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Fonts Against the Machines

PR Campaign
Wednesday 12th August, 2026

Type designers and computer scientists created fonts designed to frustrate AI scrapers. MixFont’s Decoy Font overlays a clear human message with a blurred decoy that machines may misread, while ShieldFont scrambles key words in its source code, turning stolen text into gibberish and making a timely privacy argument.

Why it worked: It flipped the AI-scraping debate into a concrete, visual demo—live fonts that poison models—backed by a fresh technical white paper.

The lesson: Consider pitching a simple, testable prototype that visibly “breaks” a dominant system and pair it with concise, quotable stats.

MixFont Seneda & Abrucio PlayType
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How this story spread across the media

Publication Headline Date
creativebloq.com Type designers have created a free font that "poisons" AI | Creative Bloq Thursday 30th July, 2026
arstechnica.com The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font - Ars Technica Wednesday 12th August, 2026
lithub.com Literary Hub » A new font promises to hide your text from AI. Thursday 3rd September, 2026
smithsonianmag.com Designers and Computer Scientists Create New Decoy Fonts That Humans Can Read but A.I. Bots Cannot Friday 11th September, 2026
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