Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
Details
- External ID
- 49823738
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
- Website domain
- mitpit.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 857
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9984051036682615
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
A joke tool that abuses OpenType's ligature feature to mix fonts. It works pretty fast on client-side by loading Python in WASM.
Enrichment
- Theme
- typography and unicode text tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cursed font maker for designers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The tool runs Pyodide in the browser to execute fontTools scripts that inject OpenType ligature substitution rules into font files through a lightweight UI.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 327 days after the earliest competitor.
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- TypoSwap · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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- Font Inspector · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Font Changer Pro — Fancy Text Generator · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Cursive Font Generator · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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- No other launches for this product.
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