Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

21 comments

• mortenjorck 1 hour 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.
• dvh 1 hour 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".
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  • someonebaggy 1 hour ago
    Do this on a document to determine who is copy-pasting or reading it with AI.
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    • amenghra 2 minutes ago
      Do this as a captcha ;)
• Fliwatt 34 minutes 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
• 6thbit 8 minutes 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 1 hour 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
• Sharlin 29 minutes ago
  Inspired by the sample text for "Nervous Sans": "Anal", an Arial with bad keming
• dyingkneepad 41 minutes ago
  Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!
• NietzscheanNull 59 minutes 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)')
• philjohn 46 minutes ago
  temu sans is beautifully on point
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  • Sharlin 34 minutes ago
    More subtle keming adjustments so that the font looks just slightly "off" would be great too.
• altairprime 20 minutes ago
  Temu Sans is an absolutely beautiful demo choice. I love this. Thank you for making it.
• ZeWaka 1 hour ago
  This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.
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  • demaga 41 minutes ago
    I was thinking the same. Seems like a perfect fit for an 'escape simulator' room.
• htrp 1 hour ago
  This looks like the cut out magazine ransom letters you see in every movie.
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  • Sharlin 34 minutes ago
    Scroll down, they have an explicit example (with more fonts mixed in)
• lelanthran 1 hour ago
  I have to admit, I spent way more time on this than required (giggling madly at my creations)
• epiccoleman 1 hour ago
  Love this, I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it.
• jrochkind1 1 hour ago
  Thanks, I love-hate it.
• xnx 1 hour ago
  Nice logo interaction too!
• busymom0 1 hour ago
  Bookmarked for future use!
• khalic 45 minutes ago
  Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D
• mock-possum 13 hours ago
  Whoa this is really cool. Wish I had an excuse to use it for something… hmmm.
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  • hmartin 1 hour ago
    Also clicking the logo is really fun!
• electric_mayhem 58 minutes 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 57 minutes ago
  Thanks, I hate it.