alt.hn

3/17/2026 at 8:16:14 PM

Learnings from training a font recognition model from scratch

https://www.mixfont.com/blog/learnings-from-training-a-font-recognition-model-from-scratch

by justswim

3/22/2026 at 8:08:12 PM

I’m curious to know how this model tackles newly released fonts. How difficult would it be if this model needs to recognise font in a different language?

by hank_z

3/18/2026 at 11:14:08 PM

Instructive, with a rewarding repo for your time.

by Terretta

3/22/2026 at 6:59:01 PM

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.

by Tommix11

3/22/2026 at 7:53:59 PM

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

by WillAdams