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Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (blog.glyphdrawing.club)
submitted 2 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It’s wild what some people come up with.

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[–] ashtrix@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago

That's some out of the box thinking

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 20 points 2 months ago

Thats pretty impressive

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] babeuh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

all the code shows white to me.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What browser do you use, or do you have some reading plug-ins?

For me it looks fine on the Firefox android app

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no script. which makes me think the font does rely on some sort of script.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What browser do you use?

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sorry. I thought no script made that self evident but its firefox.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, I didn't know NoScript was exclusive to Firefox.

That's strange though. Here you can see NoScript breaks the mini js html editor embedded on the page, yet the colours work fine for me.

I wasn't able to make the highlighting work on a very quick and dirty html page of my own though. Not sure if I missed anything.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Im not sure if no script is on other browsers but I only hear from firefox users about it so I just sorta assumed. If I allow glyphdrawing.club the colors appear and then when I tell it to revoke temporary they stay. maybe its a one time download to fonts.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Hmm, you're right. A ctrl + f5 reload with NoScript enabled does clear the colours, and won't have them come back until I disable NoScript again. Not sure what exactly it is then.

[–] inbeesee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

This seems intensely useful if it was matured and solid. Compressing down complexity is usually very valuable in tech, like Markdown is.