Font foundries: Ideogram owns the letters in the frame
Do not Veo the type specimen.
Do not Veo the type specimen.
When the still must contain readable words, pick the model that actually renders them. Pretty texture is the wrong test.
When the job is a poster, a pack, a meme with real lettering, Ideogram is the specialist. Do not ask Flux to spell.
Ideogram or overlay.
Dense text and newspaper-like pages. Use it when the still is a slide, not a photograph.
Edit endpoint vs generate. Infographics and dense type are an edit of a layout, not a photoreal hero.
Words are the product.
English supers overflow in German and Finnish and starve in CJK. Set expansion budgets, two-line fallbacks, and a regenerate-the-plate rule before type shrinks.
Do not re-roll a good image for one misspelled word. Quote the exact string, describe the font, set a mask margin, and know when to composite type instead.
Versely's 45 caption presets are nine families of five. Map them by backing, position and word timing to shortlist three candidates in a couple of minutes.
Text a video model draws inside the frame has to be right 200 times, not once. The size threshold where letterforms break, and the clean-plate rule.
A ten-prompt test set and a four-gate proofing loop for text-dense image renders, so garbled type gets caught before a client ever sees the file.
Generative upscalers re-draw letterforms and will respell a word that was already right. Mask text out of the pass, or drop denoise on text-bearing images.
A guessed font name doesn't error — it just doesn't do what you asked. What each font category does to legibility at caption size on moving footage.
Prose can't tell a model where to put a headline — 'top-left' is a suggestion, not a coordinate. Structured JSON prompts can, and here's when that helps.
Generated graphics fail contrast because the model optimized for looking good, not for a ratio. The actual thresholds, the exemptions, and a two-minute check.
One variable font file replaces a shelf of static weight cuts — and its optical size axis does something no weight dropdown can ever reproduce.