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Learnings from training a font recognition model from scratch

21 points by justswim ago | 3 comments

Terretta |next [-]

Instructive, with a rewarding repo for your time.

Tommix11 |previous [-]

Graphic designer here. A font recognition ai is sorley needed. Gemini and its competitors flat out lie when asked and Adobe Illustrators Retype is laughably bad. The problem I face almost every day is not to find a close match but to find the actual font in use, commercial or not.

WillAdams |root |parent [-]

whatthefont and identifont used to work well, but they've been overwhelmed by new designs which are not used often enough to warrant inclusion.

I just use Rookledge's Type Finder and a battered copy of Precision Type 5.0