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Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
The making of fonts is particularly relevant to the AI issue. With digitization, decades ago, the type industry came to the legal position that it’s OK to simulate a typeface “manually,” but not by “…1 -
Re: Anyone paint as an outlet?
As for ways the skills of painting/drawing might have a bearing on type design, I think the biggest thing is training the eye to see visual forms. Type design (except for the sketching part) is more …3 -
Re: Videos from ATypI 2025 Copenhagen: release underway
For anyone, like me, who is an Arabic outsider, I can highly recommend this session: From Calligraphy to Pixels: Investigating Modern Arabic Type Panels don’t always work well, but this one had such …2 -
Re: Videos from ATypI 2025 Copenhagen: release underway
Fortunately angels exist all around the world.1 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
There’s a proverb in English about closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, which I think applies in this case. It is unlikly that OFL will be changed, and there is no mechanism within OFL t…2 -
Re: 30th anniversary of OpenType (May 6)
Fortunately Libreoffice Impress supports Opentype Features such as Stylistic alternates and can be a drop-in replacement for Power Point3 -
30th anniversary of OpenType (May 6)
For the 20th anniversary, I joked that maybe by the 25th anniversary, basic OpenType features would finally work consistently in PowerPoint. For the 25th anniversary, I joked that maybe by the 30th a…6 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
I wasn’t counting those as use restrictions. They’re distribution restrictions (see my previous comment about possible OFL distribution restrictions being applicable to AI-generated derivative work).1 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
Google Fonts are under the Open Font License, so doesn’t restrict any kind of use. What’s interesting about that license is that it permits creation of derivative works so long as those are also unde…5 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
Well, it does require that derivatives also be OFL, and say you can’t sell an OFL font by itself as a product. But otherwise, yes.1
