points by TriadDarren 2 days ago | 0 comments
I had ChatGPT write me a program that takes their .webp files as input and outputs TrueType fonts that work on Mac or Windows. No membership required.
[–] kixiQu 2 days ago
[–] lioeters 2 days ago
AI-assisted de-copyrighting of proprietary works might be an unexpected social good. Please release everything into the public domain. Although, in this particular case, converting rasterized images back into fonts is likely very lossy in terms of embedded information.
https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-27506.html
> Anyone who has a digital "OPTIfont" and a font editor can readily view the problems, including usually several times too many Bezier points within any character. I counted 78 control points on a minimal character, for instance, that should have had less than a dozen.
For a lot of folks, they're never going to notice the difference, but this gets into target audience sophistication, etc. etc.
(edit for clarity: I'm pretty confident the ChatGPT typeface clones would be low quality. Notable too, however, that the Century Library ones might also be!)