11 Aug, 2026

Making “anti-ai” fonts that obfuscate or scramble text is a fools errand. For fonts that scramble text, it's an accessibility problem, since the scrambled text is what screen readers and other accessibility tools will parse. Already, you've cut out many of the humans you're trying to reach.

In case you aren't aware of what I'm referring to, here are a few examples:

Decoy font

Shield font

Ghost font

Edit: I'd like to preemptively clarify I don't have anything against these specific examples, nor am I trying to invalidate the work that went into creating them or any other examples of anti-AI fonts. This post is meant to critique the idea itself. I'm not trying to put-down anyone here!

There is just no way to do this accessibly, since an accessible solution will require machine-accessible metadata. This pushes us back to the giant issue of human verification, and all the privacy and security concerns associated with it.…