State of the art in AI font generation — Simon Cozens

Thomas Phinney
Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,144
edited June 23 in Font Technology
I am super impressed with this article from Simon Cozens explaining where AI font generation is currently at, with tons of references.

Yes, this is aside from whether any of this is a good idea, ethical, or the copyright and design patent situation for “AI-generated” fonts. Those are all totally reasonable discussions to have, which we are having elsewhere. But I think it is also useful to understand what has already happened, and what is likely to happen.

Some highlights:
  • The China/Japan vs rest-of-world differences are fascinating — both how far things are along for ideographs, and how much of a gap there still is on the alphabetic side.
  • What even is AI font generation is a question. Does one mean generating a complete font from a text description, or from an initial sample, or what?
  • What are the different AI technologies being used, and their strengths and weaknesses? Which ones seem to be dead ends or impractical, and why?
  • There is often a critical gap being able to generate images of font glyphs, vs vector font glyphs.
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  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,144
    Understood; I did not mean that as a criticism. Mostly, Typedrawers is already having those discussions in other threads, so it would be more interesting (to me at least) to focus this particular thread on the topics discussed in your article.
  • Nadine Chahine
    Nadine Chahine Posts: 139
    edited June 25
    Simon's talk at our Fonts&AI conference was excellent and we uploaded it this week for public viewing:

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xukQSnynk

    This is a highly complex and rightly controversial topic so it's great that our community has people who can eloquently write and speak about this. Thank you, Simon! 
  • Vasil Stanev
    Vasil Stanev Posts: 794
    edited 7:56AM
    I'm just passing by to say that I'm gonna continue drawing letters, ornaments and artwork no matter how the market changes. It's an expression of me and I use it to uplift people and bring beauty in the world. I can say this, because I am a landlord and have other sources of income. And as far as I understand it, most artists in the world, even the very best, aren't able to sustain themselves on art alone. They have to be born into wealth or have wealthy patrons. So I'll refrain from giving advice, because my family was never in really dire circumstances, and I'm just passing through this world like everybody else.

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