Drawing with zero-width characters (zw.swerdlow.dev)

Figured this out a couple weeks ago, hoping it can lead to some cool new art.

Love that this exists now, thank you and nice read.

FWIW, didn't have any luck with the generator at the bottom, could be user error.

I can't tell if the results are just very bad or my browser is just not rendering properly. I feel like its probably the later but it would be cool to have a reference picture to be sure.

Seems like a more advanced version of zalgotext (which also uses combining marks)

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When I visit such pages, my impression is that someone want to break my browser.

Another thing in the category of abusing font capabilities is Harfbuzz (OpenType engine) WASM, which if compiled into an application allows fonts to basically run any code. A few examples are an LLM or a Tetris font. Apparently this WASM support is in the font rendering for Chrome and Firefox supposedly.

I was really tempted to try to use it to make a Harfbuzz OS.

https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/

firefox refuses to render these and maxes out my CPU fans xD