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z80-sans: OpenType font that disassembles Z80 instructions

Quality: 7/10 Relevance: 6/10

Summary

The z80-sans project describes an OpenType font that visually disassembles Z80 instructions by mapping hex bytes to disassembled mnemonics using GSUB and GPOS. It discusses design challenges (many substitutions, out-of-order operands, little-endian encoding), a recursive-descent parser to generate glyph substitutions, and a brute-force approach to covering instruction variants. It also covers installation steps, dependencies, and potential future work in font scripting.

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