Handwritten fonts possess unique expressive qualities; however, their clarity often suffers because of inconsistent handwriting. This study introduces FontFusionGAN (FFGAN), a novel method that enhances handwritten fonts by mixing them with printed f...
Nowadays, several books published in different fonts advertised as being particularly suitable for dyslexics are available on the market. Our research aimed to assess the significance of a specific reading font especially designed for dyslexia, calle...
The main topic of the present paper is the printed text protection against electromagnetic infiltration. There are many solutions to protect such data. One of these methods is the one that uses computer fonts that are characterized by special shapes....
Rapid digital content growth demands pivotal font selection for design and communication. Our study focuses on a font recommendation system that aligns fonts with content emotions. To achieve this, we define font-emotions and quantify them. Additiona...
Few-shot font generation seeks to create high-quality fonts using minimal reference style images, addressing traditional font design’s labor-intensive and time-consuming nature, particularly for languages with large character sets like Chinese...
Chinese font generation is important for digital typography, cultural preservation, and personalized user interfaces. However, existing methods often face challenges in maintaining structural consistency, supporting diverse stylistic variations, and...
The essence of font style transfer is to move the style features of an image into a font while maintaining the font’s glyph structure. At present, generative adversarial networks based on convolutional neural networks play an important role in...
Making a new font requires graphical designs for all base characters, and this designing process consumes lots of time and human resources. Especially for languages including a large number of combinations of consonants and vowels, it is a heavy burd...
With the increase of various media, fonts continue to be newly developed. In Korea, numerous ‘Hangul’ fonts are also being developed, and as a result, the need for research on determining the similarity between fonts is emerging. For exam...
Font is a crucial design aspect, however, classifying fonts is challenging compared with that of other natural objects, as fonts differ from images. This paper presents the application of contrastive learning in font style classification. We conducte...
Computer fonts can be a solution that supports the protection of information against electromagnetic penetration; however, not every font has features that counteract this process. The distinctive features of a font’s characters define the font...
Manual font design is difficult and requires professional knowledge and skills to perform. Therefore, how to automatically generate the required fonts is a very challenging research task. On the other hand, there are few people who have studied the r...
The South of France is a biodiversity hotspot within Europe. Here, we present a comprehensive review of surveys conducted in the Cent Fonts aquifer, an overlooked subterranean biodiversity hotspot embedded in a region rich in stygobiotic species and...
Currently, many Chinese font translation models adopt the method of dividing character components to improve the quality of generated font images. However, character components require a large amount of manual annotation to decompose characters and d...
Text recognition is a rapidly evolving task with broad practical applications across multiple industries. However, due to the arbitrary-shape text arrangement, irregular text font, and unintended occlusion of font, this remains a challenging task. To...
Generating non-standard fonts, such as running script (e.g., XingShu), poses significant challenges due to their high stroke continuity, structural flexibility, and stylistic diversity, which traditional component-based prior knowledge methods strugg...
Subjective preferences for visual qualities of shapes and fonts have been separately reported. Such preferences are often similarly attributed to factors such as aesthetic impressions, attributed meaning from the visual properties, or processing flue...
Reading Indian scene texts is complex due to the use of regional vocabulary, multiple fonts/scripts, and text size. This work investigates the significant differences in Indian and Latin Scene Text Recognition (STR) systems. Recent STR works rely on...
My paper analyses the 15th-century seven-sacraments font at the medieval church of St Peter and St Paul at Salle in Norfolk (England). The church guides and gazetteers that describe the font, and the church in which it is situated, owe both their sty...
Dongba characters are ancient ideographic scripts with abstract expressions that differ greatly from modern Chinese characters; directly applying existing methods cannot achieve the font style transfer of Dongba characters. This paper proposes an Att...
Stylish fonts are widely utilized in social networks, driving research interest in stylish Chinese font generation. Most existing methods for generating Chinese characters rely on GAN-based deep learning approaches. However, persistent issues of mode...
Automated font generation for complex, compositional scripts like Korean Hangul presents a significant challenge due to the 11,172 characters and their complicated component-based structure. While existing component-based methods for font image gener...
The new Sans Forgetica (SF) typeface creates perceptual disfluency by breaking up parts of letters vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, thereby fragmentizing them. While patterns of fragmentization are consistent for each unique letter, they are...
Phishing attacks continue to pose serious challenges to cybersecurity, with attackers constantly refining their methods to bypass detection systems. One particularly evasive technique is Zero-Font phishing, which involves the insertion of invisible o...
Font generation using deep learning has made considerable progress using image style transfer, but the automatic conversion/generation of Chinese characters still remains a difficult task owing to the complex character shape and large number of Chine...
Few-shot font generation can be viewed as a challenging conditional image generation task, where the goal is to synthesize target glyphs from only a few reference samples while preserving structural fidelity and style consistency. This problem become...
Printed Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) remains challenging due to complex glyph morphology, typographic variability, and sensitivity to Unicode-preserved evaluation protocols. This work introduces a methodology that explicitly treats deco...
This paper presents a human-centered, AI-driven framework for font design that reimagines typography generation as a collaborative process between humans and large language models (LLMs). Unlike conventional pixel- or vector-based approaches, our met...
On 8th February 1996, in the north-western part of Andorra in the Pyrenees, the Les Fonts d’Arinsal (LFd’A) pure powder avalanche was triggered, descending some 1200 m to the bottom of the Arinsal valley and continuing up the opposite slo...
The protection of information processed electronically involves a large number of IT devices from computer sets or laptops to monitors, printers, servers, etc. In many cases, classified information processing might be associated with the use of proje...
1. The speed with which text can be read is determined in part by the spatial regularity and similarity of vertical letter strokes as assessed by the height of the first peak in the horizontal autocorrelation of the text. The height of this peak was...
Sustainability is a premise that has been implemented in all technologies, industries, and service activities to have as little impact on the environment as possible. Typography as a profession made its contribution by creating eco fonts. In each cou...
Irregular Hangeul typefaces present a challenging computer vision problem because complete font generation must generalize from a small number of reference glyphs while preserving both structural consistency and stylistic fidelity. This study investi...
Hospitals need to invest a lot of manpower to manually input the contents of medical invoices (nearly 300,000,000 medical invoices a year) into the medical system. In order to help the hospital save money and stabilize work efficiency, this paper des...
Reading comprehension is an essential skill. It is unclear whether and to what degree typography and font personalization may impact reading comprehension in younger readers. With advancements in technology, it is now feasible to personalize digital...
This paper introduces a framework for retrieving low-resource font typeface databases by handwritten input. A new deep learning model structure based on metric learning is proposed to extract the features of a character typeface and predict the categ...
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Manchu is hindered by large intra-domain variation caused by diverse fonts. Consequently, traditional end-to-end models perform poorly in zero-shot cross-domain scenarios. To address this bottleneck, we propose...
Metacognitive experience, measured by processing fluency, contributes to divergent thinking performance; however, whether it exhibits varying effects on insight problem-solving remains unknown. Additionally, as individuals’ interpretation of me...
Previous research has shown the importance of font type, size, and spacing to facilitate text reading in dyslexia. Great heterogeneity in the population of readers with specific learning disorders suggests that personalized parameters should be prefe...
We assess the errors produced by considering temperature as a conservative tracer in fluviokarst studies. Heat transfer that occurs between karstic Conduit System (CS) and Porous Fractured Matrix (PFM) is the reason why one should be careful in makin...
This review considers the British Museum’s exhibition, Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint, curated by Lloyd de Beer and Naomi Speakman. Following a brief description of the show and its relationship to current art-historical scholarship,...
Chinese calligraphy, revered globally for its therapeutic and mindfulness benefits, encompasses styles such as regular (Kai Shu), running (Xing Shu), official (Li Shu), and cursive (Cao Shu) scripts. Beginners often start with the regular script, adv...
Textual content faces escalating security threats regarding copyright infringement, tampering, and unauthorized distribution. Text watermarking offers a vital defense mechanism by embedding imperceptible identifiers for source tracking and anti-count...
Optical music recognition (OMR) refers to converting musical scores into digitized information using electronics. In recent years, few types of OMR research have involved numbered musical notation (NMN). The existing NMN recognition algorithm is diff...
This work presents the design and analysis of newly developed reconfigurable, flexible, inexpensive, optically-controlled, and fully printable chipless Arabic alphabet-based radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. The etching of the metallic copp...
Video game trailers are very useful tools for attracting potential players. This research focuses on analyzing the emotions that arise while viewing video game trailers and the link between these emotions and storytelling and visual attention. The me...
Within the context of the new circular model for wastewater treatment aimed at achieving zero waste, this research seeks an alternative to landfill disposal of waste screenings. It examines the feasibility of thermochemical processes—combustion...
We compared the efficacy of controlling the annual increase in axial length (AL) in myopic Caucasian children based on two parameters: the back optic zone diameter (BOZD) of the orthokeratology (OK) lens and plus power ring diameter (PPRD) or mid-per...
In recent years, Bionic reading has been introduced as a means to combat superficial reading and low comprehension rates. This paper investigates eye movements between participants who read a passage in standard font and an additional Bionic font pas...
Background: Format readability, including font and spacing, impacts reading metrics in adults, but will the research generalize to children? We examined how eight fonts (four serif and four sans serif) and three-character spacing variations influence...
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