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Here you can find all my experiments, thoughts and inspiration about Artificial Intelligence and Type Design.
Jan 25, 20233 min read
The best application examples of AI generated fonts
Finding and using AI fonts is not easy for designers. It seems as if the complicated technical hurdle must first be overcome. PicsArt Yet...
Jan 2, 20232 min read
AI generated font projects to inspire you
AI tools are slowly making their way into type design, and I'd like to highlight a few projects that inspired me in using AI-generated...
Dec 29, 20225 min read
The effect of AI tools in the field of design
New skills and tasks for designer working with AI tools The letterforms have changed little over time. Without too much effort, we can...
Dec 19, 20223 min read
Interesting AI platforms to inspire you
As far as I know (January 2023), there is no other platform where projects with type design and AI tools are published. But there are...
Dec 12, 20222 min read
#14 Midjourney - Is the powerful AI tool beneficial for type designer?
At the beginning of November 2022, the AI tool Midjourney received a major new update. Version 4 (--v 4) is now available and I have...
Dec 8, 20222 min read
#13 Using stable diffusion to generate letters
In experiment #12, the state-of-the-art AI tool stable diffusion is tested by a type designer. Stable diffusion can create realistic...
Dec 6, 20222 min read
#12 Kandinsky 2.0 - Can the diffusion model generate valid letters?
The diffusion model Kandinsky 2.0 is still largely unknown. A big advantage over other text-to-image models is the input in 101 different...
Dec 5, 20222 min read
#11 Trying DALL-E to generate letters
In this experiment i tried out two versions of the famous AI tool DALL-E. Can this text-to-image tool generate appropriate letterforms?...
Dec 1, 20221 min read
#10 AttnGAN – is the text-to-image AI tool appropriate for generating letters ?
The very first text-to-image model I have ever tried out, was the AttnGAN. In this experiment I wanted to find out if this AI tool is...
Nov 24, 20221 min read
#8 + #9 Can a diffusion model generate two different letters at once?
In experiments #8 and #9, I trained the diffusion model with all the data I had created so far. This means that images with both the...
Nov 21, 20221 min read
#7 Training a diffusion model with the lowercase g in different font categories
In experiment #7, I added a dataset of about 1,100 g‘s from the handwritten category to the previous training data to see how further...
Nov 19, 20221 min read
# 6 Training a diffusion model with a more complicated letterform
After testing the diffusion model extensively with the letter A, I wanted to test a more complex letter. The minuscule g is one of the...
Nov 15, 20222 min read
How to create good training data for working with AI tools
The importance of accurate (diverse) training data has already been touched upon in the previous blog entry and will be discussed in more...
Nov 15, 20221 min read
#5 The diffusion model learned to generate different font categories
Experiment #5 was to find out whether the same model can generate several font categories at the same time. For this, I colourcoded my...
Nov 13, 20221 min read
#4 Training a diffusion model with only handwritten fonts
Experiment #4 aimed to generate As in the style of Handwritten fonts. I created a dataset with about 1,300 As in fonts of the Handwritten...
Nov 10, 20221 min read
#3 Training a diffusion model with only sans serif letters
In this experiment I trained the diffusion model with about 2,500 images of sans serif A's. This is the output: jkbkjbn interesing output
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Designers‘ fears and expectations of AI tools
"The progress cannot be stopped." Philipp Thesen talks about this in an interview about the future of AI tools and design. And perhaps...
Nov 7, 20221 min read
#2 Training a diffusion model with only serif letters
In experiment #2, I wanted to find out whether individual font categories could be generated by the diffusion model. This is what came...
Nov 4, 20222 min read
#1 Generating individual letters with a diffusion model
In this post I explain my very first experiment on this blog. Using Google colab I trained a diffusion model with the letter A and this...
Nov 3, 20223 min read
How to train a diffusion model as a graphic designer with no coding skills
AI is coming into our lives and it's not stopping at the creative world. In this post, I explain how I used google colab to train my own...
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