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The intersection of coding and fonts (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Build a Font That Looks Like a Rocket Ship

Inside the font, there is a small programming language that can you let you program like replacement and ligatures works through that. The greatest one for now for Peter code is long arrows. It will automatically put commas or spaces in between groups of three digits. But it will do it on the font level, not like it will be brutally presentational just like we get chosen. You can do stuff like that inside the font as well.

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