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US 2015/0084966 A1Published application
Font rendering system and method
AssigneeKobo Incorporated
InventorsRyan Sood, Damian Lewis
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Abstract
Examples described herein include a computing device that enables users to provide input to affect a particular manner in which a particular font is displayed. In particular, the user input can after a line weight and/or sharpness of a selected font.
Claims20
A method for displaying text on a computing device, the method being implemented by one or more processors of the computing device and comprising:
- displaying an interface, including a first feature for enabling a user to specify input to adjust a value that affects a sharpness for a selected font;
- receiving the input from the user interacting with the first feature;
- and
- displaying text with the selected font, wherein displaying the text includes adjusting the sharpness of the selected font based on the adjusted value, without changing any of (i) the font that is selected, (ii) a size of the selected font, or (iii) a line weight of the selected font.
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A method for displaying text on a computing device, the method being implemented by one or more processors of the computing device and comprising:
- displaying an interface, including a first feature for enabling a user to specify input to adjust a value that affects a line weight for a selected font;
- receiving the input from the user interacting with the first feature;
- and
- displaying text with the selected font, wherein displaying the text includes adjusting the line weight of the selected font based on the adjusted, without changing any of (i) the font that is selected, or (ii) a size of the selected font.
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A computing device comprising:
- a memory, the memory storing a set of instructions;
- a processor that uses the instructions stored in memory to:
- display an interface, including a first feature for enabling a user to specify input to adjust a value that affects a sharpness for a selected font, and a second feature for enabling the user to specify input to adjust a value that affects a line weight for the selected font;
- receive the input from the user interacting with the first feature and with the second feature;
- and
- display text with the selected font, wherein displaying the text includes adjusting the sharpness and the line weight of the selected font based on the adjusted values provided with the first feature and with the second feature, without changing any of (i) the font that is selected, and (ii) a size of the selected font.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.