[jcelerier]

> STB does a pretty good job at font rendering and it's less than 100kb.

I'll be honest, I'll have a hard time taking the rest of your post seriously if you think that STB font rendering is anything close to good. It was maybe not too far from the 1997 state of the art but the world has moved on quite a bit since then, it's downright terrible if you are not going for "retro aesthetic" font rendering.

[jart]

And all that stuff is patented so I have a hard time taking you seriously, who would sharply criticize a free public domain font rendering library over things it can't control. Retro aesthetic is my use case since I use stb_truetype to render fonts in a terminal. STB is scrappy and may not be Apple or Microsoft but it's been a remarkable gift from my point of view.

[jcelerier]

Thankfully I live in a free country where we can show the finger to software patents. Sorry if that is not your case, but I'd say that the problem to solve there is social and political.

> Retro aesthetic is my use case since I use stb_truetype to render fonts in a terminal

Just because it's a terminal doesn't mean it doesn't deserve proper hinting and proper AA. I don't understand in which universe this can be called "a pretty good job", it's doing barely more than the legal minimum. But then it's maybe a cultural difference speaking here, in my country it feels very very weird to be upbeat about things that are barely ok like US people seem to be a lot of time.