Towards a Universal Auto-Hinting System for Typographic Shapes

Real-Time Grid Fitting of Typographic Outlines

This paper describes an auto-hinting algorithm to grid fit glyph outlines. Instead of generating new hints for font files or font editors, the computations are done in real-time while rendering the glyph, posing strong efficiency constraints. A freely available implementation can be found in the FreeType font rendering library.

Extraction of Typographic Elements from Outline Representations of Fonts

Digital typefaces for computer graphics and multimedia applications must be capable of supporting operations such as font variations, transformations, deformations and blending. A powerful implementation of such operations must rely on the inherent typographic attributes of the typeface. However, even today's most advanced typeface representations support only geometric outline representations ...

Structure Extraction and Automatic Hinting of Chinese Outline Characters

In spite of a worldwide trend towards the use of outline fonts for displays and for printing devices, they are still not very common in the east Asian countries where Chinese characters are used. The reason for this is that the complex, structured shapes of Chinese characters take a long time to design and develop. Several systems have proposed automatic generation of outline fonts from the ori...

Towards universal neural nets: Gibbs machines and ACE

We study a class of neural nets Gibbs machines which are a type of variational auto-encoders, designed for gradual learning. They offer an universal platform for incrementally adding newly learned features, including physical symmetries, and are directly connected to information geometry and thermodynamics. Combining them with classifiers, gives rise to a brand of universal generative neural ne...

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage