This is why you don't... (GitHub - jimparis/qr-font: A QR code generator in a TrueType font: https://qr.jim.sh/ · GitHub)
This is why you shouldn't include a complete Turing-complete language in your font format and a full VM to execute your fonts: people will develop stuff like this. /s I can imagine it might be convenient for someone, but in the meantime look upon it and weep! https://github.com/jimparis/qr-font<https://github.com/jimparis/qr-font?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=this-week-bells-plus-a-clever-word-game-and-a-cursed-font> -Adam Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>
On 2026-07-08 Adam Thompson via Roundtable wrote:
This is why you shouldn't include a complete Turing-complete language in your font format and a full VM to execute your fonts: people will develop stuff like this. /s
I can imagine it might be convenient for someone, but in the meantime look upon it and weep!
Neat & nuts. And maybe useful! Been trying to get a projector-readable QR code going for MUUG attendees to enroll in the door prizes... Might be able to skip php stuff and just use this font. If I can keep it under 53 chars, which should be possible. I'm assuming this will work for URL embedding? However, 1MB font file for the smallest one, and 4MB for the biggest one may limit its usefulness serving to mobile en masse. Then again... if you're serving a QR code you aren't serving it ON mobile, you're serving it FOR mobile? Meh... I'm tired!
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