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Show HN: A font that auto-translates Chinese
Hello, this was a funny idea I had. I knew that you could do crazy things with fonts (like play a video game in one: https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html)
but with ligatures, I was thinking about how much could you actually push them? I decided to try making a font that literally translates Chinese characters (with some context-aware rules/replacements for common phrases).
Turns out, this experiment took only several minutes to make with Claude Code and works surprisingly well!
- rixed 6mo agoDoes not work on FF, iOS : the translation is drawn with the same font.
- TowerTall 6mo agothe same goes for Brave, ios
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- thatxliner 6mo agooops, I recently switched the storage to Git LFS and the deploy workflow didn't download the fonts
- rixed 6mo agoI really find this amazing, gives you the feeling that learning the ideograms would be enough to get the gist of most texts. Quite bright yet simple hack. I wish HN would feature more projects like this one instead of wtv is currently on the first page.
- thatxliner 6mo agoTY!! Yea this actually has been going viral when I posted it on Instagram. Maybe I'll need to post this on HN in a different time or wait for someone else to organically post it :)