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Fonts
Victoria Song
(Image Credit: Ferrari) (Photo altered, obviously.) Many typefaces in your favourite car badges, gauges and advertisements are instantly recognisable. Now if you want know what those word-designs are actually called and how to download them, we’ve got you covered.
Neural networks are increasingly taking on jobs that used to be the preserve of the human brain. So Erik Bernhardsson decided to see what would happen if he threw 50,000 fonts at a neural network and left it to chew at them. The results, it turns out, are pretty interesting.
Some might see downloading this free font called Seen as the digital equivalent of donning a tin foil hat. Except that we know that security agencies like the NSA are intercepting emails and other communications, scanning for specific trigger words that this font automatically crosses out.
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