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Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

#11

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

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

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

#13

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

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

I've never spotted one in the wild either, but, y'know, I like to not be the one who first finds one out... the bad way. ;)

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

#14
post #4

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

I think this is a reference to "Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters", a submission a while back about someone training a ML model to generate lowercase/uppercase letters, and used it to uppercase letters already in uppercase. Quite fun https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667852

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

#15

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 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.

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

#16

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.

It'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.

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

#17
I found a few months ago that the gpt-4 code interpreter is capable of converting a black and white png of a glyph to an svg

https://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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRdruqQfRk

Re: Hey, computer, make me a font

#19

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 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.

Oh, definitely .. but first I must amass an archive worthy of it ..
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