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Re: Font that creates charts

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Post by karlshea » Fri, Aug 17, 2012, 6:22 AM UTC

duaneb wrote: post #57

I thought this was really cool, until I saw that it cost $129.... Realistically, who would buy this? I'm assuming that because it is proprietary, it can not be used on the Internet, and if you don't have to cater to arbitrary OSes, why not use grh software?

$129 is actually very reasonable for a font. I've seen individual fonts several times that and you could only use them in print.

Re: Font that creates charts

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Post by duaneb » Fri, Aug 17, 2012, 7:36 AM UTC

karlshea wrote: post #61

duaneb wrote: post #57

I thought this was really cool, until I saw that it cost $129.... Realistically, who would buy this? I'm assuming that because it is proprietary, it can not be used on the Internet, and if you don't have to cater to arbitrary OSes, why not use grh software?

$129 is actually very reasonable for a font. I've seen individual fonts several times that and you could only use them in print.

I am a type nerd; I've bought my share of typefaces in my time. This offers no discernable advantage over traditional chart generation. It only makes sense as a web font, and even then, it's a hack. I just don't see it worth the money.

Re: Font that creates charts

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Post by sp332 » Fri, Aug 17, 2012, 11:39 AM UTC

ThePherocity wrote: post #60

jgamman wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how did you do that?

That's how we used to make GUIs. Miss those days.

Close :) That was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 (or the Unix equivalent I guess). I used the Unicode symbols that roryokane mentioned above, because it has more options for the height of a block (not just half-blocks). You can get Unicode versions of the older drawing symbols from this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Latin_character_sets_%2...

Re: Font that creates charts

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Post by seclorum » Fri, Aug 17, 2012, 1:12 PM UTC

ChiperSoft wrote: post #44

polshaw wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why do people still insist on doing this? HTTP requests. 'silly font+glyph combo' is the vector version of sprites. And it's also nice to be able to change the colour of your monochrome vector graphics.

Except that this font doesn't appear to work on the web, it's only for use in software that supports higher typography features, such as Adobe applications.

I'm using it in MOAI with harfbuzz. Its a brilliant font and makes adding simple HUD-style GUI's to my app very fun, indeed (hint: using a "printf" to get -> a graph == fun!!)