Outpoll | Typography might be the last thing AI can't fake

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Look, as someone who spends her days in Figma pushing pixels and wrestling with design systems, this debate hits close to home. Everywhere you turn, AI is gobbling up creative tasks—Midjourney conjures images from a whisper, Suno crafts a soundtrack, and suddenly, the act of creation feels automated.But then there's typography. That's the hill a lot of us are planting our flag on.It's not just about picking a font from a dropdown menu. It's the micro-adjustments in kerning that make a headline breathe, the intuitive choice of a serif that whispers 'trust' or a sans that shouts 'modern.' It's cultural nuance and emotional tone baked into letterforms, a craft honed over centuries. It feels uniquely, stubbornly human.Yet, let's be real, the machines are already at the gates. I'm seeing AI 'eyedropper' tools that can rip a successful UX pattern and replicate it in seconds, analyzing what works on a level we can't.There are even these surreal, AI-generated 'babies' popping up in digital dance battles, a weird proof-of-concept that style and expression are just another dataset to mine. This tension is forcing a massive, necessary introspection across our entire industry.If AI can mimic the technical execution and even the stylistic flourishes, what's left for us? The answer, I think, lies in that irreplaceable human judgment—the intentional artistry that understands *why* a typeface feels right for a brand's soul, not just that it tests well. Typography, for now, is the perfect focal point for this existential fight.It's where the rubber meets the road in defining what 'creativity' even means when a machine can do the 'how,' but perhaps not the 'why. '.

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