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Re: How does the google fonts project template differ from exporting via glyphs?
In the GF guide, you can read why created their own font compilation toolchain (fontmake). Partly this was for reliability (builds can be automated, locked to particular library versions, and reprodu…8 -
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
