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I think Firefly's main strength right now is the stable diffusion letter forms. I'm not aware of any other way to generate something as good as those.

• dtagames 4y ago
  Except that it gives you a PNG, not a usable vector font. And, in reality, how many of these filled letterform designs are we going to need? I can see some utility in blog post header or something once in a while. But it's not a design style that would be commonly used and the output isn't great for anyone who already uses Adobe tools. Not modifiable later, etc.
  • qq99 4y ago
    I think those are fair critiques. I also noticed that it's a transparent PNG that doesn't look great on every background. I wouldn't want them as vectors fonts necessarily. One of my complaints was that duplicate letters would just re-use the texture. I get that it's probably a caching mechanism to finish generating the word faster. But, since the AI can generate infinitely, it seems a bit self-limiting to re-use a letter. I guess my complaint is that the re-use really points out that it's _not_ a custom illustration.
• kfarr 4y ago
  Stable diffusion SDXL beta has improved greatly generating text. Not perfect, but getting there...
• GaggiX 4y ago
  Isn't it just ControlNet with depth? It is more of a gimmick than anything else.
  • qq99 4y ago
    I tried controlnet in a few forms with some lettering, but wasn't able to get close to how they're doing it. Too often it will generate the subject matter into the background too. Firefly's has really good separation usually. Maybe they're doing some kind of latent coupling, where the letter is a masked area and the prompt is applying purely to that masked area.