DeepFont has been ECE Illinois grad student, Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang’s project since he worked an internship with Adobe Research in the summer of 2014. This new platform for Adobe products has the ability to scan pictures and determine the fonts of text inside them.
This software, described by Adobe principal scientist Hailin Jin at the company’s MAX conference as “Shazam for fonts,” is DeepFont. What’s more: this isn’t a hypothetical technology – it’s already been shipped with Adobe’s latest editions of Photoshop and Typekit and is already popular with the design and academic communities.
