This Font Blurs Profanity and Encourages More Inclusive Language.
If you love good swear words, you might be in a situation where you accidentally added them to your email – or at least you wanted to. Depending on where and with whom you work, this can lead to disapproval or even automatically start an email surveillance system, if your company has one. One way to help curb (or at least better understand) this habit is to download a typeface that blurs curses and promotes anti-racist and inclusive language. Here’s what you need to know.
How to download a font with many functions
First, the name of the font is The Polite Type , and it was developed by the Finnish technology company TietoEVRY . We first learned about this from a post on Creative Bloq . You can download the font for free here . In any case, let’s move on to the features.
Curse of control
This part is pretty straightforward. You just type a word or sentence and the font automatically blurs what it considers to be an insult, insult, or other insult. The difficulty is that he has his own idea of what constitutes an offensive language. So, for example, the words “fuck” and “asshole” are blurred, but “shit” and “shit” are not. The “moron” and “bastard” are also blurred.
And in other cases, it automatically changes the words they found offensive to alternative ones. For example, bitch automatically becomes bitch, c * nt becomes vulva, and cock becomes rooster.
Inclusive language and the fight against bullying
Technically, profanity is just one component of the main purpose of a typeface – to promote inclusive language as a way to prevent cyberbullying. There is a strong anti-racist component here that replaces the offensive with a more inclusive term.
He also changes words or phrases to make them kinder. For example, he replaces “I hate you” with “I disagree with you.” And “you are ugly” turns into “you are traditionally not beautiful”, and “you are stupid” turns into “you are stupid.” “You’re crazy,” on the other hand, remains as it is.
You can try this feature yourself without downloading the font here . And if you’re wondering how it actually works and why some words are blurry and others aren’t, the company explains it on their website .