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 using one or more seed numbers to influence the rendering and appearance of the text. The text rendering engine may render variations of each character of the text string using the seed numbers to select from a set of single-character or multi-character glyphs, or to modify a size, weight, slope, or Bezier curve point of the character.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving a text string comprising a plurality of characters; storing a plurality of single-character glyphs; storing a plurality of multi-character glyphs; generating a plurality of random numbers; determining a first character of the plurality of characters to be rendered as a first single-character glyph of the plurality of single-character glyphs using a first random number of the plurality of random numbers; determining a second character of the plurality of characters to be rendered as a part of a first multi-character glyph of the plurality of multi-character glyphs using a second random number of the plurality of random numbers; and selecting a sequence of glyphs from the plurality of single-character glyphs and the plurality of multi-character glyphs, the sequence of glyphs comprising the first single character glyph and the first multi-character glyph.