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.

Care to share somehow, sounds delightfully hilarious

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.

calm down, Satan

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".

Do this on a document to determine who is copy-pasting or reading it with AI.

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

Do this as a captcha ;)

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

Inspired by the sample text for "Nervous Sans": "Anal", an Arial with bad keming

Took me a moment.. hilarious

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

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

This is truly the YTP of fonts.

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

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?

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)')

temu sans is beautifully on point

More subtle keming adjustments so that the font looks just slightly "off" would be great too.

This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.

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

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

Temu Sans cracked me up

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

Temu Sans is an absolutely beautiful demo choice. I love this. Thank you for making it.

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

This looks like the cut out magazine ransom letters you see in every movie.

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

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

Nice logo interaction too!

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

Thanks, I love-hate it.

My eyes!!!

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

Bookmarked for future use!

Whoa this is really cool. Wish I had an excuse to use it for something… hmmm.

Also clicking the logo is really fun!

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.

Thanks, I hate it.