I'm in my eleventh hour, financially speaking, and I'm dusting off an #AI project I started a couple of months ago and then abandoned due to how overwhelmingly new and unknown a lot of the work is.
This isn't some #ChatGPT bullshit either, just some simple visual classification of fonts.
The idea here is to build a #SearchEngine for graphic designers and typographers to discover and explore fonts in a way no font repository has done yet.
Unlike a lot of people, I understand regular expressions quite well.
Unlike a lot of people who understand regular expressions, I apologize for my monstrosities.
@unshittifier Don't apologize, explain. Add re.VERBOSE, split regexp by blocks, and add a comment for each block.
...but also I agree with @orsinium that the better approach for future developers (possibly including future you) is to make it more readable and add explanations into the code
@stevelaskevitch Well, lots of font repositories expect you to just... know what you're looking for. But half the time I'm looking for a font alternative, a font from an image, or a font based on a vibe/aesthetic.
What I'm working on currently fits the former two, just by letting you pick a well-known font, or font you have a sample of, and search for fonts that visually match.
The visual matching will also help with categorizing fonts correctly when they aren't (Google Fonts *cough*).
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