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> 6.1 Fonts Can Contain SVG This is amazing-- it means someone can design a font where glyphs consist only of SVG elliptical arcs! Ooh even better-- the font
by jancsika 5y ago
> 6.1 Fonts Can Contain SVG
This is amazing-- it means someone can design a font where glyphs consist only of SVG elliptical arcs!
Ooh even better-- the font designer could place the arcs in such a way that setting large-arc and sweep flags would generate different glyphs.
If someone has not designed such a font in the year 2022 then what are the large-arc and sweep flags even for? How can we seriously continue calling this site Hacker News? Why isn't this very comment full of SVG arcs?!?
Edit: OMG what about animating the large-arc and sweep flags in an SVG-based font? I want a transition that starts at war with Eastasia on a Monday and ends on war with Eurasia on a Tuesday.
We have the technology