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Although I would be sad to see the handcrafting that goes into designing custom fonts go, some iterations down the line a model like this would greatly aid tedious glyph alignment and consistency tasks when designing CJK, hiragana, katakana and kanji fonts. Inspiring stuff.

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I think that would be ideal. The 'killer' feature would be: Handcraft a set of control characters, like the letters in "handglove" and then let AI generate the rest. Designing a typeface is fun, until you need to add support for multiple languages and need to make 800+ characters. Or, maybe there is a nice (open source) font, that is unfortunately missing some characters you really need: let AI generate them.

It's already so that writing on computers is quite US-centric (at least English-centric). While this might help on some of the shortcomings, I'm also a bit afraid it will make it so that even more focus is put only on the US part, and the rest of the world get a "good enough" implementation made by AI that kinda erases some heritage.

Maybe, but the Latin font market is quite saturated, whereas the CJK space has ample opportunity for innovating and is likely even in need of it, cf. [0][1][2]

[0]: https://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fasci...

[1]: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/type_in_china_japan_and_k...

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14573813

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