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Font designers need to spend the same amount of time and efforts when designing a different style of an already designed outline font like italic, bold, and so forth. On the other hand, METAFONT expresses fonts by tracing the skeleton of characters with a pen. It can easily change the style of characters only by altering the shape of a pen. However, since the METAFONT is a programming language, it is difficult to be used by font designers who are not familiar with programming languages. In this paper, we propose a web-based font editor based on METAFONT, which can be used to easily edit Korean/Chinese fonts. It extracts parameters of characters based on their anatomy and applies them to modify fonts using GUI.
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This work was supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion(IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. R0117-16-0001, Technology Development Project for Information, Communication, and Broadcast).
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Son, M., Gwon, G., Choi, J. (2017). Korean/Chinese Web-Based Font Editor Based on METAFONT for User Interaction. In: Kim, K., Joukov, N. (eds) Information Science and Applications 2017. ICISA 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 424. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4154-9_12
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