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Re: Industry Letter to Copyright Office - Please Share
Protection of the rights of creators in law is intrinsically tied to technological ease of copying; indeed, it serves as a balance to that ease by compensating for the loss of previous technological …2 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
I don’t believe any of those OPTI fonts are unique.1 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
I think that is very much the case and, as usual, internationalisation and localisation are being ignored in the development of a new technology; they will only be given consideration much later, and…3 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
It seems the current models are more suited to creating lettering than a typeface as such. (The Fontself pathway Dave mentions notwithstanding.)1 -
Re: Tabular punctuation - to add or not to add?
I agree, it looks very odd. But then again, I felt that the purpose of tabular figures could be easily compromised if rows have a different decimal structure. Actually, I am not sure how often that …1 -
Re: What is Chat scraping when it provides answers to font licensing questions?
In the meantime, though, we have had three years’ worth of slop flooding the Web, all of which is now available to AI as ‘sources’. Simple information that used to be easily findable, e.g. how long t…3 -
Re: What is Chat scraping when it provides answers to font licensing questions?
If only it were simply ‘scraping’ some content and regurgitating it. General AI is an algorithmically influenced probability engine. So what it is doing is combining probabalistic analysis of content…3 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
@DanRhatigan Yes, and at 800 × 533. @"John Hudson" Here are some results from that prompt. Much like other image generators, it's unable to generate a hybrid of two styles like MICR/co…1 -
Embroidery and typographic ornaments in the 16th century
I'm trying to use 16th-century embroidery books to create typographic ornaments. I found some texts here: ArchiveAre there any suggestions for other sources? I imagine there are studies on the c…3 -
Re: Kurum - my first attempt at Kannada
I’m the wrong person to ask about Kannada. I’ve only done it once. Of course, the hard part about Kannada is that there aren’t many people who have done it more than once to ask for help.1
