What does HackerNews think of sparks?

A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code.

Language: CSS

Using SVG to create simple sparkline charts | Jul 2023

This is cool!

For those who don't know, there's a font called Sparks that uses glyphs to create sparklines: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks

Charts.css: CSS data visualization framework | Oct 2022

I keep a list of these for fun: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#lig...

Lightweight Charts/Dataviz

- https://rbitr.github.io/ChartS.css/

- https://chartscss.org/

- Sparkline fonts in text: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks and https://www.scribbletone.com/typefaces/ff-chartwell

- https://vizzuhq.com/

Datalegreya Font | Jan 2021

Reminiscent of Sparks[0], a sparkline font which also allowed for data presentation through fonts. It was previously discussed on HN[1].

[0] https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093815