Why “font” is being discussed
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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 gener…
by hypfer · Sep 24, 2026
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 gen…
by 0gs · Sep 24, 2026
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 fon…
by peter_d_sherman · Sep 24, 2026
All S/E/R/I/F characters in a sans-serif font with the serif equivalent.
by goodmythical · Sep 24, 2026
I love it! Every click on the title will also change its bastard font :-)
by morbusfonticuli · Sep 24, 2026
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 po…
by 6thbit · Sep 24, 2026
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In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight, and style of a typeface, a set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni includes fonts "Roman 12pt", "bold 12pt" and "italic 12pt"; each of these styles is also available in a range of other common sizes. In traditional printing, fonts were physically created using metal or wood type, with a font for each size. Read more on Wikipedia