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Life & fun · September 23, 2026

Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

A type foundry for bastard web fonts.

Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard launched on September 23, 2026 with 861 votes, #2 of 8,097 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix, stretch and / or squish them. Every download is a normal OpenType font. The swap is a liga contextual substitution registered for every script, so browsers turn it on by default. It works anywhere OpenType text is shaped: browsers, design tools, print. If a font looks unchanged, check that ligatures aren't switched off in the app you're using. No. Everything runs locally in your browser with Pyodide and fontTools . Bastardica can make simple fonts feel a little, hmm, richer? Use Y-offset and scale effects to make glyphs align perfectly. When mixing 3 or more fonts, they will intersect (e.g. every 5th and every 7th will collide on every 35th). The first…from bastardica.mitpit.com

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