Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
bastardica.mitpit.comA joke tool that abuses OpenType's ligature feature to mix fonts. It works pretty fast on client-side by loading Python in WASM.
3 threads
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
I have to admit, I spent way more time on this than required (giggling madly at my creations)
Whoa this is really cool. Wish I had an excuse to use it for something… hmmm.
Also clicking the logo is really fun!