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Re: How many type designers would use an AI assisted plug-in/app
IMO the best place for automated type design is for OCRing old books. You can now buy open-book scanners that compensate for the curvature of pages; my PDF reader can already OCR text bitmaps into a …1 -
Re: How many type designers would use an AI assisted plug-in/app
We’ve already talked through a lot of AI-in-type-design topics in this other thread. The most positively received ideas there related to using AI for things like glyph-set extension or completion, e.…4 -
Re: New Font Forum! Fonts.xyz
It would be interesting if Fonts.xyz focuses more in general public. Its font ID is already an invitation to this. Someone who just wants to know about what font to choose or combine may be scared by…2 -
Re: Where can I observe a list of languages for the locl feature?
https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/languagetags.htm1 -
How many type designers would use an AI assisted plug-in/app
Hello, I was reading about automated type design (Link) and looked into AI that could do that (DeepVecFont and DeepVecFont-v2). I asked one of the authors of the paper if he would make a Glyphs plugi…1 -
Re: Hinting and font rendering
how is the hinting done in the font? autohints? you might want to check the GASP table, you can find much more information on the gasp table and hinting here in this document I wrote https://googlefo…2 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
My opinion is that independent type community failed to give the proper answer to the globalization of the market which came with the internet (widely spread fast internet; around 2006 that enabled d…4 -
Neutraface has The Guardian’s attention
The gentrification font: how a sleek typeface became a neighborhood omen As it happens, years ago I recommended the Neutraface house numbers from DWR to a friend who had bought and restored a mid-cen…1 -
Re: The Washington Post has gone all fonty
Irks me that they capitalize "X height", even as they define it as "literally the height of a lowercase letter x compared to a capital one"!2 -
Re: Neutraface has The Guardian’s attention
It’s inevitable that some fonts get “typecast” for certain kinds of uses. Sometimes, like with Neutraface, it’s not surprising. The font was actually based on metal architectural letters used by Rich…2
