The original post by Bogdan Sasu is on the GTAPR website

Great Talks About Photo Realism
Great Talks About Photo Realism – Author: Bogdan Sasu

AI is notoriously poor at spacing. Letters like ‘AW’ or ‘To’ will overlap awkwardly. Use tools like (free) or Glyphs App to manually adjust kerning pairs. For bonus points, ask an LLM to generate a list of common ligature combinations (‘fi’, ‘fl’, ‘Th’) and script their creation.

Unlike standard variable fonts, AI can explore "latent space"—a multidimensional map of font characteristics—to envision and create entirely new shapes between existing styles.

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