Stunning advance in Machine Learning applied to typeface design

Dave Crossland
Dave Crossland Posts: 1,429
in Miscellaneous News
https://youtu.be/HLRdruqQfRk

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  • Sérgio Martins
    Sérgio Martins Posts: 16
    No HTTPS? Unsubscribed, disliked, blocked, never touch again. I'm not even mad, just disappointed.

    Now with 100% less dumb: with a sufficiently good (read, accurate) model, could we maybe figure out what a script we have no familiarity with would look like, given certain design parameters, such as say a multi-script family?
    I guess for that to happen the model would need to be trained to have a similar opinion to a native specialist consultant, so the training data would have to come from those?
  • Helmut Wollmersdorfer
    Helmut Wollmersdorfer Posts: 212
    Sérgio Martins It's more a scientific  April fool hoax. Maybe you mean some serious attempts like this:

    Hideaki Hayashi; Kohtaro Abe; Seiichi Uchida; 
    GlyphGAN: Style-Consistent Font Generation Based on Generative Adversarial Networks
    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.12502.pdf

    Tomo Miyazaki, Tatsunori Tsuchiya, Yoshihiro Sugaya, Shinichiro Omachi, Masakazu Iwamura, Seiichi Uchida, and Koichi Kise;

    Automatic Generation of Typographic Font from a Small Font Subset


    Nikita Srivatsan, Jonathan T. Barron, Dan Klein, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick;
    A Deep Factorization of Style and Structure in Fonts
  • Sérgio Martins
    Sérgio Martins Posts: 16
    I didn't even see the SIGBOVIK… welp I feel stupid.

    I just assumed all the tongue in cheek humour about uppercaserer and lowercaserer (and the chess algorithms) were just youtube attention grabbing jokes.  :(
  • Helmut Wollmersdorfer
    Helmut Wollmersdorfer Posts: 212
    Dave Crossland Funny and entertaining.

    Brings some chaos into state of the art theory. Thus got some nice ideas like: Why not generate all possible combinations of 8 x 8 pixels and filter away the senseless (i. e. not matching a cognitive model of a character).


  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,734
    Interesting and funny. Laughed out loud a few times. ("Maybe a 2.5 on the Bristol stool scale?")
  • Craig Eliason
    Craig Eliason Posts: 1,436
    edited April 2021
    Helmut Wollmersdorfer said:

    Brings some chaos into state of the art theory. Thus got some nice ideas like: Why not generate all possible combinations of 8 x 8 pixels and filter away the senseless (i. e. not matching a cognitive model of a character).


    You may be interested in the work of Jurriaan Schrofer (whom I encountered through @Maurice Meilleur's research).

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