Doesn't seem to produce a valid font file for Windows, for what it's worth.
I haven’t looked into the font, but when building mine one mistake I made was to assign a glyph to NUL.
Show HN: I made a grid based font editor and font
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#22This would be nice for creating vector fonts (.lff) for Librecad and/or solvespace.
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#23It's cool how I can add non-ascii characters and they just work.
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#24Awesome! I am going to make a direct JSON renderer for the PixelBlaze!
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#25This is great. The ability to delete a cell without deleting the whole layer would be really helpful.
I made that change, and added a separate button to delete the layer :)
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#26Awesome! I am going to make a direct JSON renderer for the PixelBlaze!
That would be amazing!
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#27I have a fascination with segmented LED and LCD fonts. This, I expect, will be a major distraction for me today. Before everything standardized on 7-, 14-, and 16-segment displays, there were a lot of creative alternatives. A bunch of different 7, 8, 9, and 22-segs, including my favorite one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_sporka/1843883266 I once owned a Fossil watch that had an ~18-segment display that displaye…
You might know this awesome channel already, but here is a video of an excellent segmented font: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRjVXxm4Z7I
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#28It'd be interesting to know why highlighting the font makes it highlight as a different typeface.
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#29It'd be interesting to know why highlighting the font makes it highlight as a different typeface.
When you download the font then it is a normal font and that does not happen. On the website, to make it possible to edit the characters in real time I'm drawing the font as SVG behind an invisible textarea; so when the text is edited really the textarea is changing and I'm drawing SVG behind every character to make it look like a textarea with the custom font. I'm curious which browser/OS are you using since I don't see the textarea text when I highlight something.
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#30This is extremely cool! Being able to tweak glyphs on the right and use them on the left is pretty amazing feeling.