We introduce the concept of reactive typography with the aim of exploiting the nature of electronic text in the design of interfaces to a shared information space. The usefulness of reactive typography is gauged through a few simple experiments. We describe how reactive typography can be used as a medium for in-context data visualisation and argue how this investigation is related to the presen...

Reverse engineering of typefaces has been an active research area of digital typography. However, past research works are limited to typographic parameters extraction and curve fitting, and no reverse-engineering equivalent of any classical digital typesetting software (e.g. METAFONT compiler, LTEX package) exist to date. Interestingly, the rise of cloud computing has made large scale reverse t...

McDermott [12,13] introduced the concept “Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity”. In this paper, we explore how Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation can meet Natural Typography, and how the conventions for expressing mathematics that humans understand can cause us difficulties when designing mechanised systems.

Typography plays an important role in publishing industry, and typically different typographies are needed for different use cases. However, designing a new font is very expensive and time-consuming, especially for Chinese, which involves a huge amount of characters. Some semi-automatic typography synthesis approaches have been proposed. These methods utilize structural commonalities to simplif...

Much sociolinguistic research discusses differences between male and female language. In this paper we consider the language of Internet Relay Chat (IRC), studying if and how non-standard typography depends on the gender of the writer. We distinguish two kinds of non-standard typography that are typical of IRC users: technology-conditioned and voluntary. Our results show that use of non-standar...

research interests are multimodality, social semiotics and critical discourse analysis. 139 visual communication 4(2) 138 visual communication 4(2) INTRODUCTION I began studying visual communication as a linguist concerned with the discourses, genres and styles of media texts, 20 years ago. It had become increasingly obvious to me that it was no longer adequate to study just the linguistic aspe...

The contribution describes the formulation of study activities within the selected LMS particular from the mathematical task point of view. The field activities are based primarily on tests drawn from the automatically generated online questions. The paper demonstrates solutions to several problems related to the creation of parameterized questions for the domain of math/science. These are main...