Designers have thousands of fonts to choose from, but what do you when you see the perfect font on a building or on a flyer you found on the street? Photoshop is using artificial intelligence to help designers identify typefaces that they have seen elsewhere.
Revealed last year by Adobe researchers, DeepFont uses NVIDIA GPUs and deep learning to look at the curves and other characteristics of fonts used in the captured image and then compares it to a database of nearly 20,000 fonts to find similar fonts.
“My research background is in image recognition and artificial intelligence techniques like machine learning and deep learning,” said Hailin Jin, a principal scientist in Adobe Research, and creator of DeepFont. “I wondered — can we apply the power of machine learning with the font manual to make a useful tool for designers?”
The tool will be available to users with a Creative Cloud subscription.
Read more >>
Adobe Adds ‘Shazam for Fonts’ Tool to Photoshop
May 18, 2016
Discuss (0)
AI-Generated Summary
- Adobe Research developed DeepFont, an AI-powered tool that identifies typefaces from images using deep learning and GPU acceleration.
- The system analyzes font curves and characteristics in captured images and compares them against a database of nearly 20,000 fonts to find similar matches.
- Principal scientist Hailin Jin created the technology by applying machine learning and deep learning techniques to font recognition challenges.
- The tool leverages NVIDIA GPUs for the computational demands of deep learning inference.
Next Steps
- Read the DeepFont research paper for technical details on the approach.
- Read the BBC coverage for additional context on the announcement.
Powered by NVIDIA Nemotron. AI-generated content may summarize information incompletely. Verify important information. Learn more
About the Authors
