Stylized Stroke Fonts
Outline-based Asian fonts often require 5 to 15 MB of storage, which is problematic for memory-constrained devices such as cell phones. In contrast, uniform-width stroke-based fonts (USFs) require significantly less storage — for example, the GB2312 character set can be represented compactly with only 250 KB. However, since each stroke has a uniform width, USFs lack the expressiveness and the cultural acceptance of their outline-based counterparts. Saffron supports an improved representation for stroke-based fonts called Stylized Stroke Fonts (SSFs) which provide the expressiveness of traditional outline-based fonts and the small memory footprint of USFs. For details, see “An Improved Representation for Stroke-based Fonts”, SIGGRAPH 2006 Conference Abstracts and Applications, Elena J. Jakubiak, Ronald N. Perry, and Sarah F. Frisken.
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