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How can a font possibly affect automatic content scanning, is what I'm curious about.

• jamessb 11y ago
  Fonts can have ligatures, which represent several letters as a single glyph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature). There are several common ones for letter combinations like "oe" - perhaps this font simply registers longer ones for whole words? Edit: if you're on a mac, download the .zip file and double-click on one of the .otf font files. It will open in Font Book: View->Show Font Info says it hs 451 glyphs, and View->Repertoire shows that there are indeed glyphs representing each of the censored words.
  • emilkozole 11y ago
    Exactly, so it can be used in any software that supports opentype format.
  • oevi 11y ago
    Here is a nice article from a similar project that explains the trick in detail: http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/
• friendzis 11y ago
  It cannot. > This way it automatically highlights and points out the content prone to secret surveillance. The font is designed to alert writer, not scanner systems. I think use of a font is a very clever idea: instead of supplying separate tool that is hard to integrate with other systems it reuses OS functionality. Utility value highly drops, but the concept is very cool. Someone might get an idea for a much more sophisticated "font" system that would process the text behind the scenes. Imagine that WM provides html/markdown/pdf rendering capabilities and browser acts as a transport. In case of dirt simple WM (terminal) browsers could provide renderer plugins. The same browser core could be reused for pc/mobile/text, no need for complex sandboxing/multiprocess security and stuff.