Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks · Erik Bernhardsson

For some reason I decided one night I wanted to get a bunch of fonts. An hour later I had a bunch of scrapy scripts pulling down fonts and a few days later I had more than 50k fonts on my computer. I then decided to convert it to bitmaps. It turns out this is a bit trickier than it might seem like. You need to crop in such a way that each character of a font is vertically aligned, and scale everything to fit the bitmap.