Design of Cursive Handwriting Characters with Nonlinear Typeface Reshaping Transformation

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a scheme for reshaping and reconstructing a typeface of handwritten characters. First, we measure and store a set of handwriting motion data using the pen-tablet device, and then the corresponding characters are modeled based on so-called dynamic font method and a theory of smoothing splines. Next, in order to improve the aesthetic quality of such characters, we present a method for reshaping the typeface of characters. Such a method is developed using the nonlinear transformation based on Yasumoto's work. Moreover, we show how such a reshaped characters are reconstructed as those with the omitted running style as seen in Japanese calligraphy. The performance are demonstrated by some experiments.