# Automatic Generation of Typographic Font from a Small Font Subset

## TL;DR

This paper presents an automated method to generate complete typographic fonts from a small subset of characters, significantly reducing the effort needed for font creation, especially for complex scripts like Japanese.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel stroke extraction technique, an automated character construction process, and a sample character selection method for font generation.

## Key findings

- Generated 2,965 characters across 47 fonts
- Objective and subjective evaluations confirm high similarity to handmade characters
- Method reduces time and effort in font creation for complex scripts

## Abstract

This paper addresses the automatic generation of a typographic font from a subset of characters. Specifically, we use a subset of a typographic font to extrapolate additional characters. Consequently, we obtain a complete font containing a number of characters sufficient for daily use. The automated generation of Japanese fonts is in high demand because a Japanese font requires over 1,000 characters. Unfortunately, professional typographers create most fonts, resulting in significant financial and time investments for font generation. The proposed method can be a great aid for font creation because designers do not need to create the majority of the characters for a new font. The proposed method uses strokes from given samples for font generation. The strokes, from which we construct characters, are extracted by exploiting a character skeleton dataset. This study makes three main contributions: a novel method of extracting strokes from characters, which is applicable to both standard fonts and their variations; a fully automated approach for constructing characters; and a selection method for sample characters. We demonstrate our proposed method by generating 2,965 characters in 47 fonts. Objective and subjective evaluations verify that the generated characters are similar to handmade characters.