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  • dyingkneepad 1 hours

    Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!

  • epiccoleman 2 hours

    Love this, I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it.

  • morbusfonticuli 36 minutes

    I love it! Every click on the title will also change its bastard font :-)

  • Fliwatt 1 hours

    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

  • NietzscheanNull 1 hours

    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)')

  • thewakalix 48 minutes

    > Bastardica can make simple fonts feel a little, hmm, richer?

    This is truly the YTP of fonts.

  • xnx 2 hours

    Nice logo interaction too!

  • lelanthran 2 hours

    I have to admit, I spent way more time on this than required (giggling madly at my creations)

  • 6thbit 1 hours

    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?

  • electric_mayhem 1 hours

    This is absolutely diabolical and should not be put into the hands of humanity.

    What have you unleashed? Hey, look guys he got Oppenheimer over here.

  • imshaikot 16 minutes

    [dead]

  • logicallee 36 minutes

    Nice, I like it. The fonts are very interesting and captivating.

  • thecaio 26 minutes

    Temu Sans cracked me up

  • jrochkind1 2 hours

    Thanks, I love-hate it.

  • busymom0 1 hours

    Bookmarked for future use!

  • aanet 38 minutes

    My eyes!!!

  • california-og 2 hours

    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

  • khalic 1 hours

    Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D

  • phren0logy 1 hours

    Thanks, I hate it.

  • mortenjorck 1 hours

    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.

    Obscurity4340 32 minutes

    Care to share somehow, sounds delightfully hilarious

  • ZeWaka 2 hours

    This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.

    demaga 1 hours

    I was thinking the same. Seems like a perfect fit for an 'escape simulator' room.

  • krelas 31 minutes

    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 25 minutes

    calm down, Satan

  • Sharlin 1 hours

    Inspired by the sample text for "Nervous Sans": "Anal", an Arial with bad keming

    sebmellen 22 minutes

    Took me a moment.. hilarious

  • altairprime 1 hours

    Temu Sans is an absolutely beautiful demo choice. I love this. Thank you for making it.

    kstrauser 34 minutes

    That was one of the few recent times I've LOLed at a Hacker News article. Flawless.

  • htrp 2 hours

    This looks like the cut out magazine ransom letters you see in every movie.

    Sharlin 1 hours

    Scroll down, they have an explicit example (with more fonts mixed in)

  • philjohn 1 hours

    temu sans is beautifully on point

    Sharlin 1 hours

    More subtle keming adjustments so that the font looks just slightly "off" would be great too.

  • mock-possum 14 hours

    Whoa this is really cool. Wish I had an excuse to use it for something… hmmm.

    hmartin 2 hours

    Also clicking the logo is really fun!

  • dvh 2 hours

    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 2 hours

    Do this on a document to determine who is copy-pasting or reading it with AI.

    amenghra 55 minutes

    Do this as a captcha ;)

    smeehee 9 minutes

    Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.