The Times New Resistance font is a work of art.https://www.abbyhaddican.com/times-new-resistance

[thorsten4future@climatejustice.social]

@tante Ich möchte eine angepasste Variante davon gerne bei der Tagesschau und anderen Medien installieren. Das würde helfen, den öffentlichen Diskurs endlich auf das erforderliche Niveau zu heben.

[vordus@chitter.xyz]

@tante This is pretty good. By which I mean Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE Renee Good was murdered by ICE.

[alandvalonline@mastodon.social]

@tante It''s like a Word Lie Detector. I wish SOMEONE could inject this into "Truth Social", and "X" and every other reich wing blog, don't YOU?

[ulfr@hachyderm.io]

@tante How it works
Times New Resistance autocorrects specific words as they are typed.

That's what it does, but how does it work? :)

My best guess is, a boatload of custom ligatures to, you know, make certain glyph combinations more readable and visually pleasant. Chef's kiss!

[beaiouns@is.nota.live]

@ulfr @tante yeah I didn't even realize you could so stuff like this in a font file, would love to hear some of the technical details as well, this is really cool and opens up a lot of possibilities

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

@beaiouns @ulfr it's called ligatures. A ligatures is a symbol in a font that replaces other symbols being put next to one another. It's intended to be able to design pretty "ff" or so, but this experiment really went with it ;)

[ulfr@hachyderm.io]

@tante Thanks for confirming! In my eyes this was the only portable way for a font to pull off a stunt like that, didn't get to check right away. Appreciate the elegance, too! @beaiouns

[asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social]

@tante I spy an infinite loop of 'Kristi Noem killed a puppy'. still worth it.

[ulfr@hachyderm.io]

@ASprinkleofSage Internally, it's not a replacement, but a mapping of certain input patterns to specific visual representations, so it cannot loop :) Unless you screenshot, print, or read it, the conversion is lossless and transient. Choose another font for select text and the magic stops

[nest@infosec.exchange]

@tante

it says it's under GNU GPL but i don't see a link to the source code.

[hc@mastodon.africa]

@tante nice :)

Need a fork for #Southafrica.

Malema - self serving wannabe revolutionary
Zuma - self seving wannabe king

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@tante This is beautiful.

I once installed a browser extension that allowed me to replace words and phrases with my own.

After a while using various different browsers, I'd forgotten I'd installed it, and couldn't contain my joy when I saw the humanity in news media language and reporting here in Ireland and in the UK.

Then, I remembered that I had replaced "migrants" with "people," checked the same web pages on a different browser, and was sad again.

[tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us]

@tante this is awesome!

[pmakholm@social.data.coop]

@ulfr @tante If I understand correctly, True Type Fonts have included a specialised but Turing complete virtual machine for ages.

But having the HarfBuzz font shaping engine include wasm allowing crazy stuff like addin LLM to your fonts, is a recent "innovation".

https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/

[ulfr@hachyderm.io]

@pmakholm I recall TrueType bordering on bytecode for morphing glyphs, but colour me impressed re HarfBuzz / wasm :) Thanks for the heads-up, I really have some catching up to do :)

[cinebox@masto.hackers.town]

@nest @tante URW++ never released any for the nimbus fonts, that is if there’s anything that can be considered “source code” for a font.

Nimbus fonts are also available under the OFL. Surprised they didn’t go with that.