Layer Typography

Overview

Image models misspell words and cannot use a font file. When copy must read exactly or be set in a brand typeface, do not generate it: set it with render_text, then place it on the art with compose_image. The art and the type stay separate files, so a copy change is a re-render, not a regeneration, and the same art can carry every language (layer-localization).

Both tools are named directly rather than discovered because they are Layer's own deterministic file operations, not models: no model runs, no Creative Units are spent, and no estimate is needed for them. The art underneath is still a billed generation and goes through the usual estimate gate in the layer skill.

Not all lettering belongs here. render_text sets flat, single-colour type. Lettering that must look drawn into the scene (a carved sign, a neon tube, a painted title with texture) is a generation, and layer-image covers prompting for it.