FF Chartwell is a new font that does something I’ve never remotely seen in a typeface. By exploiting tricks and capabilities contained within OpenType, FF Chartwell allows you to type in and color a string of numbers, and with a couple of clicks, convert the text to a series of charts or data vizualizations.
The numbers stay live, and can be edited, updating the chart.
One colleague has already started using FF Chartwell as a big timesaver when creating infographics, instead of going back and forth with Excel. But FF Chartwell also offers a few types of charts that Excel does not.
I’ve only just started playing with it, but it’s very, very, very cool.
Buy it here.
