<story><title>Fonts for Complex Data</title><url>https://www.typography.com/blog/fonts-for-complex-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmjaa</author><text>Shades of FF Chartwell, which is one of those amazing things you just think to yourself &amp;quot;well, this is going to take over the world of design and GUI&amp;#x27;s and so on&amp;quot;, only .. for some reason, it doesn&amp;#x27;t:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typographica.org&amp;#x2F;typeface-reviews&amp;#x2F;chartwell&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typographica.org&amp;#x2F;typeface-reviews&amp;#x2F;chartwell&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;FF Chartwell is a set of three fonts* that together create a remarkable set of tools for creating bar, line, and pie charts. It uses OpenType ligatures to perform its magic – a series of numbers can be transformed into clean, perfectly rendered graphs, as you type.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Having used Chartwell for a few projects, I&amp;#x27;m fairly convinced that this ligature trick is the way &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; GUI&amp;#x27;s should be done.  In fact I&amp;#x27;ve got this hypothesis going, that every GUI toolkit&amp;#x2F;method is eventually just going to re-invent ligatures and type... ;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Fonts for Complex Data</title><url>https://www.typography.com/blog/fonts-for-complex-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saintPirelli</author><text>There is actually regulation in the EU (and I suppose other countries) that requires a minimum height of the letters in the ingredient list. The wider typeface would not satisfy these regulations.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.foodlabels.co.uk&amp;#x2F;food_information_regulations_2014.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.foodlabels.co.uk&amp;#x2F;food_information_regulations_201...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>