I stumbled upon this little pearl hidden in a small corner of the laboratory site where the giant Google is experimenting with the use of artificial intelligence.
Gentype is an innovative project that uses AI to create unique and original alphabets. It's experimental, it's in English, but I love it.
This tool makes it possible to create a complete alphabet with typographies to say the least original. Just describe how you imagine them and let the magic of AI work. You can then use them as you see fit for your displays, maps or prints.
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Create a custom alphabet from a description
GenType is an experiment based on the Imagen 2 API that will offer you to create custom alphabets based on your own descriptions and prompts.
He These are: I'll tell you recalls, an experimental site with some limitations, such as the fact that he only realizes letters and not numbers. Another limitation is that the tool speaks only English. If you are not bilingual, do as I do and do you help by an online translator.
But apart from these small constraints, Gentype works very well and it's free.
How to use Gentype?
The use of this virtual typographer is very simple. Type your prompt in the text box on the left side to generate your alphabet.
You can only generate letters in GenType, not numbers or punctuation marks. To get the best results, each of your GenType prompts must contain a foreground, background, and style.
An example of an invitation: ‘Beetles, on a green leaf, aerial photo’ First shot: What are your letters made of? Specify the shape of the letters, e.g. “Coccinelles” Background: What is the background of each letter? Describe the background, such as “on a green sheet” Style: What is the general appearance of each letter? Define aesthetics, such as ‘aerial photo’.
Go through an online translator and it reads: “Ladybugs, we have green leaf, aerial photo”.
You can then, if you as desired, regenerate letters individually one by one one and download them.
Write a sentence with your new alphabet
Gentype also offers a built-in text editor. In this one, You will be able to write a text that will be composed with the typography you have just created.
You can increase or decrease the font size and well safe, you can download the final result in .png format.
On the homepage of the site, you have access to a gallery with many alphabets created by the tool. You can use them as they are or as a source of inspiration.
Although still experimental and somewhat limited, Gentype offers creative possibilities really interesting for designers, artists and typography enthusiasts.
It also allows non-professionals to create alphabets unique from simple textual descriptions. A resource to add to many original typographies present on the web.
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