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Note: this is different from <a href="https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...</a> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159</a> which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.
From what I can gather, the underlying feature that enables this is vontextual alternates[1], primarily intended to adjust letters based on adjacent letters to improve legibility.<p>edit: I see the referenced inspiration[2] explains it in detail.<p>[1]: <a href="https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates" rel="nofollow">https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-contextual...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...</a>
Fascinating
As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.
I suppose this gets useful in applications where you can change the font, but not add syntax highlighting. Besides being a neat trick, of course.
>As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.<p>Then it's not for you. This comment does not add anything to the conversation and comments like these are better left unwritten.