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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



Very cool concept


Seems you were at least partially successful


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

Big fan of on-a-whim-experiments.


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


Man that Fontemon got my phone steaming hot




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