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A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures

Details

External ID
46939312
Source
HN
Company
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Product
A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures
Website domain
github.io
Launched
Feb. 8, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
171
Upvotes percentile
0.9339622641509434
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
creative coding and visual experiments
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
cistercian numeral font
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes This is a font project utilizing OpenType ligature substitution rules (GSUB tables) alongside a simple HTML/CSS demonstration page.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 293 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #26 of 294 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 100 days after the earliest competitor.

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