Abstract: If you have ever seen an image macro, the chances are you’ve seen Impact, a typeface so commonly used in these memes that it could be called ‘the meme font’. Its ubiquity within image macros is lar...

Abstract: Enterprise software pages, routinely used to conduct a variety of business-relevant tasks, must be clear and nonconfusing to experienced end users. A study was conducted to consider the impact of several page design factors (background gradient, font, and font size) on perceived ratings of page clarity, completion time, emotional valence (EV) from video, and several eye-tracking parameters. Twenty professional managers each completed 25 tasks on enterprise web pages designed with specific combinations of these factors. Highly rated pages had Tahoma and Larger fonts, compared to Calibri and Smaller fonts. The Gradient background did not influence ratings but did increase the search area and completion time. Although EV was not a sensitive measure across tasks, it was influenced by font differences in the first few seconds of page presentation. Overall, the use of background gradient was not supported, but both Tahoma and Larger fonts were supported for these enterprise pages.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for obtaining a font for a document includes determining each glyph of a font that is specified in contents of an electronic document, the determination identifying a subset of multiple glyphs included in the font, the subset determined on a first device that does not have the font stored thereon. The method includes generating on the first device a request to a second device based on the determination, the request identifying the subset to the second device. The method includes receiving, at the first device, information sent from the second device in response to the request and defining the subset of the multiple glyphs, the information not defining a remainder of the multiple glyphs other than the subset. The method includes generating on the first device a presentation of the electronic document using the received information, the presentation including the subset of the multiple glyphs.

Abstract: Purpose. At a fixed viewing distance (VD), reading speed increases with print size. It is not known if this holds forcomputer tasks when postures are not constrained. Reflective glare on a monitor may reduce productivity. The effects ofboth may be modified by age. We evaluated effects of age, font size, and glare on performance for visually demandingtext-based tasks on a computer.Methods. Nineteen young (18 to 35 years old) and eight older (55 to65 years old wearing progressive lenses that correctfor presbyopia) subjects participated in a study with two trial factors: font size (1.78, 2.23, and 3.56 mm) and glare(produced by bright light-emitting diode task light reflective off a matte liquid crystal display monitor). The monitorlocation wasfixed butsubjects wereallowed to change theirpostureandmove thechair.Subjectsperformed visualtasksthat required similar visual skills to common tasks such as Internet use, data entry, or word processing.Results. Productivity, accuracy, and VD increased as font size increased. For each 1-mm increase in font size, there wasa mean productivity gain of 3 correct clicks/min and an improvement in accuracy of 2%. Font size increase also led tolowered perceived task difficulty. Adding reflective glareonthemonitorsurfaceledtoareducedVDbuthadnoeffecton productivity or accuracy. With visual corrections for presbyopia, age had no effect on these relationships.Conclusions. Productivity is improved when the font is increased from 1.78 or 2.23 to 3.56 mm for text-based computertasks. The largest font size corresponds to a visual angle of font of 23.4 arcmin. This visual angle of font is above the highend of ISO recommendations (International Organization for Standardization, 1992, 2011). The findings may be usefulfor setting the font sizes for computers and for training office workers.(Optom Vis Sci 2014;91:682Y689)Key Words: video display terminal, electronic display, character size, viewing distance, visual angle of font, visual acuityreserve, office ergonomics, usability, productivity

Abstract: In recent year's availability of economical image capturing devices in low cost products like mobile phones has led a significant attention of researchers to the problem of recognizing text in images. Recognition of scene text is a challenging problem compared to the recognition of printed documents. In this work a novel approach is proposed to recognize text in complex background natural scene, word formation from recognized text, spelling checking and word translation into user defined language and finally overlay translated word onto the image. The proposed approach is robust to different kinds of text appearances, including font size, font style, color, and background. Combining the respective strengths of different complementary techniques and overcoming their shortcomings, the proposed method uses efficient character detection and localization technique and multiclass classifier to recognize the text accurately. The proposed approach successfully recognizes text on natural scene images and does not depend on a particular alphabet, text background. It works with a wide variety in size of characters and can handle up to 20 degree skewness efficiently.

Abstract: The visual similarity between fonts is determined using visual descriptors of character images in the fonts. A model used to generate the visual descriptors may include a set of letterforms, keypoint locations on each letterform, and detail shapes at zero, one, or more detail areas on the letterform. In some instances, the model may also set forth one or more geometric measurements. Based on the model, a visual descriptor may be generated for a character image from a font by identifying a letterform of the character image, identifying keypoint locations on the character image, and identifying a detail shape at any detail areas on the character image. Additionally, the visual descriptor may include any geometric measurement defined by the model. The visual similarity between two fonts may be determined as a function of the differences between pairs of visual descriptors for the fonts that correspond with the same letterform.

Abstract: Today, digital multimedia messages have drawn more and more attention due to the great achievement of computer and network techniques Nevertheless, text is still the most popular media for people to communicate with others Many fonts have been developed so that product designers can choose unique fonts to demonstrate their idea gracefully It is commonly believed that handwritings can reflect one’s personality, emotion, feeling, education level, and so on This is especially true in Chinese calligraphy However, it is not easy for ordinary users to customize a font of their personal handwritings In this study, we performed a process reengineering in font generation We present a new method to create font in a batch mode Rather than to create glyphs of characters one by one according to their codepoints, people create glyphs incrementally in an on-demand manner A Java Implementation is developed to read a document image of user handwritten Chinese characters, and make a vector font of these handwritten Chinese characters Preliminary experiment result shows that the proposed method can help ordinary users create their personal handwritten fonts easily and quickly

Abstract: The invention provides a method and device for displaying fonts in a terminal device The method includes the steps of obtaining character codes of to-be-displayed characters in the terminal device; obtaining vector diagram information of the fonts corresponding to the obtained character codes from a font resource library of a server, wherein the font resource library is used for storing the character codes and the vector diagram information of the fonts corresponding to the character codes; drawing the obtained vector diagram information of the fonts in a page of the terminal device to display the fonts of the to-be-displayed characters By means of the method and device, the problem that the system fonts do not support page displaying in the terminal device can be effectively solved, and the displaying efficiency of the non-system fonts in the terminal device can be further improved

Abstract: In some implementations, a computer system for obfuscating text in an electronic document can include an analysis module, a font data repository, a re-coding module, and a data interface The analysis module is operable to identify strings of text from an electronic document The font data repository can include one or more character maps that correlate, for each character map in the one or more character maps, a first set of characters with a respective different second set of characters The re-coding module can generate a re-coded document by re-mapping, using a particular one of the one or more character maps, the identified strings of text into corresponding obfuscated strings of text, and by replacing the identified strings of text with the corresponding obfuscated strings of text from the electronic document The data interface can transmit the re-coded document to a client computing device

Abstract: In its operation, every electrical device generates electromagnetic disturbance signals. They can be due to the operation of components of the device (step motors, heaters, control circuits, or electronic circuits). Quite often such signals have the characteristics of the data processed on such devices. They can have the form of a text. In each case, such signals are undesirable. However, they can be used to reproduce such data or, in other word, to conduct the process of electromagnetic infiltration. In the case of video signals (graphic mode of a computer, a laser printer), then the reproduced data can be presented in the form of graphic images that can be easily assimilated by people. Such images are transformed in order to find the data that is of interest. Reproduction of such data may lead to a disclosure of classified information. There are many solutions that should counter the process of reproduction of such data. Such solutions are implemented in the design of equipment and influence, to a lesser or greater extent, the appearance of the equipment, as well as the related organizational methods. A new method that can be used in electromagnetic protection of process data is a software solution. It involves the use of appropriate computer fonts. The article presents the possibilities related to shaping the form of video signals. For this purpose, appropriate shapes of the letter characters of computer fonts were recommended. Unlike characters in standard fonts (Arial and Times New Roman), they do not have the unique decorative elements (serif), such as hooks, connectors, heels, arches, and ribbons, and consist of only vertical and horizontal lines [5]. There are no slanted and crooked lines. Due to this, the characters are often very similar. This greatly contributes to the impossibility to differentiate between the letter characters in the reproduced image that is filled with noise and numerous disturbances. The graphic elements being searched, having the form of strings of letters, cannot be read. The digital image processing methods intended to improve the quality of the image are quite ineffective. In search for graphic characters, such as computer font letter and digit characters, one can use methods based on the similarity of the standard with a portion of the analyzed image. However, when special fonts are used, the correlation method generates many false decisions, which also prevents reading text data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for fast making a vector font library. The system comprises a computer, a printer and a scanner. The method includes the steps of firstly, appointing character contents of a to-be-built font library and writing the same in a standard form through a machine; secondly, writing characters according to writing standards in the printed standard form through handwriting, and using the standard form as unit to collect the handwriting characters to obtain a plurality of form images; thirdly, segmenting the form images to obtain character closed contours, selecting some points as key points according to the character closed contours, and screening the key points to obtain optimal key point; fourthly, obtaining character vector contours according to the optimal key point, and generating the standard TrueType font library according to the character vector contours. The vector font library made by the method is high in quality, writing style of an original writer can be kept completely, no manual intervention is needed during font library generating, the high-quality standard font library is generated at one step by the scanned images, and batch production of personalized font libraries is facilitated.

Abstract: A method for Arabic and Farsi font recognition for determining the font of text using a nearest neighbor classifier, where the classifier uses a combination of features including: box counting dimension, center of gravity, the number of vertical and horizontal extrema, the number of black and white components, the smallest black component, the Log baseline position, concave curvature features, convex curvature features, direction and direction length features, Log-Gabor features, and segmented Log-Gabor features. The method is tested using various combination of features on various text fonts, sizes, and styles. It is observed the segmented Log-Gabor features produce a 99.85% font recognition rate, and the combination of all non-Log-Gabor features produces a 97.96% font recognition rate.

Abstract: The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers typeface and the machine-readable font OCR-B, which was adopted as an ISO standard, are milestones, as is his type for the Paris airports, which set new standards for signage types and evolved into the Frutiger typeface. With his corporate types, he helped to define the public profiles of companies such as the Japanese Shiseido line of cosmetics. In all he created some fifty types, including Ondine, Mridien, Avenir, and Vectora. Based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France, England, Germany, and Switzerland, this publication provides a highly detailed and accurate account of the type designers artistic development. For the first time, all of his types from the design phase to the marketing stage are illustrated and analyzed with reference to the technology and related types. Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture.

Abstract: This paper proposes FlexiFont, a system designed to generate personal font libraries from the camera-captured character images. Compared with existing methods, our system is able to process most kinds of languages and the generated font libraries can be extended by adding new characters based on the user's requirement. Moreover, digital cameras instead of scanners are chosen as the input devices, so that it is more convenient for common people to use the system. First of all, the users should choose a default template or define their own templates, then write the characters on the printed templates according to the certain instructions. After the users upload the photos of the templates with written characters, the system will automatically correct the perspective and split the whole photo into a set of individual character images. As the final step, FlexiFont will denoise, vectorize, and normalize each character image before storing it into a TrueType file. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of our system.

Abstract: A method may include receiving a request to render text from an application executing on at least one processor of a computing device, the request including a font usage description; determining, using the at least one processor, a display context in which the text is to be rendered on a output device communicatively coupled to the computing device; querying, using the at least one processor, a usage data source using the determined display context and font usage description to determine font characteristics for rendering the text; and rendering the text on the output device communicatively coupled to the computing device using the determined font characteristics.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain information regarding a size of a display screen of a display terminal that displays reflow format document data including a font with a set font size, a determining unit configured to determine whether the size of the display screen obtained from the information differs from a predetermined size, a setting unit configured to, if determined that the size of the display screen differs from the predetermined size, set the font size to a size determined based on the set font size, the size of the display screen, and the predetermined size, and if not determined that the size of the display screen differs from the predetermined size, keep the font size at the set font size, and a controlling unit configured to control the display screen to display the font at the font size set by the setting unit.

Abstract: Font graphs are defined having a finite set of nodes representing fonts and a finite set of undirected edges denoting similarities between fonts. The font graphs enable users to browse and identify similar fonts. Indications corresponding to a degree of similarity between connected nodes may be provided. A selection of a desired font or characteristics associated with one or more attributes of the desired font is received from a user interacting with the font graph. The font graph is dynamically redefined based on the selection.

Abstract: Font specific attributes, such as bold, italic and case can be used in knowledge mapping and information retrieval to encode additional data in texts, lists and labels to increase data density of visualizations; encode data quantitative data into search lists; and facilitate text skimming and refinement by visually promoting of words of interest

Abstract: The problem with e-texts are related to the way texts are displayed on a screen, with multiple and different aspects that affect legibility, making readers prefer to read a paper format rather than e-resources. This research describes the factors that affect the legibility of online texts aimed at obtaining a better understanding of the usability of electronic Arabic texts for learning purposes within the field of electronic reading; mainly reading Arabic texts for students aged 9 to 13. This study sets out three particular aims: (1) building a reading strategy for Arabic schoolbook in both formats electronic and paper format based on users’ cognitive and behavioural processes; (2) defining the influence of three typographical variables that affect reading Arabic texts on a screen (font size, font-type and line length); and (3) studying the efficiency of reading Arabic texts and the related factors impacting the efficiency of reading and comprehension. Based on the nature of the research questions and objectives, positivism and phenomenology are adopted as the underlying philosophy for this research. The empirical research was divided into three phases; the first phase focused on collecting data about using the internet among students in primary schools by means of a questionnaire. This has helped in the selection of samples and determined the extent of the students’ reluctance to read from a screen. The second phase was to investigate the reading process of school book in two formats [ paper and electronic format] to build reading model based on users’ cognitive and behavioural processes. The third phase was to examine the factors that affect negatively the usability of electronic texts by examining three issues: font size [10, 14, 16 and 18], font type [Arabic traditional, Arial, Times New Roman, Simplified Arabic, and Courier New], and line length [single column and double columns]. Observation was applied as a tool to collect the data. The study has made a significant contribution to the understanding of electronic reading of Arabic language. This contribution addressed five aspects: (1) Two models of reading process for schoolbook using Arabic language were built according to users’ interaction with the school textbook in two formats ( electronic and paper). These models will not only help define the interaction amongst users and e-books, but will also help designers to understand user behaviour of e-books and thereby to establish the most appropriate functions/features when building an e-book interface. (2) Identify the optimal font size for reading an Arabic script from screen by children aged 9 to 13. (3) Based on collecting data from experiments (2) and (3) and comparing this date with other researches that have done in the same field, new model explains the interaction between three topographical variables [font size, font type and line length] and their relationships with independent variables were provided. (4) Test a new display technique to improve the legibility of reading Arabic online texts by using colour to increase the ability to focus vision when moving from one line to another so as to improve the screen display. And (5) according to quantitative and qualitative several of the rules were recommended for designers and educators to follow when designing and presenting Arabic text on screen. On the other hand, some recommendations for future research have been derived from this thesis, such as the following. (1) Investigating the effect of the colour factor on improving the legibility of Arabic texts on screen for children, e.g. using different colours to distinguish between dots and vowels. (2) Exploring and developing an e-reading model based on all the factors recorded in the empirical studies in the reading field which will lead to building a theory on e- reading. (3) Investigating the influence of a variable effect reading process and the variables that have a positive or negative impact on it. (4) Applying a model that used colour to increase the ability to focus using different age-range and type of information such as journals or books.

Abstract: The invention discloses a browser font displaying and processing method and device. The browser font displaying and processing method includes the steps that when a browser performs font library initializing, a path of a custom font file of an operation system of a mobile terminal where the browser is located is obtained; the browser obtains the custom font file according to the path of the custom font file; the browser loads the custom font file; the browser displays the font corresponding to the custom font file through the loaded custom font file. Through the browser font displaying and processing method and device, the effect that the font of the browser is consistent with the custom font set on the operation system is realized.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of multimedia information safety, in particular to a method for embedment and extraction of PDF document hidden information according to a composite font The method for embedment comprises the steps that a data stream of a PDF document is read in; the composite font in the PDF document is searched for, the composite font appearing firstly serves as a target, transparent character codes in the composite font are found, and a transparent character code set is established; the hidden information is read and divided into sections, and the hidden information is mapped to elements in the transparent character code set in sections; one or more text objects are established through transparent character codes obtained through mapping; the text objects are written in an unzipped PDF page content stream; the content stream is zipped again and written in a file body ; according to the length of the content stream which is zipped again, a cross-reference list and an end of a file are updated, and a PDF document with the hidden information is formed The method for embedment and extraction of the PDF document hidden information according to the composite font is robust with respect to ordinary edition behaviors of documents

Abstract: In a font applying device on a client side in a computer system composed of the client and a server, an obfuscated font storing section stores an obfuscated font in which a character different from a character identified by the server based on a character code and having the same width of the character identified by the server is mapped to the character code. An obfuscated document receiving section receives an obfuscated document obtained by obfuscating document data as a result of converting the character code to a character code to which a character identified by the server based on the character code in the document data is mapped in the obfuscated font. A deobfuscation processing section identifies the character mapped in the obfuscated font to a character code included in the obfuscated document, and a display control section controls the display of the character.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method and a device for detecting a font structure of a handwriting character The method comprises the following steps: obtaining the handwriting character of a user and identifying the handwriting character of the user to obtain a corresponding standard character; determining an outer outline of the handwriting character of the user; and comparing and analyzing the outer outline of the handwriting character of the user and the outer outline of the pre-set standard character to generate a detection result of the font structure of the handwriting character of the user With the adoption of the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, whether the font structure of the handwriting character of the user is standard or not can be effectively judged so as to remind the user of revising the font structure problem of the own written character in time, and thus, the calligraphy practicing efficiency of the user is improved

Abstract: The invention belongs to the technical field of printing control, and discloses a method and a system for controlling font sizes of labels of steel coils. The method for controlling the font sizes of the labels of the steel coils comprises the following steps of acquiring the string length m of information to be printed; acquiring the printable length n of a label of a steel coil; calculating a theoretical pixel value p of printable fonts according to the proportional relation between the string length m and the printable length n; selecting the corresponding font sizes according to the theoretical pixel value p; and printing the label of the steel coil according to the selected font sizes. The invention also provides a system for controlling the font sizes of the labels of the steel coils to implement the method. The method and the system are mainly used for controlling printing of printing media such as labels, and the printed fonts are maximized on the basis that the information is printed completely, and the font identification is improved.