Style Evaluation of Chinese Fonts with Applications

摘要

Aesthetic evaluation is an important part of Chinese font design and generation, but there is still a lack of scientific calculation model for effective aesthetic and style evaluation of fonts. In this paper, a method of font evaluation based on experimental aesthetics is proposed and applied to the visual evaluation and retrieval development of printed fonts. Firstly, the commonly used computer font database is selected to generate the research font map; secondly, the aesthetic scale is compiled to recruit the subjects to evaluate the aesthetic of the printed characters of the scale; finally, the collected evaluation data are collected to analyze the characteristics of each font. The results showed that there was no significant difference in aesthetic feeling among the printing fonts, but there were significant differences in styles. A retrieval system designed by using style coefficient also has the practicability of font recommendation. This evaluation method can be applied to the research of similar fonts, and further expand the font data onto the recommendation system.