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graphic design teams

Papers whose findings have a practical use for this group, as judged from the abstract. Open a paper to read what it means in practice.

Design agents help explore alternative user interface styles with clearer controls

Enabling Creative Exploration for Vibe Design Agents

Abstract: Vibe design agents turn natural-language briefs into rendered interfaces and frontend code. Yet a useful design agent should do more than produce one valid page: it should help users explore coherent alternatives. Increasing token-level temperature is a blunt solution because it varies aesthetic decisions and syntax-sensitive code at the same time. We instead separate exploration from implementation through an inference architecture that makes design direction an explicit intermediate decision. Inspired by Verbalized Sampling, a pre-pass proposes structured design specifications with typicality scores, an external selector samples one, and the downstream generator realizes the selected specification together with the original request under fixed settings. We apply this approach to UI themes and visual-asset prompts. Across 168 prompts, with 1,255 paired comparisons per temperature for each intervention, theme sampling broadens observed selection coverage and screenshot variation, while LLM-judge preferences vary across interventions, prompt complexity, and viewport. In an online experiment with more than 300,000 tasks, the observed code-export increase remains statistically uncertain, while fewer negative feedback events coexist with more correction interactions and modest operational costs. Together, these findings identify structured design specifications as a practical control point for exploring alternative UI concepts while keeping downstream generation settings fixed.

Mon 14 SeptArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Creating web pages from written instructions can be tricky because small changes in computer code can lead to very different designs. The authors propose a method that helps design tools offer multiple style options by separating the choice of overall look from the detailed code creation. Their system suggests several design styles and picks one to turn into a final webpage, making it easier to explore and compare different designs. Tests showed this method increases variety without making the tool more complicated or less useful.
Open 2609.15078v1

LoGAN enables multilingual font generation with few examples

LoGAN: Multilingual Font Localization with Generative Agents

Abstract: Localizing a font into new languages is a highly intricate task requiring precise design adaptation of glyphs, color/texture, and spacing/kerning, from source to target languages. Most existing methods focus on single glyph generation with limited capability in handling multilingual font rendering. In this work, we propose LoGAN, a VLM-based agentic framework for few-shot multilingual font localization, which takes in a small number of individual glyphs from a font or letters from a logo and uses them to generate complete character sets in other languages. LoGAN breaks down this task into multiple components: a glyph-level diffusion model, a style finetuning module, a spacing and kerning transfer algorithm, and a texture expansion model, with a VLM agent coordinator. LoGAN achieves broad language coverage for font localization with various styles, including Chinese/Korean/Japanese (CJK). We evaluate our approach on both font and real-world logo datasets spanning more than 27 languages and compare it against both specialized font generation and state-of-the-art image editing models with strong text rendering capabilities (e.g., FLUX, Nano-Banana). Our approach yields higher glyph fidelity while maintaining better style, texture, and kerning consistency according to both quantitative and qualitative evaluations.

Mon 7 SeptComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Creating fonts for many languages is hard because letters need matching style, spacing, and texture. The authors developed LoGAN, a tool that uses a few letters from a font or logo to produce full sets of characters for different languages, including complex ones like Chinese and Korean. LoGAN splits the task into small parts, such as generating letter shapes, adjusting style, spacing letters correctly, and expanding textures, coordinating all with an AI agent. Tests show LoGAN makes fonts that look accurate and consistent across languages better than existing methods.
Open 2609.07029v1