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Font navigation tool

  • US 6,512,531 B1
  • Filed: 04/09/1999
  • Issued: 01/28/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for enabling a user to select a font from a collection of available fonts, comprising:

  • receiving font data identifying each font in a collection of available fonts and identifying a location in a navigation space for each available font, the navigation space being defined by a set of navigation attributes, each navigation attribute corresponding to a visual font characteristic, each location being defined by a set of navigation attribute values for all navigation attributes defining the navigation space;

    receiving from the user interactively a first navigation input that specifies a first input value for each of the navigation attributes in a subset of navigation attributes including less than all the navigation attributes, the first input values defining a first target location in the navigation space; and

    using the first target location to identify a first candidate font in the collection of available fonts by identifying a font with a location in the navigation space identical to the first target location if the collection of available fonts contains such a font, and, if the collection of available fonts does not contain such a font, identifying a font in the collection of available fonts that is close to the first target location in the navigation space.

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