Digital Typography Rendering

Nicolas P. Rougier (1) , Behdad Esfahbod (2)

1 Mnemosyne - Mnemonic Synergy
2 Google Inc [Mountain View]

This short course (1h30) is an introduction to digital typography rendering, providing key concepts of typography as well as introducing several computer graphics techniques to render text, from the oldest and most common techniques (texture based) to the lat-est methods taking full advantage of shaders with quasi flawless rendering.

Mots clés: Bézier curves; Typography; Antialiasing; Shaping; Kerning; Hinting; Unicode; Shaders; Non-photorealistic rendering; Text rendering; Rasterization

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Nicolas P. Rougier, Behdad Esfahbod. Digital Typography Rendering. ACM SIGGRAPH Courses, Aug 2018, Vancouver, Canada. ⟨hal-01815193⟩