State of Text Rendering 2024
State of Text Rendering 2024
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18711947
[The author assumes] a high-level understanding of how text rendering works, for example, what shaping is. If that does not sound familiar to you, you might want to review State of Text Rendering (2009), and Modern text rendering with Linux: Overview (2019).
For me the current State of Text Rendering is that I don't have to think about text rendering anymore. And that is awesome.
I remember the dark days of having to patch freetype and cairo with infinality patches and the endless tweaking. Nowadays you get good (enough) font rendering out of the box, and it's rare that you have to tweak something.