Many times I’ve wanted to use a specific font I’ve seen on a billboard, or the web and it’s quite the wild goose chase of looking up that exact piece, the font used in it, looking up the font name, realizing its a custom font and is unavailable for public use or is simply not found, etc etc.
What if there was a service that could literally just provide you with the font file from a single picture of your inspiration source? You could have an AI pipeline which could look at the inspo, generate a fontsheet from A through Z and 1-9 with that. The letters which are not in the inspo doesn’t really matter because AI will hallucinate the design of the missing letters for you. Surely it’s won’t be accurate, but better than nothing.
Once all 36 types have been generated, the kerning, spacing and everything else needs to be figured out and taken care of, if any. That’s another pipeline. And then all of these need to be in SVG form to make it an OTF, for which another AI can be used. The specific one I have in mind here is known as StarVector, which is currently a huggingface model you could self host if wanted.
All combined this would let anyone rip fonts off (to some extent accurate replications) of pictures alone, and get a fully functional otf/ttf file they can import and work with in their projects.