Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code

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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