MaxLavesFeb 5
Chee Aun 🤔

Almost freaked out when I saw this, thought it could be a new VSCode feature.

Turns out, it's a special ligature feature of the Maple Mono font https://font.subf.dev/

Feb 5 at 8:12amPhanpy
Show threadMaythee A.Feb 5
@[email protected] 😮 You can embed those into a font!?
Show threadChee Aun 🤔Feb 5
@null yeah… there are coding fonts that does the usual fancy ligature stuff like convert -> to look like → (two chars, not one char) but this tag-like look is quite interesting 🤔
Show threadElara Voss fucked my wifeFeb 5
@cheeaun oh yeah Pragmata Pro has those log level ligatures too
Show threadChee Aun 🤔Feb 5
@vyr wow, that's a cool font. First time seeing Arabic/Hebrew/Cyrillic coding 😮
Show threadElara Voss fucked my wifeFeb 5
@cheeaun it's my go-to for coding and has been for years. totally worth it
Show threadflere-imsaho 🇺🇦Feb 5
@vyr @cheeaun ah, another pragmata connoisseur! (that was the first strictly terminal font i actually bought.)
Show threadamosFeb 5
@cheeaun This font's cool, thanks for sharing!
Show threadderflockiFeb 5
@cheeaun that looks incredibly handy!
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Feb 5
@cheeaun this makes me think, I wonder if you could make a font that turns @[email protected] into a pill, I guess it just depends on writing some super regex rules in your font or something
Show threadChee Aun 🤔Feb 5
@liaizon you mean in the composer?
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Feb 5
@cheeaun yeah
Show threadChee Aun 🤔Feb 5

@liaizon it's already doable, without a custom font, if the composer is a WYSIWYG editor (X, Threads, Bsky, etc all use it) — pretty much allows you to style any chunks of text, though most just have simple styling for links, hashtags, etc.

Phanpy (and Mastodon web too) doesn't use it because WYSIWYG is… 😩

Show threadPaco HopeFeb 5

@liaizon There’s a really solid write-up of how to do something like this using free tools. I love the font they made: Sans Bullshit Sans. https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/
@cheeaun

#font #fonts

Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures – Pixelambacht

Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness

Show threadWenzel MassagFeb 5
@liaizon @cheeaun CC @ivory I’d love to see this in Ivory!
Show threadYunaFeb 5
@cheeaun I hope the ligature is part of a font variant that can be used in the terminal but not code 😭
Show threadChee Aun 🤔Feb 5
@kaninchenliebhabende i think it depends on the terminal's text renderer to support those ligatures.
Show threadeuroplus Feb 5
@cheeaun @georgeharito see also: https://www.abbyhaddican.com/times-new-resistance
Times New Resistance — Abby Haddican

Times New Resistance is a font that autocorrects the autocrats. Download, distribute, disrupt! Free, just like America used to be.

Abby Haddican
Show threadLinus GasserFeb 5
@cheeaun I don't remember if the ligature feature is Turing complete. I thought you cannot do loops.
Show threadQuinn ComendantFeb 5
@cheeaun I remember my mind being blown by the syntax highlighting font. I had to read the article three times before understanding what was happening. https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/
Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting

An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

GlyphDrawing.Club -blog
Show thread｡ﾟ･\m\(＞Д＜＃)/m/･ﾟ｡Feb 5
@cheeaun Special programming ligatures are really awesome, but also for some reason I can never get used to them