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AI generated font using Nano Banana
- steve1977 10mo agoI’m sure Microsoft would love to include it in WordArt.
- deleted 10mo ago[deleted]
- flobosg 10mo ago> Worlds first Ai generated font For a brief moment I thought the title was referring to Adobe Illustrator.
- herlon214 10mo ago> Worlds first AI generated font hmm, not sure: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/activity:7292531126319865857 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/activity:72925311263198... (disclaimer: i'm a former employee)
- SerCe 10mo agoDefinitely not the first AI generated font. One can find an enormous amount of research in AI font generation on https://scholar.google.com/ https://scholar.google.com/ going back many years. This could possibly be the first one that used Nano Banana though, and the result is impressive for sure!
- quinniuq 10mo agoThe writing style of this was so chaotic. I loved it, in a loopy, end-of-day sort of way
- amelius 10mo agoA font without copyright is not a real font.
- Legend2440 10mo agoTypefaces cannot be copyrighted in the US, so that’s really irrelevant.
- simonw 10mo agoHuh, TIL: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf > Copyright law does not protect typeface or mere variations of typographical ornamentation or lettering. A typeface is a set of letters, numbers, or other characters with repeating design elements that is intended to be used in composing text or other combinations of characters, including calligraphy. Generally, typeface, fonts, and lettering are building blocks of expression that are used to create works of authorship. The Office cannot register a claim to copyright in typeface or mere variations of typographic ornamentation or lettering, regardless of whether the typeface is commonly used or unique. Given the incredible amount of work that goes into designing a typeface I find that really surprising. Wikipedia has some good coverage on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces?utm_source=chatgpt.com#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti... Apparently you CAN protect the implementation of a typeface, e.g. the font file itself. Wikipedia says: > Typefaces and their letter forms are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements under US law, but the computer program that is used to display a typeface, a font file[a] of computer instructions in a domain-specific programming language may be protectable by copyright. In 1992, the US Copyright Office determined that digital outline fonts had elements that could be protected as software[13] if the source code of the font file "contains a sufficient amount of original authorship".
- abtinf 10mo agoLikewise I think it is extremely dubious that models can be copyrighted at all, for the exact same reason you can't copyright a phonebook or database. The entire regime of claiming to release models under various licenses is bullshit, because you can't copyright rote transformations of things either.
- Steelkiwer 10mo ago[dead]
- UltraSane 10mo agoAs opposed to putting an LLM inside a font https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/ https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
- Springtime 10mo ago> I also found out that my friend's company got charged $2,000 per character. WTF. Is there more context to this? I can't see anything preceding it that explains what it's referencing.
- gaigalas 10mo agoAI should play a few runs of this game before attempting font design: https://type.method.ac/ https://type.method.ac/
- Oarch 10mo agoI enjoyed this far too much!
- chironjit 10mo agoThis is pretty cool. Can't believe how many got I 100 just on my mobile. I consider myself horrible at fonts and design and could never design my own, but maybe good styling is something that can be internalised
- the-mitr 10mo agoThis is fun. Thanks for sharing
- elpocko 10mo agoNot "world's first" by a long shot. Someone's made a python script in June 2024 to do it semi-automatically using SD 1.5: https://github.com/414design/4lph4bet_processor https://github.com/414design/4lph4bet_processor
- akovaski 10mo agoI'd like to add that tom7 used AI to generate an upperercase and lowerercase font in 2021. https://tom7.org/lowercase/ https://tom7.org/lowercase/
- gwern 10mo agoWhile we're at it: my own work 2 years ago in creating an entire workflow for turning Midjourney or DALL-E dropcaps into attractive, lightweight, easy-to-create dropcaps for web pages: https://gwern.net/dropcap https://gwern.net/dropcap We use it for the cat, Gene Wolfe, and holiday pages.
- purplecats 10mo agowhy dont they show you it in use? seems like an obvious thing.
- yieldcrv 10mo agoI had tried vector based work a couple years ago and generative AI models were very limited at keeping up I could see them being better now, havent revisited
- smallerize 10mo agoOk but what is the Russian Orthodox font at the top of the article?
- nkrisc 10mo agoPretty interesting that this much is possible. Too bad the fonts are terrible.
- voidhorse 10mo ago> Imagine each Substack owner can make their own font to highlight the essence of their writing. No please, for the love of all that is good and holy, please no
- levocardia 10mo agoI would also like to see a custom background image. And floating text or bubbles that follows your cursor. And maybe play your favorite song in the background. And a "best friends" list (oh substack already has that basically!)
- turtleyacht 10mo agoAnd blinking too
- MarkusQ 10mo agoI'm pretty sure Grant Sanderson capitalizes his first name.
- xnx 10mo agoRelated: https://labs.google/gentype https://labs.google/gentype