Even browsers support have supported alternate font styles for years now. http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/11/firefox-4-font-feature-supp...

In the part i was replying to the parent was not referring to this font specifically, but the font-graphics concept.

    >my problem lies more with the paradigm than this particular font

I'm using it in MOAI with harfbuzz. Its a brilliant font and makes adding simple HUD-style GUI's to my app very fun, indeed (hint: using a "printf" to get -> a graph == fun!!)

Yes, the main use of this will probably be to create graphs in adobe applications.