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Has anybody ever actually implemented an algorithmically composed kanji font? Because it seems like a hugely complicated undertaking. There are rules of thumb f
by decimalenough 11mo ago
Has anybody ever actually implemented an algorithmically composed kanji font? Because it seems like a hugely complicated undertaking. There are rules of thumb for how characters are composed, but getting something aesthetically pleasing out of the end result is more an art than a science. Even Korean Hangul, which is way simpler, has all sorts of funky kerning rules.
- kouteiheika 11mo agoFully algorithmically? I have no idea, as I'm not really in the fonts business. But I'm pretty sure they're not actually redrawing every character from scratch, and are actually reusing the subcomponents (at very least for normal fonts). But how much of that is actually automated - you'd have to ask actual font designers.
- vitorsr 11mo agoYes. Arphic, for instance, calls them radical-based fonts.
- numpad0 11mo agoDroid Sans Fallback used this strategy during Android 1.x-2.x era. Its successor Noto Sans don't do the same.