State of Text Rendering 2024

[Mehdi Sadeghi]

Finished reading your article first thing in the morning, including the 2009 edition. I learned a lot, for example had no idea of variable and color fonts (not a designer, but have used HarfBuzz). The summary of various tools and libraries in the article is very handy. The references to prior art and further readings were also very educational, have to revisit them.
Also somewhat frustrated to find out that FontForge is still apparently the best open tool available to hobbyists like myself, despite it's problems.

I would only recommend reading your article, was an excellent read.

Thanks for taking the time and sharing.

Mehdi


-------- Original Message --------
From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
Sent: 9 July 2024 04:03:59 CEST
To: "harfbuzz at lists.freedesktop.org" <harfbuzz at lists.freedesktop.org>, freetype-devel <freetype-devel at nongnu.org>, cairo <cairo at cairographics.org>, Gtk+ Developers <gtk-devel-list at gnome.org>, letters at lwn.net
Subject: State of Text Rendering 2024

Hi,

I'd like to share with you the "State of Text Rendering 2024":

  https://behdad.org/text2024/

Feedback and comments are most welcome.

Thanks,

behdad
http://behdad.org/