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This is cool! For those who don't know, there's a font called Sparks that uses glyphs to create sparklines: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks https://git

This is cool! For those who don't know, there's a font called Sparks that uses glyphs to create sparklines: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks

pmarreck 3y ago
all their examples and URLs (save for the code itself on github) but even the font files themselves are dead because that company closed in 2020 :/ Very neat idea, though! I did find this example: https://observablehq.com/@tomgp/sparks-with-live-data https://observablehq.com/@tomgp/sparks-with-live-data For those examples to work (which they still do), the URL references to the font data in the stylesheet should ostensibly still be valid: https://tools.aftertheflood.com/sparks/styles/font-faces.css https://tools.aftertheflood.com/sparks/styles/font-faces.css
- watersb 3y ago
  Apparently, the host 'tools.aftertheflood.com' is still mapped to GitHub Pages. Backing out from the CSS file (many thanks!), turns out the top-level web page is still up -- BUT the links to download the zip file font collections DONT WORK. So you still need to scrape the CSS file to get working links to the individual fonts... (I was going to post those URLs here, but there are 84 of them. Use a command like this to scrape the CSS file: grep -o "http[^']*" < sparks.css However, this GitHub Pages site still hosts web pages that show some great examples and links to ObservableHQ notebooks (which also still work, hosted at observablehq.com). https://tools.aftertheflood.com/ https://tools.aftertheflood.com/
- yawnxyz 3y ago
  oh that's a bummer, didn't know that killed the examples and links to the 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.Spark.zip https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks/files/12009401/AtF.S... (Finally a justification for my font hoarding)
watersb 3y ago
Recent HN thread on another "graphing data" font, although this one doesn't simply map numbers to graphic, prompting a discussion on accessibility issues to consider: Datalegreya Font https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25832196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25832196
ukuina 3y ago
Why are the compressed fonts _5MB_!?

This is cool! For those who don't know, there's a font called Sparks that uses glyphs to create sparklines: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks

pmarreck 3y ago

all their examples and URLs (save for the code itself on github) but even the font files themselves are dead because that company closed in 2020 :/ Very neat idea, though! I did find this example: https://observablehq.com/@tomgp/sparks-with-live-data https://observablehq.com/@tomgp/sparks-with-live-data For those examples to work (which they still do), the URL references to the font data in the stylesheet should ostensibly still be valid: https://tools.aftertheflood.com/sparks/styles/font-faces.css https://tools.aftertheflood.com/sparks/styles/font-faces.css

watersb 3y ago
Apparently, the host 'tools.aftertheflood.com' is still mapped to GitHub Pages. Backing out from the CSS file (many thanks!), turns out the top-level web page is still up -- BUT the links to download the zip file font collections DONT WORK. So you still need to scrape the CSS file to get working links to the individual fonts... (I was going to post those URLs here, but there are 84 of them. Use a command like this to scrape the CSS file: grep -o "http[^']*" < sparks.css However, this GitHub Pages site still hosts web pages that show some great examples and links to ObservableHQ notebooks (which also still work, hosted at observablehq.com). https://tools.aftertheflood.com/ https://tools.aftertheflood.com/
yawnxyz 3y ago
oh that's a bummer, didn't know that killed the examples and links to the 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.Spark.zip https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks/files/12009401/AtF.S... (Finally a justification for my font hoarding)

watersb 3y ago

Recent HN thread on another "graphing data" font, although this one doesn't simply map numbers to graphic, prompting a discussion on accessibility issues to consider: Datalegreya Font https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25832196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25832196

ukuina 3y ago

Why are the compressed fonts _5MB_!?