Font Specificity

Power, Luther; Lau, Manfred

Font Specificity

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Date

2019

Authors

Power, Luther
Lau, Manfred

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We explore the concept of ''image specificity'' for fonts and introduce the notion of ''font specificity''. The idea is that a font that elicits consistent descriptions from different people are more ''specific''. We collect specificity-based data for fonts where participants are given each font and asked to describe it with words. We then analyze the data and characterize the qualitative features that make a font ''specific''. Finally, we show that the notion of font specificity can be learned and demonstrate some specificity-guided applications.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:egs.20191015
,
booktitle = {Eurographics 2019 - Short Papers
},
editor = {Cignoni, Paolo and Miguel, Eder
},
title = {{Font Specificity
}},
author = {Power, Luther and 
Lau, Manfred
},
year = {2019
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1017-4656
},
ISBN = {},
DOI = {10.2312/egs.20191015
}
}