today at 6:51 PM
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.
today at 8:14 PM
Care to share somehow, sounds delightfully hilarious
today at 10:04 PM
Open the effects submenu, 81% y-scale, 2% y-offset, papyrus on the left, comic sans on the right.
today at 9:26 PM
Yeah we need to see this
today at 9:58 PM
You should also subtly adjust the skew to throw kerning way off
today at 8:15 PM
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.
today at 8:21 PM
calm down, Satan
today at 8:52 PM
All S/E/R/I/F characters in a sans-serif font with the serif equivalent.
today at 10:15 PM
I've been recently thinking about custom fonts and ligatures to create a captcha mechanism that is easy to solve for humans but confuses LLMs.
Something like a dynamically generated font where some letters look different, and you have to count details or write down a word or [idea not yet fleshed out].
Won't stop someone dedicated, of course, but nothing will.
today at 7:24 PM
Inspired by the sample text for "Nervous Sans": "Anal", an Arial with bad keming
today at 8:25 PM
Took me a moment.. hilarious
today at 7:19 PM
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
today at 6:36 PM
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".
today at 6:40 PM
Do this on a document to determine who is copy-pasting or reading it with AI.
today at 8:37 PM
Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.
today at 7:51 PM
Do this as a captcha ;)
today at 10:17 PM
cool app, maybe make the logo at the bottom clickable so is easier to see the main page, also very cool.
today at 10:15 PM
I kinda dig Impacter. It looks quite stylish IMO.
today at 7:45 PM
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?
today at 6:31 PM
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
today at 9:56 PM
My LinkedIn UI already looks like that
and I don't know who to report it to. I guess it's owned by Microsoft so also not surprised.
today at 7:11 PM
Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!
today at 7:33 PM
Temu Sans is an absolutely beautiful demo choice. I love this. Thank you for making it.
today at 8:12 PM
That was one of the few recent times I've LOLed at a Hacker News article. Flawless.
today at 7:07 PM
temu sans is beautifully on point
today at 7:18 PM
More subtle keming adjustments so that the font looks just slightly "off" would be great too.
today at 8:57 PM
>keming
I saw what you did there
today at 9:56 PM
I'm old enough to remember newspaper articles with kerning like that.
today at 7:58 PM
> Bastardica can make simple fonts feel a little, hmm, richer?
This is truly the YTP of fonts.
today at 6:43 PM
This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.
today at 7:12 PM
I was thinking the same. Seems like a perfect fit for an 'escape simulator' room.
today at 6:53 PM
This is great!
FYI for the creator, I'm hitting an error when attempting to change the mix-in font (Webkit/iOS):
Something went wrong: Out of bounds memory access (evaluating '_PyRun_SimpleString(r)')today at 6:27 PM
I have to admit, I spent way more time on this than required (giggling madly at my creations)
today at 8:11 PM
I love it! Every click on the title will also change its bastard font :-)
today at 9:47 PM
if people want to play with font generation in a non joke -- and frankly way LESS impressive -- manner, i made likeface.net too. it's a little buggy. but it's cheap and it's generous with redraws
today at 8:20 PM
Temu Sans cracked me up
today at 6:46 PM
This looks like the cut out magazine ransom letters you see in every movie.
today at 7:19 PM
Scroll down, they have an explicit example (with more fonts mixed in)
today at 6:33 PM
Love this, I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it.
today at 6:34 PM
Nice logo interaction too!
today at 6:42 PM
Thanks, I love-hate it.
today at 8:54 PM
Really fun op!
today at 9:06 PM
I like it
today at 8:11 PM
Nice, I like it. The fonts are very interesting and captivating.
today at 8:08 PM
My eyes!!!
today at 7:08 PM
Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D
today at 6:48 PM
Bookmarked for future use!
today at 6:15 AM
Whoa this is really cool. Wish I had an excuse to use it for something… hmmm.
today at 6:25 PM
Also clicking the logo is really fun!
today at 9:09 PM
This is interesting -- not from the perspective of different fonts (although that's interesting too!), but from the perspective of it's a web page that can apparently render fonts on the fly...
That means that it's probably using some library in JavaScript or WASM to implement that.
If that's the case, then I'm thinking, you know, that functionality, that is, font rendering on demand could, in theory, be placed into a CloudFlare Worker (or other Serverless service, i.e. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, OCI Funcions, IBM Cloud Code Engine, Alibaba Function Compute, etc., etc.)...
That could be useful for a variety of applications... including (but not limited to!) word processors, typesetting software, homemade browsers, online games, heck, really anything where custom fonts are needed...
There could be two distinct benefits with this, let's call it a "FaaS" (Fonts as a Service!) idea:
1) No need to bundle/ship/include a font rendering engine with software that needs one.
2) Extra layer of security -- Local font rendering software is typically Turing-Complete, and as such, the local font renderer could potentially run viruses and other unwanted programs. I.e., local font rendering is a security risk. By hermetically sealing that code into serverless function, offsite of the local machine and having that serverless function send only fully rendered font data one way, the attack surface of the font rendering engine is effectively removed from any local PC.
This being said, the disadvantage is that it couldn't be used if the Internet or server or cloud provider is down for any reason.
Graphical font data, once created and downloaded, could however be cached by clients for offline situations / offline usage / offline work.
So, there are some interesting ideas here...
today at 6:55 PM
Thanks, I hate it.
today at 6:54 PM
This is absolutely diabolical and should not be put into the hands of humanity.
What have you unleashed? Hey, look guys we got the next Oppenheimer over here.
today at 8:30 PM
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today at 8:57 PM
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