An Improved Representation for Stroke-based Fonts
| Citation: |
* Jakubiak, E.J.; Perry, R.N.; Frisken, S.F., "An Improved Representation for Stroke-based Fonts", ACM SIGGRAPH, ISBN: 1-59593-364-6, Article 137, July 2006 (ACM Press) |
| MERL Report: | TR2006-119 |
Because a typical Asian typeface can consist of more than 12,000 glyphs, traditional scalable outline-based fonts require ~5-10 MBs of memory. This requirement is particularly problematic in mobile devices (e.g. cell phones and PDAs) and embedded systems (e.g. car navigation systems)where memory is at a premium. Existing commercial solutions (e.g. by Bitstream and Monotype Imaging) represent glyphs using simplified uniform-width strokes. However, these light-weigh (~250 KBs) stroke-based fonts lack the detail, expressiveness, and variety needed for optimal legibility and true cultural acceptance (Figure 1). Although METAFONT [Knuth 1986] is stroke-based and provides sufficient detail and expressiveness, it requires the type designer to be proficient in mathematics, rasterization and programming.
