[wbh1]

I love this shirt! Here's a nice video from the actual designer about the process of making this shirt (including intentionally making it hard to OCR): https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=526

[criddell]

It would probably be quicker to type it in than figure out how to OCR it. It would be like typing in a game from a COMPUTE! magazine 45 years go.

https://archive.org/details/1983-01-compute-magazine/page/96...

[wildzzz]

At least that stuff was written in cleartext. You'd immediately know you just typed the wrong character if you saw PRONT on your screen.

[marcus_holmes]

This was my reaction!

OCR? oh my sweet summer child, you cannot know the days we spent typing in raw code from a magazine, and the joy when it finally ran.

[speerer]

Author here. Thank you so much for the link which I hadn't seen! I'm very happy to see this and I'm gratified that it was deliberately difficult to OCR, not just me.

[heresie-dabord]

As much as I hope for Peace, I would have suggested

echo "Fgnaq+sbe+Qrzbpenpl!" | tr 'A-Za-z+' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m '

[VladVladikoff]

I watched the link but I didn’t see where he talked about making it difficult to OCR? What exactly was done that made it difficult to OCR?

[novia]

https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=750

[fennecfoxy]

But it's not hard to OCR? And I don't know why the article dedicates an entire section to it.

On a Samsung S24U I held down the "circle to search" homescreen button which brings up the AI tools interface (I don't know what it's officially called), held down on the text and copied the whole thing in one shot.

It took like 2 seconds.

[kyusan0]

Did it get every character correct?

[imp0cat]

I just tried, using https://tris.sherliker.net/assets/2026-07-04-cropped-script.... as a source and the answer is a resounding no.