Logo Design Analysis by Ranking In this paper, we analyze logo designs by using machine learning, as a promising trial of graphic design analysis. Specifically, we will focus on favicon images, which are tiny logos used as company icons on web browsers, and analyze them to understand their trends in individual industry classes. For example, if we can catch the subtle trends in favicons of financial companies, they will suggest to us how professional designers express the atmosphere of financial companies graphically. For the purpose, we will use toprank learning, which is one of the recent machine learning methods for ranking and very suitable for revealing the subtle trends in graphic designs.

Serif or Sans: Visual Font Analytics on Book Covers and Online Advertisements In this paper, we conduct a largescale study of font statistics in book covers and online advertisements. Through the statistical study, we try to understand how graphic designers relate fonts and content genres and identify the relationship between font styles, colors, and genres. We propose an automatic approach to extract font information from graphic designs by applying a sequence of character detection, style classification, and clustering techniques to the graphic designs. The extracted font information is accumulated together with genre information, such as romance or business, for further trend analysis. Through our unique empirical study, we show that the collected font statistics reveal interesting trends in terms of how typographic design represents the impression and the atmosphere of the content genres.