Today, digital multimedia messages have drawn more and more attention due to the great achievement of computer
and network techniques. Nevertheless, text is still the most popular media for people to communicate with others. Many
fonts have been developed so that product designers can choose unique fonts to demonstrate their idea gracefully. It is
commonly believed that handwritings can reflect one’s personality, emotion, feeling, education level, and so on. This is
especially true in Chinese calligraphy. However, it is not easy for ordinary users to customize a font of their personal
handwritings. In this study, we performed a process reengineering in font generation. We present a new method to create
font in a batch mode. Rather than to create glyphs of characters one by one according to their codepoints, people create
glyphs incrementally in an on-demand manner. A Java Implementation is developed to read a document image of user
handwritten Chinese characters, and make a vector font of these handwritten Chinese characters. Preliminary experiment
result shows that the proposed method can help ordinary users create their personal handwritten fonts easily and quickly.
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