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Although I would be sad to see the handcrafting that goes into designing custom fonts go, some iterations down the line a model like this would greatly aid tedi
by dleeftink 3y ago
Although I would be sad to see the handcrafting that goes into designing custom fonts go, some iterations down the line a model like this would greatly aid tedious glyph alignment and consistency tasks when designing CJK, hiragana, katakana and kanji fonts. Inspiring stuff.
- california-og 3y agoI think that would be ideal. The 'killer' feature would be: Handcraft a set of control characters, like the letters in "handglove" and then let AI generate the rest. Designing a typeface is fun, until you need to add support for multiple languages and need to make 800+ characters. Or, maybe there is a nice (open source) font, that is unfortunately missing some characters you really need: let AI generate them.
- matsemann 3y agoIt's already so that writing on computers is quite US-centric (at least English-centric). While this might help on some of the shortcomings, I'm also a bit afraid it will make it so that even more focus is put only on the US part, and the rest of the world get a "good enough" implementation made by AI that kinda erases some heritage.
- dleeftink 3y agoMaybe, but the Latin font market is quite saturated, whereas the CJK space has ample opportunity for innovating and is likely even in need of it, cf. [0][1][2] [0]: https://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fascinating-process-of-creating-a-chinese-font https://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fasci... [1]: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/type_in_china_japan_and_korea/japanese_typography_basics https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/type_in_china_japan_and_k... [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14573813 https://stackoverflow.com/a/14573813