Gui-based korean font editing system using font parameterization technique

Abstract

When designing Korean fonts, about 2,500 widely used characters should be designed among 11,172 characters. When generating fonts, characters are generally described as ‘outline’. On average, it takes more than 1 year to design single set of Korean font with an outline font editing systems. Also, it takes almost the same amount of time to change the style of an already generated font using general outline font editing systems. In this paper, we propose a Korean font editing system which uses font parameterization technique based on METAFONT. Korean characters are composed of basic units of strokes and radicals unlike Roman characters. They have combination rules of the basic units. Therefore, we extracted font parameters for changing font styles by considering these characteristic of Korean characters, and applied them to Korean fonts implemented with METAFONT. In addition, we developed GUI-based Korean font editing system for efficient user interaction.