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Re: Introducing Colr Pak - a free open source editor for COLR v0 and v1 fonts
Creating animated emoji font with Colr Pak https://youtu.be/pkgm7viQ6Lo1 -
A browser extension to avoid glare on text
Hi,a while ago I had a discussion here about pure white background on screen producing glare for reading. See https://typedrawers.com/discussion/5494/glare-of-white-100-backgrounds-and-how-it-affects…2 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
That future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed... I didn't look with a microscope but there was only a single Latin glyph I noticed that was drawn incorrectly (an uppercase G…2 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
I think a lot of the best of what we are seeing is not “AI generates images for you out of nothing,” but rather “AI riffs on something you give it, in major productive ways.” Not quite as dramatic, b…3 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
That presentation is what brought me back to this thread. Don’t just flip through it; zoom in and read the prompts. Here’s a near-future scenario: a new business owner prompts an AI to create a logo …3 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
AI type tends towards the generic, unsurprisingly, merging things the machine has learned from multiple models. A lot of type designers are going to see familiar forms and proportions in the results,…4 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
Watching the video, I had a flashback, without knowing why exactly. Then, looking focused, I realized it was caused by one of the typefaces looking familiar to me. I found the evoking screenshot and …3 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
The video at https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/ is worth a watch, as well as scrolling down the whole page It isn't "AI Generated Fonts" that are vexing type desi…4 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
Input and editing is an interesting case. In theory, AI could be live (re-)drawing text as it is input, making fonts unnecessary even in direct text authorship unnecessary. It seems, however, a reall…1 -
Re: Open type Glyph table version 1
Glyf v1 is included in the (as of writing) 'next' edition of the ISO MPEG Open Font Format, which is likely to be published within a month or two (along with avar2, beyond 64k glyphs, and t…4
