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		capableweb on May 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yep, I created the new Avatar font You could in theory do just that, but the amount of work to achieve that would be staggering, automated or not. What we really need in this world is procedural/generated-on-the-fly fonts, where you setup how the font is suppose to react to X and then use that.

colejohnson66 on May 9, 2022 [–]

Knuth's METAFONT might help, but it never took off because font designers aren't mathematicians or programmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/16.1/...

robocat on May 9, 2022 | [–]

There is also https://spectral.prototypo.io/ which was an unsuccessful startup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24911784

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