FontCode: Typographic steganography

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FontCode isn’t a typeface exactly, it is instead a steganographical method of hiding information in a normal looking text document by subtly altering (or ‘perturbing’) the shapes of the glyphs. This can then be interpreted by software, such as an app on a phone, to reveal the message within the message.

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Published by Geoff

A self-taught internet enthusiast. I have one good eye for design and another good photographer’s eye combined with social media savvy and antisocial tendencies. I speak HTML and CSS to a pretty high standard and can cut and paste pretty fast. I give good Photoshop and know a wide repertoire of other software tricks.

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