[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.