🗼 Tower of Babel — a poster created with Babel, a new package for redacting text

I’m very happy to announce my first Typst package :tada:

What is it for? It replaces actual text with random characters, which is useful for two purposes:

  • Redacting confidential information.
  • Sharing the design and structure of an existing document without disclosing the content itself.

It has a variety of ready-made sets of characters for replacement (75 in total; termed alphabets), which represent diverse writing systems, codes, notations and symbols. So… combining the idea of the biblical Tower of Babel and the available alphabets, I created a simple poster in Typst (code) :tokyo_tower:

:speech_balloon: Feel free to suggest (as a reply here or as an issue) any improvement to the package or the poster (which is admittedly naïve and rudimentary :slightly_smiling_face:).

:twisted_rightwards_arrows: Pull requests of any kind are also very welcome.

:open_book: The manual provides introductory background, explains how to use the provided functions, and lists the provided alphabets, each demonstrated by a line of random text.

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