// Hacker Noon · 11 June 2026

I Got Tired of Tofu Boxes and Built a Font That Can't Tofu

After discovering that a simple star character (★) rendered as a tofu box due to a missing glyph, the author dug into how browsers resolve font stacks on a per-character basis. Rather than relying on SVG replacements, they used fontTools to graft the missing glyph into a font file, creating a custom...

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