Each of Korean or Chinese characters is composed of several strokes, and each stroke determines its shape by one movement of a pen. This thesis proposed a new method for typeface representation-an approach by structured composition of stroke elements. This approach considered the characteristics of Hangul character structure, and the shape of a character is represented with its primitive features. Also a computerized typeface design system was developed to design typeface and confirm its results.
In the proposed approach, outlines of "stroke pen" are used to represent the starting, ending or bending of a stroke, an positions of "basic pen" are interpolated to represent the skeleton of a stroke trajectory. From these "stroke elements" the outlines of each stroke are generated automatically, and the character shape is obtained by merging those stroke outlines. The advantages of this approach are the reduction of time to design, the reduction of space to represent characters, and the increased possibility of font variations.
