Creative Fabrica - AI Font Generator

Abdurrahman Hanif · February 1

Creative Fabrica just released the AI Font Generator, is there anyone know something about this? from what i know, type design industry copyright system is very strict so how this will be work?

here is the link https://studio.creativefabrica.com/font-generator/

Ray Larabie · February 1

If you don't have an account and don't want to make one to check it out, here's what it is: the tool starts you off with 5000 credits. You hit the generate button and it generates a font. There's no prompt, so you don't know what you're going to get. As it's generating, you can watch the text output as it runs. After the font is generated, it shows you a sample in 3 sizes and displays the glyph set. It includes English alphanumerics in caps and lowercase, minimal punctuation and seemingly no accents. If you reject the font, you get 1000 credits back. There's also an option to regenerate a font if you like to see if you get better results. It seems like you can generate and download 5 fonts before you need to refresh credits, but I'm not sure how that works. Examples:

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Simon Cozens · February 1

Spacing is hard.

Cristóbal Alarcón · April 9

Good thing I never liked those "quirky" type of fonts, because now I'm sure they will flood even more type markets.

Yury Yarmola · April 22

While this is unrelated to the AI Font Generator by Creative Fabrica, this is the current state of business in AI font generation, as of today:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5019405/uploads/editor/nc/hijgsjpwymfe.png

It is not exactly "one-click" process, more like 20 clicks per font (not counting writing the actual prompt)

Igor Petrovic · April 22

Without close checking, that second one looks pretty much like Optima.

Yury Yarmola · April 22

Igor Petrovic said:

Without close checking, that second one looks pretty much like Optima.

That was in the prompt, "create something like Optima".

These samples are from very different prompts, mainly used to check current level of hallucinations and overall quality.

First (which looks like DIN) had DIN in prompt "create a DIN font but make it more humanistic".

Third is "modern geometric sans-serif", followed by "modern script", then the font that is "best for certain picture| and final font was made from some lettering (also created by AI), with prompt "create font specimen for the lettering in this picture" (or something like that).

And this is the "blend of Comic Sans and modern geometric sans-serif"

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5019405/uploads/editor/ry/m32re5ser3mt.png

Ermin Međedović · April 23

This scares me.

Johannes Neumeier · April 23

The real issue is average users getting used to, and accepting the quality, of these. Dead internet typography all over. On the great scale we can only hope this soup of mediocre AI nonsense generates a strong enough backlash eventually, but my bet is on people’s laziness. Why think, when you can have a good enough guess? Why learn a craft, when you can fake it convincingly enough? Why spend time, when everything is available at an instant? It’s quite the promise.

Igor Petrovic · April 23

I am wondering if the prompt "make something similar to XY font" could technically be done without sourcing the XY typeface this way or another. I know that letterforms cannot be copyrighted, but the typeface images that AI uses are protected.

Similar to most licensing docs prohibit making physical products based on letterforms (wooden alphabet toy, i.e.)

Is it a plain license infringement? Is it enough to put in our licenses that it is prohibited to use any material containing a typeface (images, etc.) for AI?

Yury Yarmola · April 23

As a side note, please judge overall spacing quality in my font samples picture. That is relevant to the subject of this discussion ))

Rndi Type Foundry · April 24

See you here again XD

Filip Paldia · April 25

The mediocre stuff will improve quite fast. Remember Chatgpt two years ago? Now Claude can solve pretty hard mathematical and logical problems.

The only obstacle is a good and labelled initial dataset, which I find not so hard to create. Actually, that was my dissertation topic. (I can share the concept if anyone is interested).

So what now? Are the type folks going to passively look at the large players stealing their fonts and having nothing from the revenue pie?

Maybe I am naive, but my Marxist part says that there is a chance. If type folks put forces together (whatever union) and build their own dataset, they can train their own model.

Yury Yarmola · April 25

For now myfonts.com works as a great font dataset training machine ))

You can "type in" any letter in any font + you have decent font family description.

Coding the engine which will extract all training data will take a day.

Creative Fabrica - AI Font Generator

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