29 points | by LorenDB 5 days ago ago
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Note: this is different from https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.
From what I can gather, the underlying feature that enables this is vontextual alternates[1], primarily intended to adjust letters based on adjacent letters to improve legibility.
edit: I see the referenced inspiration[2] explains it in detail.
[1]: https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-contextual...
[2]: https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...
Fascinating
As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.
I suppose this gets useful in applications where you can change the font, but not add syntax highlighting. Besides being a neat trick, of course.
Note: this is different from https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.
From what I can gather, the underlying feature that enables this is vontextual alternates[1], primarily intended to adjust letters based on adjacent letters to improve legibility.
edit: I see the referenced inspiration[2] explains it in detail.
[1]: https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-contextual...
[2]: https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...
Fascinating
As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.
I suppose this gets useful in applications where you can change the font, but not add syntax highlighting. Besides being a neat trick, of course.