  Typefaces are an essential resource employed by graphic designers. The
increasing demand for innovative type design work increases the need for good
technological means to assist the designer in the creation of a typeface. We
present an evolutionary computation approach for the generation of type
stencils to draw coherent glyphs for different characters. The proposed system
employs a Genetic Algorithm to evolve populations of type stencils. The
evaluation of each candidate stencil uses a hill climbing algorithm to search
the best configurations to draw the target glyphs. We study the interplay
between legibility, coherence and expressiveness, and show how our framework
can be used in practice.
