# Times New Bastard

21 Hacker News commenters recommended Times New Bastard and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a fun, quirky tool for making cursed, distorted fonts and ambigrams. Critics mention a text-heavy readme with few examples and an error when changing the mix-in font.

## Why people recommend it

- Fun to play with (5 comments): "I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834941)) "Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835451)) "Good one. My friends are having a fun time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840430))
- Cool, striking font results (4 comments): "This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835089)) "The fonts are very interesting and captivating." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836187)) "Whoa this is really cool." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826860))
- Clever name and ambigram concept (2 comments): "Scope creep transformed your ambigram tool into something interesting." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841060)) "you earned my upvote simple with the name "Times New Bastard"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839996))
- Interactive, playful title and logo (2 comments): "Every click on the title will also change its bastard font" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836188)) "cool app, maybe make the logo at the bottom clickable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837495))

## What people warn about

- Error changing mix-in font (1 comments): "This is great! FYI for the creator, I'm hitting an error when attempting to change the mix-in font" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835250))
- Readme is text-heavy, few examples (1 comments): "the readme file is very "wall of text" heavy and example light" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840964))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Times New Bastard", https://hackerapproved.com/p/times-new-bastard/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).