FONT TYPEFACE PREVIEW

摘要

Generating a preview representative of a font is provided. A font typeface preview engine generates a preview font file comprising a plurality of font typeface preview elements, wherein each font typeface preview element is associated with a cloud-based font. The font typeface preview engine further generates a mapping file comprising location data mapping each font to a storage location of its associated font typeface preview element in the preview font file. The preview font file and the mapping file are transmitted to a client application executing on a computing device for rendering the plurality of font typeface preview elements as representations of the fonts in a font selection menu. The size of the preview font file can be kept very low. Thus, the computing device is enabled to render the font typeface preview elements with high fidelity, while saving memory allocation for fonts and reducing processor load.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for generating a preview representative of a font comprising:
generating a preview font file at a font system, the preview font file comprising a plurality of font typeface preview elements, wherein each font typeface preview element is associated with a font; generating a mapping file comprising location data mapping each font to a storage location of its associated font typeface preview element in the preview font file; and transmitting the preview font file and the mapping file to a client application executing on a client computing device for rendering the plurality of font typeface preview elements as representations of the fonts in a font selection menu, wherein the client application does not include the fonts represented by the font typeface preview elements.