Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

A joke tool that abuses OpenType's ligature feature to mix fonts. It works pretty fast on client-side by loading Python in WASM. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823738 Points: 287 # Comments: 44

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