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The AI added the missing glyphs to my font and fixed the ones I made by hand

His SightRead.org project uses the MusGlyphs font, but glyphs he needed were missing, and editing the font by hand was so off putting that his releases slowed down. The AI added the glyphs he needed with little handholding, then went back and fixed his own hand made glyphs with consistent spacing and no warnings.

How it works

  1. Emails the font author, who tells him to edit it himself
  2. Puts off the font work and his releases slow
  3. The AI adds the glyphs he needs
  4. He asks the AI to redo his hand made glyphs with consistent spacing and fix the warnings

Why it’s worth knowing

The font source files turned out to be plain text full of coordinates, so the AI could edit a font the way it edits code.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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