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  • gilfaethwy1 hour ago
    I&#x27;ve been doing some bookbinding projects recently, e.g. some of William Morris&#x27;s works originally published by his Kelmscott Press, and have been typesetting them using some replica fonts. This is a very cool project.<p>I do wish they&#x27;d provide more details about where a given font comes from. For instance, CL Antique No.1&#x27;s uppercase bears a strong resemblance to Morris&#x27;s drop caps used in News From Nowhere, but there doesn&#x27;t seem to be a reference to what CL Antique No.1 is based on.<p>Or maybe I&#x27;m just missing that somewhere?
  • TriadDarren1 hour ago
    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.
    • kixiQu53 minutes ago
      Font-cloning of dubious quality not novel to the LLM era!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;luc.devroye.org&#x2F;fonts-27506.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;luc.devroye.org&#x2F;fonts-27506.html</a><p>&gt; Anyone who has a digital &quot;OPTIfont&quot; 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.<p>For a lot of folks, they&#x27;re never going to notice the difference, but this gets into target audience sophistication, etc. etc.<p>(edit for clarity: I&#x27;m pretty confident the ChatGPT typeface clones would be low quality. Notable too, however, that the Century Library ones might also be!)
  • Palomides1 hour ago
    selling limited commercial licenses for fonts generated from public domain works (without any attribution?) seems gross to me
    • Nzen1 hour ago
      Popular works regularly mine the (public domain) past. Disney animated movies like <i>Cinderella</i> did so. Seth Grahame-Smith did so with <i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</i>. and so on. That is literally the benefit of copyright expiration, that other people can utilize and transform a published work.
    • alex001543 minutes ago
      If someone took a close-up photo of a statue&#x27;s stone texture, I don&#x27;t see any problem with someone editing the photo and selling it as part of a texture pack for 3d modeling. I feel like what was done here involved a roughly similar amount of transformation. I agree that the right thing to do is attribute the source, though.