Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code

Re:Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text withou... by arduinomancer on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:49PM (#23096123)

Can someone explain the advantage of doing this via text?

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Re:Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text withou... by mattlondon on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:58PM (#23096207)

A couple of things that spring to mind:

- super simple: no need to integrate a charting library or do server-side rendering

- performance: if you have a table of hundreds of rows each with a sparkline chart (e.g CPU load/QPS/error rate/etc for many nodes etc in a cluster), just some text will be hugely more performant that 100x charting widgets or 100x server-side rendered images.

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Re:Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text withou... by philjohn on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:19PM (#23096437)

Also gracefully degrades if the font isn't available for whatever reason, you'd see:

{0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90}

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Re:Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text withou... by amelius on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:30PM (#23097714)

No advantage unless you enjoy solving problems in the least generic and least portable way.

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Re:Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text withou... by einpoklum on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:47PM (#23096704)

Not really, because the font on HN comments can't be set to Sparks...

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