125 pointsby luu6 hours ago5 comments
  • 1bpp4 hours ago
    Is anyone willing to sacrifice their sanity for the sake of implementing a QR renderer as TTF hinting code?
    • iguessthislldoan hour ago
      I love seeing nonsense like that. How that work graphically though? Just keep adding to a same QR code that keeps getting denser as more text is added? I guess it doesn't have to practical though :)
    • Induane3 hours ago
      Ask Claude
      • 1bpp3 hours ago
        [flagged]
  • utopiah2 hours ago
    Damn, yes please.

    Another cool font, but less original, I stumbled upon recently is Marelle https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/ for cursive.

    • albert_ean hour ago
      > https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/

      This website is in French so I was unable tounderstand the text

      and the website is very resistant to automatic translation by Google Translate

      >https://marelle-forge-apps-education-fr.translate.goog/?_x_t...

      What gives?

      • utopiah7 minutes ago
        No problem translating it with Firefox :

        " Marelle is a free cursive police force for teaching writing in elementary school. Introduction

        This project is supported by the Digital Directorate for Education of the Ministry of National Education, and developed in the Forge of Digital Educational Commons.

        The Marelle police is designed specifically for teaching cursive writing in elementary school, it was developed by a team of teachers and designers specialized in writing systems.

        Teaching Cursive Writing

        Structure and sequence of letters, rhythm and proportion, contextual variants: the Marelle font was thought around specific criteria to offer a quality model to teachers and students. Particular attention has been paid to the trace of numbers, capital letters and punctuation. A complete professional tool

        The Marelle police offers 3 types of variants:

            uppercase sticks or cursive
            with or without lineage Seyes
            height of ascendants and descendants
        
        These variants can be combined to best meet the needs of teachers and students." etc
      • piltboy7 minutes ago
        "Marelle is a free cursive font designed for teaching handwriting in [French] elementary school."

        I'm not sure they owe it to anyone to make the website available in English :-)

    • endre2 hours ago
      this is genius
  • nemoniacan hour ago
    ASCII only?
    • Terr_24 minutes ago
      More or less, AFAICT the underlying barcode standards don't support Unicode, if that's what you mean.

      It looks like Code 128 could potentially handle some ISO-8859-1 accented latin characters, but I'm not sure how to test it.

      • ale425 minutes ago
        Code 128 supports some ISO-8859-1 indeed, but it requires switching between encodings (there are 3 of them), and couldn't work with 128B (I guess the one used by the font, as it supports ASCII). See the table on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_128
  • dmitrygr3 hours ago
    This is a perversion of the most sickening nature. Nicely done!
    • breakingcupsan hour ago
      I'm surprised at this reaction, this has been standard practice for many years in various companies where I worked.
  • endre2 hours ago
    [flagged]