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Roel Nieskens on Nostr: Another clever little novely font: "Jim's TrueType QR Code Font" turns text into a QR ...

Another clever little novely font: "Jim's TrueType QR Code Font" turns text into a QR code.

I noticed the QR code is broken in Safari when a space is used. This is because Safari treats the space character differently, seemingly ignoring the metrics or advance width, resulting in a shifted QR code (top line).

I quickly hacked the font to use the § character as an alias for space, and then it works (bottom line)

I wonder if this causes more problems in fonts, or if the space character is so simple that a browser messing with its metrics is inconsequential?

https://qr.jim.sh (via

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