A joke tool that abuses OpenType's ligature feature to mix fonts. It works pretty fast on client-side by loading Python in WASM.
mortenjorck 3 hours 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.
Obscurity4340 2 hours ago
Care to share somehow, sounds delightfully hilarious
mikestorrent an hour ago
Yeah we need to see this
danielheath 10 minutes ago
Open the effects submenu, 81% y-scale, 2% y-offset, papyrus on the left, comic sans on the right.
malfist 15 minutes ago
You should also subtly adjust the skew to throw kerning way off
krelas 2 hours ago
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 2 hours ago
calm down, Satan
goodmythical an hour ago
All S/E/R/I/F characters in a sans-serif font with the serif equivalent.
Sharlin 3 hours ago
Inspired by the sample text for "Nervous Sans": "Anal", an Arial with bad keming
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 4 hours ago
Do this on a document to determine who is copy-pasting or reading it with AI.
amenghra 2 hours ago
Do this as a captcha ;)
smeehee 2 hours ago
Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.
Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!
altairprime 3 hours ago
Temu Sans is an absolutely beautiful demo choice. I love this. Thank you for making it.
kstrauser 2 hours ago
That was one of the few recent times I've LOLed at a Hacker News article. Flawless.
thewakalix 2 hours ago
> Bastardica can make simple fonts feel a little, hmm, richer?
This is truly the YTP of fonts.
philjohn 3 hours ago
temu sans is beautifully on point
Sharlin 3 hours ago
More subtle keming adjustments so that the font looks just slightly "off" would be great too.
shmeeed an hour ago
>keming
I saw what you did there
gerdesj 18 minutes ago
I'm old enough to remember newspaper articles with kerning like that.
ZeWaka 4 hours ago
This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.
demaga 3 hours ago
I was thinking the same. Seems like a perfect fit for an 'escape simulator' room.
NietzscheanNull 3 hours 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)')
lelanthran 4 hours ago
I have to admit, I spent way more time on this than required (giggling madly at my creations)
0gs 27 minutes ago
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
morbusfonticuli 2 hours ago
I love it! Every click on the title will also change its bastard font :-)
thecaio 2 hours ago
Temu Sans cracked me up
htrp 3 hours ago
This looks like the cut out magazine ransom letters you see in every movie.
Sharlin 3 hours ago
Scroll down, they have an explicit example (with more fonts mixed in)
epiccoleman 4 hours ago
Love this, I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it.
xnx 4 hours ago
Nice logo interaction too!
jrochkind1 4 hours ago
Thanks, I love-hate it.
zf00002 an hour ago
Really fun op!
lathoa an hour ago
I like it
logicallee 2 hours ago
Nice, I like it. The fonts are very interesting and captivating.
