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A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 4 stories, 9 comments · first 2017-09-11 · latest 2025-04-02

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    Sparks – A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code
    story by OuterVale · 2025-04-02 · 28 comments
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    Sparks – A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code
    story by OuterVale · 2025-01-24 · 0 comments
  3. …idea. Apparently, someone has actually tried this [1] and it looks pretty good [2]. [1]: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks [2]: https://observablehq.com/@tomgp/after-the-flood-i-sparks-i-t...
    comment by divbzero · 2024-08-26 · in The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021)
  4. …years since posted here, but this is an alternative sparkline font using contextual alternatives -- https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks
  5. …font files :( I just created a new issue and uploaded a zip file of their fonts to their Github: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks/files/12009401/AtF.S... (Finally a justification for my font hoarding)
    comment by yawnxyz · 2023-07-11 · in Easy SVG sparklines
  6. …cool! For those who don't know, there's a font called Sparks that uses glyphs to create sparklines: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks
    comment by yawnxyz · 2023-07-10 · in Easy SVG sparklines
  7. …- https://rbitr.github.io/ChartS.css/ - https://chartscss.org/ - Sparkline fonts in text: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks and https://www.scribbletone.com/typefaces/ff-chartwell - https://vizzuhq.com/
  8. …which also allowed for data presentation through fonts. It was previously discussed on HN[1]. [0] https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093815
    comment by pkage · 2021-01-20 · in Datalegreya Font
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    Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text
    story by todsacerdoti · 2020-05-08 · 0 comments
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    Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code
    story by boredgamer2 · 2020-05-06 · 32 comments
  11. Format > Font > Advanced > Use Contextual Alternates https://github.com/aftertheflood/spark#using-atf-spark-in-ms...
    comment by rexpan · 2017-09-14 · in A font to make sparklines in seconds
  12. Github repo: https://github.com/aftertheflood/spark
    comment by kawera · 2017-09-12 · in A font to make sparklines in seconds
  13. The font is open-source, available here: https://github.com/aftertheflood/spark
    comment by timdierks · 2017-09-11 · in This Font Makes Sparklines Out of Numbers