Mixfont Update - seeking a designer to help complete an AI-generated font

ericlu
ericlu Posts: 19
in Font Technology
Hi Typedrawers,

It's been a minute since I've posted. Since I last shared about Mixfont, the site has grown to over 25,000 registered users from all over the world who have created tens of thousands of unique fonts. Mixfont is now the #1 result for AI font generator on major search engines. I've received countless messages of support from users who have been able to create their own imagined font designs from scratch, and the API has been integrated in several popular note-taking apps, enabling people to start typing in their own handwriting from just a sample image. Some of my work has also been cited in the Smithsonian Magazine, Dezeen, and Fast Company. 

I'm super grateful for the support and feedback that I've gotten from the Typedrawers community. Thanks to the feedback I've gotten here I've been able to continually improve the service and make it more helpful for thousands of designers from around the world. 

In the vein of this work, I'm currently looking to commission a type designer to help me take an AI-generated font over the finish line so that I can submit it to Google Fonts. I tried this initially with a font called Gothic Gumdrop and the font was tentatively accepted, but still contained certain spacing and outline issues. I'm looking to work with a typographer or font designer to help take a font like this over the finish line. The work would involve polishing the details of an AI generated font, fixing spacing and outline issues, and manually adjusting or redesigning any glyphs that need to be improved. It can be Gothic Gumdrop, or use a completely different AI-generated font as a starting point. My goal is to prep a submission that meet the quality standards of the Google Fonts team so that the "world's first AI-generated font" can be submitted and accepted to the library. 

I realize that this is an unusual request, but I thought I would start in this forum to see if there would be anyone here who would be interested in partnering on this project. I have the budget to make this happen - please let me know if you or someone you might know might be interested. 

Thank you and look forward to working together.
Eric
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  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,181
    Why not put that money/effort into improving Mixfont in the same areas?

    There already exist auto-spacing, auto-kerning and especially outline-optimization systems that do better.
  • SCarewe
    SCarewe Posts: 96
    Even Florence Foster-Jenkins was less tone-deaf.
  • Simon Cozens
    Simon Cozens Posts: 869
    I tend to use Yofont for all my AI font generation needs these days. It does everything Mixfont does, and it also generates Hebrew, Arabic, Devanagari and CJK as well.
  • Kasper Pyndt
    Kasper Pyndt Posts: 41
    You do realise that if a designer manually adjusts and optimises the font, then it’s no longer “the world’s first AI generated font” - right?
  • yanone
    yanone Posts: 146
    edited 8:30AM

    I do admire the framing. “Take an AI-generated font over the finish line” — as if the machine had done the heavy lifting and now just needs an incarnation to receive the medal. But the work on offer — fixing the spacing, correcting the outlines, redesigning the glyphs that don’t work — isn’t the finish line. It’s the race. That’s not “polishing” a font. It’s designing one.

    What’s being described is a professional quietly doing the actual type design while the result ships under an “AI-generated” headline. The 90% you’re calling polish is the craft. At that point the only thing the AI generated is the press release.

    Welcome to the centuries-old craft of type design.

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