[HN Gopher] Drawing with zero-width characters
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       Drawing with zero-width characters
        
       Author : benswerd
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2025-12-26 18:59 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (zw.swerdlow.dev)
 (TXT) w3m dump (zw.swerdlow.dev)
        
       | benswerd wrote:
       | Figured this out a couple weeks ago, hoping it can lead to some
       | cool new art.
        
         | mkl wrote:
         | Images of what it's supposed to look like would really help, as
         | I'm pretty sure none of my browsers are rendering it as you
         | hoped. For me in Chrome the first image looks vaguely like a
         | landscape, with no identifiable features, and in Firefox it
         | looks like grass (both on Android). The dog and tree shapes
         | look distorted and glitchy, but recognisable if you know what
         | they're supposed to be.
         | 
         | I spotted a typo: "font's like".
        
           | benswerd wrote:
           | Just pushed fix to typo -- can you let me know which chromium
           | browser on which platform?
           | 
           | I'm primarily testing on Vivaldi on MacOS but also confirmed
           | working on Chrome on MacOS.
        
       | chrisfrantz wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | benswerd wrote:
         | What browser was it in?
        
           | chrisfrantz wrote:
           | Chrome, latest stable
        
       | bawolff wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | benswerd wrote:
         | which browser are you using?
        
       | krackers wrote:
       | Seems like a more advanced version of zalgotext (which also uses
       | combining marks)
        
         | benswerd wrote:
         | This is beautiful and I did not know it existed until now tx
        
       | achairapart wrote:
       | Testin ings...
        
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