Sparks, now in its second release, is a family of 15 fonts (three variants in five weights each) that allows for the easy combination of text and visual data by removing the need for any technical know-how. By installing the Spark font you can use them immediately without the need for custom code.
Data can be hard to grasp however visualising it can make comprehension faster. Sparklines (tiny charts in text, like this: 123{10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100}789) are a useful tool, but creating them for the web has always required code and using them in word documents was previously impossible.
The different spark fonts allow for a degree of flexibility in the way different types of data can be displayed.
- Bar extra narrow: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Bar narrow: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Bar medium: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Bar wide: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Bar extra wide: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dot extra small: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dot small: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dot medium: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dot large: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dot extra large: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dotline extra thin: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dotline thin: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dotline medium: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dotline thick: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
- Dotline extra thick: 123{0,100,10,90,20,80,30,70,40,60,50}987
Further usage examples can be found as Observable notebooks