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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 -
Re: Creative Fabrica - AI Font Generator
In Nathan Willis' talk at ATypI (on automated spacing), he asked an interesting question about what we think automation is. First, he asked if having Glyphs link the sidebearings of one glyph to the…3 -
Re: Creative Fabrica - AI Font Generator
I'm somewhat aware of that. In fact, it's much easier to train it in this fork, which extracts outlines from the TTFs directly instead of having to go through fontforge.1 -
Re: Creative Fabrica - AI Font Generator
DeepVecFont is trained on 1001freefonts.com, so there is a case to be made that this is already happening.4