Esfahbod: State of Text Rendering 2024

Date:
Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:48:57 +0000

Description:
On his blog, Behdad Esfahbod has published a lengthy and detailed look at the state of open-source text rendering. It looks at the libraries available, application support, future directions, and gives a summary analysis of the ecosystem. In broad strokes, OpenType added support for color fonts ,
variable fonts , and the Universal Shaping Engine . The Free & Open Source stack supports all of these advances at the lower level, but application UI support has been slower to arrive. The Open Source text stack also gained enormous market-share when Android and Google Chrome fully embraced it. Looking forward, there is a Rust migration of the text stack underway, which will unify font compilation and consumption under a safe programming
language. Incremental Font Transfer will enable streaming fonts to web browsers. And my proposed Wasm-fonts will enable more expressive fonts.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/981178/


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