Mastodawn

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

Times New Resistance — Abby Haddican

Times New Resistance is a font that autocorrects the autocrats. Download, distribute, disrupt! Free, just like America used to be.

Abby Haddican

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:ulfr:Feb 24

@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!

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Peter Makholm

@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/

llama.ttf

llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.

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:ulfr:Feb 24

@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 :)