Show HN: ➿ All Unicode code points in GNU pixel font〘3mb, ☞⥮-able, 🔭-able 〙⍾༕☥

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All 196607 code points in assigned regions. First time you'll have to wait for the font to load. Tested on Chrome, Safari and Firefox on Mac and iOS. The pixel font is "Unifont."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont

http://www.unicodemap.org/

http://unicode-table.com/

http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html

in firefox 36, i get: TypeError: can't convert undefined to object @ 122:14

Ok, thanks for letting me know this!

I found the error (moz stlylesheet object has cssRules not rules) and made it work. Also made the custom styling of input work in Firefox now. Thanks for pointing this out! Hope you can see it now.

awesome, it works and looks good.

i love gnu unifont too and made a renderer[1], using a big spritesheet[2] rather than a proper font file. using an image seems like a good way to load unifont in terms of bandwidth, but of course the downside is losing the ability to treat it as real text.

[1] try typing into http://bon.gs/pxt/test.html (i haven't marked all the half-width chars yet so the spacing is off for a bunch)

[2] http://i.imgur.com/kiVf8Hm.png

AH! That's cool. You made a font renderer using an image. An interesting idea. I could use that to maybe reduce the download time, as the font is 3mb and your image of plane 0 is 850k. If all of plane 0 can fit in an 850k png, maybe it would be possible to do a custom compressed format for Unifont (that could still be scaled and colored), that beat out the WOFF file's 3mb. Thanks for sharing that!

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