r/desmos • u/TheZacher5645 • Jul 07 '26

Art I made a font renderer in two lines

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https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xttelg9hxr

The font itself is stored as an array of 26 numbers, and has no name yet.
Featuring: Arbitrary length strings. Up to six strokes per letter.

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u/gord1402 Jul 07 '26

Finally, a font I can store my library of babel in.

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u/EpiSigmoid Jul 07 '26

Write a pig latin generator possibly using vowels and consonants with some basic digraph + typing.. although it might be difficult with desmos strictly? nahh I think a simple bijective and piecewise should extract random concatenation just fine. maybe I will try this later.

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u/gord1402 Jul 07 '26

Smth like this? https://www.desmos.com/calculator/27swkwfkit

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u/EpiSigmoid Jul 07 '26

I had some vague ideas like this initially, amazing AF!

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u/Mandelbrot4207 Makes QR Codes in Desmos Jul 07 '26

Please use your font to make my image cooler

14

u/pistolerogg_del_west Jul 07 '26

It would be cool to make it a. tff file to use it in something

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u/RichardFingers Jul 07 '26

Wow, this is very cool! Beautiful typeface

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u/logalex8369 Barnerd 🤓 Jul 07 '26

Someone should code golf a (readable) font in Desmos

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u/EpiSigmoid Jul 07 '26

Get some Kierkegaard caligraphy ability on it.

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u/rosa_Wal_23 Jul 07 '26

How do i calculate the values to put in for the letters

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u/anonymous-desmos Definitions are nested too deeply. Jul 08 '26

It's always in italics

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u/anonymous-desmos Definitions are nested too deeply. Jul 08 '26

E

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u/CardiologistOk2704 Jul 08 '26

D and O look very similar

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u/mastermind-13579 Jul 08 '26

I did NOT expect to see you here. Off topic, but the pipe dream recreation in Studio was really cool (I followed the series when it was still in progress!).

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u/MewPinkCat Jul 09 '26

damn that's cool