Evolving Stencils for Typefaces: Combining Machine Learning, User’s Preferences and Novelty

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Typographic portraits composed of glyphs drawn with a stencil evolved with the presented framework. Two possibilities for the number of text lines are shown: 50 lines (left) and 100 lines (right). The input image is a photo of Sérgio Rebelo (graphic designer and researcher at CISUC), who tested the framework in experiment IV; and the input text is the poem “Eu Nunca Guardei Rebanhos”, written in 1914 by Alberto Caeiro, an alter ego of Fernando Pessoa.