Growth of information technology has played a great role in connecting the world together. The to and fro of information is common in this world. Fonts play a key major role in this communication process in digital domain. Common encoding scheme for one language helps in loss-less digital communication. Indian fonts lacks in this zone, as no Indian font has standard encoding format for mapping ...

A search engine for font recognition is presented and evaluated. The intended usage is the search in very large font databases. The input to the search engine is an image of a text line, and the output is the name of the font used when rendering the text. After pre-processing and segmentation of the input image, a local approach is used, where features are calculated for individual characters. ...

Typographic characters implicitly incorporate structure elements such as stems, bars, round parts, arches and serifs, which are repeated throughout the characters of a font. Although this structure information is important when typographers design typefaces, it is however not explicitly described in today’s outline font technology. As a consequence, coherently varying the style of an outline fo...

V W enhances w by providing support for scalable fonts and thus achieving true device independence. V m turns w into a compact system (less than 10% of the size of traditional W ) , supports a printer driver definition language, supplements the T ) $ system with a number of new high-quality scalable typefaces, implements a variety of font effects (compression, shade, outline, shadow). Support o...

This thesis investigates the possibility to improve the quality of text composition. Two typographic extensions were examined: margin kerning and composing with font expansion. Margin kerning is the adjustments of the characters at the margins of a typeset text. A simplified employment of margin kerning is hanging punctuation. Margin kerning is needed for optical alignment of the margins of a t...

Language input is highly variable; phonological, lexical, and syntactic features vary systematically across different speakers, geographic regions, and social contexts. Previous evidence shows that language users are sensitive to these contextual changes and that they can rapidly adapt to local regularities. For example, listeners quickly adjust to accented speech, facilitating comprehension. I...