Serif or sans: Visual font analytics on book covers and online advertisements

Yuto Shinahara, Takuro Karamatsu, Daisuke Harada, Kota Yamaguchi, Seiichi Uchida

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Abstract

In this paper, we conduct a large-scale study of font statistics in book covers and online advertisements. Through the statistical study, we try to understand how graphic designers relate fonts and content genres and identify the relationship between font styles, colors, and genres. We propose an automatic approach to extract font information from graphic designs by applying a sequence of character detection, style classification, and clustering techniques to the graphic designs. The extracted font information is accumulated together with genre information, such as romance or business, for further trend analysis. Through our unique empirical study, we show that the collected font statistics reveal interesting trends in terms of how typographic design represents the impression and the atmosphere of the content genres.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1041-1046
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728128610
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2019
Event15th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2019 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: Sept 20 2019Sept 25 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
ISSN (Print)1520-5363

Conference

Conference15th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2019
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period9/20/199/25/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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