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Re: AI for custom type
One more thought: If they start by saying "trained on open source fonts" and then for whatever reason switch to saying "trained exclusively on our own handcrafted typefaces", how …6 -
Re: Book Review: How to create typefaces
Oh sure. If you're an impecunious arts student and can only afford one, get How to create typefaces and borrow Designing Type from the library. And if you have good design eyes, you strictly speaking…1 -
Re: How would you redo Unicode?
Well, this just isn't true. But even if it were true, think of it the other way around: If even the majority languages had to deal with decomposed characters, software implementers would get them ri…2 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
For a symbol to point to something else, it needs to point away from itself. (And the "pointing to heaven" interpretation would make more sense if the stone was upright, not flat.) Above a…3 -
Re: Creative Fabrica - AI Font Generator
I distinguish between Machine Learning, which I take to be a specialised model designed to do one thing and do it well, and "AI" which is generalised LLM garbage. Machine Learning applicati…3
