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		bonyt on May 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Times New Bastard Neat. By a strange coincidence, I made something similar yesterday in a script to make each letter in HTML into a different font. I wanted to see if it would end up as an OCR-proof font: https://gist.github.com/tonyb486/0e3efc9240953c86a50a019b56c... An example: https://tmp.tonybox.net/chbgr.htm Rasterized and OCR'd: https://tmp.tonybox.net/ocr.pdf

tailspin2019 on May 27, 2023 | [–]

Very cool concept

jredwards on May 26, 2023 | | [–]

Seems you were at least partially successful

yscodes on May 27, 2023 | | [–]

Sounds interesting. Mind sharing the gist (hehe) of your results?

Big fan of on-a-whim-experiments.

einpoklum on May 27, 2023 | | [–]

It would be nice if you could make the effective character sizes more uniform.

toxik on May 27, 2023 | [–]

Man that Fontemon got my phone steaming hot

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