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pikertoday at 7:30 PM1 replyview on HN

We're definitely not TrueType experts and took the relatively "straightforward" approach of generating a small custom font for each mapping. If it's possible to render "Maryland" with ligatures while mapping the same string to "Delaware" in Unicode, then that's just another example of the vector. Really interesting stuff, and we'll be checking it out!


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Conscattoday at 7:36 PM

These are some very extreme examples of this that push the feature's limits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256810

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26495059