Bastardica

Bastardica is a small, focused type foundry that lives in your browser. Rather than drawing glyphs from scratch, it takes two existing fonts and blends them into a single hybrid typeface, producing what the site calls bastard web fonts. The premise is simple: pick a base font, pick a mix-in font, then decide how the two should collide.

The core workflow lets you stretch, squish and offset the mix-in font, apply white, black, light, dark or random effects, and preview everything live before exporting. Outputs include TTF, OTF and WOFF2, and each download is a normal OpenType font with a liga contextual substitution registered for every script, so browsers enable the effect by default. A simple mode handles quick randomization, while advanced mode exposes per-glyph control.

It is aimed at designers, typographers and creative coders who want unusual display type without a full font editor. Because everything runs locally with Pyodide and fontTools, uploaded fonts never leave your machine, which matters if you are working with licensed files.

A practical tip from the site: use Y-offset and scale effects to make glyphs align cleanly, and load presets to see what settings produce usable results. You can also pull in the full Google Fonts library or grab free fonts from UNCUT, Velvetyne, Font Squirrel, FontSpace and DaFont. If a font looks unchanged in an app, check that ligatures are enabled. Overall, Bastardica is a playful but technically solid way to generate one-of-a-kind ty