Differentiable Variable Fonts

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dc.contributor.authorParikh, Kinjal
dc.contributor.authorKaufman, Danny M.
dc.contributor.authorLevin, David I.W.
dc.contributor.authorJacobson, Alec
dc.contributor.editorMasia, Belen
dc.contributor.editorThies, Justus
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-17T14:14:18Z
dc.date.available2026-04-17T14:14:18Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.description.abstractTypography is an essential component of visual communication. Editing and animating text appearance for graphic designs, title sequences, commercials, and logos remain highly skilled tasks requiring detailed, hands-on efforts from professional artists. Automating these workflows requires balancing legibility and aesthetics while enabling creative expression. Variable fonts, parametric extensions to traditional fonts, offer new opportunities for automated typographic design and animation. These fonts provide parameters that allow smooth variation across a design space. However, artists must still manually tune these parameters. We introduce differentiable variable fonts by distilling the variable font specification into a compact mathematical formulation that connects font parameters to vector graphics representations of text. This enables gradient-based optimization of energies defined on vector graphics control points or rasterized images through differentiable SVG rasterization. We demonstrate applications including direct shape manipulation, overlap-aware modeling, physics-based text animation, and automated font-design optimization.
dc.description.number2
dc.description.sectionheadersParametric and Structured Geometry
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume45
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.70415
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages10 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.1111/cgf70415
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.70415
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectParametric curve and surface models
dc.subjectMedia arts
dc.titleDifferentiable Variable Fonts
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