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font help?

speaking into the void to ask for very specific help;
i have no experience with font design but there are some ideas for which i would like to make fonts (using fontforge, but i might be willing to switch if necessary) with features that fonts typically tend to not have, such as:

  • a font that does not advance horizontally for successive letters, such that the typed letters end up overlapping in the same space (this is probably the easier one but i'm totally new to this)
  • a font in which successive letters in a word (or even in the whole text) scale horizontally and vertically (such that they get visibly smaller/larger at a set rate)

i'm aware that this is a niche within a niche, and that even if i can encode this behavior in a font certain software may not respect it, but i would be grateful for tips as to if this is possible and/or how it might be done

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it's not awfully common, but it's also not unheard of to have the glyphs overlap like that.

i watched someone on twitch make a converter for some old proprietary bitmap font format because they wanted to play with an old font they found at work.
the font's characters were all slices of a pie chart.
one character was the first 1/32 or however much of the circle, then the next was the next 1/32, and so on until there was a full set of 32 slices making up a full circle.
then followed another such set (or several) but in another shading so you could use it for monochrome charts.

the font used a 0 advance width to have the slices get printed in the same area, building up a pie chart by "overlapping" characters.
(although they wouldn't actually visually overlap)
the characters were aligned such that overstriking them all on top of each other would give you a complete pie chart and by choosing characters you could pick the shading for each of the segments.

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