Decoy Font protects messages from being read by AI
The font features two layers of image – one in thin but clear outlines in the foreground, and another in blurry dark shapes in the background. Decoy Font lets humans hide their writing from AI Humans can read both letterforms by shifting focus, squinting, or moving further or closer to the screen, but usually see the dark letters in the background more vividly. At the same time, he wanted to more open-endedly explore the limits of AI perception and how quickly they are changing, in line with Mixfont's AI-led business.
- ▪The font features two layers of image – one in thin but clear outlines in the foreground, and another in blurry dark shapes in the background.
- ▪Decoy Font lets humans hide their writing from AI Humans can read both letterforms by shifting focus, squinting, or moving further or closer to the screen, but usually see the dark letters in the background more vividly.
- ▪At the same time, he wanted to more open-endedly explore the limits of AI perception and how quickly they are changing, in line with Mixfont's AI-led business.
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| Original publisher | Dezeen |
| Canonical URL | https://www.dezeen.com/2026/07/31/decoy-font-ai-mixfont/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:25:48 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-31T12:12:47.142Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-31T12:12:47.443Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | olYDdCcUZpcE |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Decoy Font protects messages from being read by AI Share: Prefer Dezeen on Google document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () { var link = document.querySelector('.google-preferred-source-button'); if (!link) { return; } if (link.dataset && link.dataset.ga4Bound === '1') { return; } if (link.dataset) { link.dataset.ga4Bound = '1'; } link.addEventListener('click', function () { var label = link.querySelector('.google-preferred-source-button__label'); var linkText = label ? label.textContent.trim() : link.textContent.trim(); window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; window.dataLayer.push({ event: 'google_preferred_source_click', component: 'google_preferred_source', link_url: link.href, link_text: linkText, page_url: window.location.href }); }); }); Rima Sabina Aouf | 31 July…
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