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- 1New font recreated from Commodore 64 keycap photos▼A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps
A new typeface has been released that recreates the lettering on the keys of the classic Commodore 64 home computer, built from photographs of the machine's keycaps. The project is freely available on GitHub. Retro computing fans are praising the effort to preserve the distinctive look of 1980s hardware in digital form.
- 2Type designer's self-styled 'best stupid font joke' delights readers●I was working on some demo images for my new font and came up with the best stupid font joke today. I may have peaked in
A type designer shared a new font joke while preparing demo images for an upcoming typeface, admitting they may have reached their peak in dumb font humor. The quip has drawn amused engagement from the typography and design community, a crowd known for its appetite for kerning puns and niche lettering wordplay.
- 3Discussion: Where Are Typefaces Being Designed Today?●Where are typefaces being designed? https:// beehaw.org/post/28919219
A technology community discussion is asking where typefaces are currently being designed, prompting conversation about the geography of type design. The thread explores which countries and studios dominate font creation and how the industry's centres of design activity are distributed around the world.
- 4New Font ShieldFont Designed to Block AI Scraping●To push back against unauthorized LLM scraping, typeface designers are creating fonts that can trick AI. ShieldFont was designed to be difficult for AI agents to scrape, but you wouldn’t know it just by looking at it. The typeface swaps out words behind the scen
Typeface designers have created ShieldFont, a font built to resist unauthorized scraping by large language models. To the human eye it looks like a normal typeface, but behind the scenes it swaps out words so AI agents that copy text end up harvesting garbled or misleading content instead. The design is the latest example of creatives using technical workarounds to fight back against companies training AI models on their work without permission or payment.
- 5Commodore 64 Keyboard Font Made Freely Available▼The Commodore 64 Keyboard Font, For Everyone https://hackaday.com/2026/10/07/the-commodore-64-keyboard-font-for-everyone
A project recreating the Commodore 64's iconic keyboard font for general use is drawing attention among retrocomputing enthusiasts. The release makes the distinctive 1980s typeface available to anyone, fitting the open-source and DIY ethos of the community. Nostalgia for classic home computing hardware continues to fuel projects like this, as hobbyists preserve and share design elements from machines like the Commodore 64.
- 6New font confuses AI while looking normal to humans●This font looks perfectly normal to humans but wreaks havoc on AI
A newly designed typeface appears ordinary to human readers but causes artificial intelligence systems to misread or fail to process text set in it. The font exploits weaknesses in how AI models recognize characters, raising questions about the robustness of machine vision and text recognition, and about potential adversarial uses against automated systems.