My Text in Your Handwriting

Tom S. F. Haines, Oisin Mac Aodha, Gabriel J. Brostow
2016 ACM Transactions on Graphics  
There are many scenarios where we wish to imitate a specific author's pen-on-paper handwriting style. Rendering new text in someone's handwriting is difficult because natural handwriting is highly variable, yet follows both intentional and involuntary structure that makes a person's style self-consistent. The variability means that naive example-based texture synthesis can be conspicuously repetitive. We propose an algorithm that renders a desired input string in an author's handwriting. An
more » ... tated sample of the author's handwriting is required; the system is flexible enough that historical documents can usually be used with only a little extra effort. Experiments show that our glyph-centric approach, with learned parameters for spacing, line thickness, and pressure, produces novel images of handwriting that look hand-made to casual observers, even when printed on paper.
doi:10.1145/2886099 fatcat:glm3mcyqgzg5dffjh2cxwkstdu