Theatre Chapbooks At Scale: A Statistical Comparative Analysis of Typography

arXiv:2607.27266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a statistical methodology that quantifies the similarity of typefaces between printed historical books. This provides a tool that accelerates philological analysis. Using character prototypes derived from clustering and aligning automatically extracted character images, the method defines a typeface distance between any two books. To produce actionable outputs, we develop an a contrario statistical framework to interpret the significance...