Search engines find the latest music that is exactly what the searcher wants to hear; they sift through words spoken in videos, and recognize faces from photographs. So the obvious next step is a system like that for typefaces. Loviscach’s presentation will examine this concept and demonstrate the technical possibilities, including Crawler, which can search the web for specific fonts, and Karten, which automatically groups fonts by similarity and displays them on one screen.
Jörn Loviscach
Jörn Loviscach was a professor of computer graphics, animation and simulation at Bremen’s University of the Applied Sciences. Since 2009, he has been a professor of technical mathematics and computer engineering at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. He has worked for several computer trade magazines, most recently as deputy…
