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by Zeratoss 773 days ago
Wow this looks amazing.

I have never seen fonts used like this.

Any other examples?

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Fontemon - a playable Pokemon-style game in a font file

https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html

That game data is text, and that you reverse the game by hitting backspace are interesting ideas. I'm curious if there is any utility beyond novelty though. It's certainly very creative, I'll be thinking about it.
https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/

> The font that replaces every buzzword by a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar

8-bit-era computers like the C64 (which were all monospace) had glyphs in the font for making borders and lines and the like.
Zapf dingbats :)
I think the parent means using a font to create the illusion of a continuous image, not just the concept of a pictographic font.