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The biggest problem with this is that it's too obvious, if you really want to fuck with people it should require more effort for them to tell what's wrong. An

by yarg 3y ago

The biggest problem with this is that it's too obvious, if you really want to fuck with people it should require more effort for them to tell what's wrong. An insidious little niggle that grates upon the mind.

omoikane 3y ago
Maybe Times New Roman, but every seventh letter is Papyrus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
- SeenNotHeard 3y ago
  Related: "Papyrus: The World's 2nd Most Hated Font" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t1D3ebc6h0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t1D3ebc6h0
- computerdork 3y ago
  saw this on SNL when it originally aired, hilarious!
mc32 3y ago
So something like Helvetica but every so often you sneak in Arial?
- yarg 3y ago
  That wouldn't be bad, but I think you could do something more off-putting with something like deliberately slightly bad kerning. I'm not sure of the extent to which you could use ligatures to tweak the serifs, rather than remove them completely (if possible - frustration will be maximised if the reader is unable to tell what's wrong, even after they come to believe that something is wrong).
  - mattkevan 3y ago
    Had the idea a while back to make posters and t-shirts with ‘I [heart] Helvetica’ on them, but set in Arial to wind up design nerds. But realised that 99.999% of anyone except possibly myself wouldn’t notice of care.
    - yarg 3y ago
      But it would ruin the day of anyone who did.
- pessimizer 3y ago
  Isn't that just Arial?
chrisco255 3y ago
Maybe instead it just ligatures in common typos even though you spell the word correctly: handle becomes handel Or strip out past tense: fined becomes fine Also: You're always spelled as your; Oxford commas never; Two becomes too Public becomes pubic