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Well, I’m glad that we now have a font that makes it look like I’m not wearing my glasses… when I’m wearing my glasses.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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Doesn't work on a dark background ? The decoy text is invisible..
Person: does something impressive against AI Comments: it's bad because it's not perfect
Well look at that, it works!!
Nice ! I didn't think the font had a serious purpose before I saw your excellent example..
Here’s the text my phone extracted from that image:
FUCK THE POUXCE
What does this say?
It says "THIN BLUE LINE."
The word BLUE is split between the second and third lines:
THIN
BLU
ELINE
•••
Edge detection moment
THIN
BLU
ELINEB*
Good luck to the visually impaired and their screen readers.
Screen readers read text directly, the point of this is to be used in images, which screen readers don’t read anyway.
And if this sort of font became common (and actually kept working) then screen readers never would be able to read these. The point remains that accessibility is being sacrificed for the sake of some kind of general "anti-AI" movement.
My iPhone reads text from images. I wonder how it’d do with this?
You can take a screenshot or save the image directly. My iPhone reads the blurry text without issue, so this may be more related to LLMs in particular, or of the image is compressed before the analysis, the illusion is broken
I'm pretty sure they're not the intended users
I think this is the first step in an arms race between fonts that can't be read by computers and systems to differentiate between obfuscated text.
Clever as fuck
This is art