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  • This is a really neat idea. I'm not sure it's actually useful, but it's definitely neat.

    And it made me think of the new kid in town: Jev. I wonder if Jev can do this well and quickly? Not that I'm willing to pay the tokens even to find out, but it's another neat thought.

    by wccrawford
  • IMO this is a big idea - whether this particular implementation is good or not is not that important.
    by mkrecny
  • Cool, but I hope it doesn't catch on. Otherwise I can already hear managers complaining to people that they have too many red words and not enough green words in their emails/Slack messages/whatever...
    by rob74
  • Seems to require Chrome? In Firefox it's just a text box, nothing happens. Was confused at first about what it was supposed to do, the rest of the page made it clear it was supposed to mess about with whatever text you write.

    Trying it in Chrome and seeing the results I'm not sure that it is really that helpful. Has undertones of elementary school grammar lessons highlighting words in sentences.

    by brk
  • i thought the computation was within the font itself

    like

    https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans https://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/chartwell/ https://github.com/trishume/numderline

    which can be taken rather far

    https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html

    by tensegrist
  • This isn't a font, it's just a JS lib that colors text based on semantic analysis. Submission title oversells it by a lot.
    by skrebbel
  • Not working in Firefox. I get this error:

      Uncaught TypeError: The specifier “semfont/analyze” was a bare specifier, but was not remapped to anything. Relative module specifiers must start with “./”, “../” or “/”.
    Works in Chrome though.
    by frereubu
  • The idea is amazing, and… how to say it?; The results are horrible to read in the same way as AI writing when AI writing is bad.†

    And I mean this in the best possible way. It's really interesting.

    There's this feeling of an intrusive forcing of something. A feeling that things don't… breathe? Feels like one already sifts out this sort of semantic weight when reading and to me the highlighting adds strange janky emotional-processing noise to the text; Uncomfortable and somewhat… dissonant?

    It's really, really interesting. I hate how disparaging to the project this comes out!! my apologies for that! I LOVE the project and what it reveals about text comprehension and perception of saliency and rhythm in written text!

    († footnote: feels like this to me)

    by AnthonBerg

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