Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
by dvh on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:36PM
(#49834986)
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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Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
by someonebaggy on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:40PM
(#49835052)
Do this on a document to determine who is copy-pasting or reading it with AI.
Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
by amenghra on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:51PM
(#49835963)
Do this as a captcha ;)
Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
by smeehee on Thursday September 24, 2026 @04:37PM
(#49836448)
Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.
Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
by servo_sausage on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:42AM
(#49840959)
Accessibility should only ever be an addition, never a limit.
Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
by Semkas on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:41AM
(#49842650)
Why should that be true?
Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
by servo_sausage on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:56AM
(#49843370)
Because proposing to limit something needs better justification than a fundamentally limited group can't use it.
It's an out of place performative moralism.
Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
by Semkas on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:51AM
(#49845496)
We will all become, or temporarily be, fundamentally limited at times in our life.
It's trivial to build something that accommodates an ideal user, the challenge in software engineering is creating a solution that suits many kinds of people, at different points in their life. Refusing to engage with that challenge is a kind of proud mediocrity.