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Fun idea but poorly executed. Even the first of the two examples they have on the website starts with 'every once in a while', redacting 'very' in 'every' for n
by IkmoIkmo 10y ago
Fun idea but poorly executed. Even the first of the two examples they have on the website starts with 'every once in a while', redacting 'very' in 'every' for no reason, rendering the font unusable for most intents and purposes.
- vinceguidry 10y agoFonts have a feature called ligatures, where you can take two or more letters and turn them into one glyph. You usually use them to improve readability but since there aren't any rules around what the 'combined' glyph looks like, people sometimes do things like change all instances of one word with another. In this case they're blacking out certain words. It's really a job for natural language parsing, but the effort is commendable.
- rangibaby 10y agoIt reminds me of the clbuttic example of naive text substitution :-)
- schiffern 10y agoIndeed. They could have defined ligatures such that that only work when at the beginning/end of a word (many "cursive" fonts use this feature), so I think it's just an overlooked detail and not a technical limitation.