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I've seen a ton of fonts out there abuse ligatures (Chartwell, Bullshit Sans). I wonder if something like that could be done for pseudorandomness... use a diff

I've seen a ton of fonts out there abuse ligatures (Chartwell, Bullshit Sans). I wonder if something like that could be done for pseudorandomness... use a different texture depending on the text on either side.

capableweb 4y ago
You could in theory do just that, but the amount of work to achieve that would be staggering, automated or not. What we really need in this world is procedural/generated-on-the-fly fonts, where you setup how the font is suppose to react to X and then use that.
- colejohnson66 4y ago
  Knuth's METAFONT might help, but it never took off because font designers aren't mathematicians or programmers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/16.1/the-concept-of-a-meta-font.pdf https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/16.1/...
  - robocat 4y ago
    There is also https://spectral.prototypo.io/ https://spectral.prototypo.io/ which was an unsuccessful startup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24911784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24911784