Drawing with zero-width characters

(zw.swerdlow.dev)

46 points | by benswerd 5 hours ago

9 comments

  • krackers 1 hour ago
    Seems like a more advanced version of zalgotext (which also uses combining marks)
    • benswerd 1 hour ago
      This is beautiful and I did not know it existed until now tx
  • senfiaj 44 minutes ago
    When I visit such pages, my impression is that someone want to break my browser.
    • benswerd 43 minutes ago
      thats the vibe i was going for
  • bawolff 1 hour ago
    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 1 hour ago
      which browser are you using?
      • gabcoh 59 minutes ago
        I’m also not seeing the purported images on iOS 26.1 safari
        • benswerd 43 minutes ago
          It does not work on iOS Safari at all, it should show a warning at the top saying so
        • frizlab 54 minutes ago
          It apparently only works correctly on chromium-based browsers.
          • kibwen 46 minutes ago
            Appears to mostly work in Firefox, including in the browser tab title, which is funny.
  • achairapart 1 hour ago
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  • chrisfrantz 1 hour ago
    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 5 hours ago
    Figured this out a couple weeks ago, hoping it can lead to some cool new art.
    • 5-0 3 minutes ago
      Neat! Sparklines could also benefit.
    • mkl 1 hour ago
      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 1 hour ago
        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.