1 mo. ago • 98%

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting

An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

It’s wild what some people come up with.

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That's some out of the box thinking

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Thats pretty impressive

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I guess we got smart fonts now... or in the future

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- Welll, we somehow can have LLMs inside of fonts now, so that's already pretty "smart" (for a font)
  
  https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf
  
  Or even a video game
  
  https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html
  
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all the code shows white to me.

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- What browser do you use, or do you have some reading plug-ins?
  
  For me it looks fine on the Firefox android app
  
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  no script. which makes me think the font does rely on some sort of script.
  
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This seems intensely useful if it was matured and solid. Compressing down complexity is usually very valuable in tech, like Markdown is.

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