Simulating variances in human writing with digital typography

摘要

Methods and systems for rendering text to simulate human penmanship are described. A text rendering engine converts a text string into an image that can be displayed on a string using one or more seed numbers to influence the rendering and appearance of the text. The text rendering engine may render each character of the text string using a size, weight, slope, or Bezier curve control point selected based on the seed numbers.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a display screen; a memory to store a text rendering engine and a font comprising a plurality of base glyphs, a first base glyph of the plurality of base glyphs comprising one or more sets of Bezier curve point location coordinates; and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory and the display screen, the processing device to:
receive a text string comprising a plurality of characters;generate a plurality of random numbers;execute the text rendering engine to determine a plurality of glyphs, a first glyph of the plurality of glyphs being determined based on one or more modified Bezier curve points generated by adding one or more of the plurality of random numbers to one or more Bezier curve point location coordinates of the first base glyph, and to generate an image based on the plurality of glyphs, wherein the first base glyph corresponds to a character of the plurality of characters; anddisplay the image on the display screen.