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The AI shrank my font from 36KB to 6KB by redrawing the glyphs

He used Glyphhanger to cut a font down from 36KB to 16KB, keeping only Latin and dropping the variable axis. Then he let the AI try, and it redrew the glyphs and got the font down to 6KB.

How it works

  1. He subsets the font with Glyphhanger and gets it from 36KB to 16KB
  2. Asks the AI to give it a go
  3. The AI redraws the glyphs and produces a 6KB font

Why it’s worth knowing

Instead of just cutting characters out, the AI redrew the glyphs themselves and beat his own best result by more than half.

Where it’s from

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

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