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Re: Searching for a vector-based emoji font
Try Symbola or DejaVu Sans.1 -
Re: Type Engineering: How to get into it?
It's actually quite hard to answer your questions because the landscape of font engineering (BTW we tend to say "font engineer" rather than "type engineer", since it's r…12 -
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: AI for custom type
It takes thousands of fonts to train an AI model from scratch, although I accept that specializing an existing model can be done on a smaller number of "our own handcrafted typefaces". (Alt…8 -
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
