Learnings from training a font recognition model from scratch

(mixfont.com)

34 points | by justswim 6 days ago ago

7 comments

  • ZeroGravitas 10 hours ago ago

    Surely the next step is to tweak the open source font with AI to slightly better target the desired font?

    Sometimes you're trying to replicate a logo and they've hand tweaked a letter or two, or stretched it.

    edit: (Google Fonts actually have fonts you can natively stretch and some with replacement character variants) I wonder if the tool uses that to better match?)

    Sometimes you just don't want to pay for a fancy font and I believe font shapes are not copyrightable?

  • hank_z a day ago ago

    I’m curious to know how this model tackles newly released fonts. How difficult would it be if this model needs to recognise font in a different language?

  • Tommix11 a day ago ago

    Graphic designer here. A font recognition ai is sorley needed. Gemini and its competitors flat out lie when asked and Adobe Illustrators Retype is laughably bad. The problem I face almost every day is not to find a close match but to find the actual font in use, commercial or not.

    • WillAdams a day ago ago

      whatthefont and identifont used to work well, but they've been overwhelmed by new designs which are not used often enough to warrant inclusion.

      I just use Rookledge's Type Finder and a battered copy of Precision Type 5.0

  • codemog a day ago ago

    Curious why the model architecture wasn’t talked about at all? Did I miss that part?

  • Terretta 5 days ago ago

    Instructive, with a rewarding repo for your time.