[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":700},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-18701772":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":29,"sentiment":30,"stance_mix":31,"scored_comments":36,"aspects":37,"strip":47,"post_text":49,"what":50,"said":53,"maker_in_thread":200,"shape":210,"grid":214,"attempts":663,"same_week":664,"maker_shows":42,"maker_hidden":692,"reader_version":693,"card":694},"18701772","Fancy fonts (Beautiful Dingbats)","Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere","title","Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere","https:\u002F\u002Fbeautifuldingbats.com\u002Fhey-howd-you-do-that","beautifuldingbats.com","shadowfaxRodeo",1545077652,2018,247,165,126,2155,6,"notable","creative","text styling generator","web_app",[24,25,26,27,28],"fancy fonts","unicode text","text generator","fraktur text","stylized text","mixed",-0.205,{"positive":32,"neutral":33,"mixed":34,"critical":35},12,29,3,26,70,{"execution":38,"idea":41,"design":43,"docs":46},{"positive":39,"critical":40},5,20,{"positive":34,"critical":42},4,{"positive":44,"critical":45},0,1,{"positive":44,"critical":45},[44,44,44,44,44,44,45,42,45,45,44,34,34,48,45,44,45,44,45,48,39,45,48,48,34,45,48,42,48,34,39,45,45,45,45,44,44,39,39,39],2,null,{"problem":49,"audience":49,"pricing":49,"motivation":49,"time_to_build":49,"stack":51,"openness":52,"stage":52,"team_size":52},[],"unknown",{"praise":54,"objections":78,"requests":135,"questions":154,"alternatives":173},[55,71],{"value":56,"source":57,"evidence":58},"Fun and clever way to get fancy text anywhere","commenter",[59,63,67],{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},"18701929","RickS","Nice! Submission's UI is way slicker, but for more options and a more OG-web feel, this page is my go-to for these:…",{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"18701924","iveqy","This is awesome! But how does it work? I don't understand how this is possible",{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"18701925","godelmachine","𝖁𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝖎𝖒𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖛𝖊, 𝖇𝖚𝖉𝖉𝖞!",{"value":72,"source":57,"evidence":73},"Works well in Firefox address bar and Google search examples",[74],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"18701856","morpheuskafka","Interesting, looks like Firefox automatically resolves these to the real letters in the address bar, but leaves them as is for google search. Nice job aggregating these into an…",[79,94,113,128],{"value":80,"source":57,"evidence":81},"Breaks screen readers, which read the Unicode glyph names",[82,86,90],{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"18702265","cmg",">It's less \"can they render them\" and more \"do they maintain their meaning in alternate renderings\". I just entered \"this is a test\" on the site in Safari and enabled VoiceOver.…",{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"18701928","X-Istence","This is (ab)using unicode, for example the F is actually a Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital F: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.compart.com\u002Fen\u002Funicode\u002FU+1D571 This is terrible for screen readers and…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"18702084","reaperducer","I wouldn't be surprised if screen readers understand these symbols. I develop web sites with screen readers in mind, and I would be very surprised if they could handle this sort…",{"value":95,"source":57,"evidence":96},"Shows as unreadable boxes on Android and some phones",[97,101,105,109],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"18702051","asadkn","Doesn't seem to work on Android devices. All I see is missing unicode characters. Roboto doesn't seem to have have these glyphs. On Mac, most of the glyps in the title seem to be…",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"18702077","jolmg","I'm just seeing black boxes with X marks inside. Can't read a thing. This is on chrome on my Moto G4.",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"18702038","jexah","Doesn't work on stock galaxy S7. Just a whole bunch of boxes with crosses through them.",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"18704800","thisisit","On my Firefox for Android, this is unreadable. I had to use Firefox on Windows to see what is this all about.",{"value":114,"source":57,"evidence":115},"Abuses Unicode lookalike characters and breaks search and normalization",[116,120,124],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"18702135","lolc","It's not actually a fancy font but different Unicode codepoints. \"a\" is not \"𝖆\" as far as Unicode is concerned. The Latin alphabet is mapped into Unicode for different uses. In…",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"18702180","kup0","I notice this is already being abused in submissions to HN. Sigh. A user being able to override a site's restrictions on their input seems like a horrendous idea, not to mention…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"18702062","floil","In chromium, the glyph attack defense works by normalizing to a \"confusability skeleton\" -- the ICU library actually does the normalization. Even within latin-1 this does some…",{"value":129,"source":57,"evidence":130},"Breaks accessibility fonts like OpenDyslexia",[131],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"18702040","erichurkman","Please don't use this. Concrete example: if you use the OpenDyslexia font and have configured your browser to override individual website's fonts, this is what you see:…",[136,147],{"value":137,"source":57,"evidence":138},"Support diacritics and accented Latin letters",[139,143],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"18702409","adamzochowski","I tried some diacritics letters and the site didn't handle those. Is it issue of the site? or those special characters don't include various latin based diacritics? German…",{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"18705628","cyrusmg","Would you mind checking UTF-8 support on the fonts? It seems the fonts don't support it. You can use this as an example: ěščřžýáíasdfghjk",{"value":148,"source":57,"evidence":149},"Add Zalgo text and other generators",[150],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"18702056","franciscop","It should definitely include Zalgo Text (or Cthulhu text as I know it): https:\u002F\u002Fwww.zalgotextgenerator.com\u002F I know it from the first reply here, which I would say it's a well…",[155,163],{"value":156,"source":57,"evidence":157},"How does the conversion work",[158,162],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"18701927","bovermyer","This is fantastic. How does this work?",{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},{"value":164,"source":57,"evidence":165},"Can screen readers handle these characters",[166,169],{"id":167,"by":11,"text":168},"18701962","I wonder actually. Google seems to understand these, you can search with them. I wouldn't be surprised if screen readers understand these symbols. They're originally for…",{"id":170,"by":171,"text":172},"18702071","yorwba","I'd kind of expect screen readers to be able to apply Unicode compatibility decomposition http:\u002F\u002Funicode.org\u002Freports\u002Ftr15\u002F#Canon_Compat_Equivalence since there are many…",[174,182,189,196],{"value":175,"source":57,"evidence":176},"qaz.wtf text converter",[177,178],{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},{"id":179,"by":180,"text":181},"18701930","sanityvampire","I've been using http:\u002F\u002Fqaz.wtf\u002Fu\u002Fconvert.cgi for ages. Little bit more dated interface, but same idea. That utility also does some pseudo-alphabets using characters from other…",{"value":183,"source":57,"evidence":184},"tell.wtf and eeemo.net",[185],{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"18702095","ozzmotik","not sure if it's been mentioned already but https:\u002F\u002Ftell.wtf offers a similar service to this along with a rather intelligent unicode pallete and the ability to draw characters…",{"value":190,"source":57,"evidence":191},"Glitchtext iOS app",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"18702177","stestagg","Seems like a good place to plug this: https:\u002F\u002Fitunes.apple.com\u002Fus\u002Fapp\u002Fglitchtext\u002Fid1412938752?ls=1&mt=8",{"value":197,"source":57,"evidence":198},"Zalgo text generator",[199],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},{"comments":201,"answered":44,"key":202},7,[203,204,207],{"id":167,"text":168},{"id":205,"text":206},"18702087","Yes, I just mean to say, if you were creating a screen reader, it wouldn't be that hard to take this sort of thing into account. 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