Project Description

The Re-Typograph project started as a joint research initiative hosted at the ARTEM Campus, between the ANRT, Loria and Mines Nancy. It now includes Boise State University, ANRT and University Reims.

The initiative started in September 2013, and its main goal is to investigate means to use Document Image Analysis techniques to extract Type Design characteristics from printed texts; ideally dating from the early printing periods (XV and XVI centuries). It brings together people from various horizons: established type designers and computer scientists and their students, collaborating, exchanging and contributing to the same goal: understanding the underlying structures and similarities, shapes and alignments that define a type face, and develop the tools to retrieve them from digitized printed documents.

Part of this project was described in Dr. Barney's 2019 TEDx talk .

Links:

• http://re-typograph.loria.fr//

• http://www.automatic-type-design.anrt-nancy.fr/

• https://www.boisestate.edu/vip/digital-humanities/

Publications

• Elisa H. Barney Smith and Bart Lamiroy, “Effects of Clustering Algorithms on Typographic Reconstruction,” International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Graphic Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges: 11th International Workshop (GREC 2015), Revised Selected Papers 11, Nancy, France, August 2015.