Bastardica
Create bastard web fonts
Details
- External ID
- 49771881
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Bastardica
- Website domain
- mitpit.com
- Launched
- Sept. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12998405103668262
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- custom web font generator for designers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the web UI is simple, programmatically manipulating OpenType font tables, glyph metrics, and ligature substitutions inside the browser with Pyodide/fontTools requires niche typographic domain knowledge.
What it would actually take: The stack utilizes Pyodide running Python's `fontTools` in WebAssembly, interfacing with browser JS to parse TTF/OTF tables, calculate bounding boxes, and inject custom GSUB (Glyph Substitution) `liga` lookups. The hard part is the font engineering: resolving overlapping glyph metrics, maintaining consistent baseline/ascent/descent ratios across disparate source fonts, and structuring OpenType layout feature code so browsers shape text correctly without glyph collision or corruption. This demands domain expertise in digital typography specifications and font table formats (CFF, glyf, GSUB).
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 380 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #322 of 381 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Camel Mono · hn · 2026-06-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- typehug · github · 2026-09-09 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Siren-and-Sailor-Font · github · 2026-09-26 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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