Also, given a small set of glyphs, would a NN be able to "design" the remainder of the glyphs?
At least there is plenty of training data available :)
It should be easy enough to train N neural nets, each of which would output one of the glyphs by inputting the rest of them: So a NN for "a", another for "b", etc.
Then a consistent font would be one that outputs itself when fed to the N nets. And a way to create consistent fonts would be to start from anything and iterate until input and outputs converge.
previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801712