Fonts for Complex Data
Shades of FF Chartwell, which is one of those amazing things you just think to yourself &quot;well, this is going to take over the world of design and GUI&#x27;s and so on&quot;, only .. for some reason, it doesn&#x27;t:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typographica.org&#x2F;typeface-reviews&#x2F;chartwell&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typographica.org&#x2F;typeface-reviews&#x2F;chartwell&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;FF Chartwell is a set of three fonts* that together create a remarkable set of tools for creating bar, line, and pie charts. It uses OpenType ligatures to perform its magic – a series of numbers can be transformed into clean, perfectly rendered graphs, as you type.&quot;<p>Having used Chartwell for a few projects, I&#x27;m fairly convinced that this ligature trick is the way <i>all</i> GUI&#x27;s should be done.  In fact I&#x27;ve got this hypothesis going, that every GUI toolkit&#x2F;method is eventually just going to re-invent ligatures and type... ;)