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by aa-jv 102 days ago
>You can do a lot of crazy things with fonts.

My favourite crazy font thing is Chartwell - a font which can be used to add many sophisticated chart types to your document, using discretionary / rare ligatures:

https://www.vectrotype.com/chartwell

(User manual here: https://assets.vectrotype.com/specimens/Chartwell-Manual-24-...)

I've used this to rapidly add charting functionality to various apps over the years - it can be used to produce amazing-looking, dynamic charts, within minutes!

I have, for years, wanted to dissect Chartwell and understand it better .. there are many other fonts which use rare ligatures for interesting purposes, too ..