LOLockal·Sep 21, 2026
> - some unicode programming script (running Doom)
> - ?
Bad Apple, oh, wait: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Bad-Apple-Font
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Bad-Apple-Font
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Bad-Apple-Font
Playing Bad Apple!! with HarfBuzz WASM shaper.
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repo: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Bad-Apple-Font
youtube[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF2sn2DXjlA
youtube[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFd8vsr8nag
In Tetris Font (2020)Game of life is certainly possible someone saw my Bad Apple font and not only reproduced it, but also made a Maze [0]
So the biggest issue is that you need something that uses harfbuzz where you can recompile and add a flag. If you look in this repo there is something precompiled for Mac [1] which was the software I used as well.
You can also build harfbuzz as described here [2] and load it into some program. I used to just install it globally on arch and then use Gimp for the Bad apple example.
And lastly the same person who made the maze also made a way to use LD_PRELOAD to load a custom harfbuzz into arbitary software so you can follow that guide as well: [3]
[0]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Harfbuzz-WASM-Fantasy
[1]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples
[2]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha...
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