This thesis discusses the design and development of a machine-independent font design system based on the theory of D.E. Knuth. This system allows a font designer being a non-computer specialist, to specify character symbols in terms of the moment of a pen in a machine-independent manner. A numerical language is provided for this purpose, which can be processed by a high-level language compiler. Graphical output for a specific output device can be generated by digitization and postprocessing. The impetus for this research has come from the need for designing the font for oriental character alphabets, especially Hangul.
The program has been developed with a RAMTEK-9300 display attached to an IBM 370/145 system running VM and experiments has been carried out with Hangul alphabet characters.
