Reminds me of Paranoia Sans "a self-censoring, conspiratorial typeface that will automatically redact more than 150 words popular in conspiracy myths/theories."
Sounds like this is a good solution to a clbuttic problem.
How about we just stop censoring words in the first place.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/health/swearing-benefits-well...
Why swearing is a sign of intelligence, helps manage pain and more
Although, I must admit, it's a creative (mis)use of ligatures.
Everybody’s got an opinion on what bad language means, but maybe everybody should maintain their own local variants of this font that censor specifically the words that they don’t want to see.
2 years ago, almost 300 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23131559
This is totally broken. It still lets me say "damn". I'm calling the police.
With a built-in exception for Scunthorpe, but not for the million of other examples why automatic swear word filtering is a bad idea (Shitake, Sussex, classic, peoples' names, ...).
A fun piece of art, but I hope nobody actually uses this font.
For those interested, to get the ligatures in this font, run:
otfinfo -g scunthorpe-sans.otf | grep _ | sed s/_//g | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | uniqBack in the day, I was the Exhibits Engineer at the Computer Museum in Boston. We had an exhibit with a robot arm and alphabet blocks; visitors could type in a phrase and it would be spelled out. I maintained the "dirty word" list, which was the list of things that the robot wasn't allowed to spell out.
How is your experience with performance of ligatures in fonts? I recently tried to create a "meta-font" for Google fonts, which contained a glyph for each font displaying the font name in the font's own style. The glyph would be displayed as a ligature if the font name was encountered. This way I could have a list with all font names that would display normally without the meta font available, but with the meta font available, the font names would be displayed in the fonts' own style.
I liked this idea a lot, but unfortunately with roughly 1500 ligartures (one for each font on Google fonts) the meta font became much larger than expected and quite slow when used in the browser. Any experiences how many ligartures are fine performance wise?
Related: Sans Bullshit Sans (https://www.sansbullshitsans.com)
I remember when I stumbled across a forum and was very confused by the near universal use of the phrase "gently caress"...
As usual - everything is US-oriented. French still have to suffer looking at merde and putain and politique.
Doesn't censor "classic", "mass", and anything with "ass".
This is a neat project!
It makes me think about the worlds of 1985 and Fahrenheit 451 - what does it look like to make it impossible to express something? When you see a dystopia, what are the mechanics moving underneath its surface, supporting what you can see?
Bad language doesn't exist.
It simply fucking doesn't. That's just the person, who has a problem with words, blaming the words for his problem.
The problem is solely within those who don't want to hear it, who believe they can tell others how to speak.
Some engines are profane.... apparently :P
Pity that the small town in Austria changed its name to Fugging.
This doesn't censor anything at all, because it's still perfectly clear what is being said.
Makes as much sense as replacing 'dickhead' with 'penishead'.
The N word is possible
So I don't know if this really works or not, but if you copy and paste the purported blacked out words, it's just using asterisks ie shit is s**.
Bitch doesn't work. Was the first one I tried lol
More useful: make it change 'cloud' to 'butt' automatically, like that browser extension.
Does not work when I "try it out here" on Mobile Safari with the content blocker Wipr installed.
It seems like a simplistic find and replace. It censored “pussyfoot”, which is not bad language.
Doesn't work on Strine, try "Bloody hell, quit arsing about, ya total drongo".
That's delightful. I love this sort of silly (miss-)use of technology.
wh*e made it through. What is bad language? Who decides?
Won’t help for text-to-speech and screenreaders. ;)
My cockerel was not amused. Nor was my pussy-cat.
It censors puss for some reason. What a sourpuss.
Can anyone summarize how this works?
They didn't block the N word
Try to type fuckuck
Charles Dickinson
English only :-)
Fuck yeah.
Can we have something like this but for podcasts? I want to listen to JRE in the car but I can’t because he swears too much for my kids.
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Fuck that shit
A broken font that does not accurately represent expression.
Seems pretty useless to me.
Edit: Joke or Art font. Got it!
So far this font has failed to censor a single horrifically racist or homophobic slur that I've tried, and these words are much more universally taboo in every culture. It makes me nervous even just to type them in as an experiment and the words are so shocking to me that it's very possible I have never spoken or typed them out. But they are not censored.
It also only blocks one misogynistic slur (the slur that is in Scunthorpe, but not say the slur that looks most like 'slur') that I've tried.
That's quite a skewed definition of "bad" language.
Etymology:
> The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".[1] In the early 2000s, Google's opt-in SafeSearch filters made the same error, preventing people from searching for local businesses or URLs that included Scunthorpe in their names.[2]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Also, grawlix:
> Grawlixes (#, $, , @): typographical symbols standing in for profanities, appearing in dialogue balloons in place of actual dialogue.[2]*
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Comicana
* https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/grawlix-symbol...
* https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/the-grawlix-how-the...