Japanese Kanji-calligraphic font design using onomatopoeia utterance

Onomatopoeias are useful tool to communicate intuitively and conveniently among people. This paper focused on the utility of onomatopoeias and proposed a design supporting system of Japanese Kanji-calligraphic “Shodo” font using onomatopoeia utterance. The system can generate a variety of scratched- and blurred-look design of “Shodo”. In order to realize the design, the system utilized the correspondence between onomatopoeias and the scratched- and blurred-look. This paper reported the concept and the architecture of the proposed system. And we demonstrated some output examples generated by the system.