glyph_outline: Extracting the glyph outline of a character

In yixuan/fontr: Extracting Glyphs From Font Files

Description

This function extracts the outline of character glyphs contained in a font.

Usage

glyph_outline(ch = "a", family = "sans", face = "regular")

Arguments

ch	A character whose glyph is to be extracted.
family	The family of the font. See font.families().
face	The font face. Possible values are "regular", "bold", "italic" and "bolditalic".

Value

A data frame with class "glyph_outline". Each row of the data frame contains two numeric values, giving the x and y coordinates of a point, and a character, indicating the action to take on that point in order to draw the outline. The meaning of different characters are given below:

M	Move the pen to the point
L	Draw a straight line to the point
Q	Draw a quadratic Bezier curve to the point, followed by a "B" row that gives the coordinates of the control point
C	Draw a cubic Bezier curve to the point, followed by two "B" rows that give the coordinates of the control points

More details can be found in sections 8.3.2 to 8.3.7 of the SVG specification. (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html)

Author(s)

Yixuan Qiu <http://statr.me/>

Examples

R = glyph_outline("R", family = "sans", face = "bold")
head(R, 20)

yixuan/fontr documentation built on May 4, 2019, 5:29 p.m.