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al_borland04/23/20251 replyview on HN

I've only purchased one font, which I use in my editor and terminal, so I don't have to worry much about the license. I can't be bothered to use custom fonts for any projects. With all the licensing considerations it just makes me cut out the whole idea to simplify my life.


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econ04/24/2025

Send in the LLMs!

Jokes aside, I'm not very impressed with this single color font art. Maybe in 30 years we will have 16 color fonts?

The color fonts currently work in Firefox and Edge, Safari support SBIX, Chrome on Android has CBDT

I can barely find a website that has an example. The ones I found have a few characters or a single sentence, very few fonts and they are not very pretty. Some of the implementations warn that the client might catch fire.

I'm not impressed.

Some random examples of the state of the art.

https://www.throwup.it/en/artists/mars/