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Re: Explaining myself and Mixfont, an AI font generation model
Nick, I was responding to a question specifically about working with clients, so I was presuming commissioned typeface design, not something developed speculatively or, as you nicely put it, to satis…5 -
Re: Explaining myself and Mixfont, an AI font generation model
John Hudson: That’s not how I work, unless the need is to satisfy my curiosity about “I wonder if I could develop these shapes into a working font…” Then I put it on the market and see if it does in …5 -
Re: Explaining myself and Mixfont, an AI font generation model
A couple of things not yet mentioned: 1: Reddit is really not a place to solicit informed opinions or to gather solid critical approval. I see utterly un-informed, basic, first-stab student work ther…6 -
Re: Critique Request for Gothic Gumdrop (100% AI-generated submission to Google Fonts)
Why should people give feedback on something you couldn't even bother drawing?8 -
Re: Explaining myself and Mixfont, an AI font generation model
You completely misrepresent what I said. I specifically referred to the “big picture” of what AI is doing, not type design concerns. Surely you are familiar with the environmental cost of data centre…6 -
Re: Explaining myself and Mixfont, an AI font generation model
@ericlu You don’t have to draw from scratch every variaton of an accented letter. You have to design a system of components and the way they are put together. In most of today’s font tools, this is d…10 -
Re: Explaining myself and Mixfont, an AI font generation model
That is precisely what you encouraged people to use the model for. Even today, your website advertises Mixfont as a way to "solve complex font licensing restrictions". We all know what tha…13 -
Re: When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?
Indirectly, I think, Chris. One river of inspiration feeding this style flows from the Middle Ages, from manuscript titling letterforms that are inluenced by runic scripts.6 -
Re: Critique Request for Gothic Gumdrop (100% AI-generated submission to Google Fonts)
I think we all should stop reply this thread, Eric, what you do is horrible. screenshot descrition: (screenshot from ericlu's post on X.com ) "font licensing is kinda broken? screen-recordi…10 -
Re: Critique Request for Gothic Gumdrop (100% AI-generated submission to Google Fonts)
This is an oxymoron. There is very little about AI that is ethical. You can debate the nuances of type design all you want, in our little neck of the woods, but in the big picture this is a ghastly, …8
