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
Hey, computer, make me a font
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#13Hmmm. 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
Haven't seen a single maliscious ckpt file so far. Sure, there is a possibility, but huggingface scans pickled weights automatically so the likelihood of someone using that site to spread malware in this form is super low
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#14Cool! Now generate 'upper-uppercase' and see what happens :^)
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#15I'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 t…
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#16Although 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.
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#17https://twitter.com/lfegray/status/1678787763905126400
It would be cool to combine a script like the one gpt-4 gave me with an image generation model to generate fonts. The approach from this blog post is way more interesting though.
On a separate note it reminds me of this suckerpinch video :) maybe we can finally get uppestcase and lowestcase fonts
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#18I give it a week before Monotype sues your face off.
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#19I'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 t…
Even if you never get around to using the photos, I think it would be a wonderful service to take the photos and put them up somewhere for non-Vienna residents to enjoy.