Show HN: Flipbook Foundry – animated stick figures baked into a font
I've always loved flipbooks, the little stick figure running and jumping around the corner of a page. I was curious if I could hi-jack a font file with stick figure glyphs. So I prompted Flipbook Foundry into existence. Each animated frame of the a stick figure's motion is just a glyph in the font. You can drop {walk} into a paragraph and a stick figure walks right through it, at text size, and the words move aside. The text reflow runs on Cheng Lou's awesome pretext library, which is fast enoug
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Source account: I've always loved flipbooks, the little stick figure running and jumping around the corner of a page. I was curious if I could hi-jack a font file with stick figure glyphs. So I prompted Flipbook Foundry into existence. Each animated frame of the a stick figure's motion is just a glyph in the font. You can drop {walk} into a paragraph and a stick figure walks right through it, at text size, and the words move aside. The text reflow runs on Cheng Lou's awesome pretext library, which is fast enoug
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