Abstract: A technique is demonstrated for the output of fonts on high resolution output devices, such as phototypesetters in particular, in which a processor unit optically scales a digitally stored font, expands/condenses and generates a desired weight of the font to be distributed. Two previously generated master fonts with varying weights in a digitized contour coding are used, by which a majority of the contours of each letter are provided with delimiting discrete control points and additionally with instructions, such as those stipulated for "Intelligent Font Scaling". The output font with the desired weight is generated through linear interpolation between the two master fonts.