuzzy characters produced by existing methods by incorporating the expertise of type designers into rules for character-outline weight and phase control. The method we propose for synthesizing high-contrast grayscale characters relies on the set of visual rules that type designers have derived from their many years of manual design. We call our grayscaling method 'perceptually tuned font generation', because it is based on human perception-that of both the designer and the reader.< >
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ISSN:0272-1716
1558-1756
DOI:10.1109/38.469511