First 12 months of writing a GUI toolkit: getting text rendering right

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@drewdevault have you met our lord and savior stb_truetype.h

18 April at 11:45 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

@lritter how not to get text rendering right

18 April at 11:46 | Open on fosstodon.org

@drewdevault pango it is then!

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18 April at 11:46 | Open on fosstodon.org

@drewdevault ... freetype?

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@lritter harfbuzz and cairo baby, fuck it we're doing it live

18 April at 11:47 | Open on fosstodon.org

@drewdevault ah right. i keep forgetting about cairo. even though i share credits for the c++ bindings. ;-)

wait a sec... what did they do...

18 April at 11:50 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

@lritter womp womp

18 April at 11:51 | Open on fosstodon.org

@drewdevault somehow they managed to remove _all_ credits from the project.

18 April at 11:52 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Ashkan

@drewdevault next 12 months: animations/transitions

18 April at 16:05 | Open on mastodon.social

@ashkano nah tbh these are pretty easy IMHO

18 April at 16:13 | Open on fosstodon.org