Extraction of typographic elements from outline representations of fonts

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Shamir, Ariel ^a,b   Rappoport, Ari ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Heshev Development SR   (Israel)

Author keywords

Digital typography; Hinting; Outline fonts; Parametric typographic representations; Typographic elements

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; CHARACTER SETS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FINITE AUTOMATA; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER ANIMATION; DIGITAL TYPEFACE; FONTS; HIGH LEVEL PARAMETERIZATION; MULTIMEDIA; PARAMETRIC TYPOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION; TYPOGRAPHIC ELEMENTS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0030247202     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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