A font to make sparklines in seconds
Oops, the site was hackernewsified and is intermittently down for me.<p>Neat idea, and I do like the OTF hacking, but why not use simple SVG?<p><pre><code>    <svg viewBox='0 -20 85 40' style="height: 1.5em">
      <!-- data in d parameter below as x,y pairs -->
      <path d='m 0,0 L 10,5 20,8 30,6 40,3 50,-2 60,-8 70,4 80,6'
            fill='none' stroke='black'/>
      <circle cx='80' cy='6' r='2'/>
    </svg>
</code></pre>
It has the advantage of using actual data, it is trivial to generate, is embedded into HTML without an extra fetch, won't confuse screen readers, doesn't require the normal web-font alternative file format dance, and isn't quantised to a set of precreated values.<p>Poor old SVG, it is constantly being reinvented.