Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

20 comments

• mortenjorck 52 minutes 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.
• Fliwatt 24 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
• Sharlin 19 minutes ago
  Inspired by the sample text for "Nervous Sans": "Anal", an Arial with bad keming
• dyingkneepad 31 minutes ago
  Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!
• 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
• altairprime 10 minutes ago
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• NietzscheanNull 49 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 36 minutes ago
  temu sans is beautifully on point
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  • Sharlin 24 minutes ago
    More subtle keming adjustments so that the font looks just slightly "off" would be great too.
• ZeWaka 1 hour ago
  This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.
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  • demaga 31 minutes ago
    I was thinking the same. Seems like a perfect fit for an 'escape simulator' room.
• htrp 57 minutes ago
  This looks like the cut out magazine ransom letters you see in every movie.
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  • Sharlin 24 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 54 minutes ago
  Bookmarked for future use!
• khalic 35 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!
• phren0logy 47 minutes ago
  Thanks, I hate it.
• electric_mayhem 48 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.