Ligatures

Assess

Techniques

A font feature that substitutes character sequences with alternate glyphs during rendering.

Why it's here

Placed in Assess: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.

Evidence (1)

6Ars Technica AI·8/12/2026research
New font aims to confuse AI web scrapers
ShieldFont is a font design proposed by two designers to help web publishers make pages readable to humans while altering the underlying text seen by scrapers. It uses ligatures to replace selected words with different ones at render time, so scrapers that ingest source text may collect nonsensical data instead of the original content.