  Artistic text generation aims to amplify the aesthetic qualities of text
while maintaining readability. It can make the text more attractive and better
convey its expression, thus enjoying a wide range of application scenarios such
as social media display, consumer electronics, fashion, and graphic design.
Artistic text generation includes artistic text stylization and semantic
typography. Artistic text stylization concentrates on the text effect overlaid
upon the text, such as shadows, outlines, colors, glows, and textures. By
comparison, semantic typography focuses on the deformation of the characters to
strengthen their visual representation by mimicking the semantic understanding
within the text. This overview paper provides an introduction to both artistic
text stylization and semantic typography, including the taxonomy, the key ideas
of representative methods, and the applications in static and dynamic artistic
text generation. Furthermore, the dataset and evaluation metrics are
introduced, and the future directions of artistic text generation are
discussed. A comprehensive list of artistic text generation models studied in
this review is available at
https://github.com/williamyang1991/Awesome-Artistic-Typography/.
