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Posted by MitPitt 23 hours ago

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard(bastardica.mitpit.com)
A joke tool that abuses OpenType's ligature feature to mix fonts. It works pretty fast on client-side by loading Python in WASM.
325 points | 48 comments
mortenjorck 3 hours ago|
I have never felt quite so cacklingly nefarious as a designer as I did just now carefully adjusting vertical scale and offset so that the x-height and baseline of Papyrus optically match Comic Sans when mixed together.

I don't yet know who I'll be pranking with the downloaded font, but I look forward to their reaction.

malfist 24 seconds ago||
You should also subtly adjust the skew to throw kerning way off
Obscurity4340 1 hour ago||
Care to share somehow, sounds delightfully hilarious
mikestorrent 32 minutes ago||
Yeah we need to see this
qurren 3 minutes ago||
My LinkedIn UI already looks like that

https://imgur.com/a/FCmzWNa

and I don't know who to report it to. I guess it's owned by Microsoft so also not surprised.

krelas 1 hour ago||
If you want to make a designer have a nervous breakdown, upload a copy of Helvetica and make every second or third character be Arial.
FuriouslyAdrift 1 hour ago||
calm down, Satan
goodmythical 1 hour ago||
All S/E/R/I/F characters in a sans-serif font with the serif equivalent.
Sharlin 2 hours ago||
Inspired by the sample text for "Nervous Sans": "Anal", an Arial with bad keming
sebmellen 1 hour ago|
Took me a moment.. hilarious
Fliwatt 2 hours ago||
There is a lot of fun stuff you can do with fonts. A friend of mine made a self-censoring font: Paranoia Sans https://github.com/flegfleg/Paranoia-Sans
dvh 3 hours ago||
For extra fun, you can make font that are the same as original but then you add ligature for some words and you make ligature using the same font but spelling different word. For example "red" ligature will be "green".
someonebaggy 3 hours ago|
Do this on a document to determine who is copy-pasting or reading it with AI.
smeehee 1 hour ago|||
Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.
amenghra 2 hours ago|||
Do this as a captcha ;)
6thbit 2 hours ago||
Huh, didn't know the font could control variations over nth glyhph!

Could one make in theory a regular monospaced font to just render glyphs past 80 chars of a line as bad as possible?

california-og 3 hours ago||
Some of these effects are actually really easy to do with CSS @font-face & unicode-range. See: view-source:https://hlnet.neocities.org/font-face-tricks
dyingkneepad 2 hours ago||
Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!
altairprime 2 hours ago|
Temu Sans is an absolutely beautiful demo choice. I love this. Thank you for making it.
kstrauser 1 hour ago|
That was one of the few recent times I've LOLed at a Hacker News article. Flawless.
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