Aesthetic marking of text in digital typography

A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed by a processing device cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• identifying one or more glyphs in a text that intersect with a text marking associated with the text, the text marking including at least one of a breaking line, a non-breaking line, and a horizontal line;
• receiving, by the at least one processor and via a user interface, a user selection of the one or more glyphs that intersect with the text marking;
• drawing a modified text marking as one or more curves separated from the one or more glyphs in the user selection by a buffer or whitespace, the modified text marking including at least one of a modified breaking line, a modified non-breaking line, or a modified horizontal line;
• and
• causing an output device to display or print the modified text marking with the text.

A system for underlining text in digital typography, the system comprising:

• a storage;
• and
• at least one processor operatively coupled to the storage, the at least one processor configured to execute instructions stored in the storage that when executed cause the processor to carry out a process including
• identifying one or more glyphs in a text that intersect with a text marking associated with the text, the text marking including at least one of an underline, an overline, and a strikethrough;
• drawing a modified text marking as one or more closed paths separated from the one or more glyphs in the user selection by a buffer or whitespace, the modified text marking including at least one of a modified underline, a modified overline, or a modified strikethrough;
• and
• causing an output device to display the modified text marking with the text.