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I think a naive randomness would look bad. As in "I have 3 variations of each letter and choose one on random". Because how I write a letter is influenced by le
by matsemann 5y ago
I think a naive randomness would look bad. As in "I have 3 variations of each letter and choose one on random". Because how I write a letter is influenced by letters before (so have to create ligatures I guess). But for the same reason, randomly making some variation to the letters would feel "off" if it doesn't take into account the letters before and after. There is a flow to writing.
Of course, doing anything is better than having the two e's in "meet" be identical, which spoils it being real handwriting from the get-go.
- nicoburns 5y agoSeems like the sort of thing machine learning actually ought to work quite well on, if you had enough hand written letters as training samples.
- kixiQu 5y agoFonts already have this power, which is part of why they're so complicated. "contextual alternates" is the term for search
- matsemann 5y agoThanks. https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-co... Was a good description. The "horoscope" example in how it connects the r and s is similar to what I meant. Having to create ligatures for that.