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Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
But I’ve not seen anything that I want to use, and I think you’ve missed my point, which is about the reflexive aspect of type design. The prompts used in AI generation are at once too specific—‘too …2 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I think the problem with these text faces is that they not only look derivative, but they’re also boring and rather characterless. They look like what they are: cobbled together from images of other …4 -
Re: What do you think about Fontself as of today in 2023?
Are you Windows based? Or Linux? If Windows based, you could consider FontCreator from High-Logic. It is commercial software, but very much cheaper than FontLab. The Home Edition is $49 and has all t…5 -
Re: Affinity 2.0
Adobe has avoided OS-reliance for font handling and text rendering for a long time. It is part of their policy of maintaining cross-platform feature compatibility in their software: they don’t want t…6 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
I think Karsten’s point is that you don’t need to name the axis poles anything. In font development tools, you need to have labels for masters, but those names are arbitrary and not part of the namin…2
