AI generated font using Nano Banana(constanttime.notion.site) |
AI generated font using Nano Banana(constanttime.notion.site) |
Someone's made a python script in June 2024 to do it semi-automatically using SD 1.5: https://github.com/414design/4lph4bet_processor
hmm, not sure: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/activity:72925311263198... (disclaimer: i'm a former employee)
No please, for the love of all that is good and holy, please no
For a brief moment I thought the title was referring to Adobe Illustrator.
Is there more context to this? I can't see anything preceding it that explains what it's referencing.
I could see them being better now, havent revisited
> Copyright law does not protect typeface or mere variations of typographical ornamentation or lettering. A typeface is a set of letters, numbers, or other characters with repeating design elements that is intended to be used in composing text or other combinations of characters, including calligraphy. Generally, typeface, fonts, and lettering are building blocks of expression that are used to create works of authorship. The Office cannot register a claim to copyright in typeface or mere variations of typographic ornamentation or lettering, regardless of whether the typeface is commonly used or unique.
Given the incredible amount of work that goes into designing a typeface I find that really surprising.
Wikipedia has some good coverage on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
Apparently you CAN protect the implementation of a typeface, e.g. the font file itself. Wikipedia says:
> Typefaces and their letter forms are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements under US law, but the computer program that is used to display a typeface, a font file[a] of computer instructions in a domain-specific programming language may be protectable by copyright. In 1992, the US Copyright Office determined that digital outline fonts had elements that could be protected as software[13] if the source code of the font file "contains a sufficient amount of original authorship".
If something is considered sufficiently transformative, then it can be copyrighted. If you do a bunch of non-trivial processing on a database to generate something new, you can copyright that.
And LLM training is in no universe a "rote transformation". It is incredibly sophisticated, carefully tuned, and results in a final product that could not possibly be more different.
Speaking of which, why is it taking so long to get a supreme court decision on whether or not training counts as copyright infringement? The only court cases that have been resolved so far have settled on unrelated grounds without touching the core issue.