Also clicking the logo is really fun!

I have to admit, I spent way more time on this than required (giggling madly at my creations)

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

Love this, I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it.

Nice logo interaction too!

Do this as a captcha ;)

Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.

Thanks, I love-hate it.

I was thinking the same. Seems like a perfect fit for an 'escape simulator' room.

Beware of licensing.

Scroll down, they have an explicit example (with more fonts mixed in)

Bookmarked for future use!

Yeah we need to see this

Open the effects submenu, 81% y-scale, 2% y-offset, papyrus on the left, comic sans on the right.

You should also subtly adjust the skew to throw kerning way off

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)')

This is absolutely diabolical and should not be put into the hands of humanity.

What have you unleashed? Hey, look guys we got the next Oppenheimer over here.

Thanks, I hate it.

keming

I saw what you did there

Very dean and modem

I'm old enough to remember newspaper articles with kerning like that.

Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D

Royal Ransom Note just downloaded! It will be great to never have to cut magazines again!

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

Took me a moment.. hilarious

That was one of the few recent times I've LOLed at a Hacker News article. Flawless.

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?

Bastardica can make simple fonts feel a little, hmm, richer?

This is truly the YTP of fonts.

My eyes!!!

Nice, I like it. The fonts are very interesting and captivating.

I love it! Every click on the title will also change its bastard font :-)

calm down, Satan

All S/E/R/I/F characters in a sans-serif font with the serif equivalent.

Temu Sans cracked me up

Really fun op!

I like it

This is interesting -- not from the perspective of different fonts (although that's interesting too!), but from the perspective of it's a web page that can apparently render fonts on the fly...

That means that it's probably using some library in JavaScript or WASM to implement that.

If that's the case, then I'm thinking, you know, that functionality, that is, font rendering on demand could, in theory, be placed into a CloudFlare Worker (or other Serverless service, i.e. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, OCI Funcions, IBM Cloud Code Engine, Alibaba Function Compute, etc., etc.)...

That could be useful for a variety of applications... including (but not limited to!) word processors, typesetting software, homemade browsers, online games, heck, really anything where custom fonts are needed...

There could be two distinct benefits with this, let's call it a "FaaS" (Fonts as a Service!) idea:

1) No need to bundle/ship/include a font rendering engine with software that needs one.

2) Extra layer of security -- Local font rendering software is typically Turing-Complete, and as such, the local font renderer could potentially run viruses and other unwanted programs. I.e., local font rendering is a security risk. By hermetically sealing that code into serverless function, offsite of the local machine and having that serverless function send only fully rendered font data one way, the attack surface of the font rendering engine is effectively removed from any local PC.

This being said, the disadvantage is that it couldn't be used if the Internet or server or cloud provider is down for any reason.

Graphical font data, once created and downloaded, could however be cached by clients for offline situations / offline usage / offline work.

So, there are some interesting ideas here...

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

My LinkedIn UI already looks like that

https://imgur.com/a/FCmzWNa

and I don't know who to report it to. I guess it's owned by Microsoft so also not surprised.

I kinda dig Impacter. It looks quite stylish IMO.

I've been recently thinking about custom fonts and ligatures to create a captcha mechanism that is easy to solve for humans but confuses LLMs.

Something like a dynamically generated font where some letters look different, and you have to count details or write down a word or [idea not yet fleshed out].

Won't stop someone dedicated, of course, but nothing will.

cool app, maybe make the logo at the bottom clickable so is easier to see the main page, also very cool.

Not much different from lots of the optional font packages you can install on linux...

:)

Nice! It even supports COLR and SVG fonts, both of which I have options for when making a variant of my Keldritch font (https://kellydornhaus.com/keldritch/)

Such a cool idea, breath in new live to old fonts!

I wonder what's the footprint and overall efficiency of making a new font vs. combining old ones on client side (typically JS)?