Show HN: Z80 Sans

[hyperhello]

"A recursive descent parser is used to generate all possible glyphs, which helps with evaluating expressions in encodings (e.g. SET b,(IX+o) takes a bit and a displacement, encoded as expression DD CB o C6+8*b). These encodings were then expanded to all possible values that operands can take, before finally associating 1 or more hexadecimal bytes to each disassembly glyph required to render an expanded instruction."

That's just evil! Great job!

[1GZ0]

Every day I'm amazed at what OpenType fonts can do on their own. Material Design icons font, fonts with built-in syntax highlighting and now this.

[layer8]

Read this, and you won't be surprised anymore about what is and isn't possible: https://simoncozens.github.io/fonts-and-layout/features-2.ht... (and preceding chapters)

[rbanffy]

I am equally amazed and horrified. Fonts shouldn't do that. ;-)

[tambourine_man]

Makes you think if they’re perhaps too powerful

[Confirm2754]

So evil, so evil! You discovered the programmability of fonts themselves!

[yoavm]

cool work! but please use a video instead of a gif in the readme... it's so frustrating not being able to pause, go back, etc.