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Show HN: 433 – How to make a font that says nothing

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433 is a font that masks visible text and replaces it with dots. I'm using it in the new version of Ensō along with Coffeeshop Mode.

You can see it in action here:

Beautiful.

Why

In short: because it's the simplest way to add Coffeeshop Mode to the app.

(Also, because I was curious)

(OK, mainly because I was curious, Dog mode)

Longer version:

The previous note on Ensō ended up on the front page of HN and gave us almost 400 TestFlight testers. This is way more than I had expected. In fact, I'd initially set the limit at 50 and had to bump it every few hours in disbelief. It's also a relatively diverse group of people with many using non-Latin writing systems, e.g.: Chinese (pinyin), Japanese, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew to name a few.

This posed a perfect opportunity to test:

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