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> What do I feel like custom font generation is one thing AI could be really good at

Probably because you're wrong. Anybody can make a font, making a good font is a highly under appreciated art form.





I find that a “good” font is just whatever aesthetic people find popular, regardless of legibility.

Have you seen the output of LLMs lately? It's not perfect, but I bet that with enough refinements they can create "art" just as well.

Ask the models to create vector SVGs and you'll understand how far off they are on shapes.

The latest Nano Banana is pretty good, but it's not perfect yet. And many font use cases demand perfect.

Maybe the next major update will be able to do it.


Fonts are not generated as bitmaps, anyone who doesn't see how AI can and will be good at font generation is a fool.

It wasn't long ago that we thought creativity and programming were safe from AI. Fonts are entirely within the realm of possibilities within 12 months.


What a bereft way to produce beauty. "This grey slop is good enough, isn't it?" Christ, people, let's be human again.

My man, that battle is lost.

Only if you give up.



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