Dev spent 80 hours reviving 129 vintage fonts with Codex — Reddit doomers sent him death threats for using AI
JamesHanzimanolis · reddit · 2026-10-26
An amateur typographer spent 80 sleepless hours using Codex + Affinity to digitally revive 129 vintage fonts from old movie posters, comics, magazines, and packaging — all free to use, with some already adopted in commercial projects.
Because AI was part of the process, he was savaged across multiple subreddits: labeled "AI slop," told to kill himself, and even doxxed over a joke about water usage. His rant: low-effort output is slop, but a labor-of-love free project getting trashed purely for involving AI shows how exhausting the anti-AI pile-ons have become.
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