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ShieldFont fights AI scraping by handing crawlers the wrong words

ShieldFont, a web font developed by Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio with support from type foundry Playtype, launched in October 2025 to combat AI scraping by displaying one set of words in browsers while embedding different words in the HTML source code. The font ensures human readers see the intended text, while scrapers extracting HTML receive grammatically correct but altered content from the same URL and bytes.

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Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio built a web font that draws one set of words on screen and leaves a different set in the page’s source code. A person reading in a browser sees the writing as written. A scraper pulling the HTML gets different words in the same grammar, at the same URL, off the same bytes. ShieldFont started in October 2025 with support from the type foundry Playtype. The site that deploys it … More

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