Comment by rvnx
Comment by rvnx 5 hours ago
Soon they are going out of business anyway since they will be replaced by generative AI (which will look the same)
Comment by rvnx 5 hours ago
Soon they are going out of business anyway since they will be replaced by generative AI (which will look the same)
Shameless plug: https://fonthero.com - gen AI fonts, free while in beta ;)
Given that Chinese/Japanese characters are made from a limited number of strokes, generating them seems like an ideal application for AI.
No thanks. Not only for the AI, but I've tried to write a little japanese and all the fonts appear blank.
Please stop plugging AI crap on HN. If the relevance of human creativity is indeed breathing its last gasp, let us enjoy it in peace.
And if not, then AI is overhyped and plugging it is even less justifiable.
Either way, just stop.
There will always be a place for calligraphy, artisan, who place creativity, handcraft and art first.
You can see it like pizzas:
there will always be someone who actually makes these pizzas from scratch; grows his own tomatoes in his garden, does his own flour, does his own cheese, raises pigs, etc.
But these are exceptions, maybe 0.001% - it gets very very expensive, these people do it for passion and art, not for money or scale.
You need to pre-order your pizza weeks before, you will pay a lot and you are not sure what will be the final taste (hopefully tasty), and you buy a story and supports someone.
On the other end, you have companies like Gustavo Gusto who produce 100'000 pizzas a day.
Quality ingredients, great execution, convenient, immediate, available and cheaper than hiring someone.
The irony is that the expensive and slow small artisan may actually make a worse product, than something which has been battle-tested on millions of people and whose supply chain has been controlled end-to-end.
After all of that, the industrial fonts like Roboto are not that bad, and if the industrial people offer you to customize it in a couple of prompts, then this is the cherry on top.
It's not about the shilling. It's about death of quality. As society we are self-destructing our culture using trash AI copies. It doesn't matter if it's fonts, code, movies or illustrations. Look at that service - the fonts are shit to meh but they are free. Corpo managers will of course want to squeeze every drop so they will push for free - especially as the AI gets close. So instead of allowing someone obsessive to produce highest quality output they can… we stop this by using stolen copy. In this can only lead to wiping any concepts of quality in our society while also robbing the people producing the quality work.
You know, I'd have to say that responding to a comment that says "Japanese font foundries are about to be replaced with generative AI" with a plug for your generative-AI fonts is about as on topic as you can be. I challenge you to describe a reason why that's a bad response.