Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
Datatype is data as type
Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images, no rendering library — just type the syntax and Datatype's ligature substitution does the rest.
https://franktisellano.github.io/datatype/Open linkView original on ani.social
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This is an impressive use of font ligature substitutions. I wish there's an awesome list of fonts that do these kinds of things.
I love that you can select it like text (because it is), and you copy-paste the raw data in plain text.
It’s pretty neat but I think a drawback is that the data needs to be normalized. I don’t think you can put the raw data in there.
Ah, yeah, good point. It does need to be normalized between 0-100, but still pretty cool that you can do that.
Fantastic!