Times New Bastard
Font generator
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.
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.
22 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 21
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 95%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 21 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 21 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fun to play with
“I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it.”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” “Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” “Good one. My friends are having a fun time”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” - Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard”
- Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard”
Cool, striking font results
“This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” “The fonts are very interesting and captivating.”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” “Whoa this is really cool.”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” - Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard”
Clever name and ambigram concept
“Scope creep transformed your ambigram tool into something interesting.”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” “you earned my upvote simple with the name "Times New Bastard"”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” Interactive, playful title and logo
“Every click on the title will also change its bastard font”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” “cool app, maybe make the logo at the bottom clickable”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Error changing mix-in font
“This is great! FYI for the creator, I'm hitting an error when attempting to change the mix-in font”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard” Readme is text-heavy, few examples
“the readme file is very "wall of text" heavy and example light”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard”
What people said
16 of the 22 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“This is s erious l y cool”
“Scope creep transformed your ambigram tool into something interesting.”
“the readme file is very "wall of text" heavy and example light”
“Good one. My friends are having a fun time”
“you earned my upvote simple with the name "Times New Bastard"”
“and for a great mood for the day”
“It even supports COLR and SVG fonts”
“cool app, maybe make the logo at the bottom clickable”
“Every click on the title will also change its bastard font”
“The fonts are very interesting and captivating.”
“Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D”
“This is great! FYI for the creator, I'm hitting an error when attempting to change the mix-in font”
“This is beautiful. I think I'll have to use this for a game.”
“I had a lot of fun and more than a few laughs messing around with it.”
“giggling madly at my creations”
“Whoa this is really cool.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.