Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by pavanyara » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 12:17 PM UTC

Hey, computer, make me a font
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Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by nitrofurano » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 1:36 PM UTC

lots of kernings misfits ftw

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by dleeftink » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 1:39 PM UTC

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.

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by logdahl » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

Cool! Now generate 'upper-uppercase' and see what happens :^)

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by scarygliders » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 1:48 PM UTC

Hmmm. The model is a ckpt instead of a safetensor.

Pondering on whether to keep proceeding trying this out or not...

EDIT: a scan with picklescan[0] found nothing.. exciting.

[0] https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by RugnirViking » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

Ooh I have to try this out when I get home, looks like the weights are under 1GB too

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by boffinAudio » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 1:51 PM UTC

I've long had a project in mind involving the various typefaces of the signage around the city of Vienna, which I find very inspiring in many cases.

The idea is to just take a picture of every different typeface I can find, attached to the local buildings at street level.

There are some truly wonderful typefaces out there, on signage dating back to last century, and I find the aesthetics often quite appealing.

With this tool, could I take a collection of the various typefaces I've captured, and get it to complete the font, such that a sign that only has a few of the required characters could be 'completed' in the same style?

Because if so, I'm going to start taking more pictures of Vienna's wonderful types ..

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by eurekin » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 1:51 PM UTC

scarygliders wrote: post #5

Hmmm. The model is a ckpt instead of a safetensor. Pondering on whether to keep proceeding trying this out or not... EDIT: a scan with picklescan[0] found nothing.. exciting. [0] https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan

proxmox/virtualbox/qemu + throwaway vm

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by scarygliders » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 1:57 PM UTC

eurekin wrote: post #8

scarygliders wrote: post #5

Hmmm. The model is a ckpt instead of a safetensor. Pondering on whether to keep proceeding trying this out or not... EDIT: a scan with picklescan[0] found nothing.. exciting. [0] https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan

proxmox/virtualbox/qemu + throwaway vm

Quite, I was thinking about doing so.

I just scanned it with picklescan, which found nothing malicious. I just updated my original reply.

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

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Post by california-og » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 1:58 PM UTC

dleeftink wrote: post #3

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.

I 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.