alt.hn

2/15/2026 at 3:44:11 PM

Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals

https://digitalseams.com/blog/making-a-font-with-9999-ligatures-to-display-thirteenth-century-monk-numerals

by a7b3fa

2/16/2026 at 3:15:46 AM

Surprising there isn't a better way to do it than defining 10000 ligature config lines and 10000 glyphs. I guess dynamic combinations of subglyphs are a Unicode level thing?

by rjh29

2/15/2026 at 8:41:47 PM

Very cool use of a technology I wasn't even aware of!

by samtheDamned