FontNet: Closing the gap to font designer performance in font synthesis

Font synthesis has been a very active topic in recent years because manual font design requires domain expertise and is a labor-intensive and time-consuming job. While remarkably successful, existing methods for font synthesis have major shortcomings; they require finetuning for unobserved font styl...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Ammar Ul Hassan Muhammad, Choi, Jaeyoung
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 13.05.2022
Subjects
Computer architecture
Design
Embedding
Image resolution
Synthesis
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Summary:Font synthesis has been a very active topic in recent years because manual font design requires domain expertise and is a labor-intensive and time-consuming job. While remarkably successful, existing methods for font synthesis have major shortcomings; they require finetuning for unobserved font style with large reference images, the recent few-shot font synthesis methods are either designed for specific language systems or they operate on low-resolution images which limits their use. In this paper, we tackle this font synthesis problem by learning the font style in the embedding space. To this end, we propose a model, called FontNet, that simultaneously learns to separate font styles in the embedding space where distances directly correspond to a measure of font similarity, and translates input images into the given observed or unobserved font style. Additionally, we design the network architecture and training procedure that can be adopted for any language system and can produce high-resolution font images. Thanks to this approach, our proposed method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art font generation methods on both qualitative and quantitative experiments.
ISSN:2331-8422