Designer laments AI can now build a full font with ligatures and OTF in 10 minutes
Ror_Fly · x · 2026-10-02
A designer dug up old hand-drawn typography files from an external drive and reflected on how much has changed: today AI could produce an entire font — ligatures, special characters, OTF files — in about 10 minutes. His take: sometimes it takes the fun out of the craft.
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