Souls Only: A font that renders readable text while hiding noise from AI scrapers
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billtarbell
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Summary
Souls Only is a font and keyboard firmware project that creates a cipher where rendered glyphs display readable text, but the underlying character stream (what copy-paste, scrapers, and AI see) is noise. Users type normally on a keyboard, the keyboard firmware emits a noise character stream, and only the custom font renders it back into readable words. The project is presented as a craft and statement piece about human readability versus machine readability, not as a serious security solution.
Key quotes
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The font is the decoder, applied only at the rendering layer, and the cipher is driven by an ordinary keyboard: you type normal keys, the keyboard emits the noise stream, and only this font renders it back into words.
This is a craft and statement project, not a claim of unbreakable security.
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