Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

 (bastardica.mitpit.com)

227 points | by MitPitt 21 hours ago

28 comments

  • krelas 23 minutes 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.
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  • 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.

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    • Obscurity4340 24 minutes ago
      Care to share somehow, sounds delightfully hilarious
  • dvh 2 hours 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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      • smeehee 1 minute ago
        Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.
      • amenghra 47 minutes ago
        Do this as a captcha ;)
  • Sharlin 1 hour ago
    Inspired by the sample text for "Nervous Sans": "Anal", an Arial with bad keming
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    • sebmellen 14 minutes ago
      Took me a moment.. hilarious
  • Fliwatt 1 hour 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
  • california-og 2 hours 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
  • thewakalix 41 minutes ago
    > Bastardica can make simple fonts feel a little, hmm, richer?

    This is truly the YTP of fonts.

  • dyingkneepad 1 hour ago
    Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!
  • 6thbit 53 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?

  • NietzscheanNull 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
    temu sans is beautifully on point
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    • Sharlin 1 hour ago
      More subtle keming adjustments so that the font looks just slightly "off" would be great too.
  • morbusfonticuli 28 minutes ago
    I love it! Every click on the title will also change its bastard font :-)
  • ZeWaka 1 hour ago
    This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.
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    • demaga 1 hour ago
      I was thinking the same. Seems like a perfect fit for an 'escape simulator' room.
  • thecaio 18 minutes ago
    Temu Sans cracked me up
  • lelanthran 2 hours ago
    I have to admit, I spent way more time on this than required (giggling madly at my creations)
  • altairprime 1 hour ago
    Temu Sans is an absolutely beautiful demo choice. I love this. Thank you for making it.
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    • kstrauser 26 minutes ago
      That was one of the few recent times I've LOLed at a Hacker News article. Flawless.
  • logicallee 28 minutes ago
    Nice, I like it. The fonts are very interesting and captivating.
  • htrp 1 hour ago
    This looks like the cut out magazine ransom letters you see in every movie.
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    • Sharlin 1 hour ago
      Scroll down, they have an explicit example (with more fonts mixed in)
  • epiccoleman 2 hours ago
    Love this, I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it.
  • aanet 30 minutes ago
    My eyes!!!
  • xnx 2 hours ago
    Nice logo interaction too!
  • jrochkind1 1 hour ago
    Thanks, I love-hate it.
  • khalic 1 hour ago
    Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D
  • busymom0 1 hour ago
    Bookmarked for future use!
  • mock-possum 14 hours ago
    Whoa this is really cool. Wish I had an excuse to use it for something… hmmm.
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    • hmartin 2 hours ago
      Also clicking the logo is really fun!
  • electric_mayhem 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
    Thanks, I hate it.
  • imshaikot 8 minutes ago
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