Monotype’s latest trends report explores AI, typography, creativity, and more. Senior executive creative director Charles Nix shares insights on how AI will impact typography.
Over the past 25 years, the number of typefaces has grown from about 20,000 to over a million. AI can help us navigate and organize this massive collection efficiently.
At Monotype, AI is being developed to address generative AI’s struggles with rendering typography correctly, reducing "hallucinations" in generated text.
Some companies are using AI to create typefaces, but Monotype believes that managing and improving the existing vast collection is more pressing than generating new ones.
Nix believes that true creative aspects of type design will remain human-driven for the foreseeable future, as AI lacks human intuition and artistic judgment.
Monotype’s Human Types project explores what humans uniquely bring to typography that AI cannot replicate, engaging three designers with different perspectives.
One key idea is that humans introduce creative chaos—our ability to question, challenge norms, and take unpredictable paths makes creativity fundamentally human.
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Monotype’s latest trends report explores AI, typography, creativity, and more. Senior executive creative director Charles Nix shares insights on how AI will impact typography.
Over the past 25 years, the number of typefaces has grown from about 20,000 to over a million. AI can help us navigate and organize this massive collection efficiently.
Typography is no longer just for specialists. In the 21st century, everyone engages with type—every text message or email is an act of typography.
AI can assist by tagging, sorting, and streamlining typeface discovery, making it easier for users to find the perfect font for their needs.
At Monotype, AI is being developed to address generative AI’s struggles with rendering typography correctly, reducing "hallucinations" in generated text.
Some companies are using AI to create typefaces, but Monotype believes that managing and improving the existing vast collection is more pressing than generating new ones.
AI will automate repetitive tasks in type design—like kerning, fitting, and global script extensions—freeing designers to focus on creativity.
Nix believes that true creative aspects of type design will remain human-driven for the foreseeable future, as AI lacks human intuition and artistic judgment.
Monotype’s Human Types project explores what humans uniquely bring to typography that AI cannot replicate, engaging three designers with different perspectives.
One key idea is that humans introduce creative chaos—our ability to question, challenge norms, and take unpredictable paths makes creativity fundamentally human.
Typography has always evolved alongside technology, from metal type to digital fonts. AI represents the next step in this ongoing transformation.
AI will influence typography in three key ways: shaping typeface forms, changing how type is made, and refining how we choose and use type.
In the long run, AI may even affect how type is perceived and read, but its full impact remains uncertain.
Typography’s evolution will continue, blending art and technology. AI will play a role, but human creativity will remain central to the craft.