Comment by Animats
18 hours ago
Right.
A good question to work on is whether an LLM, given a reasonable number of characters of a font, can generate letter forms for the entire Unicode character space. Probably. It's a style matching problem, and LLMs are good at that.
That would be interesting to see. An a possible way of extending current typefaces through the Unicode glyph-space.
Thought I'd had earlier: there's a lot of detail that goes into font design, particularly anticipating issues with specific media.
E.g., faces meant for wet-ink print often incorporates features to avoid pooling or smearing ink ("ink traps", see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_trap>). Electrostatic printing (a/k/a laserprinters), and screen-based displays (CRT, LED, Plasma, eInk) also have idiosyncrasies which fine-detail font design may take into account.
I'm not sure those would be hugely significant, but seem a domain in which a naive AI font designer might prove deficient.