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Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

https://bastardica.mitpit.com
103•MitPitt•20h ago
A joke tool that abuses OpenType's ligature feature to mix fonts. It works pretty fast on client-side by loading Python in WASM.

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mock-possum•13h ago
Whoa this is really cool. Wish I had an excuse to use it for something… hmmm.
hmartin•55m ago
Also clicking the logo is really fun!
lelanthran•52m ago
I have to admit, I spent way more time on this than required (giggling madly at my creations)
california-og•49m 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
epiccoleman•47m ago
Love this, I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it.
xnx•46m ago
Nice logo interaction too!
dvh•43m 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•39m ago
Do this on a document to determine who is copy-pasting or reading it with AI.
jrochkind1•37m ago
Thanks, I love-hate it.
ZeWaka•37m ago
This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.
demaga•8m ago
I was thinking the same. Seems like a perfect fit for an 'escape simulator' room.
htrp•34m ago
This looks like the cut out magazine ransom letters you see in every movie.
busymom0•31m ago
Bookmarked for future use!
mortenjorck•28m 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.

NietzscheanNull•26m ago
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)')
electric_mayhem•25m ago
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.

phren0logy•24m ago
Thanks, I hate it.
philjohn•13m ago
temu sans is beautifully on point
khalic•11m ago
Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D
dyingkneepad•8m ago
Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!

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533•daveoc64•3h ago•160 comments

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

https://bastardica.mitpit.com
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