A s*** font that f***ing censors bad language automatically.
This is pretty beautiful, in a sick-and-wrong way. It's a font which contains ligatures that can be automatically used by supported software. But instead of ligatures for things like รฆ and ล, this font replaces the letters of common swear words with a glyph that looks like a censor bar. So it's an automatically-self-censoring font.
Better yet, the authors were aware of the Scunthorpe problem and attempted to mitigate it; this also provides the font's name. Unfortunately it's not possible to do so perfectly without adding ligatures for just about every dictionary word individually (now that would be a font) so words like shitake and cockerel still get censored. And even where the mitigation works, it produces other problems: e.g. the use of the ligature Scunthorpe means that the word cannot be broken e.g. hyphenated across two lines. Nor will letter counters work properly.
But I don't think anybody's suggesting that this font should actually see mainstream use. Right?
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