Bastardica
Creative
font generator
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
46 positive, 40 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 8 critical, out of 96 comments about the project. Thread score +0.45.
Design: 18 for, 3 againstIdea: 10 for, 1 againstExecution: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Funny and fun; font names like Temu Sans and Royal Ransom get laughs
From 3 comments
Temu Sans is an absolutely beautiful demo choice. I love this. Thank you for making it.
altairprime on HNThat was one of the few recent times I've LOLed at a Hacker News article. Flawless.
kstrauser on HNI have been looking for this for a very long time without knowing I have been looking for it. Royal Ransom especially is a masterpiece, I will be writing all of my work emails in…
hackeryojo on HN
Clever and well executed demo site
From 2 comments
temu sans is beautifully on point
philjohn on HNNice! It even supports COLR and SVG fonts, both of which I have options for when making a variant of my Keldritch font (https://kellydornhaus.com/keldritch/)
furyofantares on HN
Objections
Readme is wall of text with few examples, so the related tool got less interest
From 2 comments
Your tool looks interesting but the readme file is very "wall of text" heavy and example light. In comparison the site for this tool shows exactly what it does. Perhaps that…
amoss on HNThe difference is that today's tool has a demo website that makes the whole thing self-explanatory. Yours is a repository that speaks "figure it out".
dostick on HN
Some fonts are hard to read or uncomfortable to look at
From 2 comments
I'm just a regular Joe, no font expertise. Sorry for the brutal honesty, just thought it might offer you an explanation of the difference in reaction. OP's fonts look ugly, but…
aargh_aargh on HNThanks, I hate it.
phren0logy on HN
Would break screen readers and accessibility
From 2 comments
Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.
smeehee on HNI use a screen reader. Please do not do this.
ctoth on HN
Requests
Mix in more fonts such as Google Fonts
From 1 comment
Could we try with Google Fonts somehow?
timz on HN
Alternate every nth glyph between two fonts
From 2 comments
If you really wanted to let me be a sneaky bastard, you'd let me mix Helvetica with Arial every nth glyph. (...and yes, I see I'm not the first to suggest this.)
ayaros on HNcreated the ultimate monster, papyrus + comic sans every 3 glyph
Rinkia on HN
Fix out-of-bounds memory error on iOS when changing mix-in font
From 1 comment
This is great! FYI for the creator, I'm hitting an error when attempting to change the mix-in font (Webkit/iOS): ``` Something went wrong: Out of bounds memory access (evaluating…
NietzscheanNull on HN
Questions
Could the effect be done with pure CSS or JavaScript instead?
From 1 comment
If I'm reading this correctly, this tool generates a new font by mixing fonts and altering proprieties of the fonts. In other words, a new font is produced. Could you produce…
xrd on HN
How large is the footprint compared with combining fonts client-side?
From 1 comment
Such a cool idea, breath in new live to old fonts! I wonder what's the footprint and overall efficiency of making a new font vs. combining old ones on client side (typically JS)?
flockonus on HN
Alternatives named
fambigen, a font glyph-path mixer by scottvr
From 1 comment
So at first I misunderstood your tool, thinking it was like a tool I made a little over a year ago that creates new fonts from existing font glyph paths, combining them in a…
ycombiredd on HN
CSS @font-face unicode-range tricks
From 1 comment
Some of these effects are actually really easy to do with CSS @font-face & unicode-range. See: view-source:https://hlnet.neocities.org/font-face-tricks
california-og on HN
Paranoia Sans self-censoring font
From 1 comment
There is a lot of fun stuff you can do with fonts. A friend of mine made a self-censoring font: Paranoia Sans https://github.com/flegfleg/Paranoia-Sans
Fliwatt on HN