[R] Categorizing Fonts using Statistical Methods

[Johannes Hüsing]

Leonard Mada <lmada at gmx.net> [Sun, May 04, 2008 at 07:26:04PM CEST]:
> Dear list members,
> 
> Every "modern" OS comes with dozens of useless fonts, so that the 
> current font drop-down list in most programs is overcrowded with fonts 
> one never will use. Selecting a useful font becomes a nightmare.
> 
> In an attempt to ease the selection of useful fonts, I began looking 
> into sorting fonts using some statistical techniques. I summed my ideas 
> on the OpenOffice.org wiki:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/ToDo/Product/Font_Categories
> 
> Of course, there is NO guarantee that something useful will emerge, but 
> at least someone has tried it.
> 

Why is there nothing mentioned with respect to the classical font categorization,
Venetian, Aldine, Transitional, Modern, Slab Serif, ... ?


[...]
>   - maybe some other measures

If you can obtain the *.afm information of the font, you have some useful parameters such 
as cap height, ascender height, descender height, oblique angle ...

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