My Mermaid renderer drew tofu boxes instead of labels — the container had no fonts installed
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Agents write Mermaid constantly — sequence diagrams for API designs, flowcharts for release flows — but there's rarely anything on the other end that can display it. That gap is why I built a renderer: POST diagram syntax, get back a base64 PNG or SVG. I ended up packaging it as the Mermaid Diagram…
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- 2026-10-05 19:37 · DEV Community — AI
My Mermaid renderer drew tofu boxes instead of labels — the container had no fonts installed