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Which Parts Determine the Impression of the Font?

arXiv 2103.14216 ↗First posted 26 Mar 2021cs.CVcited by 7

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Abstract (arXiv)

Various fonts give different impressions, such as legible, rough, and comic-text.This paper aims to analyze the correlation between the local shapes, or parts, and the impression of fonts. By focusing on local shapes instead of the whole letter shape, we can realize letter-shape independent and more general analysis. The analysis is performed by newly combining SIFT and DeepSets, to extract an arbitrary number of essential parts from a particular font and aggregate them to infer the font impressions by nonlinear regression. Our qualitative and quantitative analyses prove that (1)fonts with similar parts have similar impressions, (2)many impressions, such as legible and rough, largely depend on specific parts, (3)several impressions are very irrelevant to parts.

Key facts. Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 9 of its 24 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 Mar 2021.

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References · 9

  1. 2015Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognitioncited by 51,809
  2. 2017Deep Setscited by 1,394
  3. 2017Multi-Content GAN for Few-Shot Font Style Transfercited by 100
  4. 2016SIFT Meets CNN: A Decade Survey of Instance Retrievalcited by 66
  5. 2020Few-shot Compositional Font Generation with Dual Memorycited by 44
  6. 2019Large-scale Tag-based Font Retrieval with Generative Feature Learningcited by 22
  7. 2019A Deep Factorization of Style and Structure in Fontscited by 15
  8. 2020Attribute2Font: Creating Fonts You Want From Attributescited by 12
  9. 2019Serif or Sans: Visual Font Analytics on Book Covers and Online Advertisementscited by 7

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Citing papers per year: 2022: 3; 2023: 1; 2024: 2; 2025: 1.

7 papers.

  1. 2022Font Generation with Missing Impression Labelscited by 6
  2. 2022Font Shape-to-Impression Translationcited by 3
  3. 2024Impression-CLIP: Contrastive Shape-Impression Embedding for Fontscited by 3
  4. 2022TrueType Transformer: Character and Font Style Recognition in Outline Formatcited by 1
  5. 2023Local Style Awareness of Font Imagescited by 0
  6. 2024Font Impression Estimation in the Wildcited by 0
  7. 2025Few-Part-Shot Font Generationcited by 0