malloch/AdaptiFont

Repository for the paper on AdaptiFont: Increasing individuals’ reading speed with a generative fontmodel and Bayesian optimization

AdaptiFont

Repository accompanying the publication:
Kadner, F., Keller, Y., & Rothkopf, C. (2021, May). AdaptiFont: Increasing Individuals’ Reading Speed with a Generative Font Model and Bayesian Optimization. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-11).

What is provided  •   Truetype fonts  •   Linux installation  •   Morph fonts

The official GitHub repository for the paper on AdaptiFont: Increasing individuals’ reading speed with a generative fontmodel and Bayesian optimization

What is Provided?

This Repositiory supplys additional material for the paper on AdaptiFont: Increasing individuals’ reading speed with a generative font model and Bayesian optimization. Provided are usable fonts in the truetype font (.ttf) format from the centroids of the best clusters for all subjects, as well as a script that you can use to combine your own fonts from the NMF components.

Best fonts per subject

Subject	Truetype font	NMF components	How it looks
1	subject1.ttf	4.56, 5.32, 5.57
2	subject2.ttf	5.5, 1.89, 3.66
3	subject3.ttf	4.56, 4.1, 6.41
4	subject4.ttf	4.32, 3.76, 5.32
5	subject5.ttf	4.39, 2.44, 5.59
6	subject6.ttf	5.80, 1.1, 1.86
7	subject7.ttf	6.63, 1.59, 2.54
8	subject8.ttf	5.37, 3.54, 3.56
9	subject9.ttf	4.27, 3.5, 4.15
10	subject10.ttf	5.63, 5.38, 1.3
11	subject11.ttf	5.7, 3.02, 3.08

Linux installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Install python header files sudo apt install python3.6-dev (May be called differently based on your python3 version)
3. (Optional) Create a fresh python 3 virtualenv and activate it for example using sudo apt install virtualenv, virtualenv venv --python=python3, . venv/bin/activate. I used 3.6.9, but most python 3 versions should do.
4. Install python dependencies pip install numpy pillow matplotlib fontTools
5. Install fontforge from ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:silnrsi/smith-py3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt install python3-fontforge
6. You may need to install libfontforge-dev sudo apt install libfontforge-dev
7. Restart your Terminal and you should be ready to go creating your own fonts.

Morph your own fonts

There is a tutorial provided on how to create your own fonts in Creating_Fonts.ipynb. For that you will need jupyter and matplotlib pip install jupyter matplotlib. You can also start creating fonts directly from terminal using the create_font.py script. From the repositorys root call for example python3 font_factory/create_font.py example --nmf_dims 1,5,8 --out_folder example_fonts to create a font called example.ttf in example_fonts/example with the NMF component weights of 1,5 and 8 for the 3 dimensions respectively.