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Something I do not understand. Is Photoshop/Illustrator needed for this?

The chart items are implemented in the font as ligatures, which are (in a nutshell) elements that can be overlaid over other fonts in order to give them special inflection/meaning .. instead of a carat or so on, the ligature elements of the font file are filled with perfectly scaled graph figures, per datum, so that you can address the values for the graph in ligature terms .. +20+10+30+20, etc.

When you do that, and select Chartwell as the font, you get a working font - in Illustrator, or any font-display program that supports setting the Text style for .ttf fonts ..

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